Sediment Sample Locations Collected in March 2012 from the Northern Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana (U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity Number 12BIM01)

Metadata:


Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Julie C. Bernier
Publication_Date: 20131231
Title:
Sediment Sample Locations Collected in March 2012 from the Northern Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana (U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity Number 12BIM01)
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Tabular digital data
Online_Linkage: https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/0850/downloads/12BIM01_samplesites.zip
Larger_Work_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Julie C. Bernier
Originator: Kyle W. Kelso
Originator: Noreen A. Buster
Originator: James G. Flocks
Originator: Jennifer L. Miselis
Originator: Nancy T. DeWitt
Publication_Date: 20131231
Title:
Sediment Data Collected in 2012 from the Northern Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Multimedia presentation
Series_Information:
Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series
Issue_Identification: 850
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: St. Petersburg, FL
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
Online_Linkage: https://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ds850
Description:
Abstract:
As part of the Barrier Island Evolution Research (BIER) project, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (SPCMSC) collected sediment samples from the northern Chandeleur Islands in March and September 2012. The overall objective of this project, which integrates geophysical (bathymetric, seismic, and topographic) and sedimentologic data, is to better understand the depositional and erosional processes that drive the morphologic evolution of barrier islands over annual to interannual timescales (1 to 5 years). Between June 2010 and April 2011, in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the State of Louisiana constructed a sand berm extending more than 14 kilometers (km) along the northern Chandeleur Islands platform. The construction of the berm provided a unique opportunity to investigate how this new sediment source will interact with and affect the morphologic evolution of the barrier-island system. Data collected from this study will be used to describe differences in the physical characteristics and spatial distribution of sediments both along the axis of the berm and also along transects across the berm and onto the adjacent barrier island. Comparison of these data with data from subsequent sampling efforts will provide information about sediment interactions and movement between the berm and the natural island platform, improving our understanding of short-term morphologic change and processes in this barrier-island system. This data series serves as an archive of sediment data collected in March and September 2012 from the Chandeleur Islands sand berm and adjacent barrier-island environments. Data products, including descriptive core logs, core photographs and x-radiographs, results of sediment grain-size analyses, sample location maps, and Geographic Information System (GIS) data files with accompanying formal Federal Geographic Data Committee (FDGC) metadata, can be downloaded from https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/0850/html/ds850_data.html.
Purpose:
This zip archive includes the geographic locations, site descriptions, and interpolated elevations in Microsoft Excel format for sediment samples collected in March 2012 from the northern Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana (U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity Number 12BIM01).
Supplemental_Information: None
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 20120322
Ending_Date: 20120326
Currentness_Reference: Ground condition
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -88.850670
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -88.819644
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 30.017247
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 29.875133
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: Sediment
Theme_Keyword: Grab sample
Theme_Keyword: Push core
Theme_Keyword: Barrier Island Evolution Research project
Theme_Keyword: Barrier Island Mapping
Theme_Keyword: 12BIM01
Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey
Theme_Keyword: USGS
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
Place_Keyword: Louisiana
Place_Keyword: Gulf of Mexico
Place_Keyword: Chandeleur Islands
Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints:
The U.S. Geological Survey requests that it be acknowledged as the originator of this dataset in any future products or research derived from these data.
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: Julie Bernier
Contact_Position: Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: Mailing and physical
Address: 600 4th Street South
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (727) 502-8000
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jbernier@usgs.gov
Data_Set_Credit:
U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Native_Data_Set_Environment:
Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Microsoft Excel Version 2010

Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
The positional accuracy of the sample locations is determined by the accuracy of the Garmin GPSMAP 76S handheld Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver used to locate the samples at the time of collection.
Logical_Consistency_Report:
Sample locations were recorded at the time of collection using a Garmin GPSMAP 76S handheld Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver.
Completeness_Report:
This dataset includes the locations of 29 surface grab samples, 10 submerged grab samples, and 31 push cores that were collected from the northern Chandeleur Islands in March 2012 (U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity Number 12BIM01). During the same sampling effort, an additional 15 push cores were collected from back-barrier marsh and tidal flat sites; sedimentologic and geochemical analysis of those sediments are described in a separate report (U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 850).
Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
Sample locations were recorded at the time of collection using a Garmin GPSMAP 76S handheld Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver.
Quantitative_Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Assessment:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Value: 3 - 5
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Explanation: Meters, manufacturer's specified accuracy (95% typical)
Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:
Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
Surface elevations of the sediment samples were interpolated from USGS lidar data collected in February 2012.
Quantitative_Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Assessment:
Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Value: 0.034
Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Explanation: Meters, Root Mean Square Error
Lineage:
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Sample locations were recorded at the time of collection using a Garmin GPSMAP 76S handheld Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver along with a physical description of each sample site.
Process_Date: 2012
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: Julie Bernier
Contact_Position: Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: Mailing and physical
Address: 600 4th Street South
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (727) 502-8000
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jbernier@usgs.gov
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Sample locations were transformed from the GPS acquisition datum (World Geodetic System of 1984, WGS84) to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 16 North using NOAA VDatum version 3.2 transformation software (http://vdatum.noaa.gov/) and imported into Esri ArcGIS version 10.1.
Process_Date: 2013
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: Julie Bernier
Contact_Position: Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: Mailing and physical
Address: 600 4th Street South
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (727) 502-8000
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Surface elevations of the sediment samples were interpolated from a 2.5-meter by 2.5-meter gridded surface of USGS lidar data collected in February 2012 using the Spatial Analyst Extract Values to Points tool in Esri ArcGIS version 10.1.
Process_Date: 2013
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: Julie Bernier
Contact_Position: Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: Mailing and physical
Address: 600 4th Street South
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (727) 502-8000
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jbernier@usgs.gov

Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Planar:
Grid_Coordinate_System:
Grid_Coordinate_System_Name: Universal Transverse Mercator
Universal_Transverse_Mercator:
UTM_Zone_Number: 16
Transverse_Mercator:
Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: 0.9996
Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: 87.0
Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 0.0
False_Easting: 500000.0
False_Northing: 0.0
Planar_Coordinate_Information:
Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair
Coordinate_Representation:
Abscissa_Resolution: 0.001
Ordinate_Resolution: 0.001
Planar_Distance_Units: Meters
Geodetic_Model:
Horizontal_Datum_Name: D North American 1983
Ellipsoid_Name: GRS 1980
Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.0
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222101
Vertical_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Altitude_System_Definition:
Altitude_Datum_Name: North American Vertical Datum of 1988
Altitude_Resolution: 0.01
Altitude_Distance_Units: Meters
Altitude_Encoding_Method: Attribute values

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: 12BIM01_samplesites.xlsx
Entity_Type_Definition:
Microsoft Excel workbook defining the location of sediment samples collected in March 2012 from the northern Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana (U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity Number 12BIM01)
Entity_Type_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: SAMPLE
Attribute_Definition:
Sample identification number based on Field Activity Number and sample number or site
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: Character string
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: SITE
Attribute_Definition: Physical description of sample location
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: Character string
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: LATITUDE
Attribute_Definition: Latitude of sample location in decimal degrees (NAD83)
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 29.87542
Range_Domain_Maximum: 30.01685
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees
Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 0.00001
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: LONGITUDE
Attribute_Definition: Longitude of sample location in decimal degrees (NAD83)
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: -88.85067
Range_Domain_Maximum: -88.82052
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees
Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 0.00001
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: EASTING (m)
Attribute_Definition:
X-coordinate (easting) of sample location in meters (NAD83, UTM Zone 16N)
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 321521.707
Range_Domain_Maximum: 324265.967
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Meters
Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 0.001
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: NORTHING (m)
Attribute_Definition:
Y-coordinate (northing) of sample location in meters (NAD83, UTM Zone 16N)
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 3306383.312
Range_Domain_Maximum: 3322094.747
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Meters
Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 0.001
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: ELEVATION (m)
Attribute_Definition: Elevation of sample location in meters (NAVD88, GEOID09)
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: -
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
No Data - Sample location was collected outside of the lidar elevation dataset extent
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: -0.13
Range_Domain_Maximum: 1.18
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Meters
Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 0.01

Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: Julie Bernier
Contact_Position: Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: Mailing and physical
Address: 600 4th Street South
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (727) 502-8000
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jbernier@usgs.gov
Resource_Description: Downloadable data
Distribution_Liability:
This publication was prepared by an agency of the United States Government. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data on any other system, or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution imply any such warranty. The U.S. Geological Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and (or) contained herein. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof.
Standard_Order_Process:
Digital_Form:
Digital_Transfer_Information:
Format_Name: Microsoft Excel
Format_Version_Number: 2010
Format_Specification: Tabular data
Format_Information_Content:
This zip archive contains a Microsoft Excel workbook with sample information for sediment samples collected in March 2012 (USGS Field Activity Number 12BIM01) and associated metadata.
File_Decompression_Technique: Unzip
Transfer_Size: 33 KB
Digital_Transfer_Option:
Online_Option:
Computer_Contact_Information:
Network_Address:
Network_Resource_Name: https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/0850/downloads/12BIM01_samplesites.zip
Fees: None, if obtained online
Technical_Prerequisites:
This workbook was created using Microsoft Excel 2010 and can be opened using Microsoft Excel 2007 or higher; these data may also be viewed using the free Microsoft Excel Viewer (http://www.microsoft.com/).

Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20160711
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: Julie Bernier
Contact_Position: Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: Mailing and physical
Address: 600 4th Street South
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (727) 502-8000
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jbernier@usgs.gov
Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata_Access_Constraints: None
Metadata_Use_Constraints:
The U.S. Geological Survey requests that it be acknowledged as the originator of this dataset in any future products or research derived from these data.
Metadata_Security_Information:
Metadata_Security_Classification_System: None
Metadata_Security_Classification: Unclassified
Metadata_Security_Handling_Description: None

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