Data Series 914


Bathymetry of the Wilderness Breach at Fire Island, New York, June 2013

by Andrew T. Brownell,1 Cheryl J. Hapke,1 Nicholas J. Spore,2 and Jesse E. McNinch2

1U.S. Geological Survey
2U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

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Abstract

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center in St. Petersburg, Florida, collaborated with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Field Research Facility in Duck, North Carolina, to collect shallow water bathymetric data of the Wilderness breach on Fire Island, New York, in June 2013. The breach formed in October 2012 during Hurricane Sandy, and the USGS is involved in a post-Sandy effort to map, monitor, and model the morphologic evolution of the breach as part of Hurricane Sandy Supplemental Project GS2-2B: Linking Coastal Vulnerability and Process, Fire Island. This publication includes a bathymetric dataset of the breach and the adjacent nearshore on the ocean side of the island. The objective of the data collection and analysis is to map the bathymetry of the primary breach channel, ebb shoal, and nearshore bar system.

Aerial photograph of the new breach on the eastern end of Fire Island, New York, taken 5 days after Hurricane Sandy, which made landfall in late October 2012.