{"id":181140,"date":"2023-05-25T09:58:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T13:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?page_id=181140"},"modified":"2023-07-19T11:07:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T15:07:51","slug":"survey-methods","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/beachsurvey\/survey-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Survey Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-hero-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-hero  \"><div class=\"cl-hero-proper\"><div class=\"overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"still\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/surveymap-copy.jpg);\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<div class=\"feature-caption\">Map of the GSO Beach Survey study sites.<\/div>\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-menu-wrapper\"><nav id=\"\" class=\"cl-menu  \" data-name=\"Beach Survey\" data-show-title=\"0\"><ul id=\"menu-beach-survey\" class=\"cl-menu-list cl-menu-list-no-js\"><li id=\"menu-item-181149\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-181149\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/beachsurvey\/\">Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-181152\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-181152\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/beachsurvey\/history\/\">Beach Survey History<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-181151\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-181151\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/beachsurvey\/survey-methods\/\">Beach Survey Methods<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-181150\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-181150\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/beachsurvey\/contacts\/\">Contact Us!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav><\/section>\n<p>Survey measurements are taken along the south coast of Rhode Island at seven distinct locations (shown above), ranging from Misquamicut State Beach in the West to Moonstone Beach in the Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge in the East.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_181109\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-181109\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-181109 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/emilysurvey-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-181109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surveying transit measure the distance to and elevation line on the stadia rod (person standing in distance). Hand signals are helpful for communication between the measurement team.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All of the survey locations are located on sandy barrier beaches, bordered by the Block Island Sound to the south and coastal lagoons, referred to as salt ponds in Rhode Island, to the north. Surveys are generally conducted at low tide in order to maximize the amount of measurable beach.<\/p>\n<p>Beach elevation measurements are taken across the width of&nbsp; the beach from the dune to the waterline. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_181143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-181143\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-181143 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/scarp-300x276.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/scarp-300x276.png 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/scarp-364x335.png 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/scarp-500x460.png 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/scarp.png 587w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-181143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Example of survey measurements (along dashed lines) show a dune scarp at Greenhill Beach on February 28, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Measurements have historically been taken with a transit instrument and stadia rod with respect to a GPS-referenced point, but the survey will be transferring to a real-time kinemati<\/p>\n<p>c (RTK) GPS system soon. Collected data is then processed to measure how beach erosion and sediment transport dynamics change through time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_181142\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-181142\" style=\"width: 1052px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-181142 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/surveyexample.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1052\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/surveyexample.png 1052w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/surveyexample-300x110.png 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/surveyexample-1024x375.png 1024w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/surveyexample-768x281.png 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/surveyexample-364x133.png 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/surveyexample-500x183.png 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/surveyexample-1000x366.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1052px) 100vw, 1052px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-181142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Example survey transects at Greenhiill Beach from February 2, 2022 (black) and February 28, 2022 (red). During the Rhode Island winter, strong storms lead to increased beach erosion. The sharp drop-offs seen at the 20 m mark are erosional dune scarps, a typical feature of winter beach profiles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Map of the GSO Beach Survey study sites. Survey measurements are taken along the south coast of Rhode Island at seven distinct locations (shown above), ranging from Misquamicut State Beach in the West to Moonstone Beach in the Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge in the East. All of the survey locations are located on sandy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2568,"featured_media":0,"parent":181107,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-181140","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181140"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181712,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181140\/revisions\/181712"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}