Rapid Response Survey Gauges Sandy's Impact on Seafloor

Abstract

In January 2013, approximately 2 months after Hurricane Sandy made landfall in the Mid‐Atlantic Bight, scientists from the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), part of the Jackson School of Geosciences (JSG), partnered with local colleagues at Adelphi and Stony Brook universities and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to conduct marine surveys both offshore and within inshore bays of Long Island, N. Y. (Figure 1a). The primary goal was to assess the storm's impact on the seabed.