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#           Summary of oceanographic and water-quality measurements offshore of Matanzas Inlet, Florida, 2018      

      May 19, 2021    

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U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists and technical staff deployed instrumented underwater platforms and buoys to collect oceanographic and atmospheric data at two sites near Matanzas Inlet, Florida, on January 24, 2018, and recovered them on April 13, 2018. Matanzas Inlet is a natural, unmaintained inlet on the Florida Atlantic coast that is well suited to study inlet and cross-shore processes. The two study sites were located offshore of the surf zone, in 9 and 15 meters of water depth, in a line perpendicular to the coast. A sea-floor platform was deployed at each site to measure ocean currents, wave motions, acoustic and optical backscatter, temperature, salinity, and pressure. The objective was to quantify the hydrodynamic forcing for sediment transport and the response to such forcing near the seabed in the vicinity of an unmaintained inlet.

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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

####             Marinna Martini (Former Employee)          

##### Electronics Engineer

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

####             Ellyn Montgomery (Former Employee)          

##### Oceanographer 

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

#### Steven E Suttles

##### Mechanical Engineer

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

ssuttles@usgs.gov

508-457-2228

#### John Warner, PhD

##### Oceanographer

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

jcwarner@usgs.gov

508-457-2237

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May 11, 2021

####                 Grain-Size Analysis Data From Sediment Samples in Support of Oceanographic and Water-Quality Measurements in the Nearshore Zone of Matanzas Inlet, Florida, 2018              

Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

####             Marinna Martini (Former Employee)          

##### Electronics Engineer

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

####             Ellyn Montgomery (Former Employee)          

##### Oceanographer 

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

#### Steven E Suttles

##### Mechanical Engineer

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

ssuttles@usgs.gov

508-457-2228

#### John Warner, PhD

##### Oceanographer

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

jcwarner@usgs.gov

508-457-2237

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