Coastal Single-beam Bathymetry Data Collected in 2023 from the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana

Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (SPCMSC) conducted single-beam and multibeam bathymetry (Stalk and others, 2025) surveys around the northern Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, from June 12 to 20 and from July 31 to August 9, 2023, as part of Field Activity Number (FAN) 2023-325-FA. The purpose of data collection was to measure submerged coastal elevations along the Chandeleur Islands, located in the Breton National Wildlife Refuge. Funded by the Extending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act (Public Law 117-43) enacted on September 30, 2021, these data, in combination with previous bathymetric data collected at the study area (Stalk and others, 2017; Stalk and others, 2020), can be used to quantify storm-related barrier island sediment redistribution following the 2020-2021 hurricane seasons. The survey encompassed approximately 760 square kilometers (km) of the gulf-side and sound-side nearshore environments around the northern Chandeleur Islands. The single-beam bathymetry was acquired using two 12-foot (ft) personal watercrafts and two boats (a 20-ft Twin Vee [TVEE] and a 17-ft Mako). All vessels were outfitted with high precision Global Navigation Satellite System receivers, motion reference units, and survey grade single-beam echosounders (SBES). Long Term Change (LTC) lines were collected by the TVEE as part of a comparative long term change analysis, but for this data release, LTC lines represent shore-perpendicular transects extending both offshore and soundward 3 km on either side of the island. Sub-bottom profile geophysical data were also collected during this FAN and are provided in Forde and others (2024).
Forde, A.S., Miselis, J.L., Stalk, C.A., and Buster, N.A., 2024, Chirp sub-bottom profile geophysical data collected in 2023 from the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P1HOLGKM.

Stalk, C.A., DeWitt, N.T., Bernier, J.C., Kindinger, J.G., Flocks, J.G., Miselis, J.L., Locker, S.D., Kelso, K.W., and Tuten, T.M., 2017, Coastal single-beam bathymetry data collected in 2015 from the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1039, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds1039.

Stalk, C.A., Miselis, J.L., Fredericks, J.J., DeWitt, N.T., and Reynolds, B.J., 2020, Coastal bathymetry data collected in September 2018 from the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9E6E79E.

Stalk C.A., Bemelmans, C.C., and Miselis, J.L., 2025, Coastal bathymetry and backscatter data collected June-August 2023 from the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P1NWHXZS.