As those who have ventured over to the Old Inlet breach recently have undoubtedly noted, there have been major changes in the breach over the past few months. Charles N. Flagg, Roger Flood, Robert Wilson and Claudia Hinrichs at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University have kept up with the monthly aerial photography and Great South Bay observations, and recently conducted another bathymetric surveys of the breach area and approaches. The oblique shots and photo mosaics as well as the realtime and delayed-mode water property data are available on the project website. The latest report summarizes some of the recent observations and present status of the breach.
Mark Lang has assembled all the geo-referenced photo mosaics into a kml file that can be viewed using Google Earth. By clicking between images and using the fade in-out button you can clearly see how the inlet is changing with time. An offline version of the KML file is available as KMZ. The mosaics are also available below:
July 24, 2015 Mosaic
June 30, 2015 Mosaic
May 26, 2015 Mosaic
