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As part of the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey is expanding National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands. The intent is to provide federal, state, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability of coastal wetlands to various factors and to evaluate their ecosystem service potential. For this purpose, the response and resilience of coastal wetlands to physical factors need to be assessed in terms of the ensuing change to their vulnerability and ecosystem services. Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (EBFNWR), New Jersey, was selected as a pilot study area. As part of this data synthesis effort, hydrodynamic and sediment transport...
Categories: Data;
Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service,
ArcGIS Service Definition,
Citation,
Downloadable,
Map Service;
Tags: Atlantic Ocean,
Barnegat Bay,
Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge,
Great Bay,
Little Egg Island, All tags...
New Jersey,
United States,
coastal ecosystems,
coastal processes,
contamination,
ecological processes,
environment,
environment,
environmental assessment,
estuary,
inlandWaters,
marsh health,
oceans,
polygon shapefile,
resilience,
salinity,
salinity,
salinity exposure,
salt marsh,
vegetation,
vegetation,
vulnerability,
wetland ecosystems,
wetland functions, Fewer tags
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The salt marsh complex of the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (EBFNWR), which spans over Great Bay, Little Egg Harbor, and Barnegat Bay (New Jersey, USA), was delineated to smaller, conceptual marsh units by geoprocessing of surface elevation data. Flow accumulation based on the relative elevation of each location is used to determine the ridge lines that separate each marsh unit while the surface slope is used to automatically assign each unit a drainage point, where water is expected to drain through. Through scientific efforts associated with the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey has started to expand national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal...
Categories: Data;
Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service,
ArcGIS Service Definition,
Downloadable,
Map Service;
Tags: Barnegat Bay,
Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge,
Great Bay,
Little Egg Island,
New Jersey, All tags...
United States,
coastal ecosystems,
coastal processes,
estuary,
marsh health,
salt marsh,
vegetation,
wetland ecosystems,
wetland ecosystems,
wetland functions, Fewer tags
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As part of the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey is expanding National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands. The intent is to provide federal, state, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability of coastal wetlands to various factors and to evaluate their ecosystem service potential. For this purpose, the response and resilience of coastal wetlands to physical factors need to be assessed in terms of the ensuing change to their vulnerability and ecosystem services. Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (EBFNWR), New Jersey, was selected as a pilot study area. As part of this data synthesis effort, hydrodynamic and sediment transport...
Categories: Data;
Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service,
ArcGIS Service Definition,
Citation,
Downloadable,
Map Service;
Tags: Atlantic Ocean,
Barnegat Bay,
Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge,
Great Bay,
Little Egg Island, All tags...
New Jersey,
United States,
coastal ecosystems,
coastal processes,
contamination,
ecological processes,
environment,
environment,
environmental assessment,
estuary,
inlandWaters,
marsh health,
oceans,
polygon shapefile,
resilience,
salinity,
salinity,
salt marsh,
vegetation,
vegetation,
vulnerability,
wetland ecosystems,
wetland functions, Fewer tags
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Biomass production is positively correlated with mean tidal range in salt marshes along the Atlantic coast of the United States of America. Recent studies support the idea that enhanced stability of the marshes can be attributed to increased vegetative growth due to increased tidal range. This dataset displays the spatial variation mean tidal range (i.e. Mean Range of Tides, MN) in the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (EBFNWR), which spans over Great Bay, Little Egg Harbor, and Barnegat Bay in New Jersey, USA. MN was based on the calculated difference in height between mean high water (MHW) and mean low water (MLW) using the VDatum (v3.5) software (http://vdatum.noaa.gov/). The input elevation was set...
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Atlantic Ocean,
Barnegat Bay,
Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge,
Great Bay,
Little Egg Island, All tags...
New Jersey,
United States,
coastal ecosystems,
coastal processes,
environment,
estuary,
inlandWaters,
marsh health,
oceans,
salt marsh,
tidal range,
tides (oceanic),
vegetation,
wetland ecosystems,
wetland functions, Fewer tags
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This data release contains coastal wetland synthesis products for the geographic region of Hudson Valley and New York City, New York. Metrics for resiliency, including unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR), marsh elevation, mean tidal range, and shoreline change rate are calculated for smaller units delineated from a Digital Elevation Model, providing the spatial variability of physical factors that influence wetland health. Through scientific efforts initiated with the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands with the intent of providing Federal, State, and local managers with tools to estimate...
Categories: Data;
Types: Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
Shapefile;
Tags: Dutchess County,
Hudson River,
Lower Bay,
New York,
Putnam County, All tags...
Queens County,
Staten Island,
United States,
Upper Bay,
Westchester County,
accretion,
coastal ecosystems,
coastal processes,
coastline,
environment,
estuary,
geospatial datasets,
inlandWaters,
marsh health,
oceans,
polygon shapefile,
resilience,
salt marsh,
sediment,
shoreline,
tides (oceanic),
vegetation,
vulnerability,
wetland ecosystems,
wetland functions, Fewer tags
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