Skip to main content

Data collected in 2010 to evaluate habitat availability for surf smelt and eelgrass in response to sea level rise on Bainbridge Island, Puget Sound, Washington, USA

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2010-06-23
End Date
2010-10-21

Citation

Tomka, R.G., Smith, C.D., and Liedtke, T.L., 2020, Data collected in 2010 to evaluate habitat availability for surf smelt and eelgrass in response to sea level rise on Bainbridge Island, Puget Sound, Washington State, USA: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9HGJ3ZH.

Summary

This dataset includes biological variables showing surf smelt spawning presence, geological variables describing beach composition, and sample locations using RTK-GPS. This field data was also used to run the Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM; Warren Pinnacle Consulting, Inc., Warren, Vt)) to predict the changes to beaches over time, and under different sea level rise scenarios. Field sampling took place on the northern part of Bainbridge Island, Puget Sound, Washington during summer and fall of 2010.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Ryan G Tomka
Originator :
Ryan G Tomka, Collin Smith, Theresa L Liedtke
Metadata Contact :
Ryan G Tomka
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems
SDC Data Owner :
Western Fisheries Research Center

Attached Files

Click on title to download individual files attached to this item.

Bainbridge Island sediment weights.csv
“Breakdown of sediment sizes and percent of sizes per sample”
22.19 KB text/csv
Bainbridge Sediment and spawn data.csv
“Beach characteristics and surf smelt egg counts”
16.19 KB text/csv
GIS Sample Locations.csv
“GPS coordinates with beach elevation and tidal elevations during sample times”
8.4 KB text/csv
Bain_SLAMM_DEM.txt
“Links the DEM GIS layer to the SLAMM project”
508.04 KB text/plain
Bain_SLAMM_Impervious.txt
“Links the percent impervious GIS layer to the SLAMM project”
150.07 KB text/plain
Bain_SLAMM_Landuse.txt
“Categorizes beaches using NOAA Coastal Change Analysis Program”
165.83 KB text/plain
Bain_SLAMM_NWI.txt
“Links the wetland categories GIS layer to the SLAMM project”
164.57 KB text/plain
Bain_SLAMM_Site_Info.txt
“Beach site parameters added to the SLAMM project map.”
1.15 KB text/plain
Bain_SLAMM_Slope.txt
“Links the slope GIS layer to the SLAMM project”
522.23 KB text/plain

Purpose

This study was done to predict how surf smelt spawning habitat and eelgrass beds would be affected by sea levels rising at undeveloped Fay Bainbridge Park and developed Point Monroe on Bainbridge Island. The predictive model used can show habitat change through time and graphic responses of developed dry land depicting the influence of shoreline armoring.

Additional Information

Identifiers

Type Scheme Key
DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9HGJ3ZH

Item Actions

View Item as ...

Save Item as ...

View Item...