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Data from: Decision science as a framework for combining geomorphological and ecological modeling for the management of coastal systems Coastal management decisions are complex and include challenging tradeoffs. Decision science offers a useful framework to address such complex problems. We illustrate the process with several coastal restoration studies. Our capstone example is based on a recent barrier island restoration assessment project at Dauphin Island, Alabama, which included the development of geomorphological and ecological models that forecast environmental changes over a 10 year time period from 2015 to 2025. The proposed framework aims to serve as a tool to assist coastal managers with the process of restoration. Specifically, we discuss the importance of considering concepts and techniques from ecology, coastal geology, geomorphology,... Categories: Data; Tags: Adaptive Management, Aquatic Biology, Barrier Island, Climatology, Dauphin Island, Alabama, All tags... Ecology, Environmental Health, Geography, Geomorphology, Geomorphology, Hydrology, Interdisciplinary Science, Land Use Change, Marine Geology, Restoration, Structured Decision Making, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, Fewer tags Wetland vegetation and elevation survey within the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Jacksonville, Florida, 2021–2022 Vegetation and elevation data were collected using a real-time kinematic global positioning system (RTK GPS) in coastal wetlands at the National Park Service’s Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve in summer 2021 and winter 2022 (n = 362). For each 0.5-by-0.5 m plot, the following data were collected: 1) percent cover by vegetation species; 2) percent cover by vegetation classes based on height (that is, carpet, herbaceous, and woody); 3) mean height of the dominant species; 4) water depth; 5) marsh class based on dominant vegetation species; and 6) location and elevation (that is, northing, easting, and elevation). Categories: Data; Tags: Duval, Ecology, Florida, Geography, Nassau, All tags... Remote Sensing, South Atlantic, Timucuan Ecological And Historic Preserve, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, biota, coastal ecosystems, elevation, environment, geoscientificInformation, wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags Barrier island vegetation and elevation survey, Dauphin Island, AL, 2018–19 Vegetation and elevation survey data were collected in 4-square-meter quadrats via Real-Time Kinematic GPS from September 9, 2018 to April 17, 2019 on Dauphin Island, AL. Vegetation data included total percent herbaceous cover, percent cover by plant species, and mean height of vegetation within the quadrat. The percent cover by species was used to determine the dominant species for the plot. Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, Dauphin Island, Ecology, Geography, Geomorphology, All tags... Mobile, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), barrier flat, barrier islands, beach, biota, coastal wetlands, dune, elevation, environment, geoscientificInformation, marsh, meadow, topography, vegetation, woody vegetation, Fewer tags Riverine Sand Mining/Scofield Island Restoration (BA-40): 2014 habitat classification (ver. 1.1, August 2021) The Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) program was developed by Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and is implemented as a component of the System Wide Assessment and Monitoring Program (SWAMP). The program uses both historical data and contemporary data collections to assess and monitor changes in the aerial and subaqueous extent of islands, habitat types, sediment texture and geotechnical properties, environmental processes, and vegetation composition. Examples of BICM datasets include still and video aerial photography for documenting shoreline changes, shoreline positions, habitat mapping, land change analyses, light detection and ranging (lidar) surveys for topographic... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Chandeleur Islands Region, Gulf of Mexico, Iberia Parish, Louisiana, Louisiana Coastal, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), barrier islands, barrier vegetation, beach, coastal wetlands, dune, environment, geoscientificInformation, habitat map, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, mangrove, marsh, remote sensing, scrub/shrub, Fewer tags Pass Chaland to Grand Bayou Pass Barrier Shoreline Restoration (BA-35): 2016 habitat classification The Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) program was developed by Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and is implemented as a component of the System Wide Assessment and Monitoring (SWAMP) program. The program uses both historical data and contemporary data collections to assess and monitor changes in the aerial and subaqueous extent of islands, habitat types, sediment texture and geotechnical properties, environmental processes, and vegetation composition. Examples of BICM datasets include still and video aerial photography for documenting shoreline changes, shoreline positions, habitat mapping, land change analyses, light detection and ranging (lidar) surveys for topographic... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Ecology, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Louisiana Coastal, Modern Delta Region, All tags... Plaquemines Parish, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, barrier islands, barrier vegetation, beach, coastal wetlands, dune, environment, geoscientificInformation, habitat map, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, mangrove, marsh, remote sensing, scrub/shrub, Fewer tags Potential landward migration of coastal wetlands in response to sea-level rise within estuarine drainage areas and coastal states of the conterminous United States We quantified the potential area available for landward migration of tidal saline wetlands and freshwater wetlands due to sea-level rise (SLR) at the estuary scale for 166 estuarine drainage areas and at the state scale for 22 coastal states and District of Columbia. We used 2016 Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) data in combination with the future wetland migration data under the 1.5 m global SLR scenario to evaluate the potential for wetland migration into all the individual C-CAP classes and into the following six land cover categories: (1) freshwater forest (wetland); (2) freshwater marsh (wetland); (3) terrestrial forest (upland); (4) terrestrial grassland (upland); (5) agricultural croplands (upland);... Categories: Data; Tags: Alabama, Aquatic Biology, Atlantic coast, California, Climatology, All tags... Connecticut, Conterminous United States, Contiguous United States, Delaware, District of Columbia, East coast, Ecology, Florida, Forestry, Georgia, Gulf of Mexico coast, Hydrology, Land Use Change, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pacific coast, Pennsylvania, Remote Sensing, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Virginia, Washington, West coast, biota, coastal, coastal drainage area, coastal wetland, environment, estuarine drainage area, estuary, freshwater wetland, tidal saline wetland, wetland migration, Fewer tags Riverine Sand Mining/Scofield Island Restoration (BA-40): 2014 habitat classification This data release is currently being revised, and is currently unavailable. This data set includes mosaicked aerial photographs for the Riverine Sand Mining/Scofield Island Restoration (BA-40) project for 2014. This data is used as a basemap habitat classification. If repeated, it can also serve as a visual tool for project managers to help them identify any obvious problems or land loss within their project boundary. To better evaluate the effectiveness of restoration efforts, a habitat classification was performed on specific projects to help assess landscape changes. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: BA-40, Coastal Louisiana, Ecology, Geography, Geomorphology, All tags... Gulf of Mexico, Land Use Change, Louisiana, Remote Sensing, South Louisiana, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), aerial photography, digital elevation models, ecosystem monitoring, geographic information systems, habitats, image collections, image mosaics, natural resource management, rectification, remote sensing, scan, wetland restoration, wetlands, Fewer tags Mangrove distribution in the southeastern United States in 2021 Global climate change is leading to large-scale shifts in species’ range limits. For example, rising winter temperatures are shifting the abundance and distributions of tropical, cold sensitive plant species towards higher latitudes. Coastal wetlands provide a prime example of such shifts, with tropical mangrove forests expanding into temperate salt marshes as winter warming alleviates past geographic limits set by cold intolerance. These rapid changes are dynamic and challenging to monitor, and uncertainty remains regarding the extent of mangrove expansion near poleward range limits. Here, we synthesized existing datasets and expert knowledge to assess the current (i.e., 2021) distribution of mangroves near dynamic... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Alabama, Botany, Ecology, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Land Use Change, Louisiana, Mississippi, North America, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, ecology, ecosystem monitoring, effects of climate change, mangrove forests, range limits, Fewer tags Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program – 1996-2005 general habitat maps, West Chenier Plain, Early Lafourche Delta, Late Lafourche Delta, Modern Delta, Chandeleur Islands Regions This data release includes data from 1996-2005 for the Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program. Specifically, this data release includes general habitat maps for West Chenier Plain, Early Lafourche Delta, Late Lafourche Delta, Modern Delta, Chandeleur Islands Regions. Please consult the accompanying readME.txt file for information and recommendations on the contents of this dataset (that is, dataset and recommended symbology). Categories: Data; Tags: Barataria Pass, Caminada Headland, Cat Island Pass, Chandeleur Islands, Geography, All tags... Grand Isle, Isles Derniere, LCA S&T, LDNR, Little Pass Timbalier, Louisiana, Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, NAD83, PIES, Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences, Raccoon Island, Raccoon Pass, Raccoon Point to Sandy Point, Remote Sensing, Sandy Point, Timbalier Island, Trinity Island, UNO, UNO-PIES, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), UTM15, University of New Orleans, Whiskey Island, bare land, barrier vegetation, beach, coastal wetlands, environment, geoscientificInformation, habitat classification, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, intertidal, mapping, marsh, nearshore, northern Chandeleur Islands, remote sensing, southern Louisiana coastal zone, Fewer tags Estuarine vegetated wetland change scenarios for estuaries in the conterminous United States, 1996–2019 This data release contains land cover-derived statistics regarding estuarine vegetated wetland area change within estuary drainage areas along the conterminous U.S. This dataset includes net change in estuarine vegetated wetland area based on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Coastal Change Assessment Program (C-CAP) 1996 and 2016 land cover data. Net change was assessed between estuarine vegetated wetlands (i.e., estuarine marshes, mangroves, non-mangrove estuarine woody wetlands, and salt pannes, depending on vegetation coverage and type) and the following other landcover classes: 1) water; 2) unconsolidated shore; 3) freshwater woody wetlands; 4) freshwater marsh; 5) upland; and 6) agriculture.... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Alabama, Atlantic, California, Connecticut, Delaware, All tags... District of Columbia, Ecology, Emergent Wetland, Estuarine Coastal, Florida, Forested Wetland, Geomorphology, Georgia, Gulf of Mexico, Land Use Change, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pacific, Pennsylvania, Remote Sensing, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Virginia, Washington, biota, coastal processes, effects of climate change, environment, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, land use and land cover, marsh ecosystems, remote sensing, sea-level rise, wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags Louisiana Outer Coast Restoration Project – 2022 habitat map, North Breton Island This data release includes 2022 data for the Louisiana Outer Coast Restoration Project for North Breton Island. Specifically, this data release includes a detailed habitat map, general habitat map, georeferenced imagery, and a bare-earth digital elevation model (DEM) developed from light detection and ranging data. These habitat maps are developed using the methods and classification scheme from Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority’s (CPRA) Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) program. For more details on BICM habitat classes, see the Entity and Attribute Information section of the metadata. Please consult the accompanying readME.txt file for information and recommendations on the contents... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Ecology, Geography, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Plaquemines, All tags... Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), elevation, environment, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, Fewer tags Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program – 2008-2016 habitat change, Late Lafourche Delta Region The Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) program was developed by Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and is implemented as a component of the System Wide Assessment and Monitoring Program (SWAMP). The program uses both historical data and contemporary data collections to assess and monitor changes in the aerial and subaqueous extent of islands, habitat types, sediment texture and geotechnical properties, environmental processes, and vegetation composition. Examples of BICM datasets include still and video aerial photography for documenting shoreline changes, shoreline positions, habitat mapping, land change analyses, light detection and ranging (lidar) surveys for topographic... Categories: Data; Tags: Geography, Geomorphology, Gulf of Mexico, Land Use Change, Late Lafourche Delta Region, All tags... Louisiana, Louisiana Coastal, Remote Sensing, St. Mary Parish, Terrebonne Parish, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), barrier islands, barrier vegetation, beach, coastal wetlands, dune, environment, geoscientificInformation, habitat change, habitat map, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, mangrove, marsh, remote sensing, scrub/shrub, Fewer tags Shell Island East Barrier Island Restoration (BA-0110): 2016 habitat classification The Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) program was developed by Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and is implemented as a component of the System Wide Assessment and Monitoring (SWAMP) program. The program uses both historical data and contemporary data collections to assess and monitor changes in the aerial and subaqueous extent of islands, habitat types, sediment texture and geotechnical properties, environmental processes, and vegetation composition. Examples of BICM datasets include still and video aerial photography for documenting shoreline changes, shoreline positions, habitat mapping, land change analyses, light detection and ranging (lidar) surveys for topographic... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Geography, Gulf of Mexico, Land Use Change, Louisiana, Louisiana Coastal, All tags... Modern Delta Region, Plaquemines Parish, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), barrier islands, barrier vegetation, beach, coastal wetlands, dune, environment, geoscientificInformation, habitat map, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, mangrove, marsh, remote sensing, scrub/shrub, Fewer tags Seagrass map, Cat Island and Ship Island, Mississippi, 2011 This product depicts the spatial coverage of seagrass beds from 0.5-m color-infrared orthoimagery for Cat Island and Ship Island, Mississippi from early fall of 2011. Specifically, the map includes presence and absence of seagrass beds within a potential seagrass extent that was based on topobathymetric data. A minimum mapping unit of 4 square meters was used for this mapping effort. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Gulf of Mexico, Habitat alteration and disturbance, Mississippi, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States of America, All tags... aquatic vascular vegetation, aquatic vegetation, environment, geoscientificInformation, habitat map, mapping, none, seagrass bed, Fewer tags Seagrass map, Cat Island and Ship Island, Mississippi, 2014 This product depicts the spatial coverage of seagrass beds from 0.5-m color-infrared orthoimagery for Cat Island and Ship Island, Mississippi from early fall of 2014. Specifically, the map includes presence and absence of seagrass beds within a potential seagrass extent that was based on topobathymetric data. A minimum mapping unit of 4 square meters was used for this mapping effort. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Gulf of Mexico, Habitat alteration and disturbance, Mississippi, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States of America, All tags... aquatic vascular vegetation, aquatic vegetation, environment, geoscientificInformation, habitat map, mapping, none, seagrass bed, Fewer tags Winter climate change and coastal wetland foundation species in the southeastern United States In this study, we investigated the potential effect of winter climate change upon salt marsh and mangrove forest foundation species in the southeastern United States. Our research addresses the following three questions: (1) What is the relationship between winter climate and the presence and abundance of mangrove forests relative to salt marshes; (2) How vulnerable are salt marshes to winter climate change-induced mangrove forest range expansion; and (3) What is the potential future distribution and relative abundance of mangrove forests under alternative winter climate change scenarios? We developed simple winter climate-based models to predict mangrove forest distribution and relative abundance using observed... Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Forests, Grasslands and Plains, Gulf of Mexico, Land Use Change, All tags... Landscapes, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Southeast CASC, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water, Coasts and Ice, Wetlands, biogeography, effects of climate change, land use and land cover, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program – 2008 habitat map, Late Lafourche Delta Region (ver. 1.0, April 2018) The Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) program was developed by Louisiana’s Coastal Protection Restoration Authority (CPRA) and is implemented as a component of the System Wide Assessment and Monitoring (SWAMP) program. The program uses both historical data and contemporary data collections to assess and monitor changes in the aerial and subaqueous extent of islands, habitat types, sediment texture and geotechnical properties, environmental processes, and vegetation composition. Examples of BICM datasets include still and video aerial photography for documenting shoreline changes, shoreline positions, habitat mapping, land change analyses, light detection and ranging (lidar) surveys for topographic elevations,... Categories: Data; Tags: Early Lafourche Delta Region, Geography, Geomorphology, Gulf of Mexico, Jefferson Parish, All tags... Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, Louisiana Coastal, Plaquemines Parish, Remote Sensing, Terrebonne Parish, barrier islands, barrier vegetation, beach, coastal wetlands, dune, environment, geoscientificInformation, habitat map, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, mangrove, marsh, remote sensing, scrub/shrub, Fewer tags Vegetation greenness observations by dune crest elevation, East and West Ship Island, Mississippi 2008-2009 This data release provides greenness for the dune crest and nearby backslope of the dune estimated from cloud-free 30-m satellite imagery during the hurricane seasons for 2008 and 2009 for East and West Ship Island, Mississippi. These data also include dune crest elevation from September 2008 produced by the U.S. Geological Survey (https://doi.org/10.5066/F7GF0S0Z). Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Barrier Island, Dune, Ecology, Geomorphology, Mississippi Coastal, All tags... Northern Gulf of Mexico, Remote Sensing, Ship Island, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), barrier island, biota, Fewer tags Mangrove damage along northern Gulf of Mexico from extreme freeze event on February 2021 Climate change is altering the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Quantifying ecosystem responses to extreme events at the landscape scale is critical for understanding and responding to climate-driven change but is constrained by limited data availability. Here, we integrated remote sensing with ground-based observations to quantify landscape-scale vegetation damage from an extreme climatic event. We used ground- and satellite-based black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) leaf damage data from the northern Gulf of Mexico (USA and Mexico) to examine the effects of an extreme freeze in a region where black mangroves are expanding their range. The February 2021 event produced coastal temperatures as low... Categories: Data; Tags: Avicennia germinans, Ecology, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Land Use Change, All tags... Louisiana, Sentinel-2, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, ecological threshold, extreme freeze, mangroves, range limit, remote sensing, Fewer tags