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Hydrospatial Framework for the Laurentian Great Lakes This data release provides the georeferenced boundaries that delimit each spatial unit of the Great Lakes Regional Aquatic Gap Analysis Project (GLGap) Coastal Hydrospatial Framework at each spatial scale from the local 90m cell to the entire Laurentian Great Lakes system and from the shoreline to the deepest offshore waters. The U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service collaborated to design a universal framework of spatial areas that encompass all space of the Laurentian Great Lakes proper. Agglomeration of the finest units (90m cells) form coarser, broader scale units. Finer units are nested within the coarser units at six spatial scales, labeled as Local Cells, Aquatic Habitat Areas, Coastal... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Ecological Classification, Environmental assessment, Great Lakes, Habitat Characterization, Lakescape Framework, All tags... Lentic, NFHP Cooperator, Spatial Data, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Visual, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, Fewer tags Change in salinity exposure of salt marsh units in Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, New Jersey during Hurricane Sandy 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 Exposure potential of saltmarsh units in Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge to environmental health stressors (polygon shapefile) Natural and anthropogenic contaminants, pathogens, and viruses are found in soils and sediments throughout the United States. Enhanced dispersion and concentration of these environmental health stressors in coastal regions can result from sea level rise and storm-derived disturbances. The combination of existing environmental health stressors and those mobilized by natural or anthropogenic disasters could adversely impact the health and resilience of coastal communities and ecosystems. This dataset displays the exposure potential to environmental health stressors in the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (EBFNWR), which spans over Great Bay, Little Egg Harbor, and Barnegat Bay in New Jersey, USA. Exposure... 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, contaminant transport, contamination, ecological processes, ecotoxicology, environment, environmental assessment, estuary, facility registry service, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, polygon shapefile, resilience, salt marsh, sediment, sedimentation, toxic release inventory, vegetation, vulnerability, wetland ecosystems, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Western Lake Erie Restoration Assessment Dikes This dataset is the output of a python script/ArcGIS model that identifes dikes as having a difference in elevation above a certain threshold. If the elevation difference was below a certain threshold the area was not considered a dike; however, if the difference in elevation between two points was significantly high then the area was marked as a dike. Areas continuous with eachother were considered part of the same dike. Post processing occured. Users examined the data output, comparing the proposed dike locations to aerial imagery, flowline data, and the DEM. Dikes that appeared to be false positives were deleted from the data set. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Great Lakes, LIDAR, Lake Erie, biogeography, coastal ecosystems, All tags... coastal processes, connectivity, decision support methods, digital elevation models, dikes, drainage, ecological processes, environmental assessment, estuarine ecosystems, estuarine processes, freshwater ecosystems, geodesign, geographic information systems, geography, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, habitats, hydrographic datasets, interagency programs, land use change, restoration, surface-water level, water resources, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Broad-scale assessment of biophysical features in Colorado: Terrestrial development index using 5-kilometer moving window The "Broad-scale assessment of biophysical features in Colorado: Terrestrial development index using 5-kilometer moving window" raster dataset quantifies levels of development (urban, agriculture, energy and mineral extraction and transmission, and roads and railroads) for all lands in Colorado. The terrestrial development index (TDI) represents the total percentage of the estimated surface disturbance footprint from development within a 5-kilometer (km) radius moving window. The TDI scores range from 0 to 100 percent. Methods are described in the companion report (see "Larger Work" section). Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Colorado, TDI, agriculture, development, energy resources, All tags... environment, environmental assessment, farming, land use and land cover, mineral resources, natural resource management, surface disturbance footprint, terrestrial development index, transportation, urban development, utilitiesCommunication, Fewer tags Connecting River Systems Restoration Assessment Dikes This dataset is the output of a python script/ArcGIS model that identifes dikes as having a difference in elevation above a certain threshold. If the elevation difference was below a certain threshold the area was not considered a dike; however, if the difference in elevation between two points was significantly high then the area was marked as a dike. Areas continuous with eachother were considered part of the same dike. Post processing occured. Users examined the data output, comparing the proposed dike locations to aerial imagery, flowline data, and the DEM. Dikes that appeared to be false positives were deleted from the data set. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Detroit River, Great Lakes, LIDAR, Lake St. Clair, St. Clair River, All tags... biogeography, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, connectivity, decision support methods, digital elevation models, dikes, drainage, ecological processes, environmental assessment, estuarine ecosystems, estuarine processes, freshwater ecosystems, geodesign, geographic information systems, geography, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, habitats, hydrographic datasets, interagency programs, land use change, restoration, surface-water level, water resources, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Shoreline change rates in salt marsh units in Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, New Jersey Monitoring shoreline change is of interest in many coastal areas because it enables quantification of land loss over time. Evolution of shoreline position is determined by the balance between erosion and accretion along the coast. In the case of salt marshes, erosion along the water boundary causes a loss of ecosystem services, such as habitat provision, carbon storage, and wave attenuation. In terms of vulnerability, higher shoreline erosion rates indicate higher vulnerability. This dataset displays shoreline change rates at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (EBFNWR), which spans over Great Bay, Little Egg Harbor, and Barnegat Bay in New Jersey, USA. Shoreline change rates are based on... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Atlantic Ocean, Barnegat Bay, Barnegat bay, Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, All tags... Environmental Health, Geophysics, Great Bay, Land Use Change, Little Egg Island, Marine Geology, New Jersey, New Jersey, Soil Sciences, United States, Water Quality, Water Resources, accretion, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, coastline, ecological processes, environment, environmental assessment, estuary, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, polygon shapefile, resilience, salt marsh, sediment, shoreline, shoreline change, vegetation, vegetation, vulnerability, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Change in salinity in salt marsh units in Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, New Jersey during Hurricane Sandy 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 National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP) 2015 Human Disturbance Data for Alaska linked to HUC12 Watersheds This CSV file contains landscape factors representing anthropogenic disturbances to stream habitats summarized within 6th level Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC12) watersheds of the Watershed Boundary Dataset. The source datasets compiled and attributed to spatial units were identified as being: (1) meaningful for assessing fluvial fish habitat; (2) consistent across the entire study area in the way that they were assembled; (3) broadly representative of conditions in the past 10 years, and (4) of sufficient spatial resolution that they could be used to make valid comparisons among local catchment units. Variables summarized at the HUC12 scale include measures of anthropogenic land uses, population density, roads, dams,... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: 2015 National Assessment, 2015 National Assessment, Alaska, Anthropogenic factors, DataProduct, All tags... Habitat Characterization, Lotic, NFHP, NFHP Cooperator, Spatial Data, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Visual, Watershed Boundary Dataset, drainage basins, environmental assessment, environmental condition, human impacts, inlandWaters, river basin, river reaches, streams, water quality, watershed, Fewer tags Western Lake Erie Restoration Assessment Degree Flowlines This represents the flowline network in Western Lale Erie Restoration Assessment (WLERA). It is attributed with the number of disconnections between the reach and the connecting river system. These data will help identify the condition of hydrologic separation between potential restoration areas and the connecting river system. Low numbers represent fewer disconnections such as culverts between the reach and the rivers requiring no flow network modification to restore the area. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Artificial Path, Canal / Ditch, FWHydrography, Great Lakes, Hydrography, All tags... LIDAR, Lake / Pond, Lake Erie, Reach Code, Reservoir, Spring / Seep, Stream / River, Swamp / Marsh, biogeography, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, connectivity, decision support methods, digital elevation models, dikes, drainage, ecological processes, environmental assessment, estuarine ecosystems, estuarine processes, freshwater ecosystems, geodesign, geographic information systems, geography, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, habitats, hydrographic datasets, interagency programs, land use change, restoration, surface-water level, water resources, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Connecting River Systems Restoration Assessment Degree Flowlines This represents the flowline network in Connecting River Systems Restoration Assessment (CRSRA). It is attributed with the number of disconnections between the reach and the connecting river system. These data will help identify the condition of hydrologic separation between potential restoration areas and the connecting river system. Low numbers represent fewer disconnections such as culverts between the reach and the rivers requiring no flow network modification to restore the area. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Artificial Path, Canal / Ditch, Detroit River, FWHydrography, Great Lakes, All tags... Hydrography, LIDAR, Lake / Pond, Lake St. Clair, Reach Code, Reservoir, Spring / Seep, St. Clair River, Stream / River, Swamp / Marsh, biogeography, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, connectivity, decision support methods, digital elevation models, dikes, drainage, ecological processes, environmental assessment, estuarine ecosystems, estuarine processes, freshwater ecosystems, geodesign, geographic information systems, geography, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, habitats, hydrographic datasets, interagency programs, land use change, restoration, surface-water level, water resources, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Inferred hydrodynamic residence time in salt marsh units in Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, New Jersey 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, contaminant transport, contamination, ecological processes, environment, environmental assessment, estuary, flushing, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, polygon shapefile, residence time, resilience, salt marsh, vegetation, vulnerability, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Change in suspended sediment concentration over the salt marsh units in Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, New Jersey during Hurricane Sandy 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, environment, environmental assessment, estuary, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, polygon shapefile, resilience, salt marsh, suspended sediment concentration, vegetation, vegetation, vulnerability, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Raster image of exposure potential to environmental health stressors in Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (32-bit GeoTIFF) Natural and anthropogenic contaminants, pathogens, and viruses are found in soils and sediments throughout the United States. Enhanced dispersion and concentration of these environmental health stressors in coastal regions can result from sea level rise and storm-derived disturbances. The combination of existing environmental health stressors and those mobilized by natural or anthropogenic disasters could adversely impact the health and resilience of coastal communities and ecosystems. This dataset displays the exposure potential to environmental health stressors in the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (EBFNWR), which spans over Great Bay, Little Egg Harbor, and Barnegat Bay in New Jersey, USA. Exposure... 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, contaminant transport, contamination, ecological processes, ecotoxicology, environment, environmental assessment, estuary, facility registry service, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, polygon shapefile, resilience, salt marsh, sediment, sedimentation, toxic release inventory, vegetation, vulnerability, wetland ecosystems, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Saginaw Bay Restoration Assessment Dikes This dataset is the output of a python script/ArcGIS model that identifes dikes as having a difference in elevation above a certain threshold. If the elevation difference was below a certain threshold the area was not considered a dike; however, if the difference in elevation between two points was significantly high then the area was marked as a dike. Areas continuous with eachother were considered part of the same dike. Post processing occured. Users examined the data output, comparing the proposed dike locations to aerial imagery, flowline data, and the DEM. Dikes that appeared to be false positives were deleted from the data set. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Great Lakes, LIDAR, Saginaw Bay, biogeography, coastal ecosystems, All tags... coastal processes, connectivity, decision support methods, digital elevation models, dikes, drainage, ecological processes, environmental assessment, estuarine ecosystems, estuarine processes, freshwater ecosystems, geodesign, geographic information systems, geography, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, habitats, hydrographic datasets, interagency programs, land use change, restoration, surface-water level, water resources, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Saginaw Bay Restoration Assessment Degree Flowlines This represents the flowline network in Sagina Bay Restoration Assessment (SBRA). It is attributed with the number of disconnections between the reach and the connecting river system. These data will help identify the condition of hydrologic separation between potential restoration areas and the connecting river system. Low numbers represent fewer disconnections such as culverts between the reach and the rivers requiring no flow network modification to restore the area. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Artificial Path, Canal / Ditch, FWHydrography, Great Lakes, Hydrography, All tags... LIDAR, Lake / Pond, Reach Code, Reservoir, Saginaw Bay, Spring / Seep, Stream / River, Swamp / Marsh, biogeography, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, connectivity, decision support methods, digital elevation models, dikes, drainage, ecological processes, environmental assessment, estuarine ecosystems, estuarine processes, freshwater ecosystems, geodesign, geographic information systems, geography, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, habitats, hydrographic datasets, interagency programs, land use change, restoration, surface-water level, water resources, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Broad-scale assessment of biophysical features in Colorado: Terrestrial development index using 1-kilometer moving window The "Broad-scale assessment of biophysical features in Colorado: Terrestrial development index using 1-kilometer moving window" raster dataset quantifies levels of development (urban, agriculture, energy and mineral extraction and transmission, and roads and railroads) for all lands in Colorado. The terrestrial development index (TDI) represents the total percentage of the estimated surface disturbance footprint from development within a 1-kilometer (km) radius moving window. The TDI scores range from 0 to 100 percent. Methods are described in the companion report (see "Larger Work" section). Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Colorado, TDI, agriculture, development, energy resources, All tags... environment, environmental assessment, farming, land use and land cover, mineral resources, natural resource management, surface disturbance footprint, terrestrial development index, transportation, urban development, utilitiesCommunication, Fewer tags Landscape Intactness Index for the Western United States Landscape intactness has been defined as a quantifiable estimate of naturalness measured on a gradient of anthropogenic influence and based on available spatial data. We developed a multiscale index of landscape intactness for use as a broad-scale indicator of resource condition for the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Landscape Approach, which requires multiple scales of information to quantify the cumulative effects of land use. The multiscale index of landscape intactness represents a gradient of anthropogenic influence as represented by development levels at two analysis scales. To calculate landscape intactness we combined the terrestrial development index (TDI) summarized at two scales (using a 2.5- and a... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Development, Idaho, All tags... Kansas, Landscape intactness, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Surface disturbance footprint, Terrestrial Development Index (TDI), Texas, Urban development, Utah, Washington, Western United States, Wyoming, agriculture, ecological processes, energy resources, environment, environmental assessment, land use and land cover, mineral resources, natural resource management, transportation, transportation, Fewer tags