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Filters Contacts (Less) Natural Hazards U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center PCMSC Science Data Coordinator U.S. Geological Survey Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program Zafer Defne Page C Valentine Neil Kamal Ganju Daniel Brothers Wayne E Baldwin Coastal and Marine Geology Program Seth D. Ackerman Alexander R Nichols Carolyn Ruppel Jared W Kluesner VeeAnn A. Cross Curt D. Storlazzi Charles R Worley Mary L McGann Maureen A Walton James E Conrad Walter Barnhardt Katherine (Katy) R Barnhart Seth Ackerman U.S. Geological Survey Jason Chaytor Samuel Y Johnson Lydia M Staisch Amy Gartman Elizabeth P Pendleton PCMSC Science Data Coordinator Steve Evert William F Waite Geologic Hazards Science Center Guy R Cochrane Peter Dartnell Laura Brothers Brian D Andrews David S Foster Antoinette G Papesh Denise M Payan Manda V Au William W Danforth Brian F Atwater Sandra M Brosnahan Alicia F Balster-gee Tarandeep S Kalra Christopher R Sherwood More... View Results as: JSON ATOM CSV

Coastal wetlands from Jamaica Bay to western Great South Bay, New York This data release contains coastal wetland synthesis products for the geographic region from Jamaica Bay to western Great South Bay, located in southeastern New York State. Metrics for resiliency, including unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR), marsh elevation, and mean tidal range, 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... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Environmental Health, Hydrology, Jamaica Bay, LTER, All tags... Long-Term Ecological Research, Marine Geology, Nassau County, New York, Queens County, South Oyster Bay, United States, Water Resources, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, environment, estuary, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, salt marsh, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags High-resolution geophysical data collected along the Mississippi River Delta front offshore of southeastern Louisiana, U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity 2017-003-FA High resolution bathymetric, sea-floor backscatter, and seismic-reflection data were collected offshore of southeastern Louisiana aboard the research vessel Point Sur on May 19-26, 2017, in an effort to characterize mudflow hazards on the Mississippi River Delta front. As the initial field program of a research cooperative between the U.S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and other Federal and academic partners, the primary objective of this cruise was to assess the suitability of sea-floor mapping and shallow subsurface imaging tools in the challenging environmental conditions found across delta fronts (for example, variably distributed water column stratification and widespread biogenic... Tags: BOEM, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Marine Geology, Mississippi River Delta front, Pass a Loutre, Remote Sensing, South Pass, Southeast Louisiana, Southwest Pass, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, bathymetry, boomer, chirp, field activity number 2017-003-FA, marine geology, marine geophysics, multi-channel streamer, multibeam sonar, navigational data, ocean sciences, sea floor, sea-floor acoustic reflectivity, seismic reflection methods, sound velocity profiles, sparker, Fewer tags Chirp seismic reflection data from the Edgetech 512i collected in Little Egg Inlet and offshore the southern end of Long Beach Island, NJ, during USGS field activity 2018-001-FA (shotpoints point shapefile, survey trackline shapefile, PNG profile images, and SEG-Y trace data). The natural resiliency of the New Jersey barrier island system, and the efficacy of management efforts to reduce vulnerability, depends on the ability of the system to recover and maintain equilibrium in response to storms and persistent coastal change. This resiliency is largely dependent on the availability of sand in the beach system. In an effort to better understand the system's sand budget and processes in which this system evolves, high-resolution geophysical mapping of the sea floor in Little Egg Inlet and along the southern end of Long Beach Island near Beach Haven, New Jersey was conducted from May 31 to June 10, 2018, followed by a sea floor sampling survey conducted from October 22 to 23, 2018, as part... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Beach Haven, CMHRP, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, EdgeTech, Forsythe Wildlife Refuge, All tags... Holgate, Little Egg Inlet, Long Beach Island, New Jersey, PNG, R/V Petrel, SB-512i, SEG-Y traces, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States of America, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, chirp, field activity number 2018-001-FA, field activity number 2018-049-FA, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, image, location, marine geology, marine geology, marine geophysics, navigational data, oceans, seismic navigation, seismic profile, seismic reflection, seismic reflection methods, shapefile, sub-bottom profiling, trackline navigation, Fewer tags Multibeam Echosounder, Reson T-20P tracklines collected in Little Egg Inlet and offshore the southern end of Long Beach Island, NJ, during USGS Field Activity 2018-001-FA (Esri polyline shapefile, GCS WGS 84) The natural resiliency of the New Jersey barrier island system, and the efficacy of management efforts to reduce vulnerability, depends on the ability of the system to recover and maintain equilibrium in response to storms and persistent coastal change. This resiliency is largely dependent on the availability of sand in the beach system. In an effort to better understand the system's sand budget and processes in which this system evolves, high-resolution geophysical mapping of the sea floor in Little Egg Inlet and along the southern end of Long Beach Island near Beach Haven, New Jersey was conducted from May 31 to June 10, 2018, followed by a sea floor sampling survey conducted from October 22 to 23, 2018, as part... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Beach Haven, CMHRP, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, DOI, Department of the Interior, All tags... Forsythe Wildlife Refuge, GeoTIFF, Holgate, Little Egg Inlet, Long Beach Island, Marine Geology, New Jersey, R/V Petrel, Reson, Stockton University, T20P, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States of America, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, backscatter, bathymetry, field activity number 2018-001-FA, field activity number 2018-049-FA, geology, geophysics, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, multibeam backscatter, multibeam bathymetry, multibeam echosounder, multibeam sonar, navigational data, oceans, Fewer tags U.S. Geological Survey hydrodynamic model simulations for Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, during Hurricane Sandy, 2012 We used the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport (COAWST; Warner and others, 2010) model to simulate ocean circulation, waves, and sediment transport in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, during Hurricane Sandy. The simulation period was from October 27 to November 4, 2012. Initial conditions for the salinity and temperature fields in the domain were acquired from a 7-month simulation of the same domain (Defne and Ganju, 2018). We used a 2012 digital terrain model (Andrews and others, 2015) to prescribe the prestorm bathymetry. Wetting and drying was enabled, wave-current interaction was modeled with a boundary-layer formulation accounting for the apparent roughness of waves, and the vortex force formulation... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Geomorphology, Marine Geology Idealized COAWST model cases for studying the comparison of physical to numerical mixing with different tracer advection schemes in estuarine environments The numerical simulation of estuarine dynamics requires accurate prediction for the transport of tracers such as temperature and salinity. All numerical models introduce two kinds of tracer mixing: 1) by parameterizing the tracer eddy diffusivity through turbulence models leading to a source of physical mixing and 2) discretization of the tracer advection term that leads to numerical mixing. Both physical and numerical mixing vary with the choice of horizontal advection schemes, grid resolution, and time step. We utilize the Coupled-Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport (COAWST) model to study the mixing in the model by simulating four idealized cases with three different tracer advection schemes. Tags: Marine Geology, Water Resources, coastal processes, mathematical modeling 2D micromodel studies of pore-throat clogging by pure fine-grained sediments and natural sediments from NGHP-02, offshore India Fine-grained sediments, or “fines,” are nearly ubiquitous in natural sediments, even in the predominantly coarse-grained sediments that host gas hydrates. Fines within these sandy sediments can be mobilized and subsequently clog flow pathways while methane is being extracted from gas hydrate as an energy resource. Using two-dimensional (2D) micromodels to test the conditions in which clogging occurs provides insights for choosing production operation parameters that optimize methane recovery in the field. During methane extraction, several processes can alter the mobility and clogging potential of fines: (1) fluid flow as the formation is depressurized to release methane from gas hydrate, (2) shifting pore-fluid... Categories: Data; Tags: 2D micromodel, Bay of Bengal, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Geophysics, Indian Ocean, All tags... Krishna-Godavari Basin, Laboratory, Louisiana State University, Louisiana State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Marine Geology, NGHP-02, NGHP-02-09, NGHP-02-16, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, bentonite, brine, calcium carbonate, clogging, deionized water, diatoms, earth material properties, fine-grained sediment, gas hydrate resources, geoscientificInformation, illite, image analysis, kaolin, laboratory experiments, mica, natural resource extraction, optical microscopy, permeability, silica silt, soil sciences, Fewer tags Numerical model of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) growth dynamics in West Falmouth Harbor The development of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) growth model within the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport (COAWST) model leads to a change in SAV biomass. The SAV biomass is computed from temperature, nutrient loading and light predictions obtained from coupled hydrodynamics (temperature), bio-geochemistry (nutrients) and bio-optical (light) models. In exchange, the growth of SAV sequesters or contributes nutrients from the water column and sediment layers. The presence of SAV modulates current and wave attenuation and consequently affects modelled sediment transport. The model of West Falmouth Harbor in Massachusetts, USA was simulated to study the seagrass growth/dieback pattern in a hypothetical... Tags: Hydrology, Marine Geology, Water Quality, coastal processes, mathematical simulation, All tags... sediment transport, Fewer tags Bathymetric and topographic grid intended for simulations of the 1945 Makran tsunami in Karachi Harbour This digital elevation model provides a tool for calibrating tsunami risk to observations of the 1945 Makran tsunami in Karachi Harbour. The DEM bathymetry is derived from soundings made mainly during the first eight years after the tsunami. Although deficient in portraying intertidal backwaters and upland topography, the DEM accurately depicts the sheltered setting of one of the two tide gauges that recorded the 1945 tsunami. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Geography, Geomorphology, Geophysics, Marine Geology, Seismology, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), bathymetry, earthquakes, elevation, hazard preparedness, oceans, tsunamis, Fewer tags Simulation and visualization of coastal tsunami impacts from the SAFRR tsunami source To further extend the scope of the Science Application for Risk Reduction (SAFRR) project, detailed hydrodynamic simulations were run at three harbor locations in California. For the locations of 1) Oakland/Alameda, 2) Half Moon Bay, and 3) Santa Cruz, simulations at approximately 5-m resolution were performed using the high-order Boussinesq-type model COULWAVE. The Oakland/Richmond simulation area focuses on the major port facilities in the area and the Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz simulations focus on Pillar Point Harbor and Santa Cruz Harbor, respectively. Tags: Geography, Marine Geology Multichannel sparker seismic reflection data of USGS field activity 2018-658-FA collected between Cape Blanco and Cape Mendocino from 2018-10-04 to 2018-10-18 Note: This data release has been superseded, available here: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9MYL7WJ This data release contains processed high-resolution multichannel sparker seismic-reflection (MCS) data that were collected aboard Humboldt State University’s R/V Coral Sea in October of 2018 on U.S. Geological Survey cruise 2018-658-FA on the shelf and slope between Cape Blanco, Oregon, and Cape Mendocino, California. MCS data were collected to characterize quaternary deformation and sediment dynamics along the southern Cascadia margin. Tags: Bathymetry and Elevation, Bear Valley, Blanco Fracture Zone, Blanco Saddle, CMHRP, All tags... Cape Blanco, City of Eureka, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Continental Margin, Crescent City, Eel Canyon, Eel River, Geophysics, Gorda Basin, Marine Geology, Mattole Canyon, Mendocino Escarpment, Mendocino Fracture Zone, Mendocino Ridge, PCMSC, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Pacific Ocean, Seismology, State of California, State of Oregon, Stratigraphy, Structural Geology, Trinidad Canyon, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, marine geophysics, oceans, seismic reflection profiling, sparker, sub-bottom profiling, Fewer tags Model parameter input files to compare effects of stream discharge scenarios on sediment deposition and concentrations around coral reefs off west Maui, Hawaii This dataset consists of physics-based Delft3D model and Delwaq model input files used in modeling sediment deposition and concentrations around the coral reefs of west Maui, Hawaii. The Delft3D models were used to simulate waves and currents under small (SC1) and large (‘SC2’) wave conditions for current stream discharge (‘Alt1’) and stream discharge with watershed restoration (‘Alt3’). Delft3D model results were subsequently used as forcing conditions for Delwaq models to simulate sediment transport and dispersion. The Delwaq models were used to simulate sediment transport and concentrations under the same two wave and stream discharge scenarios. The Delwaq models were run using forcing conditions generated by... Categories: Data; Tags: CMHRP, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Environmental Health, Geography, Geomorphology, All tags... Hydrology, Island of Maui, Land Use Change, Marine Geology, PCMSC, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Sedimentology, State of Hawaii, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, coastal processes, coastal processes, coral reefs, geoscientificInformation, hazards, numerical modeling, oceans, reef, water circulation, water column features, waves, Fewer tags Wave observations from nearshore bottom-mounted pressure sensors in Skagit and Bellingham Bays, Washington, USA from Dec 2017 to Feb 2018 RBRduo pressure and temperature sensors, mounted on aluminum frames, were moored in shallow (< 6 m) water depths in Skagit and Bellingham Bays, Washington, USA, from December 2017 to February 2018, to capture wave heights and periods. Continuous pressure fluctuations are transformed into surface-wave observations of wave heights, periods, and frequency spectra at 30-minute intervals. Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Marine Geology, Oceans, PCMSC, All tags... Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Skagit County, Skagit River, State of Washington, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Whatcom County, currents, geoscientificInformation, ocean temperature, physical oceanography, salinity, waves, Fewer tags Chirp and minisparker seismic-reflection data of field activity L-1-06-SF collected offshore Bolinas to San Francisco, California from 2006-09-25 to 2006-10-03 High-resolution single-channel Chirp and minisparker seismic-reflection data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in September and October 2006, offshore Bolinas to San Francisco, California. Data were collected aboard the R/V Lakota, during field activity L-1-06-SF. Chirp data were collected using an EdgeTech 512 chirp subbottom system and were recorded with a Triton SB-Logger. Minisparker data were collected using a SIG 2-mille minisparker sound source combined with a single-channel streamer, and both were recorded with a Triton SB-Logger. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Bathymetry and Elevation, Bolinas, CMHRP, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Elevation, All tags... Geophysics, Golden Gate, Marine Geology, North Pacific Ocean, Ocean Beach, Oceans, PCMSC, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Pacific Ocean, San Francisco, State of California, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, geoscientificinformation, geospatial datasets, marine geophysics, seismic reflection profiling, sub-bottom profiling, Fewer tags Bathymetry, acoustic backscatter, and minisparker seismic-reflection datasets collected southwest of Montague Island and southwest of Chenega, Alaska during field activity 2014-622-FA High-resolution acoustic backscatter data, bathymetry data, single channel minisparker seismic-reflection data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in May of 2014 southwest of Chenega Island and southwest of Montague Island, Alaska. Data were collected aboard the Alaska Department of Fish and Game vessel, R/V Solstice, during USGS field activity 2014-622-FA, using a pole mounted 100-kHz Reson 7111 multibeam echosounder, a 500 Joule SIG 2-mille minisparker sound source and a single channel streamer. Categories: Data; Tags: Geomorphology, Geophysics, Marine Geology, Seismology, Structural Geology Interpretive data release for Oregon OCS seafloor mapping: Selected lease blocks relevant to renewable energy This data release includes the results of analysis of video data conducted by Oregon State University and the geo-habitat interpretation of multibeam echo sounder (MBES) data conducted by the USGS. The data were collected in 2014 and were published in Cochrane and others (2015). This data release accompanies report that describes the project and results in detail (Cochrane and others, 2017). All the data are provided as geographic information system (GIS) files that contain both Esri ArcGIS geotiffs or shapefiles. For those who do not own the full suite of Esri GIS and mapping software, the data can be read using Esri ArcReader, a free viewer that is available at http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcreader/index.html... Categories: Data; Tags: Marine Geology Transgressive Contours--Punta Gorda to Point Arena, California This part of DS 781 presents data for the transgressive contours of the Punta Gorda to Point Arena, California, region. The vector data file is included in the "TransgressiveContours_PuntaGordaToPointArena.zip," which is accessible from https://doi.org/10.5066/P9PNNI9H. As part of the USGS's California State Waters Mapping Project, a 50-m grid of sediment thickness for the seafloor within the 3-nautical mile limit between Punta Gorda and Point Arena was generated from seismic-reflection data collected between 2010 and 2012, and supplemented with geologic structure (fault) information following the methodology of Wong (2012). Water depths determined from bathymetry data were added to the sediment thickness data to... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: CMHRP, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Delgada Canyon, Distributions, Fort Bragg, All tags... Mendocino, Noyo Canyon, PCMSC, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Pacific Ocean, Physical Habitats and Geomorphology, Point Arena, Point Delgada, Punta Gorda, Shelter Cove, Spanish Canyon, State of California, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, environment, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, maps and atlases, marine geology, oceans, sediment deposition, seismic reflection methods, seismic reflection profiling, stratigraphic thickness, Fewer tags Photographs of push cores from Loki's Castle and Favne vent fields, Mohns Ridge This portion of the data release presents linescan images (photographs) from push cores collected from Loki's Castle and Favne vent fields, on the Mohns Ridge, in the Norwegian Sea. These data were Rcollected in 2018 and 2019 (USGS Field Activity 2018-691-DD and 2019-624-FA). Images were obtained from seventeen push cores at 50-micron (200 pixel per cm) resolution. Color images in 16-bit TIFF format are provided for each core segment, along with proprietary metadata files containing image scaling information. Categories: Data; Tags: CMHRP, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Favne vent field, Greenland Sea, Loki's Castle vent field, All tags... Mineral Resources, Nonliving Resources, Norwegian Sea, PCMSC, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, core analysis, marine geology, oceans, push coring, Fewer tags Swath bathymetry 13-m-cell-size grid of quadrangle 5 on Stellwagen Bank offshore of Boston, Massachusetts collected by the U.S. Geological Survey aboard the CCGS Frederick G. Creed from 1994-1996 The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the National Marine Sanctuary Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has conducted seabed mapping and related research in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (SBNMS) region since 1993. The interpretive datasets and source information presented here are for quadrangle 5, which is one of 18 similarly sized segments of the 3,700 square kilometer (km2) SBNMS region. The seabed of the SBNMS region is a glaciated terrain that is topographically and texturally diverse. Quadrangle 5 includes the shallow, rippled, coarse-grained sandy crest and upper eastern and western flanks of southern Stellwagen Bank, its fine-grained sandy... Tags: Atlantic Ocean, CMHRP, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Esri binary grid, Frederick G. Creed, All tags... GeoTIFF, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay, NOAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, North America, Simrad EM1000, Stellwagen Bank, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. east coast, USGS, United States, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, bathymetry, bathymetry, elevation, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, marine geology, multibeam sonar, oceans, raster, sea-floor characteristics, sea-floor topography, swath bathymetry, Fewer tags Cascadia subduction zone database: compilation of published datasets relevant to Cascadia subduction zone earthquake hazards and tectonics (2022) In this database, we compile and host several available onshore and offshore geologic, paleoseismic, geophysical, and instrumental datasets along the Cascadia subduction zone. The ScienceBase data release and downloadable map package is accompanied by an ArcGIS online map and StoryMap. Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Geomorphology, Geophysics, Marine Geology, Remote Sensing, Sedimentology, All tags... Seismology, Stratigraphy, Structural Geology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), geology, geophysics, Fewer tags 1 2 3 4 5 ... 11 »