Webinar (2015 Oct 14)

The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of Alaska is a globally important region for numerous avian species including millions of migrating and nesting waterbirds. Climate change effects such as sea level rise and increased storm frequency and intensity have the potential to impact waterbird populations and breeding habitat. In order to determine the potential impacts of these climate-mediated changes, we investigated both short-term and long-term impacts of storm surges to geese and eider species that commonly breed on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.To do this, we used 29 years of ground-based surveys conducted as part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s long-term waterbird monitoring program along with flood indices modeled...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BIRDS, BIRDS, CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT MODELS, CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT MODELS, DELTAS, All tags... DELTAS, DELTAS, DELTAS, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, ENDANGERED SPECIES, ENDANGERED SPECIES, EROSION, EROSION, ESTUARINE WETLANDS, ESTUARINE WETLANDS, FLOODS, FLOODS, Federal resource managers, HABITAT CONVERSION/FRAGMENTATION, HABITAT CONVERSION/FRAGMENTATION, INUNDATION, INUNDATION, LCC Network Science Catalog, PALUSTRINE WETLANDS, PALUSTRINE WETLANDS, Policy makers & regulators, SALTWATER INTRUSION, SALTWATER INTRUSION, SEA LEVEL RISE, SEA LEVEL RISE, SEA LEVEL RISE, SEA LEVEL RISE, SEDIMENT TRANSPORT, SEDIMENT TRANSPORT, SEDIMENTATION, SEDIMENTATION, SEVERE STORMS, SEVERE STORMS, SPECIES LIFE HISTORY, SPECIES LIFE HISTORY, STORM SURGE, STORM SURGE, STORMS, STORMS, Tribes, USE/FEEDING HABITATS, USE/FEEDING HABITATS, WETLANDS, WETLANDS, Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, biota, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, environment, environment, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, oceans, oceans, presentation, Fewer tags

Vertical Velocity Map for Western Alaska

Understanding the causes of relative sea level rise requires knowledge of changes to both land (uplift and subsidence) and sea level. However, measurements of coastal uplift or subsidence are almost completely lacking in western Alaska. This project provided precise measurements of prioritized benchmarks across the Western Alaska geography, improving the network of published tidal benchmark elevations, allowing for tidal datum conversion in more places, and providing a necessary component for improved inundation studies in coastal communities and low-lying areas. The project’s map of vertical velocities (uplift/subsidence) of western Alaska (see ‘Final Project Report’ & ‘Vertical Velocity Map’, below) will be combined...

Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL ELEVATION, COASTAL ELEVATION, All tags... COASTAL LANDFORMS, COASTAL LANDFORMS, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL PROCESSES, COASTAL PROCESSES, FLOODING, FLOODING, Federal resource managers, INUNDATION, INUNDATION, LCC Network Science Catalog, SEA LEVEL CHANGE, SEA LEVEL CHANGE, SEA LEVEL RISE, SEA LEVEL RISE, State agencies, TIDES, TIDES, Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, elevation, elevation, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, map, oceans, oceans, Fewer tags

Coastal Vulnerability Mapping Poster

Understanding the causes of relative sea level rise requires knowledge of changes to both land (uplift and subsidence) and sea level. However, measurements of coastal uplift or subsidence are almost completely lacking in western Alaska. This project provided precise measurements of prioritized benchmarks across the Western Alaska geography, improving the network of published tidal benchmark elevations, allowing for tidal datum conversion in more places, and providing a necessary component for improved inundation studies in coastal communities and low-lying areas. The project’s map of vertical velocities (uplift/subsidence) of western Alaska (see ‘Final Project Report’ & ‘Vertical Velocity Map’, below) will be combined...

Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL ELEVATION, COASTAL ELEVATION, All tags... COASTAL LANDFORMS, COASTAL LANDFORMS, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL PROCESSES, COASTAL PROCESSES, FLOODING, FLOODING, Federal resource managers, INUNDATION, INUNDATION, LCC Network Science Catalog, SEA LEVEL CHANGE, SEA LEVEL CHANGE, SEA LEVEL RISE, SEA LEVEL RISE, State agencies, TIDES, TIDES, Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, elevation, elevation, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, map, oceans, oceans, Fewer tags

Wave Height Data for the Gulf of Mexico

The goal of this project is to provide a preliminary overview, at a National scale, the relative susceptibility of the Nation's coast to sea- level rise through the use of a coastal vulnerability index (CVI). This initial classification is based upon the variables geomorphology, regional coastal slope, tide range, wave height, relative sea-level rise and shoreline erosion and accretion rates. The combination of these variables and the association of these variables to each other furnish a broad overview of regions where physical changes are likely to occur due to sea-level rise.

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Alabama, Beach, Beach Erosion, Coastal Geomorphology, Coastal Hazards, All tags... Coastal processes, Erosion, Florida, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, Hazards, Louisiana, Misissippi, Sea-Level, Sea-Level Rise, Shoreline, Shoreline Change, Slope, Texas, Tide Range, Wave Height, inundation, sea level rise, sea level trends, tides, waves, wind, Fewer tags

Black Bear Connectivity

For more information about how these data were developed, please see the final report. Expert opinion was used to define a resistance surface for each of the target animals, with higher resistance representing map units expected to be more difficult and more dangerous for species to move through. A set of nodes for each species, with node points indicating center locations for potential source populations for the species, are also defined. Note actual species population data to define the nodes is not used, as that data was often unavailable, and the focus is on the potential spread of the species across the SALCC region and not limited to models to known populations. Therefore, node locations were determined by...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Southeast, black bear, connectivity, corridors, future projection, All tags... sea level rise, urbanization, wildlife habitat, wildlife linkages, Fewer tags

The price of rising seas: drowning wetlands

Some of California’s most cherished coastal wetlands, where endangered birds chatter and green growth thrives, could turn to mudflats by the middle of the century. By the end of the century, they could be gone. New research based on years of observation says rising sea levels might well outpace the ability of coastal wetlands to adapt, inundating them before they have time to colonize higher elevations. Continue Reading >>

Tags: Marshes, Northwest CASC, Sea Level Rise, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Water, Coasts and Ice, All tags... Wetlands, Wetlands, Fewer tags

Interview transcripts from meetings with coastal resource managers about data needs related to coastal wetlands and sea level rise

These three PDFs contain qualitative notes taken during focus group-style interviews in 2017 with coastal resource managers Grand Bay, AL; Port Aransas, TX; and Tampa Bay, FL about their data needs related to tidal wetlands and sea level rise and interest in working with USGS researchers to receive that data. The coastal managers were all engaged in conversations with USGS scientists as part of a separate project entitled Landscape conservation design for enhancing the adaptive capacity of coastal wetlands in the face of sea-level rise and coastal development, regarding tidal wetlands in the Gulf Coast region and the ability of investigators leading that project to provide data suitable for use in various resource...

Tags: Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, biota, climate change, data usability, All tags... sea level rise, tidal wetlands, Fewer tags

Survey of participants in USGS-TNC Gulf Coast wetlands workshops 2017

This data is from a survey of participants in four workshops hosted by USGS researchers in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in communities along the Gulf Coast in 2017. The workshops were part of the Landscape conservation design project, funded separately by the USGS. The current project had no role in identifying or selected coastal managers with whom to speak; that was the responsibility of the Landscape conservation design project and occurred before the involvement of the current project team. These data are particular to the interactions between the Landscape conservation design project team and the particular coastal managers who engaged with their project. The workshops were held in: Milton,...

Categories: Data; Tags: Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, biota, climate change, sea level rise, All tags... tidal wetlands, Fewer tags

Inundation Exposure Assessment for Majuro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands

Low-lying island environments, such as the Majuro Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, are particularly vulnerable to inundation (coastal flooding) whether the increased water levels are from episodic events (storm surge, wave run-up, king tides) or from chronic conditions (long term sea-level rise). Land elevation is the primary geophysical variable that determines exposure to inundation in coastal settings. Accordingly, coastal elevation data are a critical input for assessments of inundation exposure and vulnerability. Previous research has demonstrated that the quality of data used for elevation-based assessments must be well understood and applied to properly model potential impacts. The vertical...

Categories: Data; Tags: Atoll, Calalin Channel, Central Pacific, Coastal Flooding, Djarrit, All tags... Episodic Events, Geography, Inundation Vulnerability, King Tides, Laura, Majuro, Majuro Atoll, Pacific Islands, Pacific Ocean, Remote Sensing, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Sea Level Rise, Topobathymetric Digital Elevation Model (TBDEM), USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Vertical Uncertainty, boundaries, elevation, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

Seabeach Amaranth Presence-Absence Data, Assateague Island National Seashore, 2010

Understanding how sea-level rise will affect coastal landforms and the species and habitats they support is critical for developing approaches that balance the needs of humans and native species. Given the magnitude of the threat posed by sea-level rise, and the urgency to better understand it, there is an increasing need to forecast sea-level rise effects on barrier islands. To address this problem, scientists in the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coastal and Marine Geology program are developing Bayesian networks as a tool to evaluate and to forecast the effects of sea-level rise on shoreline change, barrier island geomorphology, and habitat availability for species such as the piping plover (Charadrius melodus)...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Assateague Island, Assateague Island, Assateague Island National Seashore, Assateague Island National Seashore, Atlantic Ocean, All tags... Barrier Island, Bayesian Network, CMHRP, Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Coastal Erosion, Coastal Habitat, Coastal Hazards, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Coastal processes, Delmarva Peninsula, Erosion, GIS, Geographic Information Systems, MD, MHW, Maryland, Mean High Water, North America, Probability, Sea Level Rise, Sea-level change, Seabeach amaranth, Shoreline Change, U.S. Geological Survey, USA, USGS, United States, VA, Virginia, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, environment, erosion, geographic information systems, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, hazards, hazards, land use and land cover, sea-level change, transect sampling, vegetation, Fewer tags

Marsh Migration Zones, Northeast U.S.

Northeast Region Marsh Migration is one of a suite of products from the Nature’s Network project. Based on sea level rise (SLR) analysis by NOAA, this dataset depicts potential marsh migration zones at various sea level rise scenarios from 0-6’. Identification of suitable uplands adjacent to tidal wetlands is based on topography, habitat type, land use, and development, and can be used for facilitating marsh migration through land protection and/or management. The NOAA Coastal Change Analysis Program (CCAP) mapped the initial (current) distribution of potential marshes and and other coastal land cover types. The Detailed Method for Mapping Sea Level Rise Marsh Migration provides the full methodology for the data...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Connectivity, Connectivity, Data, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nature's Network, All tags... Nature's Network, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Data.gov, completed, marsh migration, marsh migration, sea level rise, sea level rise, Fewer tags

Tidal Marsh Bird Population and Habitat Assessment

This project assessed the potential effects of climate change on tidal marsh habitats and bird populations, identified priority sites for tidal marsh conservation and restoration, and developed a web-based mapping tool for managers to interactively display and query results. Project results can be found at PRBO’s San Francisco Bay Sea-Level Rise Website

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2010, 2013, Applications and Tools, CA, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Decision Support, Decision support, Estuarine, Federal, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Marine, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Private land owners, Project, SF Bay/Delta, San Francisco Bay, Science Project, Tidal, Training/Outreach/Workshop, adaptation, birds, completed, conservation, decision support tool, environment, gis, levee, management, mapping, on-line, restoration, salinity, scenario planning, scenarios, sea level rise, sediment, shorebirds, slr, south bay salt ponds, tidal marsh, wetlands, Fewer tags

Buildings with Elevation in Babeldaob, Palau

Palau buildings (from PALARIS) with elevation data (extracted from USGS DEM)

Categories: Data; Tags: Buildings, Pacific Islands, Palau, Sea level rise, biota

points, transects, beach width: Barrier island geomorphology and shorebird habitat metrics at 50-m alongshore transects and 5-m cross-shore points: Parramore Island, VA, 2014

Understanding how sea-level rise will affect coastal landforms and the species and habitats they support is critical for crafting approaches that balance the needs of humans and native species. Given this increasing need to forecast sea-level rise effects on barrier islands in the near and long terms, we are developing Bayesian networks to evaluate and to forecast the cascading effects of sea-level rise on shoreline change, barrier island state, and piping plover habitat availability. We use publicly available data products, such as lidar, orthophotography, and geomorphic feature sets derived from those, to extract metrics of barrier island characteristics at consistent sampling distances. The metrics are then incorporated...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Raster, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Barrier Island, Bayesian Network, CMHRP, Coastal Erosion, All tags... Coastal Habitat, Coastal Hazards, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Coastal processes, Delmarva Peninsula, Erosion, GIS, Geographic Information Systems, MHW, Mean High Water, North America, Parramore Island, Parramore Island, Probability, Sea Level Rise, Sea-level change, Shoreline Change, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, USA, USGS, United States, VA, Virginia, Virginia Coast Reserve, Virginia Coast Reserve, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, erosion, geographic information systems, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, hazards, hazards, land use and land cover, sea-level change, transect sampling, Fewer tags

Pacific Northwest sea-level rise modelling - Habitat classification for site four (2100, 1 meter rise scenario)

In order to predict the impacts of climate change induced sea-level rise on Pacific Northwest coastal habitats, the Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM) was utilized to simulate future coastal habitat configurations under various sea-level rise scenarios. The model was run for 2025, 2050, 2075, and 2100. Historical or "initial condition" habitat classifications are also available for some sites. The sea-level rise scenarios include: 1. A1B greenhouse gas emission mean : 0.39 meter rise by 2100 2. A1B greenhouse gas emission maximum : 0.69 meter rise by 2100 3. 1 meter rise by 2100 4. 1.5 meter rise by 2100 5. 2 meter rise by 2100 Due to differing site conditions, local sea-level rise varies slightly from...

Tags: climate change, coastal habitat, marshes, puget sound, sea level rise, All tags... washington, Fewer tags

Pacific Northwest sea-level rise modelling - Habitat classification for site one (initial condition)

In order to predict the impacts of climate change induced sea-level rise on Pacific Northwest coastal habitats, the Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM) was utilized to simulate future coastal habitat configurations under various sea-level rise scenarios. The model was run for 2025, 2050, 2075, and 2100. Historical or "initial condition" habitat classifications are also available for some sites. The sea-level rise scenarios include: 1. A1B greenhouse gas emission mean : 0.39 meter rise by 2100 2. A1B greenhouse gas emission maximum : 0.69 meter rise by 2100 3. 1 meter rise by 2100 4. 1.5 meter rise by 2100 5. 2 meter rise by 2100 Due to differing site conditions, local sea-level rise varies slightly from...

Tags: climate change, coastal habitat, marshes, puget sound, sea level rise, All tags... washington, Fewer tags

Coastal Base Flood Elevation, California USA

The Base Flood Elevation, representing the elevation of the 100-year coastal flood, is derived for the entire California coastline. Data is in NAVD88, rounded to the nearest half foot.

Tags: 100 year coastal flood, 100 year flood, base flood elevation, bfe, climate change, All tags... coastal flood, oceans and coastal, sea level rise, Fewer tags

Pacific Northwest sea-level rise modelling - Habitat classification for the Columbia River estuary (2100, 2 meter rise scenario)

In order to predict the impacts of climate change induced sea-level rise on Pacific Northwest coastal habitats, the Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM) was utilized to simulate future coastal habitat configurations under various sea-level rise scenarios. The model was run for 2025, 2050, 2075, and 2100. Historical or "initial condition" habitat classifications are also available for some sites. The sea-level rise scenarios include: 1. A1B greenhouse gas emission mean : 0.39 meter rise by 2100 2. A1B greenhouse gas emission maximum : 0.69 meter rise by 2100 3. 1 meter rise by 2100 4. 1.5 meter rise by 2100 5. 2 meter rise by 2100 Due to differing site conditions, local sea-level rise varies slightly from...

Tags: climate change, coastal habitat, marshes, puget sound, sea level rise, All tags... washington, Fewer tags

Pacific Northwest sea-level rise modelling - Habitat classification for the Columbia River estuary (2050, 1.5 meter rise scenario)

In order to predict the impacts of climate change induced sea-level rise on Pacific Northwest coastal habitats, the Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM) was utilized to simulate future coastal habitat configurations under various sea-level rise scenarios. The model was run for 2025, 2050, 2075, and 2100. Historical or "initial condition" habitat classifications are also available for some sites. The sea-level rise scenarios include: 1. A1B greenhouse gas emission mean : 0.39 meter rise by 2100 2. A1B greenhouse gas emission maximum : 0.69 meter rise by 2100 3. 1 meter rise by 2100 4. 1.5 meter rise by 2100 5. 2 meter rise by 2100 Due to differing site conditions, local sea-level rise varies slightly from...

Tags: climate change, coastal habitat, marshes, puget sound, sea level rise, All tags... washington, Fewer tags

Pacific Northwest sea-level rise modelling - Habitat classification for site four (1977)

In order to predict the impacts of climate change induced sea-level rise on Pacific Northwest coastal habitats, the Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM) was utilized to simulate future coastal habitat configurations under various sea-level rise scenarios. The model was run for 2025, 2050, 2075, and 2100. Historical or "initial condition" habitat classifications are also available for some sites. The sea-level rise scenarios include: 1. A1B greenhouse gas emission mean : 0.39 meter rise by 2100 2. A1B greenhouse gas emission maximum : 0.69 meter rise by 2100 3. 1 meter rise by 2100 4. 1.5 meter rise by 2100 5. 2 meter rise by 2100 Due to differing site conditions, local sea-level rise varies slightly from...

Tags: climate change, coastal habitat, marshes, puget sound, sea level rise, All tags... washington, Fewer tags