points, transects, beach width: Barrier island geomorphology and shorebird habitat metrics at 50-m alongshore transects and 5-m cross-shore points: Monomoy Island, MA, 2013-2014

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, Cape Cod, All tags... Coastal Erosion, Coastal Habitat, Coastal Hazards, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Coastal processes, Erosion, GIS, Geographic Information Systems, MA, MHW, Massachusetts, Mean High Water, Monomoy Island, Monomoy Island, Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, North America, Probability, Sea Level Rise, Sea-level change, Shoreline Change, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, USA, USGS, United States, 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

DCpts, DTpts, SLpts: Dune crest, dune toe, and mean high water shoreline positions: Cape Lookout, NC, 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, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Barrier Island, CMHRP, Cape Lookout, Cape Lookout, All tags... Cape Lookout National Seashore, Cape Lookout National Seashore, Coastal Hazards, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, GIS, Geographic Information Systems, MHW, Mean High Water, NC, North America, North Carolina, North Core Islands, Shackleford Banks, South Core Islands, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, USA, USGS, United States, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, oceans, transect sampling, Fewer tags

points, transects, beach width: Barrier island geomorphology and shorebird habitat metrics at 50-m alongshore transects and 5-m cross-shore points: Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge, RI, 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, Erosion, GIS, Geographic Information Systems, MHW, Mean High Water, North America, Probability, RI, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Sea Level Rise, Sea-level change, Shoreline Change, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, Trustom Pond, U.S. Geological Survey, USA, USGS, United States, 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

Great Lakes Research Vessel Operations 1958-2018: Gillnet. (ver. 3.0, April 2019)

All gillnet data represented here expand upon vessel operations (OP table) data, all of which are collected by the United States Geological Survey, Great Lakes Science Center and its partners. The Gillnet Tables contain data collected from the research vessel deploying various gear used for gillnet data collection. The database uses sample_type to indicate the gear deployed. The tables relating to Gillnet are: GN_Annulus.csv, GN_Catch.csv, GN_Effort.csv, GN_Fish.csv, GN_L, GN_LF.csv, GN_OP.csv, GN_Prey.csv, GN_Stomach.csv, LMMB_Fish_Prey.csv, and LMMB_Invert_Prey.csv Data Quality: Note that the following data release is a snapshot of the database at the time of release. Some data quality checks are still being...

Categories: Data; Tags: Alewife, Bathythermograph, Benthos, Bloater, Cisco, All tags... Deepwater, Deepwater Sculpin, Detroit River, Emerald Shiner, Gillnet, Habitat, Hydroacoustic, Ichthyoplankton, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Lake Saint Clair, Lake Superior, Lake Trout, Lake Trout Population Dynamics, Laurentian Great Lakes, Mensuration, Mysis, Prey fish, Prey fish population dynamics, Rainbow Smelt, Round Goby, Saint Clair River, Sea Lamprey, Slimy Sculpin, Spoonhead Sculpin, Trawl, Walleye, White Perch, Yellow Perch, Zebra Mussel, Zooplankton, acoustics, age estimation methods, age structure, biogeography, biological sampling, biomass, biota, environment, fall forage fish, field sampling, fishery management, food web, freshwater fishes, geospatial datasets, gillnets, inlandWaters, invasive species, population dynamics, surface water temperature, time series datasets, transect sampling, trawl nets, trawling, water temperature, Fewer tags

points, transects, beach width: Barrier island geomorphology and shorebird habitat metrics at 50-m alongshore transects and 5-m cross-shore points: Edwin B. Forsythe NWR, NJ, 2010

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, CMGP, Coastal Erosion, All tags... Coastal Habitat, Coastal Hazards, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Coastal processes, Edwin B. Forsythe NWR, Edwin B. Forsythe NWR, Erosion, GIS, Geographic Information Systems, Long Beach Island, Long Beach Island, MHW, Mean High Water, NJ, New Jersey, North America, Probability, Pullen Island, Sea Level Rise, Sea-level change, Shoreline Change, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, USA, USGS, United States, 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

Inter-vessel comparison of hydroacoustic fish density in central Lake Erie, 2014

Hydroacoustic estimates of fish density are used for fisheries management in central Lake Erie. Data are sometimes collected from multiple vessels, raising the question of comparability of data collected among vessels. Hydroacoustic data were collected along three cross-lake transects in central Lake Erie in July, 2014 from three different vessels using similar equipment. Several variables derived from hydroacoustic data and fish densities calculated from those variables were compared between the standard vessel used typically for hydroacoustic data collection and two other vessels used occasionally. The data used in those analyses are presented here.

Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Great Lakes, Lake Erie, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... aquatic biology, biota, field inventory and monitoring, fishery management, multibeam sonar, transect sampling, Fewer tags

Seabeach amaranth presence-absence and barrier island geomorphology metrics as relates to shorebird habitat for Assateague Island National Seashore — 2008, 2010, and 2014

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)...

Tags: Botany, Ecology, Land Use Change, coastal processes, erosion, All tags... geographic information systems, geomorphology, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, hazards, land use and land cover, sea-level change, transect sampling, vegetation, 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

Hydroacoustic data from central Lake Erie, 2010-2019

Hydroacoustic estimates of fish density are used for fisheries management in central Lake Erie. Hydroacoustic data were collected along up to four cross-lake transects in central Lake Erie July 2010 through July 2019. Software-generated raw variables used for calculating estimates of hydroacoustic fish densities are presented here.

Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Great Lakes, Lake Erie, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), aquatic biology, All tags... biota, field inventory and monitoring, fishery management, multibeam sonar, transect sampling, Fewer tags

Great Lakes Research Vessel Operations 1958-2018: Mensuration. (ver. 3.0, April 2019)

All mensuration data represented here expand upon vessel operations (OP table) data, all of which are collected by the United States Geological Survey, Great Lakes Science Center and its partners. The Mensuration Tables contain data collected from the research vessel deploying various gear used for mensuration data collection. The database uses sample_type to indicate the gear deployed. The tables relating to Mensuration are: Mensuration.csv, MS_head_rope_depth.csv, MS_FOOT_ROPE_DEPTH, MS_Primary.csv, MS_Temperature.csv, and MS_Wingspread.csv Data Quality: Note that the following data release is a snapshot of the database at the time of release. Some data quality checks are still being undertaken after the time...

Categories: Data; Tags: Alewife, Bathythermograph, Benthos, Bloater, Cisco, All tags... Deepwater, Deepwater Sculpin, Detroit River, Emerald Shiner, Gillnet, Habitat, Hydroacoustic, Ichthyoplankton, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Lake Saint Clair, Lake Superior, Lake Trout, Lake Trout Population Dynamics, Laurentian Great Lakes, Mensuration, Mysis, Prey fish, Prey fish population dynamics, Rainbow Smelt, Round Goby, Saint Clair River, Sea Lamprey, Slimy Sculpin, Spoonhead Sculpin, Trawl, Walleye, White Perch, Yellow Perch, Zebra Mussel, Zooplankton, acoustics, age estimation methods, age structure, biogeography, biological sampling, biomass, biota, environment, fall forage fish, field sampling, fishery management, food web, freshwater fishes, geospatial datasets, gillnets, inlandWaters, invasive species, population dynamics, surface water temperature, time series datasets, transect sampling, trawl nets, trawling, water temperature, Fewer tags

DCpts, DTpts, SLpts: Dune crest, dune toe, and mean high water shoreline positions: Edwin B. Forsythe NWR, NJ, 2012

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, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Barrier Island, CMGP, Coastal Hazards, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, All tags... Edwin B. Forsythe NWR, Edwin B. Forsythe NWR, GIS, Geographic Information Systems, Long Beach Island, Long Beach Island, MHW, Mean High Water, NJ, New Jersey, North America, Pullen Island, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, USA, USGS, United States, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, oceans, transect sampling, Fewer tags

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

DCpts, DTpts, SLpts: Dune crest, dune toe, and mean high water shoreline positions: Assawoman 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, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Assawoman Island, Assawoman Island, Atlantic Ocean, Barrier Island, CMHRP, All tags... Coastal Hazards, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Delmarva Peninsula, GIS, Geographic Information Systems, MHW, Mean High Water, North America, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, USA, USGS, United States, VA, Virginia, Virginia Coast Reserve, Virginia Coast Reserve, Wallops Island, Wallops Island, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, oceans, transect sampling, Fewer tags

DCpts, DTpts, SLpts: Dune crest, dune toe, and mean high water shoreline positions: Fisherman 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, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Barrier Island, CMHRP, Coastal Hazards, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, All tags... Delmarva Peninsula, Fisherman Island, Fisherman Island, Fisherman Island National Wildlife Refuge, Fisherman Island National Wildlife Refuge, GIS, Geographic Information Systems, MHW, Mean High Water, North America, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, USA, USGS, United States, VA, Virginia, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, oceans, transect sampling, Fewer tags

Dataset: Addressing detection uncertainty in Bombus affinis (Hymenoptera: Apidae) surveys can improve inferences made from monitoring

These data were collected to estimate detection probability of Bombus affinis at known occupied sites in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, and Iowa in 2021. Data were also used to determine the effect of weather, observer experience, and habitat quality on Bombus affinis detection probability.

Categories: Data; Tags: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Transect Sampling, Wisconsin, All tags... bees and wasps, field inventory and monitoring, pollinators, Fewer tags

Flow through system (FTS) and spectral absorption / attenuation sensor (ACS) data from boat mapping transects within the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta

The goal of this study was to develop a suite of inter-related water quality monitoring approaches capable of modeling and estimating the spatial and temporal gradients of particulate and dissolved total mercury (THg) concentration and particulate and dissolved methyl mercury (MeHg) concentration in surface waters across the Sacramento / San Joaquin River Delta (SSJRD). This suite of monitoring approaches included: a) data collection at fixed continuous monitoring stations (CMS) outfitted with in-situ sensors, b) spatial mapping using boat-mounted, flow-through, sensors and c) satellite-based remote sensing. The focus of this specific Child Page is to present all data collected during the underway boat mapping component...

Categories: Data; Tags: California, Lower Sacramento, Sacramento, San Francisco Bay, San Joaquin Delta, All tags... Solano, Yolo, chemical analysis, dissolved organic compounds, environment, environmental proxies, field inventory and monitoring, field sampling, nutrient content (water), optical methods, oxygen content (water), real-time monitoring and reporting, salinity, surface water quality, suspended material (water), transect sampling, water chemistry, water column reflectivity, water pH, water properties, water sampling, water sampling, water temperature, Fewer tags

Shenandoah Valley Stream Survey (2021)

U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists completed a stream surveying campaign from the 26th of July to the 13th of August in 2021 at thirty 100m reaches within the Shenandoah Valley throughout Virginia and West Virginia. The goal was to collect three cross sections, water surface elevation at the top and bottom of each reach, and thalweg point data at each study location to use the geomorphological surveys alongside habitat information. Together, these two sources of data can be used to create a habitat assessment of Shenandoah Valley streams. Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Categories: Data; Tags: Chesapeake Bay, Chesapeake Bay, GPS measurement, Shenandoah Valley, U.S. Geological Survey, All tags... USA, Virginia, West Virginia, agriculture, dendrochronology, environmental health (human), erosion, geography, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, habitat, hydrology, inlandWaters, riparian, river reaches, stream survey, streams, transect sampling, usgs, Fewer tags

High resolution and discrete temporal and spatial water-quality measurements in support of modeling mercury and methylmercury concentrations in surface waters of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta

The Sacramento / San Joaquin River Delta (SSJRD) is contaminated with legacy mercury (Hg) from historical mining and mineral processing activities throughout the watershed, as well as from contemporary atmospheric and industrial inputs. The current project was designed for the purpose of developing high-resolution spatial and temporal models for estimating concentrations of mercury species in surface waters of the SSJRD. The field component of the project brings together three high-resolution platforms for collecting water-quality data (fixed continuous monitoring stations (CMS) outfitted with in-situ sensors, spatial mapping using boat-mounted flow-through sensors, and satellite-based remote sensing) coupled with...

Categories: Data; Tags: California, Environmental Health, Geochemistry, Lower Sacramento, Remote Sensing, All tags... Sacramento, San Francisco Bay, San Joaquin Delta, Solano, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Yolo, chemical analysis, environment, environmental proxies, field inventory and monitoring, field monitoring stations, field sampling, mercury, mercury analysis, mercury contamination, optical methods, remote sensing, suspended material (water), transect sampling, water chemistry, water column reflectivity, water properties, water sampling, water sampling, Fewer tags

Seabeach Amaranth Presence-Absence Data, Assateague Island National Seashore, 2014

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

Seabeach Amaranth Presence-Absence Data, Assateague Island National Seashore, 2008

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