2010 Shorelines for Vieques, Culebra, and Main Island of Puerto Rico

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maintains shoreline positions for the United States coasts from both older sources, such as aerial photos or topographic surveys, as well as contemporary sources like lidar point clouds and digital elevation models (DEMs). These shorelines are compiled and analyzed in the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) software to compute rates of change. It is useful to keep a record of historical shoreline positions as a method of monitoring change over time to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release and other associated products represent an expansion...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Aerial Photos, Atlantic Coast, Caribbean, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Culebra, All tags... DSAS, Digital Shoreline Analysis System, Groundwater Exit, HWL, High Water Line, Historical Shorelines, Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Maria, Instantaneous Water Line, Puerto Rico, Shoreline, Shoreline Change, Shoreline Classification, U.S. Geological Survey, UPR, USGS, United States, University of Puerto Rico, Vieques, WDL, WHCMSC, Wet/Dry Line, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, oceans, Fewer tags

2016 NOAA Mean High Water Shorelines of the Puerto Rico coast used in Shoreline Change Analysis

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maintains shoreline positions for the United States coasts from both older sources, such as aerial photographs or topographic surveys, and contemporary sources, such as lidar-point clouds and digital elevation models. These shorelines are compiled and analyzed in the Digital Shoreline Analysis System software to compute their rates of change. Keeping a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor change over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release, and other associated products, represent...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Coast, Caribbean, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Culebra, DSAS, All tags... Digital Shoreline Analysis System, MHW, Mean High Water, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Shoreline Change, Shoreline, Shoreline Change, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, University of Puerto Rico, Vieques, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, oceans, Fewer tags

2015 Mean High Water Shorelines of the Puerto Rico Coast used in Shoreline Change Analysis

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maintains shoreline positions for the United States coasts from both older sources, such as aerial photographs or topographic surveys, and contemporary sources, such as lidar-point clouds and digital elevation models. These shorelines are compiled and analyzed in the Digital Shoreline Analysis System software to compute their rates of change. Keeping a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor change over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release, and other associated products, represent...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Coast, Caribbean, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Culebra, DSAS, All tags... Digital Shoreline Analysis System, MHW, Mean High Water, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Shoreline Change, Shoreline, Shoreline Change, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, University of Puerto Rico, Vieques, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, oceans, Fewer tags

The Effects of Flow Extremes on Native and Non-Native Stream Fishes in Puerto Rico

Freshwater fish are among the most vulnerable taxa to climate change globally but are generally understudied in tropical island ecosystems. Climate change is predicted to alter the intensity, frequency, and variability of extreme flow events on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. These changes may impact Caribbean native and non-native stream ecosystems and biota complex ways. We compiled an extensive dataset of native and non-native fish assemblages collected at 119 sites across Puerto Rico from 2005 to 2015. We coupled these data with stream flow indices and dam height to understand how flow dynamics drive fish assemblage structure. Sixteen percent of sites contained exclusively non-native species, 34% contained...

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Caribbean, Caribbean ecosystems, Hydrology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Water Quality, biota, extreme events, fish, fish, flow extremes, native assemblages, non-native species, non-native species, streams, Fewer tags

A GIS Compilation of Vector Shorelines for Puerto Rico from 2015 to 2018

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maintains shoreline positions for the United States coasts from both older sources, such as aerial photographs or topographic surveys, and contemporary sources, such as lidar-point clouds and digital elevation models. These shorelines are compiled and analyzed in the Digital Shoreline Analysis System software to compute their rates of change. Keeping a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor change over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release, and other associated products, represent...

Tags: Atlantic Coast, Caribbean, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Culebra, DSAS, All tags... Digital Shoreline Analysis System, Geography, Geomorphology, MHW, Mean High Water, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Shoreline Change, Shoreline, Shoreline Change, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, University of Puerto Rico, Vieques, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, oceans, Fewer tags

Baseline for the coast of Puerto Rico's main island generated to calculate shoreline change rates using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 5.1 (ver. 2.0, March 2023)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maintains shoreline positions for the United States' coasts from both older sources, such as aerial photographs or topographic surveys, and contemporary sources, such as lidar-point clouds and digital elevation models. These shorelines are compiled and analyzed in the USGS Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS), version 5.1 software to calculate rates of change. Keeping a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor change over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release, and other associated...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Coast, Baseline, CMGP, Caribbean, Coastal Research and Planning Institute of Puerto Rico, All tags... Coastal and Marine Geology Program, DSAS, Digital Shoreline Analysis System, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Shoreline Change, Shoreline, Shoreline Change, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, University of Puerto Rico, University of Puerto Rico Graduate School of Planning, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, oceans, Fewer tags

Puerto Rico shoreline change: A GIS compilation of shorelines, baselines, intersects, and change rates calculated using the digital shoreline analysis system version 5.1 (ver. 2.0, March 2023)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maintains shoreline positions for the United States coasts from both older sources, such as aerial photographs or topographic surveys, and contemporary sources, such as lidar-point clouds and digital elevation models. These shorelines are compiled and analyzed in the USGS Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS), version 5.1 software to calculate rates of change. Keeping a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor change over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release, and other associated...

Tags: Atlantic Coast, CMGP, Caribbean, Coastal Research and Planning Institute of Puerto Rico, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, All tags... Culebra, DSAS, Digital Shoreline Analysis System, Historical Shorelines, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Shoreline Change, Shoreline intersects, Shorelines, Transect, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, University of Puerto Rico, University of Puerto Rico Graduate School of Planning, Vieques, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, oceans, Fewer tags

Baseline for the islands of of Vieques and Culebra, Puerto Rico, generated to calculate shoreline change rates using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 5.1

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maintains shoreline positions for the United States coasts from both older sources, such as aerial photographs or topographic surveys, and contemporary sources, such as lidar-point clouds and digital elevation models. These shorelines are compiled and analyzed in the USGS Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS), version 5.1 software to calculate rates of change. Keeping a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor change over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release, and other associated...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Coast, Baseline, CMGP, Caribbean, Coastal Research and Planning Institute of Puerto Rico, All tags... Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Culebra, DSAS, Digital Shoreline Analysis System, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Shoreline Change, Shoreline, Shoreline Change, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, University of Puerto Rico, University of Puerto Rico Graduate School of Planning, Vieques, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, oceans, Fewer tags

Expert assessments of hypotheses concerning the etiological agent(s) of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease collected during a rapid prototyping project

This dataset is from expert elicitation of a panel of 15 experts with knowledge of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) and its impacts on coral reefs. We gathered this group of 15 participants with diverse expertise who had previously studied SCTLD including at universities and various government agencies as microbiologists, pathologists, disease ecologists, population ecologists, and coral experts. Participants represented marine disease experts in Florida, Hawaii, South Carolina, and the US Virgin Islands. We then used a rapid prototyping approach (Runge and Converse, 2017) to elicit, structure, and evaluate existing knowledge regarding the etiology of SCTLD. Our approach began with eliciting hypotheses about...

Categories: Data; Tags: Caribbean, Florida, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Wildlife Disease, All tags... biota, coral reefs, disease ecology, etiology, expert elicitation, hypothesis testing, stony coral tissue loss disease, wildlife disease, Fewer tags

Demersal fish assemblages on seamounts and other rugged features in the northeastern Caribbean

Recent investigations of demersal fish communities in deep (less than 50 m) rugged habitats have considerably increased our knowledge of the factors that influence the assemblage structure of fishes across mesophotic to deep-sea depths. Although habitat types influence deepwater fish distribution, whether different rugged seafloor features provide functionally equivalent habitat for fishes is poorly understood. In the northeastern Caribbean, numerous rugged seafloor features (e.g., seamounts, banks, canyons) punctuate insular margins, and thus create a remarkable setting in which to examine demersal fish communities across various seafloor features. Also in this region, several water masses are vertically layered...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Anegada Passage, Caribbean, Community structure, Deep sea, Habitat associations, All tags... Mesophotic, Puerto Rico, Seamounts, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Vertical distribtion, Water mass, Fewer tags

Shorelines for Vieques, Culebra, and the main island of Puerto Rico from the 1900s to 2018 (ver. 2.0, March 2023)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maintains shoreline positions for the United States coasts from both older sources, such as aerial photographs or topographic surveys, and contemporary sources, such as lidar-point clouds and digital elevation models. These shorelines are compiled and analyzed in the USGS Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS), version 5.1 software to calculate rates of change. Keeping a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor change over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release, and other associated...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Coast, CMGP, Caribbean, Coastal Research and Planning Institute of Puerto Rico, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, All tags... Culebra, DSAS, Digital Shoreline Analysis System, FEMA, Federal Emergency Management Agency, HWL, High Water Line, Historical Shorelines, MHW, Mean High Water, NGS, NOAA, NOS, National Geodetic Survey, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, PRDC, PRDRN, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Departamento de Carreteras, Puerto Rico Departamento de Recursos Naturales, Puerto Rico Shoreline Change, Shoreline intersects, Shorelines, Transect, U.S. Department of Agriculture - Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Geological Survey, US Army Corps of Engineers, USACE, USDA-SCS, USGS, United States, University of Puerto Rico, University of Puerto Rico Graduate School of Planning, Vieques, WDL, WHCMSC, Wet Dry Line, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, oceans, Fewer tags

2018 Mean High Water Shorelines of the Puerto Rico coast used in Shoreline Change Analysis

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maintains shoreline positions for the United States coasts from both older sources, such as aerial photographs or topographic surveys, and contemporary sources, such as lidar-point clouds and digital elevation models. These shorelines are compiled and analyzed in the Digital Shoreline Analysis System software to compute their rates of change. Keeping a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor change over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release, and other associated products, represent...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Coast, Caribbean, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Culebra, DSAS, All tags... Digital Shoreline Analysis System, MHW, Mean High Water, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Shoreline Change, Shoreline, Shoreline Change, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, University of Puerto Rico, Vieques, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, oceans, Fewer tags

1970s Shorelines for the Main Island of Puerto Rico

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maintains shoreline positions for the United States coasts from both older sources, such as aerial photos or topographic surveys, as well as contemporary sources like lidar point clouds and digital elevation models (DEMs). These shorelines are compiled and analyzed in the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) software to compute rates of change. It is useful to keep a record of historical shoreline positions as a method of monitoring change over time to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release and other associated products represent an expansion...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Aerial Photos, Atlantic Coast, Caribbean, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, DSAS, All tags... Digital Shoreline Analysis System, Groundwater Exit, Historical Shorelines, Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico, Shoreline, Shoreline Change, Shoreline Classification, U.S. Geological Survey, UPR, USGS, United States, University of Puerto Rico, WDL, WHCMSC, Wet/Dry Line, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, oceans, Fewer tags

A GIS Compilation of Vector Shorelines and Shoreline Classification for Puerto Rico from 1970 and 2010

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maintains shoreline positions for the United States coasts from both older sources, such as aerial photos or topographic surveys, as well as contemporary sources like lidar point clouds and digital elevation models (DEMs). These shorelines are compiled and analyzed in the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) software to compute rates of change. It is useful to keep a record of historical shoreline positions as a method of monitoring change over time to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release and other associated products represent an expansion...

Tags: Aerial Photos, Atlantic Coast, Caribbean, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Digital Shoreline Analysis System, All tags... Geography, Geomorphology, Groundwater Exit, Historical Shorelines, Oceans, Puerto Rico, Shoreline, Shoreline Change, Shoreline Classification, U.S. Geological Survey, UPR, USGS, United States, University of Puerto Rico, University of Puerto Rico Graduate School of Planning, WDL, Wed/Dry Line, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, geospatial data, Fewer tags

Shoreline intersects for the coast of Puerto Rico's main island generated by the Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 5.1 (ver. 2.0, March 2023)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maintains shoreline positions for the United States coasts from both older sources, such as aerial photographs or topographic surveys, and contemporary sources, such as lidar-point clouds and digital elevation models. These shorelines are compiled and analyzed in the USGS Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS), version 5.1 software to calculate rates of change. Keeping a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor change over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release, and other associated...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Coast, CMGP, Caribbean, Coastal Research and Planning Institute of Puerto Rico, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, All tags... DSAS, Digital Shoreline Analysis System, Historical Shorelines, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Shoreline Change, Shoreline intersects, Shorelines, Transect, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, University of Puerto Rico, University of Puerto Rico Graduate School of Planning, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, oceans, Fewer tags

Impacts of extreme environmental disturbances on survival of piping plovers breeding in the Great Plains, and wintering along the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Coasts, 2012-2019

We present one tabular data file to evaluate piping plover (Charadrius melodus) seasonal (breeding and nonbreeding) adult survival. These data were part of a study to examine adult (n = 3474) survival during 2012-2019 at breeding regions within the Northern Great Plains and nonbreeding regions in the Gulf and southern Atlantic Coasts of North America. This file includes USGS-funded data and not the full data used in the Larger Work. The seasonal adult survival data includes a multistate model encounter history.

Tags: Birds, Caribbean, Ecology, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Louisiana, Mexico, Migration (organisms), Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Population ecology, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, birds, capturing (animals), endangered species, population and community ecology, wildlife biology, wildlife population management, Fewer tags

Yale stocks and flows database (YSTAFDB) describing anthropogenic materials cycles, recycling, and criticality for 102 materials on spatial scales ranging from suburbs to global and timescales from the early 1800s to circa 2013

This data release presents the Yale stocks and flows database (YSTAFDB). Its data describe the use of 102 materials from the early 1800s to circa 2013 through anthropogenic cycles, their recycling and criticality properties, and on spatial scales ranging from suburbs to global. This data collection was previously scattered across multiple non-uniformly formatted files such as journal papers, reports, and unpublished spreadsheets. These data have been synthesized into YSTAFDB, which is presented as individual comma-separated text files and also in MySQL and PostgreSQL database formats. Consolidation of these data into a single database can increase their accessibility and reusability, which is relevant to diverse...

Categories: Data; Tags: AFGHANISTAN, ALBANIA, ALGERIA, ANDORRA, ANGOLA, All tags... ANGUILLA, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, ARGENTINA, ARMENIA, ARUBA, AUSTRALIA, AUSTRIA, AZERBAIJAN, Africa, Asia, BAHAMAS, THE, BAHRAIN, BANGLADESH, BARBADOS, BELARUS, BELGIUM, BELIZE, BENIN, BHUTAN, BOLIVIA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, BOTSWANA, BRAZIL, BRUNEI, BULGARIA, BURKINA FASO, BURMA, BURUNDI, CAMBODIA, CAMEROON, CANADA, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, CHAD, CHILE, CHINA, COLOMBIA, COMOROS, COSTA RICA, CROATIA, CUBA, CURACAO, CYPRUS, CZECH REPUBLIC, Cape Verde, Caribbean, Central America, Central Europe, Commonwealth of Independent States, Congo (Democratic Republic of the), Congo (Republic of the), DENMARK, DJIBOUTI, DOMINICA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, ECUADOR, EGYPT, EL SALVADOR, EQUATORIAL GUINEA, ERITREA, ESTONIA, ETHIOPIA, East Asia, Eastern Europe, Energy Resources, Environmental Health, Europe, European Union, FIJI, FINLAND, FRANCE, FRENCH GUIANA, FRENCH POLYNESIA, GABON, GAMBIA, THE, GEORGIA, GERMANY, GHANA, GIBRALTAR, GREECE, GREENLAND, GRENADA, GUADELOUPE, GUAM, GUATEMALA, GUINEA, GUINEA-BISSAU, GUYANA, HAITI, HONDURAS, HONG KONG, HUNGARY, ICELAND, INDIA, INDONESIA, IRAN, IRAQ, IRELAND, ISRAEL, ITALY, IVORY COAST (COTE D’IVOIRE), JAMAICA, JAPAN, JORDAN, KAZAKHSTAN, KENYA, KOREA, NORTH, KOREA, SOUTH, KUWAIT, KYRGYZSTAN, LAOS, LATVIA, LEBANON, LESOTHO, LIBERIA, LIBYA, LITHUANIA, LUXEMBOURG, Latin America, MACEDONIA, MADAGASCAR, MALAWI, MALAYSIA, MALI, MARTINIQUE, MAURITANIA, MAURITIUS, MEXICO, MOLDOVA, MONGOLIA, MONTENEGRO, MOROCCO, MOZAMBIQUE, Middle East, Mineralogy, NAMIBIA, NEPAL, NETHERLANDS, NEW CALEDONIA, NEW ZEALAND, NICARAGUA, NIGER, NIGERIA, NORWAY, North America, Northern Europe, OMAN, Oceania, PAKISTAN, PANAMA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, PARAGUAY, PERU, PHILIPPINES, POLAND, PORTUGAL, PUERTO RICO, QATAR, REUNION, ROMANIA, RUSSIA, RWANDA, SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE, SAUDI ARABIA, SENEGAL, SERBIA, SEYCHELLES, SIERRA LEONE, SINGAPORE, SLOVAKIA, SLOVENIA, SOMALIA, SOUTH AFRICA, SOUTH SUDAN, SPAIN, SRI LANKA, SUDAN, SURINAME, SWAZILAND, SWEDEN, SWITZERLAND, SYRIA, South America, TAIWAN, TAJIKISTAN, TANZANIA, THAILAND, TIMOR-LESTE, TOGO, TONGA, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, TUNISIA, TURKEY, TURKMENISTAN, UGANDA, UKRAINE, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED STATES, URUGUAY, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), UZBEKISTAN, VENEZUELA, VIETNAM, WESTERN SAHARA, Western Europe, YEMEN, ZAMBIA, ZIMBABWE, circular economy, economy, environment, geoscientificInformation, industrial ecology, location, material flows, material life cycles, materials flow (commodities), metallic mineral resources, mineral deposits, nonmetallic mineral resources, society, Fewer tags

Shoreline change rates for the coast of Puerto Rico's main island calculated using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 5.1 (ver. 2.0, March 2023)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maintains shoreline positions for the United States coasts from both older sources, such as aerial photographs or topographic surveys, and contemporary sources, such as lidar-point clouds and digital elevation models. These shorelines are compiled and analyzed in the USGS Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS), version 5.1 software to calculate rates of change. Keeping a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor change over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release, and other associated...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Accretion, Atlantic Coast, CMGP, Caribbean, Coastal Research and Planning Institute of Puerto Rico, All tags... Coastal and Marine Geology Program, DSAS, Digital Shoreline Analysis System, Erosion, Historical Shoreline, LRR, Linear Regression Rate, Long-term shoreline change rate, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Shoreline Change, Shoreline change rate, Shorelines, Short-term shoreline change rate, Transect, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, University of Puerto Rico, University of Puerto Rico Graduate School of Planning, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, oceans, Fewer tags

2016 USACE Mean High Water Shorelines of the Puerto Rico coast used in Shoreline Change Analysis

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maintains shoreline positions for the United States coasts from both older sources, such as aerial photographs or topographic surveys, and contemporary sources, such as lidar-point clouds and digital elevation models. These shorelines are compiled and analyzed in the Digital Shoreline Analysis System software to compute their rates of change. Keeping a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor change over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release, and other associated products, represent...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Coast, Caribbean, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Culebra, DSAS, All tags... Digital Shoreline Analysis System, MHW, Mean High Water, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Shoreline Change, Shoreline, Shoreline Change, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, University of Puerto Rico, Vieques, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, oceans, Fewer tags

Historical Shorelines for Puerto Rico from 1901 to 1987

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maintains shoreline positions for the United States coasts from both older sources, such as aerial photograph or topographic surveys, and contemporary sources, such as lidar-point clouds and digital elevation models. These shorelines are compiled and analyzed in the Digital Shoreline Analysis System software (v5.1) to compute their rates of change. Keeping a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor change over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release, and other associated products, represent...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Aerial Photographs, Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS), All tags... Geography, Geomorphology, High Water Line, Historical Shorelines, Puerto Rico, Shoreline, Shoreline Change, T-sheet, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), USGS, United States, Wet/Dry Line, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC), Fewer tags