Spatial and elevation points surveyed for indirect measurements of peak streamflow associated with flooding of September to November 2017 in Puerto Rico

This dataset contains topographic (horizontal and vertical) data for 20 sites, surveyed November 6 to November 28, 2017 as part of documentation of flooding that occurred in Puerto Rico during and after Hurricane Maria (September to November 2017). Hurricane Maria hit the Island of Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017 and was one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history. USGS personnel conducted topographic surveys at selected stream sites to facilitate hydraulic modeling of peak streamflows (or discharges) – termed indirect measurements – using published standard USGS methods. Indirect (post-flood) measurements are used to characterize flood peaks that could not be determined using direct methods (for example current-velocity...

Categories: Data; Tags: Caribbean, Eastern Caribbean, Elevation, GPS measurement, Global Positioning System (GPS) observations, All tags... Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico, controlled flooding, elevation, field inventory and monitoring, flooding, hurricanes, indirect measurement, land surveying, peak discharge, river reaches, rivers, storms, storms, stream discharge, topographic survey, tropical cyclones (hurricanes and typhoons), 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

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

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

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

1970s Shorelines for Vieques and Culebra, 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

Red Lionfish DNA data collected from Florida, USA and around the invasive distribution from 2007 to 2016

Red lionfish (Pterois volitans) have become a successful invasive predator across the Northwestern Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico (GoM). Previous investigations have identified the southeast coast of Florida as the original site of introduction, but no region-wide genetic study has directly addressed the question of introduction location(s). This dataset includes previously unpublished red lionfish samples (n = 237) from six locations: The Bahamas, Florida Keys, Northwest Florida, North Carolina, Panama, and Southeast Florida. Sequences archived in NCBI from other locations in the Northern Region, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico basins were used in the analyses (N = 1558). Previously published sequences were...

Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Caribbean, Caribbean Sea, Genetics, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... North Atlantic, Southeast Florida, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Western Atlantic Ocean, biota, genetic diversity, invasion pathway, invasive species, mitochondrial marker, nuclear microsatellite marker, 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

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

Specimen observation data for Najas marina L. from 1863 to 2020

The North American distribution of Najas marina L. from 1863 to 2020 is presented in this dataset. Fields provided include georeferenced coordinates, dates of collections, collectors, and source herbaria. Data are housed in the U.S. Geological Survey's Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database (nas.er.usgs.gov).

Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic, Aquatic Biology, Botany, Caribbean, Distribution, All tags... Ecology, Najas marina, North America, Occurrence, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Vascular plant, biota, 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

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

Attributed North American Grid-Based Offshore Sampling Frames

This sampling frame is a set of grid-based, finite-area frames spanning the offshore areas surrounding Canada, the United States, and Mexico, and is intended for use with the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat). A Generalized Random-Tessellation Stratified (GRTS) Survey Design draw was added to the sample units from the raw sampling grids (https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XBOCVV). The GRTS survey design algorithm assigns a spatially balanced and randomized ordering (GRTS order) to each cell within its respective framework. Grid cells are prioritized numerically; the lower the number, the higher the sampling priority. Cells can then be selected for monitoring following the GRTS order, ensuring both randomization...

Tags: AKCAN, Alaska, CONUS, Canada, Caribbean, All tags... Ecology, GRTS, Hawai'i, Hawaii, Mexico, NABat, North America, North American Bat Monitoring Program, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, biota, generalized random tessellation stratified, grid, offshore, sample frame, 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

Topographic points surveyed in 2018-19 for step-backwater analysis, in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico

This data release provides topographic (horizontal and vertical) data for 58 sites, surveyed March 12, 2018 to July 18, 2019 as part of documentation of flooding that occurred in Puerto Rico during and after Hurricane Maria (September to November 2017). Hurricane Maria made landfall on the Island of Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017 and was one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) personnel conducted topographic surveys at selected stream sites for hydraulic modeling studies to establish new stage-discharge relations for sites at which flooding substantially changed the pre-existing relation. The standard-step hydraulic method, often referred to as the step-backwater method,...

Categories: Data; Tags: Caribbean, Eastern Caribbean, Elevation, GPS measurement, Global Positioning System (GPS) observations, All tags... Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico, controlled flooding, elevation, field inventory and monitoring, flooding, hurricanes, land surveying, peak discharge, river reaches, rivers, storms, storms, stream discharge, topographic survey, tropical cyclones (hurricanes and typhoons), 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