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

2015 LCC Network Areas

Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) are public-private partnerships composed of states, tribes, federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, international jurisdictions, and others working together to address landscape and seascape scale conservation issues. LCCs inform resource management decisions to address broad-scale stressors-including habitat fragmentation, genetic isolation, spread of invasive species, and water scarcity-all of which are magnified by a rapidly changing climate. For further information go to https://www.fws.gov/science/catalog. The previous 2011 LCC Network Areas data is available at https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/52f2735ee4b0a6f0bd498c2f

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: ArcGIS Map Package, ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands, Appalachian, Arctic, California, Caribbean, All tags... Desert, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers, Great Basin, Great Northern, Great Plains, Gulf Coast Plains and Ozarks, Gulf Coast Prairie, Inland Waters, LCC, North Atlantic, North Pacific, Northwest Boreal, Pacific Islands, Peninsular Florida, Plains and Prairie Potholes, South Atlantic, Southern Rockies, Unclassified, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes, Western Alaska, biota, boundaries, conservation, dataset, environment, fish and wildlife service, landscape conservation cooperatives, partnerships, Fewer tags

2015 LCC Network Areas OGC Webservices

Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) are public-private partnerships composed of states, tribes, federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, international jurisdictions, and others working together to address landscape and seascape scale conservation issues. LCCs inform resource management decisions to address broad-scale stressors-including habitat fragmentation, genetic isolation, spread of invasive species, and water scarcity-all of which are magnified by a rapidly changing climate. For further information go to https://www.fws.gov/science/catalog. The previous 2011 LCC Network Areas data is available at https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/52f2735ee4b0a6f0bd498c2f

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands, Appalachian, Arctic, California, Caribbean, All tags... Desert, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers, Great Basin, Great Northern, Great Plains, Gulf Coast Plains and Ozarks, Gulf Coast Prairie, Inland Waters, LCC, North Atlantic, North Pacific, Northwest Boreal, Pacific Islands, Peninsular Florida, Plains and Prairie Potholes, South Atlantic, Southern Rockies, Unclassified, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes, Western Alaska, biota, boundaries, conservation, dataset, environment, fish and wildlife service, landscape conservation cooperatives, partnerships, 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

Relative sediment delivery at the mouth of rivers in the Gulf of Mexico

An indicator of relative sediment delivery at the river mouth for each of over 3,000 watersheds draining into the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Alabama (AL), Caribbean, Florida (FL), Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Louisiana (LA), Mississippi (MS), Texas (TX), basin, coastal hazard, coral reefs, erosion, hurricane impact, land cover, nourishment, plume, preciptation, pressure, sediment, sedimentation, sediments, shoreline, shoreline change, slope, soil, threat, watershed, Fewer tags

Annotated Checklist of Marine and Inland Fishes of St. Croix, U.S., Virgin Islands

Fish collections made at Buck Island Reef National Monument with the ichthyocide rotenone in 2001 at 58 stations followed by 10 days each in April 2011 and January 2012 surveying poorly sampled shoreline habitats with rotenone and clove oil and inland streams with seine.

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Caribbean, Fish, Saint Croix, St. Croix, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Virgin Islands, Virgin Islands, biogeography, distribution, freshwater, introduced species, rotenone, visual, 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

Attributed North American Grid-Based Offshore Sampling Frames: Caribbean

This sampling frame is a set of grid-based, finite-area frames spanning the offshore areas surrounding the Caribbean, 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 and spatial balance....

Tags: Caribbean, GRTS, NABat, North America, North American Bat Monitoring Program, All tags... biota, generalized random tessellation stratified, grid, offshore, sample frame, 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

Faults of the Caribbean Region (flt6bg)

This dataset describes faults and structural features of the Caribbean region (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States, Venezuela, and the Virgin Islands (named countries may not be completely shown on map)).

Categories: Data, pre-SM502.8; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: AG, AI, AN, AW, Age, All tags... Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Aves Ridge (6109), BB, BS, BZ, Bahama Platform (6119), Bahamas, Barbados, Barbados Accretionary Complex (6127), Barinas-Apure Basin (6097), Beata Ridge (6111), Belize, Bonaire Basin (6101), British Virgin Islands, CO, CR, CU, Cariaco Basin (6102), Caribbean, Cayman Islands, Cayman Ridge (6121), Cayman Trough (6120), Cesar Basin (6094), Chiapas Massif-Nuclear Central America (6122), Choco Pacific Basin (6087), Coal, Coal resources, Coalbed Methane, Coalbed methane resources, Colombia, Colombian Basin (6112), Costa Rica, Cuba, DM, DO, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Earth Science, East Venezuela Basin (6098), Economic geology, El Salvador, Falcon Basin (6100), Faults, Florida Peninsula (5050), GD, GP, GT, GY, Gas, Geologic Age, Geologic Map, Geologic Province, Geology, Geology, Greater Antilles Deformed Belt (6117), Grenada, Grenada Back-Arc Basin (6126), Guadeloupe, Guajira Basin (6095), Guatemala, Gulf Cenozoic OCS (5097), Gulf Cenozoic OCS (5098), Guyana, Guyana Shield (6002), Guyana-Suriname Basin (6021), HN, HT, Haiti, Honduras, JM, Jamaica, KN, KY, LC, Lesser Antilles Deformed Belt (6107), Llanos Basin (6096), Lower Magdelena (6091), MQ, MS, MX, Macuspana Basin (5306), Maracaibo Basin (6099), Martinique, Maya Mountains (6125), Mexico, Middle America Province (6113), Middle Magdelena (6090), Monserrat, NI, Natural Gas, Natural gas resources, Neogene Volcanic Belt (6108), Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, North Caribbean Deformed Belt (6116), North Nicaraguan Rise (6114), Ocean (0), Ocean (1), Oil, Oil resources, PA, PR, Pacific Offshore Basin (6088), Panama, Perjira-Venezuela-Coastal Ranges (6093), Petroleum, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Trench (6118), Resource Assessment, SV, Saline-Comalcalco Basin (5304), Sierra Madre de Chiapas-Peten Foldbelt (5310), Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (6105), South Caribbean Accretionary Prism (6104), South Nicaraguan Rise (6115), St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Structural Features, Structure, Surface Geology, TC, TT, Tectonics, Tobago Trough (6103), Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, U.S. Geological Survey, US, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, VC, VE, VI, VQ, Venezuela, Venezuelan Basin (6110), Villahermosa Uplift (5305), Virgin Islands, West-Central Cordillera (6106), World Energy Project, World Energy Resources, Yucatan Basin (6123), Yucatan Platform (5308), caribbean, economy, environment, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, oilgas, structure, wep, worldgeologicmaps, 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

Surface Geology of the Caribbean Region (geo6bg)

This dataset includes polygons that describe the geologic age of surface outcrops of bedrock of the Caribbean region (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States, Venezuela, and the Virgin Islands (named countries may not be completely shown on map)).

Categories: Data, pre-SM502.8; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: AG, AI, AN, AW, Age, All tags... Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Aves Ridge (6109), BB, BS, BZ, Bahama Platform (6119), Bahamas, Barbados, Barbados Accretionary Complex (6127), Barinas-Apure Basin (6097), Beata Ridge (6111), Belize, Bonaire Basin (6101), British Virgin Islands, CO, CR, CU, Cariaco Basin (6102), Caribbean, Cayman Islands, Cayman Ridge (6121), Cayman Trough (6120), Cesar Basin (6094), Chiapas Massif-Nuclear Central America (6122), Choco Pacific Basin (6087), Coal, Coal resources, Coalbed Methane, Coalbed methane resources, Colombia, Colombian Basin (6112), Costa Rica, Cuba, DM, DO, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Earth Science, East Venezuela Basin (6098), Economic geology, El Salvador, Falcon Basin (6100), Florida Peninsula (5050), GD, GP, GT, GY, Gas, Geologic Age, Geologic Map, Geologic Province, Geology, Geology, Greater Antilles Deformed Belt (6117), Grenada, Grenada Back-Arc Basin (6126), Guadeloupe, Guajira Basin (6095), Guatemala, Gulf Cenozoic OCS (5097), Gulf Cenozoic OCS (5098), Guyana, Guyana Shield (6002), Guyana-Suriname Basin (6021), HN, HT, Haiti, Honduras, JM, Jamaica, KN, KY, LC, Lesser Antilles Deformed Belt (6107), Llanos Basin (6096), Lower Magdelena (6091), MQ, MS, MX, Macuspana Basin (5306), Maracaibo Basin (6099), Martinique, Maya Mountains (6125), Mexico, Middle America Province (6113), Middle Magdelena (6090), Monserrat, NI, Natural Gas, Natural gas resources, Neogene Volcanic Belt (6108), Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, North Caribbean Deformed Belt (6116), North Nicaraguan Rise (6114), Ocean (0), Ocean (1), Oil, Oil resources, PA, PR, Pacific Offshore Basin (6088), Panama, Perjira-Venezuela-Coastal Ranges (6093), Petroleum, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Trench (6118), Resource Assessment, SV, Saline-Comalcalco Basin (5304), Sierra Madre de Chiapas-Peten Foldbelt (5310), Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (6105), South Caribbean Accretionary Prism (6104), South Nicaraguan Rise (6115), St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Surface Geology, TC, TT, Tobago Trough (6103), Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, U.S. Geological Survey, US, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, VC, VE, VI, VQ, Venezuela, Venezuelan Basin (6110), Villahermosa Uplift (5305), Virgin Islands, West-Central Cordillera (6106), World Energy Project, World Energy Resources, Yucatan Basin (6123), Yucatan Platform (5308), caribbean, economy, environment, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, oilgas, wep, worldgeologicmaps, 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

Shoreline change rates for the islands of Vieques and Culebra, Puerto Rico, calculated 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: Accretion, Atlantic Coast, CMGP, Caribbean, Coastal Research and Planning Institute of Puerto Rico, All tags... Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Culebra, 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, Vieques, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, oceans, Fewer tags

Nesting habitat suitability for the Black-capped Petrel Pterodroma hasitata on Hispaniola, Supplementary Material

To focus nest-search efforts on Hispaniola and estimate the extent of the available nesting habitat, we analyzed the environmental characteristics of Black-capped Petrel (Pterodroma hasitata) nesting habitat and modeled suitable habitat on Hispaniola using openly available environmental datasets. Details on the methodology may be found in the associated publication (Satgé et al. 2020, Habitat modelling locates nesting areas of the Endangered Black-capped Petrel Pterodroma hasitata on Hispaniola and identifies habitat loss. Bird Conservation International). Here we share Supplementary Material referenced in the publication (Zip file): 1) Georeferenced (projected) raster file of habitat suitability for nesting Black-capped...

Tags: Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Endangered species, Habitat modelling, Haiti, All tags... Hispaniola, Seabird, Species distribution model, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Fewer tags