Seismic Reflection, Geometrics multi-channel streamer tracklines, USGS field activity 2017-003-FA, Mississippi River Delta front offshore of southeastern Louisiana (Esri polyline shapefile, GCS WGS 84)

High resolution bathymetric, sea-floor backscatter, and seismic-reflection data were collected offshore of southeastern Louisiana aboard the research vessel Point Sur on May 19-26, 2017, in an effort to characterize mudflow hazards on the Mississippi River Delta front. As the initial field program of a research cooperative between the U.S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and other Federal and academic partners, the primary objective of this cruise was to assess the suitability of sea-floor mapping and shallow subsurface imaging tools in the challenging environmental conditions found across delta fronts (for example, variably distributed water column stratification and widespread biogenic...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Applied Acoustics, BOEM, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, All tags... GeoEel, Geometrics, Gulf of Mexico, Marine Geology, Mississippi River Delta front, Pass a Loutre, S-boom, SIG, South Pass, Southeast Louisiana, Southwest Pass, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, boomer, field activity number 2017-003-FA, location, marine geology, marine geophysics, multi-channel streamer, navigational data, oceans, seismic navigation, seismic profile, seismic reflection, seismic reflection methods, shapefile, sparker, trackline navigation, Fewer tags

Offshore baseline for the Florida north (FLnorth) coastal region generated to calculate shoreline change rates

Sandy ocean beaches in the United States are popular tourist and recreational destinations and constitute some of the most valuable real estate in the country. The boundary between land and water along the coastline is often the location of concentrated residential and commercial development and is frequently exposed to a range of natural hazards, which include flooding, storm effects, and coastal erosion. In response, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is conducting a national assessment of coastal change hazards. One component of this research effort, the National Assessment of Shoreline Change Project, documents changes in shoreline position as a proxy for coastal change. Shoreline position is an easily understood...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Bald Point State Park, Baseline, CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, DSAS, All tags... Digital Shoreline Analysis System, Dog Island, FL, Florida, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Gulf of Mexico, Laguna Beach, National Assessment of Shoreline Change Project, North America, Panama City Beach, Pensacola Beach, Santa Rosa Island, Shoreline, Shoreline Change, St. George Island, St. Joseph Peninsula, St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, environment, geoscientificInformation, oceans, Fewer tags

Shorelines of the Texas west (TXwest) coastal region used in shoreline change analysis

Sandy ocean beaches in the United States are popular tourist and recreational destinations and constitute some of the most valuable real estate in the country. The boundary between land and water along the coastline is often the location of concentrated residential and commercial development and is frequently exposed to a range of natural hazards, which include flooding, storm effects, and coastal erosion. In response, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is conducting a national assessment of coastal change hazards. One component of this research effort, the National Assessment of Shoreline Change Project, documents changes in shoreline position as a proxy for coastal change. Shoreline position is an easily understood...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Aransas Pass, Brazos Santiago Pass, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, All tags... DSAS, Digital Shoreline Analysis System, Gulf of Mexico, HWL, High Water Line, MHW, Mean High Water, Mustang Island, NOAA, NOS, National Assessment of Shoreline Change Project, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, North America, Padre Island, Port Aransas, Rio Grande, Shoreline, Shoreline Change, South Padre Island, TX, Texas, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, UT BEG, United States, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, environment, geoscientificInformation, oceans, Fewer tags

Laboratory Notes - Scanned Laboratory Notebook Pages for the following project - Ecological implications of mangrove forest migration in the southeastern US (2012-2-13)

Winter climate change has the potential to have a large impact on coastal wetlands in the southeastern U.S. Warmer winter temperatures and reductions in the intensity of freeze events would likely lead to mangrove forest range expansion and salt marsh displacement in parts of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coast. The objective of this research was to better understand some of the ecological implications of mangrove forest migration and salt marsh displacement. The potential ecological effects of mangrove migration are diverse ranging from important biotic impacts (e.g., coastal fisheries, land bird migration; colonial nesting wading birds) to ecosystem stability (e.g., response to sea level rise and drought;...

Categories: Data; Tags: Cedar Key, Data, Forests, Grasslands and Plains, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Landscapes, Port Aransas, Port Fourchon, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Southeast CASC, State of Florida, State of Louisiana, State of Texas, United States of America, Water, Coasts and Ice, Wetlands, bulk density, bulk density, environment, moisture, moisture, soil, soil, soil inorganic matter, soil inorganic matter, soil organic matter, soil organic matter, Fewer tags

Dry Tortugas Reef Visual Census 2010

In 1998, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Fisheries Independent Monitoring (FIM) program began a long-term monitoring effort of key reef fish populations in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. This effort was aimed at evaluating the relative abundance, size structure, and habitat utilization of specific reef fish species that are targeted by commercial and recreational fisheries.; Smith, S.G., et al. 2011, Multispecies survey design for assessing reef-fish stocks, spatially explicit management performance, and ecosystem condition. Fisheries Research 109(2011)25-41; Brandt, M.E., et. al. 2009, A Cooperative Multi-agency Reef Fish Monitoring Protocol for the Florida Keys Coral...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuaries Reef Fish Monitoring, array, array-data, basis, basisOfRecord, All tags... bibliographic, bibliographiccitation, body, citation, class, code, collection, collectionCode, comprehensive, coordinate, coordinateUncertaintyInMeters, count, country, data, dataSetID, data_set_name, dataset, datasetName, date, datum, dep, depth, dynamic, dynamicProperties, event, eventDate, eventDateRemarks, eventDateTimeZone, eventdate, eventdatetimezone, family, fish, fish sampling, florida, florida keys, genus, geodetic, geodeticDatum, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitat, higher, higherInstitutionCode, identification, identifier, individual, institution, institutionCode, keys, kingdom, large, latitude, length, locality, longitude, marine, material, materialSampleID, max, maximum, maximumDepthInMeters, meters, min, minimum, minimumDepthInMeters, miniumDepthInMeters, monitoring, name, national, number, observed, observedIndividualLengthInCm, observedMeanLengthInCm, order, owner, ownerInstitutionCode, phylum, properties, province, quality, quantificationMethod, quantificationName, quantificationStatus, quantificationUnit, quantificationValue, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, sample, samples, sanctuaries, scientific, scientificName, sea, seawater, service, set, state, stateProvince, statistics, status, stewardship, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxonomy, time, timeUncertainty, timeseries, timeuncertainty, type, typeStatus, uncertainty, vernacular, vernacularName, verticalDatum, water, waterBody, waterbody, zone, Fewer tags

Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project Dry Tortugas 2003

The purpose of the Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP) is to monitor the status and trends of selected reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary(FKNMS). CREMP assessments have been conducted annually at fixed sites since 1996 and data collected provides information on the temporal changes in benthic cover and diversity of stony corals and associated marine flora and fauna. The core field methods continue to be underwater videography and timed coral species inventories. Findings presented in this report include data from 109 stations at 37 sites sampled from 1996 through 2008 in the Florida Keys and 1999 through 2008 in the Dry Tortugas. The report describes the annual differences (between...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP), about, absence, accepted, acceptedNameAuthorship, All tags... acceptedNameUsage, acceptedNameUsageID, accepted_aphia_database_identification_number, accepted_authorship_information, accepted_name_usage, aphia, aphia_database_identification_number, area, array, array-data, associatedreferences, associatedreferences, authorship, authorship_information, basis, basis of record, basis of record, basisOfRecord, biogeographic, biology, class, class, commission, common, comprehensive, conservation, coral, coral monitoring, coverage, cremp, data, data_set_identification, data_set_name, database, dataset, dataset, datasetName, date, dry, dry tortugas, evaluation, event, eventID, eventdate, eventdate, family, family, fish, florida, florida keys, fwc, fwc-fwri, fwri, genus, genus, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitatid, hierarchy, identification, identifier, information, institute, kingdom, kingdom, large, latitude, longitude, marine, meters, monitoring, name, number, obis, occurrence, occurrenceID, occurrenceStatus, occurrence_identification, ocean, order, order, organism, organismQuantity, organismQuantityType, organism_per_sample_area, per, percent, percent_coverage, phylum, phylum, presence, project, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, register, research, revisited, sample, samples, scientific, scientificNameAuthorship, scientific_name, scientificname, scientificnameid, service, set, sitecode, siteid, species, species_name, specificEpithet, square, statement, station, status, stewardship, subregionid, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxon_rank, taxon_status, taxonomic, taxonomicStatus, taxonomic_status, taxonomy, time, tortugas, unaccepted, usage, v2.3, value, vernacular, vernacularName, vernacular_name, wildlife, world, worms, year, Fewer tags

Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project Florida Keys 2002

The purpose of the Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP) is to monitor the status and trends of selected reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary(FKNMS). CREMP assessments have been conducted annually at fixed sites since 1996 and data collected provides information on the temporal changes in benthic cover and diversity of stony corals and associated marine flora and fauna. The core field methods continue to be underwater videography and timed coral species inventories. Findings presented in this report include data from 109 stations at 37 sites sampled from 1996 through 2008 in the Florida Keys and 1999 through 2008 in the Dry Tortugas. The report describes the annual differences (between...

Categories: Data; Tags: Florida Keys Coral Reef Monitoring Project2002, absence, aphia, area, array, All tags... array-data, authorship, basis, basisOfRecord, biology, body, bottom, bottomType, calculated, celsius, class, code, common, comprehensive, coral, coral monitoring, country, cover, coverage, data, data_set_ID, database, dataset, datasetID, date, datum, dep, depth, dry, dry tortugas, dynamic, dynamicProperties, ecological, event, eventDate, eventDateRemarks, eventDateTimeZone, eventdate, eventdateremarks, eventdatetimezone, family, first, firstYear, first_year_of_observation, fish, florida, florida keys, fwri, genus, geodetic, geodeticDatum, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitat, hierarchy, higher, higherInstitutionCode, identification, information, institude, institution, institutionCode, itis, keys, kingdom, large, lastYear, lastt, lastt_year_of_observation, latitude, locality, longitude, max, max_depth, maximum, maximumDepthInMeters, meters, method, min, min_depth, minimum, minimumDepthInMeters, monitoring, name, north, not, notsampled, number, observation, observed, occurence, order, owner, ownerInstitutionCode, park, phylum, presence, project, properties, protected, protection, province, quantification, quantificationMethod, quantificationName, quantificationStatus, quantificationValue, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, remarks, research, reserve, sample, sampleAreaInSquareMeters, samples, sampling, scientific, scientificNameAuthorship, scientificNameIDITIS, scientificNameIDWoRMS, scientificname, sea, seawater, serial, service, set, spatial, species, specificEpithet, square, state, stateProvince, station, status, stewardship, strata, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxonomic, temperature, time, tner, tortuga, transect, type, vernacularName, vertical, verticalDatum, verticaldatum, video, water, waterBody, waterTemperatureInCelsius, wildlife, worms, year, zone, Fewer tags

Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project Florida Keys 2017

The purpose of the Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP) is to monitor the status and trends of selected reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary(FKNMS). CREMP assessments have been conducted annually at fixed sites since 1996 and data collected provides information on the temporal changes in benthic cover and diversity of stony corals and associated marine flora and fauna. The core field methods continue to be underwater videography and timed coral species inventories. Findings presented in this report include data from 109 stations at 37 sites sampled from 1996 through 2008 in the Florida Keys and 1999 through 2008 in the Dry Tortugas. The report describes the annual differences (between...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project Florida Keys 2017, about, absence, accepted, acceptedNameAuthorship, All tags... acceptedNameUsage, acceptedNameUsageID, accepted_aphia_database_identification_number, accepted_authorship_information, accepted_name_usage, aphia, aphia_database_identification_number, area, array, array-data, authorship, authorship_information, basis, basis of record, basis of record, basisOfRecord, biogeographic, biology, class, class, commission, common, comprehensive, conservation, coral, coral monitoring, coverage, cremp, data, data_set_identification, database, dataset, date, dry tortugas, evaluation, event, eventID, eventdate, eventdate, family, family, fish, florida, florida keys, fwc, fwc-fwri, fwri, genus, genus, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitatid, hierarchy, identification, identifier, information, institute, keys, kingdom, kingdom, large, latitude, longitude, marine, meters, monitoring, name, number, obis, occurrence, occurrenceID, occurrenceStatus, occurrence_identification, ocean, order, order, organism, organismQuantity, organismQuantityType, organism_per_sample_area, per, percent, percent_coverage, phylum, phylum, presence, project, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, register, research, revisited, sample, samples, scientific, scientificNameAuthorship, scientific_name, scientificname, scientificnameid, service, set, sitecode, siteid, species, species_name, specificEpithet, square, statement, station, status, stewardship, subregionid, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxon_rank, taxon_status, taxonomic, taxonomicStatus, taxonomy, time, unaccepted, usage, v2.3, value, vernacular, vernacularName, vernacular_name, wildlife, world, worms, year, Fewer tags

Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project Florida Keys 1999

The purpose of the Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP) is to monitor the status and trends of selected reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary(FKNMS). CREMP assessments have been conducted annually at fixed sites since 1996 and data collected provides information on the temporal changes in benthic cover and diversity of stony corals and associated marine flora and fauna. The core field methods continue to be underwater videography and timed coral species inventories. Findings presented in this report include data from 109 stations at 37 sites sampled from 1996 through 2008 in the Florida Keys and 1999 through 2008 in the Dry Tortugas. The report describes the annual differences (between...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project Florida Keys 1999, about, absence, accepted, acceptedNameAuthorship, All tags... acceptedNameUsage, acceptedNameUsageID, accepted_aphia_database_identification_number, accepted_authorship_information, accepted_name_usage, aphia, aphia_database_identification_number, area, array, array-data, authorship, authorship_information, basis, basis of record, basis of record, basisOfRecord, biogeographic, biology, class, class, commission, common, comprehensive, conservation, coral, coral monitoring, coverage, cremp, data, data_set_identification, database, dataset, date, dry tortugas, evaluation, event, eventID, eventdate, eventdate, family, family, fish, florida, florida keys, fwc, fwc-fwri, fwri, genus, genus, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitatid, hierarchy, identification, identifier, information, institute, keys, kingdom, kingdom, large, latitude, longitude, marine, meters, monitoring, name, number, obis, occurrence, occurrenceID, occurrenceStatus, occurrence_identification, ocean, order, order, organism, organismQuantity, organismQuantityType, organism_per_sample_area, per, percent, percent_coverage, phylum, phylum, presence, project, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, register, research, revisited, sample, samples, scientific, scientificNameAuthorship, scientific_name, scientificname, scientificnameid, service, set, sitecode, siteid, species, species_name, specificEpithet, square, statement, station, status, stewardship, subregionid, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxon_rank, taxon_status, taxonomic, taxonomicStatus, taxonomy, time, unaccepted, usage, v2.3, value, vernacular, vernacularName, vernacular_name, wildlife, world, worms, year, Fewer tags

Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project Florida Keys 2008

The purpose of the Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP) is to monitor the status and trends of selected reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary(FKNMS). CREMP assessments have been conducted annually at fixed sites since 1996 and data collected provides information on the temporal changes in benthic cover and diversity of stony corals and associated marine flora and fauna. The core field methods continue to be underwater videography and timed coral species inventories. Findings presented in this report include data from 109 stations at 37 sites sampled from 1996 through 2008 in the Florida Keys and 1999 through 2008 in the Dry Tortugas. The report describes the annual differences (between...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP), about, absence, accepted, acceptedNameAuthorship, All tags... acceptedNameUsage, acceptedNameUsageID, accepted_aphia_database_identification_number, accepted_authorship_information, accepted_name_usage, aphia, aphia_database_identification_number, area, array, array-data, associatedreferences, associatedreferences, authorship, authorship_information, basis, basis of record, basis of record, basisOfRecord, biogeographic, biology, class, class, commission, common, comprehensive, conservation, coral, coral monitoring, coverage, cremp, data, data_set_identification, data_set_name, database, dataset, dataset, datasetName, date, dry tortugas, evaluation, event, eventID, eventdate, eventdate, family, family, fish, florida, florida keys, fwc, fwc-fwri, fwri, genus, genus, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitatid, hierarchy, identification, identifier, information, institute, keys, kingdom, kingdom, large, latitude, longitude, marine, meters, monitoring, name, number, obis, occurrence, occurrenceID, occurrenceStatus, occurrence_identification, ocean, order, order, organism, organismQuantity, organismQuantityType, organism_per_sample_area, per, percent, percent_coverage, phylum, phylum, presence, project, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, register, research, revisited, sample, samples, scientific, scientificNameAuthorship, scientific_name, scientificname, scientificnameid, service, set, sitecode, siteid, species, species_name, specificEpithet, square, statement, station, status, stewardship, subregionid, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxon_rank, taxon_status, taxonomic, taxonomicStatus, taxonomic_status, taxonomy, time, unaccepted, usage, v2.3, value, vernacular, vernacularName, vernacular_name, wildlife, world, worms, year, Fewer tags

Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project Florida Keys 2018

The purpose of the Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP) is to monitor the status and trends of selected reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary(FKNMS). CREMP assessments have been conducted annually at fixed sites since 1996 and data collected provides information on the temporal changes in benthic cover and diversity of stony corals and associated marine flora and fauna. The core field methods continue to be underwater videography and timed coral species inventories. Findings presented in this report include data from 109 stations at 37 sites sampled from 1996 through 2008 in the Florida Keys and 1999 through 2008 in the Dry Tortugas. The report describes the annual differences (between...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project Florida Keys 2018, area, array, array-data, biogeographic, All tags... biology, body, change, class, commission, comprehensive, conservation, coral, coral monitoring, coral_reef_monitoring_effort, coral_reef_monitoring_method, country, country, cremp, data, data_set_identification_number, dataset, dataset, datasetID, date, date-time, datum, depth, dry tortugas, effort, evaluation, event, eventID, eventdate, eventdate, first, firstYear, first_year_of_observation, fish, florida, florida keys, fwc, fwc-fwri, fwri, geodetic, geodeticDatum, geodetic_datum, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitat, habitat, habitatid, identification, identifier, information, institute, keys, language, language, large, lastYear, last_date_time_change, lastt, lastt_year_of_observation, latitude, lengh, lenght, length, license, license, locality, longitude, maximum, maximumDepthInMeters, maximum_depth, meters, method, minimum, minimumDepthInMeters, minimum_depth, modified, monitoring, multiply, name, number, obis, observation, obtain, ocean, project, province, rectangle, reef, research, revisited, sample, sampleSizeUnit, sampleSizeValue, sample_region, samples, sampling, samplingEffort, samplingProtocol, sampling_transect_units, service, set, side, sitecode, siteid, state, state, stateProvince, station, stewardship, subregionid, system, time, transect, transect_lengh, type, type, units, used, v2.3, video, water, waterBody, water_body, width, wildlife, year, Fewer tags

NOAA Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program

NOAA’s Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program (DSCRTP) is compiling a national database of the locations of deep-sea corals and sponges, beginning in U.S. waters. The DSCRTP will make this information accessible to resource managers, the scientific community, and the public over the World Wide Web. The database fulfills NOAA’s requirements under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA) to identify and map locations of deep-sea corals and to submit this information for use by regional fishery management councils. At present, there is no comprehensive, national-scale data portal for deep-sea corals and sponges. Given the authorities outlined in MSA, NOAA’s Deep Sea Coral Research...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, North America, All tags... Pacific Ocean, United States, benthic habitat, biodiversity, biology, coral, coral reefs, fisheries management, invertebrates, marine animals, protected species, sponge, Fewer tags

Maps of Gulf Hypoxia Blueprint

Improved Gulf Hypoxia Planning Tool: Landscape scale planning tools focus conservation priorities through a series of region-specific lenses. These tools include: CHAT; SECAS; Gulf Hypoxia Initiative - Precision Conservation Blueprint v1.5; and landscape designs developed by the Great Plains LCC and Gulf Coast Prairie LCC. Discussions with industry, agency and organizational leaders across the mid-continent suggest that the time is ripe for opening a dialogue about how to bridge the planning between the west and east to find the appropriate stakeholder-driven set of mid-continent connections for a network of lands and waters. The recipient will assist staff from multiple LCCs and other interested entities in setting...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Conservation Design, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, All tags... Gulf of Mexico, LCC Network Science Catalog, Mississippi River Basin, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Tribes, dead zone, environment, hypoxia, map, onGoing, Fewer tags

Salt Diapirs in the Gulf Coast [gcdiapirg]

Locations and shapes of salt diapirs were modified after the New Orleans Geological Society map, Salt tectonism of the U.S. Gulf Coast Basin (compiled by J.A. Lopez, 1995); Plate 2, Principal structural features, Gulf of Mexico Basin (compiled by T.E. Ewing and R.F. Lopez) in Volume J, The Geology of North America (1991); and U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1213, Distribution of salt structures, Gulf of Mexico, by R.G. Martin (1980). This dataset contains basic data and interpretations developed and compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey's Framework Studies and Assessment of the Gulf Coast Project. Other major sources of data include publicly available information from state agencies as...

Categories: Data, pre-SM502.8; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: AL, AR, Anticlines, Coal, Coalbed Methane, All tags... Coalbed methane resources, Earth Science, Economic geology, Energy Resources, FL, Geology, Geology, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast Framework Studies, Gulf of Mexico, LA, MS, Miocene, Natural Gas, Natural Resources, Natural gas resources, Oil, Oil sand resources, Petroleum, Resource Assessment, TX, Tertiary Systems, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, economy, geoscientificInformation, gulfcoastframework, gulfroom, oilgas, Fewer tags

Volcanics in the Gulf Coast [volcanicg]

The volcanic provinces are modified after Plate 2, Principal structural features, Gulf of Mexico Basin (compiled by T.E. Ewing and R.F. Lopez) in Volume J, The Geology of North America (1991). This dataset contains basic data and interpretations developed and compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey's Framework Studies and Assessment of the Gulf Coast Project. Other major sources of data include publicly available information from state agencies as well as publications of the U.S. Geological Survey and other scientific organizations. In cases where company proprietary data were used to produce various derivatives such as contour surfaces, the source is cited but the data are not displayed.

Categories: Data, pre-SM502.8; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: AL, AR, Anticlines, Coal, Coalbed Methane, All tags... Coalbed methane resources, Earth Science, Economic geology, Energy Resources, FL, Geology, Geology, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast Framework Studies, Gulf of Mexico, LA, MS, Miocene, Natural Gas, Natural Resources, Natural gas resources, Oil, Oil sand resources, Petroleum, Resource Assessment, TX, Tertiary Systems, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, economy, geoscientificInformation, gulfcoastframework, gulfroom, oilgas, Fewer tags

Wilcox Group Apparent Thickness, Gulf Coast (wlcxthkg)

The Apparent Wilcox Group thickness maps are contoured from location and top information derived from the Petroleum Information (PI) Wells database. The Wilcox apparent thickness map was constructed by searching for Wilcox and Midway Group tops. Apparent thickness is computed by subtracting Midway top from the Wilcox top. Geographic control is superimposed on the maps from USGS state line, county, elevation and other data files. The veracity of the PI Wells database is being checked by comparison to published cross sections and geologic maps. Interpretation of the depth to Wilcox and apparent thickness maps along with published measured sections and cross sections indicates that portions of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi...

Categories: Data, pre-SM502.8; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: 47 = Western Gulf, 48 = East Texas Basin, 49 = Louisiana-Mississippi Salt Basins, 50 = Florida Peninsula, AL, All tags... AR, Coal, Coalbed Methane, Coalbed methane resources, Earth Science, Economic geology, Energy Resources, Eocene, FL, Geology, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast Framework Studies, Gulf of Mexico, Isopach, LA, MS, Natural Gas, Natural Resources, Natural gas resources, Oil, Paleocene, Petroleum, Resource Assessment, TX, Tertiary Systems, U.S. Geological Survey, US01 = Alabama, US05 = Arkansas, US12 = Florida, US22 = Louisiana, US28 = Mississippi, US48 = Texas, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Wilcox, economy, environment, geoscientificInformation, gulfcoastframework, gulfroom, oilgas, Fewer tags

Delta Wide Crevasses (MR-09): 2002 land water classifications

The Louisiana State Legislature created Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in order to conserve, restore, create and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The wetland restoration plans developed pursuant to these acts specifically require an evaluation of the effectiveness of each coastal wetlands restoration project in achieving long-term solutions to arresting coastal wetlands loss. This data set includes mosaicked aerial photographs for the Delta Wide Crevasses (MR-09) project for 2002. This data is used as a basemap land-water classification. It also serves as a visual tool for project managers to help them identify any obvious problems or land loss within their project boundary....

Tags: CWPPRA, DOQQ, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Louisiana Coastal, All tags... aerial photography, digital elevation models, ecosystem monitoring, geographic information systems, image collections, image mosaics, natural resource management, rectification, remote sensing, wetland ecosystems, wetland restoration, Fewer tags

Black Bayou Hydrologic Restoration (CS-27): 2015 land-water classification

The Louisiana State Legislature created Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in order to conserve, restore, create and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The wetland restoration plans developed persuant to these acts specifically require an evaluation of the effectiveness of each coastal wetlands restoration project in achieving long-term solutions to arresting coastal wetlands loss. This data set includes mosaicked aerial photographs for the Black Bayou Hydrologic Restoration (CS-27) project for 2015. This data is used as a basemap land/water classification. It also serves as a visual tool for project managers to help them identify any obvious problems or land loss within their...

Types: Citation; Tags: BA-02, CWPPRA, Coastal Louisiana, DEM, DOQQ, All tags... GIS, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Louisiana, South Louisiana, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), aerial photography, coastal conservation, coastal enhancement, coastal restoration, image, monitoring, mosaic, rectification, satelite imagery, scan, wetlands, Fewer tags

Repeated drought alters resilience of seed bank regeneration in Taxodium distichum swamps of North America

Recurring drying and wetting events are likely to increase in frequency and intensity in predicted future droughts in the central United States and alter the regeneration potential of species. We explored the resistance of seed banks to successive droughts in 53 sites across the nine locations in baldcypress swamps in the southeastern United States. Along the Mississippi River Alluvial Valley and northern Gulf of Mexico, we investigated the capacity of seed banks to retain viable seeds after successive periods of drying and wetting in a greenhouse study. Mean differences of species richness and seed density were compared to examine the interactions of successive droughts, geographical location and water regime....

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi River, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), climate change effects, geographical gradient, All tags... germination potential, megadrought, Fewer tags

Phragmites australis maps and change, Delta National Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana (2011, 2013, 2016)

This U.S. Geological Survey Data Release includes maps of Phragmites australis coverage within the Delta National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), located on the eastern half of the Mississippi River Delta in south Louisiana, for 2011, 2013 and 2016. While the objective of this mapping effort was to map the presence of P. australis, the map also includes coverage of water and non-P.australis land areas (e.g., non-P. australis emergent marsh with scrub/shrub, developed, etc.) and water (e.g., open water, submerged aquatic vegetation, floating aquatic vegetation, and nonpersistent wetlands). This data release also includes maps that show spatial change in P. australis coverage between mapping efforts. This specific dataset...

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