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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 Nonindigenous aquatic species and potential spread after Hurricane Maria This map was created to help assess impacts on nonindigenous aquatic species distributions due to flooding associated with Hurricane Maria. Storm surge and flood events can assist expansion and distribution of nonindigenous aquatic species through the connection of adjacent watersheds, backflow of water upstream of impoundments, increased downstream flow, and creation of freshwater bridges along coastal regions. This map will help natural resource managers determine potential new locations for individual species, or to develop a watch list of potential new species within a watershed. These data include a subset of data from the Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, that fall within the general area of the 2017... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: AIS, ANS, Aquatic Biology, GIS, Island, All tags... Puerto Rico, San Juan, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), amphibians, animals, biota, biota, crustaceans, environment, fish, flooding, frogs, hurricanes, hurricanes, inlandWaters, introduced species, invasives, invertebrates, mollusks, non-indigenous, non-native, nonindigenous, nonnative species, plants, reptiles, storm, turtles, vertebrates, Fewer tags Nonindigenous aquatic species and potential spread after Hurricane Irma This map was created to help assess impacts on nonindigenous aquatic species distributions due to flooding associated with Hurricane Irma. Storm surge and flood events can assist expansion and distribution of nonindigenous aquatic species through the connection of adjacent watersheds, backflow of water upstream of impoundments, increased downstream flow, and creation of freshwater bridges along coastal regions. This map will help natural resource managers determine potential new locations for individual species, or to develop a watch list of potential new species within a watershed. These data include a subset of data from the Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, that fall within the general area of the 2017... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: AIS, ANS, Aquatic Biology, Florida, GIS, All tags... Georgia, South Carolina, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), amphibians, animals, biota, biota, crustaceans, environment, fish, flooding, frogs, hurricanes, hurricanes, inlandWaters, introduced species, invasives, invertebrates, mollusks, non-indigenous, non-native, nonindigenous, nonnative species, plants, reptiles, storm, turtles, vertebrates, Fewer tags Limestone boulders and cobbles noted 2009 to 2017 that pertain to sea floods of the past 1,000 years on Anegada, British Virgin Islands This part of the release provides an updated georeferenced catalog of limestone boulders and cobbles pertaining to extreme waves on Anegada, a low Caribbean island perched south of the Puerto Rico Trench. Tabulated are 660 limestone clasts, along with clast dimensions and long-axis trend in many instances. Fewer than one-fifth of the clasts were reported previously in https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-011-9725-8 and https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01356.1. Most were surveyed in 2017. Categories: Data; Tags: British Virgin Islands, Caribbean Sea, biota, carbon-14 analysis, corals, All tags... geoscientificInformation, hurricanes, limestone, tsunamis, Fewer tags Field traces in February 2011 of high-water levels from 2010 Hurricane Earl, as calibration for sea floods of the past 1,000 years on Anegada, British Virgin Islands This part of the data release provides a slightly expanded georeferenced catalog of field evidence for maximum water levels attained near the south shore of Anegada during 2010 Hurricane Earl, of category 4. The catalog consists of 13 localities observed in February 2011, six months after the hurricane. Wrack of plant fragments was the high-water indicator identified at most of them. Elevations have been estimated by extracting bare-ground elevations from a 2014 lidar survey, and by adjusting for heights above ground to which the wrack extended. The localities include two in eastern Anegada that were not reported in https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-38-21-2014). Categories: Data; Tags: British Virgin Islands, Caribbean Sea, biota, geoscientificInformation, hurricanes, All tags... tropical cyclones, Fewer tags Carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis of Diamondback terrapin tissues, vegetative, and benthic invertebrate resources within Barnegat Bay, New Jersey during 3 sampling sessions between 2011-2019 This dataset represents stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic information from tissue samples collected from diamondback terrapins, potential prey items, and vegetation from 6 salt marsh sites (4 mainland, 2 island) within a 30 km section of southern Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, USA. Red blood cells were collected from terrapins in 2011 (mature females), and whole blood samples were collected in 2015 and 2019 from mature males and females and immature females. Vegetation and invertebrates prey samples were collected within proximity of terrapin capture sites in 2015 and 2019. Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Barnegat Bay, Ecology, New Jersey Coastal, Salt Marsh, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, benthic ecosystems, carbon isotope analysis, community ecology, ecosystem monitoring, estuary, farming, hurricanes, light stable isotope analysis, wetlands, Fewer tags Above- and belowground biomass production, decomposition, and wetland elevation change in transitional coastal wetland communities exposed to elevated CO2 and sediment deposition: a mesocosm study from 2012 to 2014 This data release includes belowground primary productivity, decomposition, and surface elevation change data from a two-year mesocosm experiment from 2012 to 2014. We conducted experimental greenhouse manipulations of atmospheric CO2 (double ambient CO2) and sediment deposition to simulate a land-falling hurricane under future climate conditions. Experimental greenhouse conditions mimicked a land-falling hurricane under projected future climate conditions by comparing atmospheric to double ambient CO2 and sediment deposition in four communities along a coastal wetland landscape gradient in Louisiana, USA (tidal freshwater forested wetland, forest/marsh mix, marsh, and mudflat). Categories: Data; Tags: Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge, Climate change, Climatology, Coastal wetlands, Ecology, All tags... Elevated CO2, Elevation capital, Land Use Change, Louisiana, Mesocosm experiment, Multiple stressors, Possible climate futures, Sediment deposition, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Wetland elevation change, biota, effects of climate change, hurricanes, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Forest structure, regeneration, and soil data to support mangrove forest damage assessment on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, from Hurricane Irma (2018-2019) These data support efforts to assess mangrove forest structural response to Hurricane Irma. Data were collected from within Virgin Islands National Park in St John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Datasets include measurements of forest inventory and vitality status, woody debris, regeneration assessment, and organic soil carbon. Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Environmental Health, Hurricane Irma, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Virgin Islands National Park, forest monitoring, hurricanes, recovery, tidal mangrove forest, Fewer tags Fished conch shells in modern heaps noted in 2012 to 2018 that were largely reshaped by storm waves offshore Anegada, British Virgin Islands This part of the data release catalogs 40 offshore conch heaps mapped on airphotos and satellite images. Conch shells harvested around Anegada since the start of European colonization, which began late in the 18th century C.E., have been discarded in piles south of the southeastern part of the island, in the Caribbean Sea. Storm waves have notched some of these heaps and have flattened others. The catalog is based on interpretation of airphotos taken 2002 and of satellite images, accessed on Google Earth, taken in 2011–2019. Some of the offshore heaps were observed by boat in 2012, 2015, 2017, and (or) 2018. Repeat visits provided evidence for beveling during the hurricane season of 2017. Categories: Data; Tags: British Virgin Islands, Caribbean Sea, archaeology, biota, gastropods, All tags... geoscientificInformation, hurricanes, Fewer tags Hurricane sedimentation in a subtropical salt marsh-mangrove community in the Mississippi River Delta Complex unaffected by vegetation type Hurricanes periodically deliver sediment to coastal wetlands, such as those in the Mississippi River Delta Complex (MRDC), slowing elevation loss and improving resilience to sea-level rise. However, the amount of hurricane sediment deposited and retained in a wetland may vary depending on the dominant vegetation. In the subtropical climate of the MRDC, the black mangrove (Avicennia germinans (L.) L.) has been expanding and replacing salt marsh (Spartina alterniflora Loisel). Because these vegetation types differ in aboveground structure, their influence on sedimentation may also differ. We conducted a survey for 160 km along the outer coast of Louisiana, USA from Oyster Bayou to the Mississippi River to determine... Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), aquatic vegetation, All tags... biota, coastal wetland, elevation, hurricanes, mangrove, salt marsh, shoreline accretion, vegetation community, Fewer tags Remote Sensing Coastal Change Remote-sensing technologies—such as video imagery, aerial photography, satellite imagery, structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry, and lidar (laser-based surveying)— can be used to measure change along U.S. coastlines. Quantifying coastal change is essential for calculating trends in erosion and accretion, evaluating processes that shape coastal landscapes, and predicting how the coast will respond to future natural disasters (e.g. hurricanes, landslides, wildfires) and longer term climate trends such (e.g. sea-level rise, ecosystem change, coral bleaching), all critical for U.S. coastal communities. Rapid developments have occurred in remote-sensing technologies during the 21st century. With collaborators... Categories: Data; Tags: Beaches, California, Cliffs, Erosion, Florida, All tags... Hazards Planning, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Orthoimagery, Reefs, SfM, Storms, UAS, USGS, aerial photography, coastal processes, digital elevation models (DEMs), elevation, geomorphology, geospatial datasets, hurricanes, orthomosaic, remote sensing, structure from motion, 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 Hurricane Harvey — A Damage Assessment of Texas’ Central Gulf Coast This data set serves as a damage scale that was created to assess the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey in August 2017. The damage scale ranges from 1 (undamaged) to 5 (total structure collapse, destroyed). A score of 1 was given to structures that had no damage, a score of 2 was given to structures with minor damage, a score of 3 was given to structures with moderate damage, a score of 4 was given to structures with severe damage, and a score of 5 was given to structures that were destroyed. To account for the variety and complexity of damage observed, half-point increments (for example, 4.5) are included and outlined in the data set. Types of structures that can be scored are residential structures which included... Categories: Data; Tags: Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), damage survey, hurricanes, none Nonindigenous aquatic species and potential spread after Hurricane Harvey-revised map This refined map was created to help assess possible spread of nonindigenous aquatic species distributions due to flooding associated with Hurricane Harvey. Storm surge and flood events can assist expansion and dissemination of nonindigenous aquatic species through the connection of adjacent watersheds, backflow of water upstream of impoundments, increased downstream flow, and creation of freshwater bridges along coastal regions. This map will help natural resource managers determine potential new locations for individual species, or to develop a watch list of possible new species within a watershed. These data include a subset of data from the Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, that fall within the general... Categories: Data; Tags: AIS, ANS, GIS, Houston, Louisiana, All tags... Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), amphibians, animals, biota, biota, crustaceans, environment, fish, flooding, frogs, hurricanes, hurricanes, inlandWaters, introduced species, invasives, invertebrates, mollusks, non-indigenous, non-native, nonindigenous, nonnative species, plants, reptiles, storm, turtles, vertebrates, Fewer tags Nonindigenous aquatic species and potential spread after Hurricane Nate This map was created to help assess impacts on nonindigenous aquatic species distributions due to flooding associated with Hurricane Nate. Storm surge and flood events can assist expansion and distribution of nonindigenous aquatic species through the connection of adjacent watersheds, backflow of water upstream of impoundments, increased downstream flow, and creation of freshwater bridges along coastal regions. This map will help natural resource managers determine potential new locations for individual species, or to develop a watch list of potential new species within a watershed. These data include a subset of data from the Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, that fall within the general area of the 2017... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: AIS, ANS, Alabama, Aquatic Biology, Florida, All tags... GIS, Louisiana, Mississippi, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), amphibians, animals, biota, biota, crustaceans, environment, fish, flooding, frogs, hurricanes, hurricanes, inlandWaters, introduced species, invasives, invertebrates, mollusks, non-indigenous, non-native, nonindigenous, nonnative species, plants, reptiles, storm, turtles, vertebrates, Fewer tags Sedimentary data from the lower Pearl River, Louisiana, USA Scientists from the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center investigated the sedimentary and geochemical properties of the lower reaches of the Pearl River in eastern Louisiana by collecting estuarine, riverine and marsh sediments. This was done in order to increase understanding of the region's environmental history, quantify the deposition associated with Hurricane Katrina, identify the subsequent changes in the deposited sediments and assess the effects of this deposition on marsh sustainability. To this end, the group obtained long sediment cores, shovel-dug sediment slabs and marsh and riverine channel/estuarine surface samples from a north-south transect along the river... Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Geochemistry, Geomorphology, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, All tags... Pearl River River, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), brackish-salt-marsh, elements, estuaries, estuary, geology, geoscientificInformation, hurricanes, location, sediment, stratigraphy, unconsolidated deposits, Fewer tags Presence and absence of a widespread unit of Holocene marine sand observed in 2008 to 2017 in tsunami-hazard assessments on Anegada, British Virgin Islands This part of the data release provides an updated georeferenced guide to the main unit of Holocene sand ascribed to a sea flood on Anegada. Much of the data was previously summarized in Figure A4 of https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01356.1 . Plotted here, on the accompanying map, are all 573 localities in the updated compilation —nearly half of which do not provide much if any evidence for marine inundation. The main attribute of each locality is one of four summary categories: Pervasive—Sand covers more than 3/4 of area and typically thicker than 5 cm (132 localities). Patchy—Sand covers less than 3/4 of area and typically thinner than 5 cm (185 localities). Scant—Called “Sand scarce or absent” in https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01356.1... Categories: Data; Tags: British Virgin Islands, Caribbean Sea, corals, farming, geoscientificInformation, All tags... hurricanes, sand, tsunamis, Fewer tags Low-lying sandy deposit observed 2008 to 2013 and dated to later than 1650 C.E. on Anegada, British Virgin Islands This part of the release provides an updated list of places on Anegada, none of them more than 0.5 m above sea level, where observed sandy deposits may represent the Lisbon tsunami of 1755 C.E. These places were previously plotted in Figure A3 of https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01356.1, a paper in which the Lisbon tsunami is inferred to have had minor effects on Anegada compared with a sea flood a few centuries earlier. Details about the low, probable Lisbon deposits were previously reported in https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-010-9622-6 (stratigraphy), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-011-9730-y (molluscan paleontology), and https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-010-9706-3 (foraminifera). Categories: Data; Tags: British Virgin Islands, Caribbean Sea, biota, corals, geoscientificInformation, All tags... hurricanes, sand, tsunamis, Fewer tags