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Surface Disturbance Footprint from Development for the Western United States The surface disturbance footprint raster data set quantifies the percent surface disturbance from development at a 90-meter resolution. The surface disturbance footprint is used to compute a multiscale index of landscape intactness for the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) landscape approach. The surface disturbance footprint is mapped for the western United States (17 states), by compiling and combining spatial data for four development disturbance variable classes. Development classes include urban land cover (impervious surface), agriculture (cropland), energy and mineral extraction and transport (oil and gas wells, solar arrays, wind turbines, surface mines, pipelines, and transmission lines), and transportation... Types: Citation; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Development, Idaho, All tags... Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Surface disturbance footprint, Texas, Urban development, Utah, Washington, Western United States, Wyoming, agriculture, ecological processes, energy resources, environment, environmental assessment, land use and land cover, mineral resources, natural resource management, transportation, transportation, Fewer tags Saginaw Bay Restoration Assessment Composite Model Well-established conservation planning principles and techniques framed by geodesign were used to assess the restorability of areas that historically supported coastal wetlands along the U.S. shore of Saginaw Bay. The resulting analysis supported planning efforts to identify, prioritize, and track wetland restoration opportunity and investment in the region. To accomplish this, publicly available data, criteria derived from the regional managers and local stakeholders, and geospatial analysis were used to form an ecological model for spatial prioritization. Types: Citation; Tags: Great Lakes, LIDAR, Saginaw Bay, biogeography, coastal ecosystems, All tags... coastal processes, decision support methods, digital elevation models, ecological processes, environmental assessment, estuarine ecosystems, estuarine processes, freshwater ecosystems, geodesign, geographic information systems, geography, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, habitats, hydrographic datasets, interagency programs, land use change, surface-water level, water resources, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Nitrogen cycling rates from sagebrush and cheatgrass-invaded soils in the Northern Great Basin (2008) This dataset contains data supporting the paper: DeCrappeo, N.M., DeLorenze, E.J., Giguere, A.T., Pyke, D.A., and Bottomley, P.J. Fungal and bacterial contributions to nitrogen cycling in cheatgrass-invaded and uninvaded native sagebrush soils of the western USA (accepted at the journal Plant and Soil). The purpose of the study was to evaluate the relative contributions of soil bacteria and fungi to inorganic nitrogen (N) cycling in sagebrush and cheatgrass-invaded soils using a 15N isotope dilution experiment. Soils were collected from sagebrush and cheatgrass rhizospheres at six paired sites in southwest Idaho and southeast Oregon. In order to partition the contribution of each microbial group to N cycling, soils... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Ecology, Great Basin, Idaho, Land Use Change, Oregon, All tags... Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biogeochemical cycling, biota, ecological processes, geoscientificInformation, invasive species, isotopic analysis, shrubland ecosystems, soil sciences, Fewer tags Exposure potential of salt marsh units in Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge to environmental health stressors Natural and anthropogenic contaminants, pathogens, and viruses are found in soils and sediments throughout the United States. Enhanced dispersion and concentration of these environmental health stressors in coastal regions can result from sea level rise and storm-derived disturbances. The combination of existing environmental health stressors and those mobilized by natural or anthropogenic disasters could adversely impact the health and resilience of coastal communities and ecosystems. This dataset displays the exposure potential to environmental health stressors in the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (EBFNWR), which spans over Great Bay, Little Egg Harbor, and Barnegat Bay in New Jersey, USA. Exposure... Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Barnegat Bay, Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Great Bay, Little Egg Island, All tags... New Jersey, United States, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, contaminant transport, contamination, ecological processes, ecotoxicology, environment, environmental assessment, estuary, facility registry service, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, polygon shapefile, resilience, salt marsh, sediment, sedimentation, toxic release inventory, vegetation, vulnerability, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Terrestrial Development Index for the Western United States: 2.5-kilometer moving window The Terrestrial Development Index (TDI) quantifies levels of development (urban, agriculture, energy and mineral extraction and transmission, and transportation). TDI scores represent the total percentage of the development footprint within a 2.5 kilometer (km) radius circular moving window. The TDI scores range from 0-100%. The TDI scores between 0-1% represent areas with few roads or a very low density of oil and gas wells. The TDI scores between 1-3% often include low densities of oil and gas wells and roads, whereas development index scores above 3% represent moderate to high levels of development, including relatively large oil and gas fields, surface mines, agricultural fields, centers of urban development,... Types: Citation; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Development, Idaho, All tags... Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Surface disturbance footprint, Terrestrial Development Index (TDI), Texas, Urban development, Utah, Washington, Western United States, Wyoming, agriculture, ecological processes, energy resources, environment, environmental assessment, land use and land cover, mineral resources, natural resource management, transportation, transportation, Fewer tags Connecting River Systems Restoration Assessment Dikes This dataset is the output of a python script/ArcGIS model that identifes dikes as having a difference in elevation above a certain threshold. If the elevation difference was below a certain threshold the area was not considered a dike; however, if the difference in elevation between two points was significantly high then the area was marked as a dike. Areas continuous with eachother were considered part of the same dike. Post processing occured. Users examined the data output, comparing the proposed dike locations to aerial imagery, flowline data, and the DEM. Dikes that appeared to be false positives were deleted from the data set. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Detroit River, Great Lakes, LIDAR, Lake St. Clair, St. Clair River, All tags... biogeography, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, connectivity, decision support methods, digital elevation models, dikes, drainage, ecological processes, environmental assessment, estuarine ecosystems, estuarine processes, freshwater ecosystems, geodesign, geographic information systems, geography, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, habitats, hydrographic datasets, interagency programs, land use change, restoration, surface-water level, water resources, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Vegetation habitat units derived from 2014 aerial imagery and field data for the Elwha River estuary, Washington Estuary vegetation cover delineated from 28 August 2014 0.15-meter-resolution NPS Elwha PlaneCam aerial imagery at a scale of 1:1500. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Clallam County, Elwha River, Olympic Peninsula, Port Angeles, United States of America, All tags... Washington, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, dam, dam removal, ecological change, ecological processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, habitats, human impacts, human impacts on habitats, vegetation, Fewer tags Shoreline change rates in salt marsh units in Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, New Jersey Monitoring shoreline change is of interest in many coastal areas because it enables quantification of land loss over time. Evolution of shoreline position is determined by the balance between erosion and accretion along the coast. In the case of salt marshes, erosion along the water boundary causes a loss of ecosystem services, such as habitat provision, carbon storage, and wave attenuation. In terms of vulnerability, higher shoreline erosion rates indicate higher vulnerability. This dataset displays shoreline change rates at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (EBFNWR), which spans over Great Bay, Little Egg Harbor, and Barnegat Bay in New Jersey, USA. Shoreline change rates are based on... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Atlantic Ocean, Barnegat Bay, Barnegat bay, Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, All tags... Environmental Health, Geophysics, Great Bay, Land Use Change, Little Egg Island, Marine Geology, New Jersey, New Jersey, Soil Sciences, United States, Water Quality, Water Resources, accretion, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, coastline, ecological processes, environment, environmental assessment, estuary, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, polygon shapefile, resilience, salt marsh, sediment, shoreline, shoreline change, vegetation, vegetation, vulnerability, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Vegetation habitat units derived from 2009 aerial imagery and field data for the Elwha River estuary, Washington Estuary vegetation cover delineated from 11 September 2009 1-meter-resolution NAIP aerial imagery at a scale of 1:1500. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Clallam County, Elwha River, Olympic Peninsula, Port Angeles, United States of America, All tags... Washington, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, dam, dam removal, ecological change, ecological processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, habitats, human impacts, human impacts on habitats, vegetation, Fewer tags Vegetation habitat units derived from 2013 aerial imagery and field data for the Elwha River estuary, Washington Estuary vegetation cover delineated from 26 August 2013 0.15-meter-resolution NPS Elwha PlaneCam aerial imagery at a scale of 1:1500. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Clallam County, Elwha River, Olympic Peninsula, Port Angeles, United States of America, All tags... Washington, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, dam, dam removal, ecological change, ecological processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, habitats, human impacts, human impacts on habitats, vegetation, Fewer tags Geomorphic habitat units derived from 2014 aerial imagery and elevation data for the Elwha River estuary, Washington Estuary geomorphic units delineated at a scale of 1:1500 using a combination of (a) 28 August 2014 0.15 meter resolution NPS Elwha PlaneCam aerial imagery; and (b) elevation-colored and hillshaded digital elevation models from USGS backpack/jetski topobathy surveys (5-8 September 2014) for areas < MHHW and aerial lidar surveys (7 November 2014) supplemented with NPS Elwha PlaneCam SfM photogrammetry data (30 September 2014) for elevations > MHHW. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Clallam County, Elwha River, Olympic Peninsula, Port Angeles, United States of America, All tags... Washington, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, dam, dam removal, ecological change, ecological processes, environment, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, habitats, human impacts, human impacts on habitats, vegetation, Fewer tags Geomorphic habitat units derived from 2009 aerial imagery and elevation data for the Elwha River estuary, Washington Estuary geomorphic units delineated at a scale of 1:1500 using a combination of (a) 11 September 2009 1 meter resolution NAIP aerial imagery; and (b) elevation-colored and hillshaded digital elevation models from USGS backpack/jetski topobathy surveys (17 September 2009) for areas < MHHW and aerial lidar surveys (4-6 April 2009) for elevations > MHHW. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Clallam County, Elwha River, Olympic Peninsula, Port Angeles, United States of America, All tags... Washington, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, dam, dam removal, ecological change, ecological processes, environment, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, habitats, human impacts, human impacts on habitats, vegetation, Fewer tags Geomorphic habitat units derived from 2013 aerial imagery and elevation data for the Elwha River estuary, Washington Estuary geomorphic units delineated at a scale of 1:1500 using a combination of (a) 26 August 2013 0.15 meter resolution NPS Elwha PlaneCam aerial imagery; and (b) elevation-colored and hillshaded digital elevation models from USGS backpack/jetski topobathy surveys (16 September 2013) for areas < MHHW and aerial lidar surveys (17 October 2012) supplemented with NPS Elwha PlaneCam SfM photogrammetry data (19 September 2013) for elevations > MHHW. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Clallam County, Elwha River, Olympic Peninsula, Port Angeles, United States of America, All tags... Washington, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, dam, dam removal, ecological change, ecological processes, environment, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, habitats, human impacts, human impacts on habitats, vegetation, Fewer tags Vegetation habitat units derived from 2011 aerial imagery and field data for the Elwha River estuary, Washington Estuary vegetation cover delineated from 3 September 2011* 0.3-meter-resolution aerial imagery (Microsoft/Digital Globe) at a scale of 1:1500. *Image date of 3-Sep corrected in metadata. During product generation the imagery date was believed to be 8-25-2011, as reported by DigitalGlobe reseller. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Clallam County, Elwha River, Olympic Peninsula, Port Angeles, United States of America, All tags... Washington, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, dam, dam removal, ecological change, ecological processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, habitats, human impacts, human impacts on habitats, vegetation, Fewer tags Connecting River Systems Restoration Assessment Degree Flowlines This represents the flowline network in Connecting River Systems Restoration Assessment (CRSRA). It is attributed with the number of disconnections between the reach and the connecting river system. These data will help identify the condition of hydrologic separation between potential restoration areas and the connecting river system. Low numbers represent fewer disconnections such as culverts between the reach and the rivers requiring no flow network modification to restore the area. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Artificial Path, Canal / Ditch, Detroit River, FWHydrography, Great Lakes, All tags... Hydrography, LIDAR, Lake / Pond, Lake St. Clair, Reach Code, Reservoir, Spring / Seep, St. Clair River, Stream / River, Swamp / Marsh, biogeography, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, connectivity, decision support methods, digital elevation models, dikes, drainage, ecological processes, environmental assessment, estuarine ecosystems, estuarine processes, freshwater ecosystems, geodesign, geographic information systems, geography, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, habitats, hydrographic datasets, interagency programs, land use change, restoration, surface-water level, water resources, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Geomorphic habitat units derived from 2012 aerial imagery and elevation data for the Elwha River estuary, Washington Estuary geomorphic units delineated at a scale of 1:1500 using a combination of (a) 30 August 2012 0.15 meter resolution NPS Elwha PlaneCam aerial imagery; and (b) elevation-colored and hillshaded digital elevation models from USGS backpack/jetski topobathy surveys (28 August 2012) for areas < MHHW and aerial lidar surveys (17 October 2012) for elevations > MHHW. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Clallam County, Elwha River, Olympic Peninsula, Port Angeles, United States of America, All tags... Washington, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, dam, dam removal, ecological change, ecological processes, environment, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, habitats, human impacts, human impacts on habitats, vegetation, Fewer tags Inferred hydrodynamic residence time in salt marsh units in Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, New Jersey As part of the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey is expanding National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands. The intent is to provide federal, state, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability of coastal wetlands to various factors and to evaluate their ecosystem service potential. For this purpose, the response and resilience of coastal wetlands to physical factors need to be assessed in terms of the ensuing change to their vulnerability and ecosystem services. Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (EBFNWR), New Jersey, was selected as a pilot study area. As part of this data synthesis effort, hydrodynamic and sediment transport... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Barnegat Bay, Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Great Bay, Little Egg Island, All tags... New Jersey, United States, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, contaminant transport, contamination, ecological processes, environment, environmental assessment, estuary, flushing, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, polygon shapefile, residence time, resilience, salt marsh, vegetation, vulnerability, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Raster image of exposure potential to environmental health stressors in Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (32-bit GeoTIFF) Natural and anthropogenic contaminants, pathogens, and viruses are found in soils and sediments throughout the United States. Enhanced dispersion and concentration of these environmental health stressors in coastal regions can result from sea level rise and storm-derived disturbances. The combination of existing environmental health stressors and those mobilized by natural or anthropogenic disasters could adversely impact the health and resilience of coastal communities and ecosystems. This dataset displays the exposure potential to environmental health stressors in the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (EBFNWR), which spans over Great Bay, Little Egg Harbor, and Barnegat Bay in New Jersey, USA. Exposure... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Barnegat Bay, Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Great Bay, Little Egg Island, All tags... New Jersey, United States, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, contaminant transport, contamination, ecological processes, ecotoxicology, environment, environmental assessment, estuary, facility registry service, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, polygon shapefile, resilience, salt marsh, sediment, sedimentation, toxic release inventory, vegetation, vulnerability, wetland ecosystems, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Terrestrial Development Index for the Western United States: 20-kilometer Moving Window The terrestrial development index (TDI) quantifies levels of development (urban, agriculture, energy and mineral extraction and transmission, and transportation). TDI scores represent the total percentage of the development footprint within a 20-kilometer radius circular moving window. The Surface Disturbance Footprint from Development for the Western United States is used in the moving window analysis. The TDI scores range from 0-100%. Types: Citation; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Development, Idaho, All tags... Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Surface disturbance footprint, Terrestrial Development Index (TDI), Texas, Urban development, Utah, Washington, Western United States, Wyoming, agriculture, ecological processes, energy resources, environment, environmental assessment, land use and land cover, mineral resources, natural resource management, transportation, transportation, Fewer tags Western Lake Erie Restoration Assessment Composite Model Well-established conservation planning principles and techniques framed by geodesign were used to assess the restorability of areas that historically supported coastal wetlands along the U.S. shore of western Lake Erie. The resulting analysis supported planning efforts to identify, prioritize, and track wetland restoration opportunity and investment in the region. To accomplish this, publicly available data, criteria derived from the regional managers and local stakeholders, and geospatial analysis were used to form an ecological model for spatial prioritization (Western Lake Erie Restoration Assessmente (WLERA)). Within the 192,618 ha study area that was bounded by the mouths of the Detroit River, MI to the north... Types: Citation; Tags: Great Lakes, LIDAR, Lake Erie, biogeography, coastal ecosystems, All tags... coastal processes, decision support methods, digital elevation models, ecological processes, environmental assessment, estuarine ecosystems, estuarine processes, freshwater ecosystems, geodesign, geographic information systems, geography, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, habitats, hydrographic datasets, interagency programs, land use change, surface-water level, water resources, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags 1 2 »