Alaska Coastal Profile Tool (ACPT)

Elevation profiles are a type of temporal data that can be used to understand coastal environments, document change and assess vulnerability. The value of these shore-normal measurements increases when sites are revisited seasonally and/or interannually due to the dynamic range of coastal landforms. These static measurements of the shoreface have been collected by a number of stakeholders in Alaska since the 1960s, but, have not historically been published or readily accessible. In cooperation with the Alaska Ocean Observing System, the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) has designed a universal repository to house these coastal measurements. This new database has an interactive map interface...

Tags: Coastal Erosion, Coastal and River, Geologic Hazards, Hazards, Sea Level Changes, All tags... Sea Level Rise, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags