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Rate of shoreline change statistics for New York State coastal wetlands This data set contains shoreline rate of change statistics for New York State coastal wetlands. Analysis was performed using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS), created by U.S. Geological Survey, version 5.0, an extension for ArcMap. A reference baseline was used as the originating point for orthogonal transects cast by the DSAS software. The transects intersect each polyline vector shoreline establishing intersection measurement points, which were then used to calculate the rates of change. End-point rates, calculated by dividing the distance of shoreline movement by the time elapsed between the oldest and the most recent shoreline, were generated for wetlands where fewer than three historic shorelines... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Digital Shoreline Analysis System, End-Point Rate, Geography, Geomorphology, Great South Bay, All tags... Hudson River, Jamaica Bay, Linear Regression Rate, New York, New York Bay, New York State, Peconic Bay, Shoreline Change Rate, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Resources, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, erosion, estuary, shoreline accretion, wetland, wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags Data compilation of soil respiration, moisture, and temperature measurements from global warming experiments from 1994-2014 This dataset is the largest global dataset to date of soil respiration, moisture, and temperature measurements, totaling >3800 observations representing 27 temperature manipulation studies, spanning nine biomes and nearly two decades of warming experiments. Data for this study were obtained from a combination of unpublished data and published literature values. We find that although warming increases soil respiration rates, there is limited evidence for a shifting respiration response with experimental warming. We also note a universal decline in the temperature sensitivity of respiration at soil temperatures >25°C. This dataset includes 3817 observations, from control (n=1812), first (i.e., lowest or sole) level... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Boreal Forest, Desert, Ecology, Meadow, Northern Shrubland, All tags... Southern Shrubland, Temperate Agriculture, Temperate Forest, Temperate Grassland, Wet Sedge Tundra, climate change, experimental warming, instantaneous data, soil moisture, soil respiration, soil sciences, soil temperature, Fewer tags Historical shoreline positions for the coast of MA, from 1844 - 2014 The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management compiled Massachusetts vector shorelines into an updated dataset for the Office’s Shoreline Change Project. The Shoreline Change Project started in 1989 to identify erosion-prone areas of the Massachusetts coast by compiling a database of historical shoreline positions. Trends of shoreline position over long- and short-term timescales provide information to landowners, managers, and potential buyers about possible future changes to costal resources and infrastructure. This updated dataset strengthens the understanding of shoreline position change in Massachusetts. It includes U.S. Geological Survey vector shorelines... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Coast, Buzzard’s Bay, Cape Cod Bay, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, DSAS, All tags... Digital Shoreline Analysis System, MA CZM, MHW, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management, Massachusetts Shoreline Change Project, Mean High Water, Nantucket, National Assessment of Shoreline Change Project, New England, North Shore, Outer Cape, Shoreline, Shoreline Change, South Cape, South Shore, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, oceans, Fewer tags Collection, analysis, and age-dating of sediment cores from salt marshes on the south shore of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, from 2013 through 2014 The accretion history of fringing salt marshes located on the south shore of Cape Cod is reconstructed from sediment cores collected in low and high marsh vegetation zones. These marshes are micro-tidal, with a mean tidal range of 0.442 m. Their location within protected embayments and the absence of large rivers results in minimal sediment supply and a dominance of organic matter contributions to sediment peat. Age models based on 210-lead and 137-cesium are constructed to evaluate how vertical accretion and carbon burial rates have changed over the past century. The continuous rate of supply age model was used to age date 11 cores (10 low marsh and 1 high marsh) across four salt marshes. Both vertical accretion... Categories: Data; Tags: 137-cesium, 210-lead, Barnstable County, Cape Cod, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, All tags... Eel Pond, Environmental Health, Falmouth, Geochemistry, Great Pond, Hamblin Pond, Sage Lot Pond, Soil Sciences, United States of America, Waquoit Bay, Water Quality, Water Resources, accretion rate, carbon, carbon burial, carbon isotope analysis, elevation, geoscientificInformation, high marsh, location, low marsh, nitrogen, oceans, piston coring, radiometric dating, salt marsh elevation, sea-level change, sedimentation, soil chemistry, Fewer tags Static chamber gas fluxes and carbon and nitrogen isotope content of age-dated sediment cores from a Phragmites wetland in Sage Lot Pond, Massachusetts, 2013-2015 Coastal wetlands are major global carbon sinks, however, they are heterogeneous and dynamic ecosystems. To characterize spatial and temporal variability in a New England salt marsh, static chamber measurements of greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes were compared among major plant-defined zones (high marsh dominated by Distichlis spicata and a zone of invasive Phragmites australis) during 2013 and 2014 growing seasons. Two sediment cores were collected in 2015 from the Phragmites zone to support previously reported core collections from the high marsh sites (Gonneea and others 2018). Collected cores were up to 70 cm in length with dry bulk density ranges from 0.04 to 0.33 grams per cubic centimeter and carbon content 22.4%... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 137-cesium, 210-lead, Cape Cod (606914), Commonwealth of Massachusetts (606926), Constant Rate of Supply (CRS) model, All tags... Ecology, Masphee (615624), Sage Lot Pond (616458), United States of America, accretion rate, age model, biota, carbon, carbon burial, carbon isotope analysis, coastal processes, ecological processes, ecological restoration, elevation, environment, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, invasive species, location, nitrogen, oceans, piston coring, plot sampling, radiometric dating, salt marshes, sea-level change, sedimentation, soil chemistry, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, wetland soils, wetlands, Fewer tags Numerical model of salinity transport and mixing in the Hudson River Estuary Transport of material in an estuary is important for water quality and hazards concern. We studied these processes in the Hudson River Estuary, located along the northeast coast of the U.S. using the COAWST numerical modeling system. A skill assessment of the COAWST model for the 3-D salinity structure of the estuary has been successfully studied in the past, and the present research extended that understanding to look at both physical and numerical mixing. The model grid extends from the south at the Battery, NY to the north in Troy, NY. The simulation is performed from March 25 to July 11, 2005 (111 days). For more information see: https://doi.org/10.5066/P95E8LAS. Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, NetCDF OPeNDAP Service, OGC WMS Layer; Tags: CMG_Portal, Earth Science > Human Dimensions > Natural Hazards > Floods, Earth Science > Oceans > Marine Sediments >Sediment Transport, Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Circulation > Ocean Currents, Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Potential Temperature, All tags... Earth Science > Oceans > Salinity/Density > Salinity, Earth Science > Oceans > Sea Surface Topography > Sea Surface Height, Earth Science Services > Models > Weather Research/Forecast Models, Location > Continent > North America > United States Of America, Location > Continent > North America > United States Of America > New Jersey, Marine Geology, U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase, barotropic_sea_water_x_velocity, barotropic_sea_water_y_velocity, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, coastal processes, dataset, latitude, longitude, numerical modeling, ocean_s_coordinate_g1, ocean_sigma_coordinate, sea_surface_height_above_geopotential_datum, sea_surface_wave_significant_height, sea_water_potential_temperature, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_x_velocity, sea_water_y_velocity, sediment transport, service, time, Fewer tags Exposure potential of saltmarsh units in Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge to environmental health stressors (polygon shapefile) 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 Bathymetry and backscatter intensity of the sea floor of the Sandy Hook artificial reef, offshore of New Jersey The Sandy Hook artificial reef, located on the sea floor offshore of Sandy Hook, New Jersey was built to create habitat for marine life. The reef was created by the placement of heavy materials on the sea floor; ninety-five percent of the material in the Sandy Hook reef is rock. In 2000, the U.S. Geological Survey surveyed the area using a Simrad EM1000 multibeam echosounder mounted on the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) ship Frederick G. Creed. The purpose of this multibeam survey, done in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers when the Creed was in the New York region in April 2000, was to map the bathymetry and backscatter intensity of the sea floor in the area of the Sandy Hook artificial reef. The collected... Categories: Data; Tags: Geomorphology, Mid-Atlantic Bight, Middle Atlantic Bight, New Jersey, New York, All tags... New York Bight, North Atlantic Ocean, Sandy Hook artificial reef, backscatter intensity, bathymetry, image mosaics, marine geology, marine geophysics, multibeam sonar, navigational data, sea-floor acoustic reflectivity, sea-floor characteristics, Fewer tags Unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratio in Fire Island National Seashore and Central Great South Bay salt marsh complex, New York Unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratio (UVVR) in the Fire Island National Seashore and Central Great South Bay salt marsh complex, is computed based on conceptual marsh units defined by Defne and Ganju (2018). UVVR was calculated based on U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) 1-meter resolution imagery. Through scientific efforts initiated with the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands, including the Fire Island National Seashore and Central Great South Bay salt marshes, with the intent of providing Federal, State, and local managers with tools to estimate... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Bellport Bay, Ecology, Fire Island National Seashore, Geography, All tags... Geomorphology, Great South Bay, Information Sciences, LTER, Long-Term Ecological Research, Marine Geology, Narrow Bay, New York, Nicoll Bay, Patchogue Bay, Remote Sensing, Robert Moses State Park, Suffolk County, UVVR, United States, Water Island, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, environment, estuary, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, salt marsh, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Time-series of biogeochemical and flow data from a tidal salt-marsh creek, Sage Lot Pond, Waquoit Bay, Massachusetts, 2012-2016 (ver. 2.0, July 2023) Extended time-series sensor data were collected between 2012 and 2016 in surface water of a tidal salt-marsh creek on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The objective of this field study was to measure water chemical characteristics and flows, as part of a study to quantify lateral fluxes of dissolved carbon species between the salt marsh and estuary. Data consist of in-situ measurements including: salinity, temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, redox potential, fluorescent dissolved organic matter, turbidity and chlorophyll. Surface water flow, water level and water elevation data were also measured. The data provided in this release represent a compiled data set consisting of multiple sensor deployments between 2012 and 2016. Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Tags: Barnstable County, Cape Cod, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Falmouth, Geochemistry, All tags... Marine Geology, Sage Lot Pond, Waquoit Bay, Water Quality, acoustic doppler current profiling, biochemistry, chlorophyll, dissolved organic matter, inlandWaters, low and intermediate salt marsh, oceans, salinity, salt marshes, surface-water level, time series datasets, turbidity, water chemistry, water properties, water quality, water temperature, wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags Sediment Texture and Geomorphology of the Sea Floor from Fenwick Island, Maryland to Fisherman's Island, Virginia These data are a qualitatively derived interpretive polygon shapefile defining surficial sediment type and distribution, and geomorphology, for nearly 1,400 square kilometers of sea floor on the inner-continental shelf from Fenwick Island, Maryland to Fisherman’s Island, Virginia, USA. These data are classified according to Barnhardt and others (1998) bottom-type classification system, which was modified to highlight changes in secondary sediment-types such as mud and gravel across this primarily sandy shelf. Most of the geophysical and sample data used to create this interpretive layer were collected as part of the Linking Coastal Processes and Vulnerability: Assateague Island Regional Study project (GS2-2C), supported... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Assateague Island, Assateague Island National Seashore, Assawoman Island, Atlantic Ocean, Backscatter, All tags... Bathymetry, Bottom Photographs, Bottom Type, Cape Henlopen, Cedar Island, Chincoteague Inlet, Chincoteague Island, Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Cobb Island, Delaware, Delmarva Peninsula, Delmarva Peninsula, Fenwick Island, Fisherman's Island, Hog Island, Interpretation, Marine Geology, Maryland, Metompkin Island, Mid-Atlantic Bight, Mink Island, Mockhorn Island, Myrtle Island, Ocean City, Parramore Island, Rehoboth, Sea floor, Sediment Cover, Sediment Distribution, Sediment Samples, Sediment Texture, Ship Shoal Island, Sidescan Sonar, Slope, Smith Island, Virginia, Wallops Island, Wreck Island, carbonate, geomorphology, interpretation, marine geology, marine geophysics, sea-floor characteristics, sediment texture, Fewer tags Geochemical data supporting investigation of solute and particle cycling and fluxes from two tidal wetlands on the south shore of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2012-19 (ver. 2.0, October 2022) Assessment of geochemical cycling within tidal wetlands and measurement of fluxes of dissolved and particulate constituents between wetlands and coastal water bodies are critical to evaluating ecosystem function, service, and status. The U.S. Geological Survey and collaborators collected surface water and porewater geochemical data from a tidal wetland located on the eastern shore of Sage Lot Pond in Mashpee, Massachusetts, within the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, between 2012 and 2019. Additional porewater geochemical and field data from a tidal wetland on the eastern shore of Great Pond in East Falmouth, MA are also included. These data can be used to evaluate biogeochemical conditions and cycling... Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Tags: Climatology, Environmental Health, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC) Collection, analysis, and age-dating of sediment cores from mangrove wetlands in San Juan Bay Estuary, Puerto Rico, 2016 The San Juan Bay Estuary, Puerto Rico, contains mangrove forests that store significant amounts of organic carbon in soils and biomass. There is a strong urbanization gradient across the estuary, from the highly urbanized and clogged Caño Martin Peña in the western part of the estuary, a series of lagoons in the center of the estuary, and a tropical forest reserve (Piñones) in the easternmost part with limited urbanization. We collected sediment cores to determine carbon burial rates and vertical sediment accretion from five sites in the San Juan Bay Estuary. Cores were radiometrically-dated using lead-210 and the Plum age model. Sites had soil C burial rates ranging from 50 grams per meter squared per year (g m-2... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 137-cesium, 210-lead, Caño de Martín Peña (1613013), Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (1779808), Geochemistry, All tags... Laguna La Torrecilla (1611340), Laguna San José (1611343), Laguna de Pinoñes (1611336), Plum age model, San Juan (1612697), United States of America (1890467), accretion rate, age model, carbon, carbon burial, carbon isotope analysis, ecological restoration, environment, geoscientificInformation, health, mangrove sediments, nitrogen, oceans, radiometric dating, sea-level change, sedimentation, soil chemistry, utilitiesCommunication, wetland ecosystems, wetland soils, wetlands, Fewer tags Wave thrust values at point locations along the shorelines of Massachusetts and Rhode Island This product provides spatial variations in wave thrust along shorelines in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Natural features of relevance along the State coast are salt marshes. In recent times, marshes have been eroding primarily through lateral erosion. Wave thrust represents a metric of wave attack acting on marsh edges. The wave thrust is calculated as the vertical integral of the dynamic pressure of waves. This product uses a consistent methodology with sufficient spatial resolution to include the distinct features of each marsh system. Waves under different climatological wind forcing conditions were simulated using the coupled ADCIRC/SWAN model system. The estuarine and bay areas are resolved with horizontal... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Coastal Wetlands, Coastal processes, Geomorphology, Massachusetts, Mathematical modeling, All tags... Ocean waves, Rhode Island, Salt marsh, Shoreline, United States of America, Vulnerability, Wave attack, Wave thrust, biota, wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags Idealized numerical model for Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) growth dynamics An idealized domain is setup to test the development of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) growth model within the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport (COAWST) model. The change in SAV biomass is computed from temperature, nutrient loading and light predictions obtained from coupled hydrodynamics (temperature), bio-geochemistry (nutrients) and bio-optical (light) models. In exchange, the growth of SAV sequesters or contributes nutrients from the water column and sediment layers. The presence of SAV modulates current and wave attenuation and consequently affects modelled sediment transport. The idealized domain simulation shows that the newly developed framework can simulate a two-way coupled SAV-biogeochemistry-hydrodynamic... Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Environmental Health, Marine Geology, Water Quality, barotropic_sea_water_x_velocity, barotropic_sea_water_y_velocity, All tags... coastal processes, dataset, mathematical simulation, ocean_s_coordinate_g1, oceans, sea_surface_height_above_geopotential_datum, sea_water_potential_temperature, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_x_velocity, sea_water_y_velocity, service, time, Fewer tags Collection, analysis, and age-dating of sediment cores from Herring River wetlands and other nearby wetlands in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 2015–17 The Herring River estuary in Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, has been tidally restricted for more than a century by a dike constructed near the mouth of the river. Upstream from the dike, the tidal restriction has caused the conversion of salt marsh wetlands to various other ecosystems including impounded freshwater marshes, flooded shrub land, drained forested upland, and brackish wetlands dominated by Phragmites australis. This estuary is now managed by the National Park Service, which plans to replace the aging dike and restore tidal flow to the estuary. To assist National Park Service land managers with restoration planning, the U.S. Geological Survey collected fourteen sediment cores from different ecosystems... Categories: Data; Tags: 137-cesium, 210-lead, Barnstable County (606927), Cape Cod (606914), Cape Cod National Seashore (606900), All tags... Commonwealth of Massachusetts (606926), Constant Rate of Supply (CRS) model, Duck Creek (616758), Geochemistry, Herring River (616776), Town of Wellfleet (618261), United States of America, Wellfleet Harbor (616838), accretion rate, age model, carbon, carbon burial, carbon isotope analysis, ecological restoration, elevation, environment, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, location, nitrogen, oceans, piston coring, radiometric dating, salt marshes, sea-level change, sedimentation, soil chemistry, wetland ecosystems, wetland soils, wetlands, 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 Unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratio in Cape Cod National Seashore salt marsh complex, Massachusetts Note: The 2021 data release "Geospatial characterization of salt marshes for Massachusetts" is a more recent and comprehensive MA salt marsh dataset. (https://doi.org/10.5066/P97E086F) Unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratio (UVVR) in the Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO) salt marsh complex and approximal wetlands is computed based on conceptual marsh units defined by Defne and Ganju (2019). UVVR was calculated based on U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) 1-meter resolution imagery. Through scientific efforts initiated with the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Barnstable County, Cape Cod Bay, Cape Cod National Seashore, Ecology, All tags... Geography, Herring Cove, LTER, Little Pleasant Bay, Long-Term Ecological Research, Massachusetts, Outer Cape, Remote Sensing, UVVR, United States, Wellfleet Harbor, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, environment, estuary, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, salt marsh, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Conceptual marsh units for Cape Cod National Seashore salt marsh complex, Massachusetts Note: The 2021 data release "Geospatial characterization of salt marshes for Massachusetts" is a more recent and comprehensive MA salt marsh dataset. (https://doi.org/10.5066/P97E086F) The salt marsh complex of Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO), Massachusetts, USA and approximal wetlands were delineated to smaller, conceptual marsh units by geoprocessing of surface elevation data. Flow accumulation based on the relative elevation of each location is used to determine the ridge lines that separate each marsh unit while the surface slope is used to automatically assign each unit a drainage point, where water is expected to drain through. Through scientific efforts initiated with the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan,... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Barnstable County, Cape Cod Bay, Cape Cod National Seashore, Ecology, All tags... Geography, Herring Cove, LTER, Little Pleasant Bay, Long-Term Ecological Research, Massachusetts, Outer Cape, Remote Sensing, United States, Wellfleet Harbor, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, environment, estuary, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, salt marsh, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Tidal Datums, Tidal Range, and Nuisance Flooding Levels for Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay This U.S. Geological Survey data release provides data on spatial variations in tidal datums, tidal range, and nuisance flooding in Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay. Tidal datums are standard elevations that are defined based on average tidal water levels. Datums are used as references to measure local water levels and to delineate regions in coastal environments. Nuisance flooding refers to the sporadic inundation of low-lying coastal areas by the maximum tidal water levels during spring tides, especially perigean spring tides (also known as king tides). Nuisance flooding is independent of storm event flooding, and it represents a cumulative or chronic hazard. The data were obtained by following a consistent methodology... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay, Geography, United States of America, flooding, All tags... oceans, tides (oceanic), Fewer tags 1 2 3 »