Ports of the United States

This map layer shows major ports in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. A port is a city, town, or urban area with a harbor where ships load or unload. This is a revised version of the July 2012 map layer.

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, All tags... Colorado, Connecticut, Conservation NGOs, Data, Delaware, District of Columbia, EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > INFRASTRUCTURE > TRANSPORTATION, Federal resource managers, Florida, Georgia, Harbors, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, LCC Network Science Catalog, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Ports, Puerto Rico, Regional & county planners, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, State agencies, Tennessee, Texas, Transportation, U.S. Virgin Islands, US, United States, Utah, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, completed, transportation, Fewer tags

Mangrove forests: current and future distribution and abundance in the southeastern U.S.

This dataset consists of the current distribution (2000s) of mangrove forests in the southeastern U.S. This dataset was created from the current best available mangrove data on a state specific basis. Florida mangrove data was extracted from Florida Landuse Land Cover Classification System (FLUCCS). For Louisiana, we used observations of mangrove stands from aerial surveys by Michot et al. (2010). Mangrove presence in Texas came from maps produced by Sherrod & McMillan (1981) and the NOAA Benthic Habitat Atlas of Coastal Texas (Finkbeiner et al. 2009). Please note that this map depicts the distribution of mangrove forests and not mangrove individuals. More detailed information on this dataset is available in Osland...

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Beach Nourishment in the Gulf of Mexico

Attempts to stabilize the shore can greatly influence rates of shoreline change. Beach nourishment in particular will bias rates of observed shoreline change toward accretion or stability, even though the natural beach, in the absence of nourishment, would be eroding. Trembanis and Pilkey (1998) prepared a summary of identifiable beach nourishment projects in the Gulf Coast region that had been conducted before 1996. Those records were used to identify shoreline segments that had been influenced by beach nourishment. Supplemental information regarding beach nourishment was collected from agencies familiar with nourishment projects in the State. All records were compiled to create a GIS layer depicting the spatial...

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Boat Ramp locations in the Gulf of Mexico

This data shows Boat Ramp locations in the Gulf of Mexico. Each data set was compiled from each state, including, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Data for some of the states may not be completely up to date or completely accurate.

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National Wetlands Inventory - Wetlands

This data set represents the extent, approximate location and type of wetlands and deepwater habitats in the United States and its Territories. These data delineate the areal extent of wetlands and surface waters as defined by Cowardin et al. (1979). Certain wetland habitats are excluded from the National mapping program because of the limitations of aerial imagery as the primary data source used to detect wetlands. These habitats include seagrasses or submerged aquatic vegetation that are found in the intertidal and subtidal zones of estuaries and near shore coastal waters. Some deepwater reef communities (coral or tuberficid worm reefs) have also been excluded from the inventory. These habitats, because of their...

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General Circulation Model Output IPCC 4th Assessment Future 12km North America Dataset- Gulf of Mexico Coast Clip

Climate projection data were downloaded from the Climatewizard application for the coastal region for the Gulf of Mexico. Climate projection data represent the monthly, seasonal, and yearly mean for the time period of 2000-2050 for the following variables: AET:PET ratio, Moisture deficit, Moisture surplus, PET, Precipitation, Temperature, Rainfall Anomaly, and Standard Precipitation Index. In addition, models representing change in the average mean from period of (1961-1990) is available for each of the variables. Each projected variable is modeled using three different emission scenarios High (A1), Medium (A1B) and Low (B1).

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Coastal Relief along the Gulf of Mexico

NGDC’s U.S. Coastal Relief Model (CRM) provides the first comprehensive view of the U.S. coastal zone integrating offshore bathymetry with land topography into a seamless representation of the coast. The CRM spans the U.S. East and West Coasts, the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii, reaching out to, and in places even beyond, the continental slope. Bathymetric and topographic data sources include: NGDC’s NOS hydrographic surveys, multibeam bathymetry, and trackline bathymetry; the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS); and other federal government agencies and academic institutions. Bathymetric contours from the International Bathymetric Chart of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico project...

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Proposed and Final Critical Habitat Designations

These data identify, in general, the areas where final critical habitat exist for species listed as endangered or threatened.

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Marinas in the Gulf of Mexico

Florida - These data were taken from the Florida Boating Access Facilities Inventory and Economic Study including a pilot study for Lee County: A Report to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on August 30, 2009. This GIS point data set is based on the data contained in the final databases that were provided to FWC on June 2, 2009 in Microsoft Access format.Mississippi - Boat ramps and marinas in the coastal counties of Mississippi are included in this data layer. These facilities were primarily derived from a document from the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources website. Due to changes after Hurricane Katrina, some marinas and boat ramps may have been abandoned or gone out-of-business. Some...

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Gulf of Mexico Species Data

This record contains species data for priority species in the Gulf of Mexico. This includes US Fish and Wildlife Services Critical Habitat, US Geological Survery GAP Analysis Species Range Maps, and American Oyster locations.

Historical Changes in Shoreline in the Gulf of Mexico

There are critical needs for a nationwide compilation of reliable shoreline data. To meet these needs, the USGS has produced a comprehensive database of digital vector shorelines by compiling shoreline positions from pre-existing historical shoreline databases and by generating historical and modern shoreline data. Shorelines are compiled by state and generally correspond to one of four time periods: 1800s, 1920s-1930s, 1970s, and 1998-2002. Each shoreline may represent a compilation of data from one or more sources for one or more dates provided by one or more agencies. Details regarding source are provided in the ‘Data Quality Information’ section of this metadata report. Shoreline vectors derived from historic...

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Long Term Shoreline Change Rates

Rates of long-term and short-term shoreline change were generated in a GIS with the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 2.0, an ArcView extension developed by the USGS in cooperation with TPMC Environmental Services. The extension is designed to efficiently lead a user through the major steps of shoreline change analysis. This extension to ArcView contains three main components that define a baseline, generate orthogonal transects at a user-defined separation along the coast, and calculate rates of change (linear regression, endpoint rate, average of rates, average of endpoints, jackknife).

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Barrier Island Vulnerability Data Inventory Spreadsheet

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Oysters 2011 - Gulf of Mexico

1985 Gulf of Mexico Atlas abstract American oyster Crassostrea virginica Ostion americanoDescription Range: The American oyster, a bivalve mollusc of the family Ostreidae, is found in the western Atlantic from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Yucatan Peninsula. In the Gulf, this species occurs throughout estuaries, shallow nearshore waters, and on reefs located near river mouths. Habitat: Large populations of this benthic invertebrate are found in the large estuarine bays and sounds of the Gulf (with most concentrations found within 10-meter depths). Sedentary in character, this invertebrate attaches in clusters to shell reefs, firm mud/shell bottoms and other hard substrates. Feeding and Behavior: The American oyster...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES, Academics & scientific researchers, Alabama, American oyster, All tags... Aransas Bay, Ayers Bay, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIVALVES, BIVALVES, Bastrop Bay, Carancahua Bay, Carlos Bay, Chocolate Bay, Christmas Bay, Coastal, Conservation NGOs, Coon Island Bay, Copano Bay, Corpus Christi Bay, Cox Bay, Crassostrea Virginica, Data, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, East Bay, Eastern oyster, Espiritu Santo Bay, Federal resource managers, Florida, Floridia, Galveston Bay, Guadalupe Bay, Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico Coast, Hynes Bay, Keller Bay, LCC Network Science Catalog, Lavaca Bay, Louisiana, Lower Laguna Madre, MOLLUSKS, MOLLUSKS, Matagorda Bay, Mesquite Bay, Mission Bay, Mississippi, Nueces Bay, OYSTERS, OYSTERS, Oso Bay, Oyster Lake, Powderhorn Bayou, Powderhorn Lake, Redfish Bay, Regional & county planners, Sabine Lake, San Antonio Bay, South Bay, South Pass Lake, St Charles Bay, State agencies, Sundown Bay, Texas, Texas Gulf Coast, Tres Palacios Bay, Trinity Bay, US, USA, United States, United States of America, Upper Laguna Madre, West Bay, bathymetry, biological, biota, chirp sonar sub-bottom profile, coastal natural resources, coastal resources, coastal zone management, completed, dredge survey, environment, environmental sensitivity index, esi, estuarine, grab samples, habitat, habitat assessment, intertidal, oyster, oyster habitat, oyster lease, oyster reef, oyster reef survey, radiocarbon date, seismic, sensitivity maps, shell-hash, shellfish, side-scan, single beam bathymetry, subtidal, vibracores, wildlife, Fewer tags

Coastal Change Analysis Program Land Cover Analysis

This data is the 2010 era and the 1996-2010-era change classification of U.S.Gulf of Mexico region. This data set utilized full or partial Landsat scenes which were analyzed according to the Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) protocol to determine land cover.

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Dynamic Five-Zone Salinity Scheme - Gulf of Mexico

This is an ArcGIS shapefile which depicts the seasonal salinity dynamics of 32 Gulf of Mexico estuaries. To characterize the dynamic nature of estuarine salinity gradients, a multivariate methodology (Bulger et al. 1993) was applied to derive five bio-salinity zones in four salinity seasons for 32 Gulf of Mexico estuaries (Christensen et al. 1997). This seasonal salinity zone spatial framework built upon and refined earlier studies which characterized salinity on an annual-averaged basis (NOAA 1985, Orlando et al. 1993, NOAA 2007). Precipitation, flow gage data, and monthly salinity averages were evaluated to determine which months would be used to represent the high, low, and transitional (increasing and decreasing)...

Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Apalachee Bay, Apalachicola Bay, Aransas Bay, Atchafalaya Bay, All tags... Baffin Bay, Bahamian, Barataria Bay, Biscayne Bay, Brazos River, Breton Sound, Calcasieu Lake, Caloosahatchee River, Caribbean Sea, Carolinian, Chandeleur Sound, Charlotte Harbor, Choctawhatchee Bay, Conservation NGOs, Corpus Christi Bay, DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION, DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION, DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION, Data, Decreasing salinity season, EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES, EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES, EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES, Fall, Federal resource managers, Florida Bay, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, Galveston Bay, Gulf Of Mexico, High salinity season, Increasing salinity season, LCC Network Science Catalog, Laguna Madre, Lake Pontchartrain, Low salinity season, Matagorda Bay, Mermentau River, Mississippi River, Mississippi Sound, Mobile Bay, North Ten Thousand Islands, Northern Gulf Of Mexico, Pensacola Bay, Perdido Bay, Regional & county planners, Sabine Lake, San Antonio Bay, South Ten Thousand Islands, Southeast Shelf, Spring, St. Andrew Bay, State agencies, Summer, Suwannee River, Tampa Bay, Terrebonne Bay, Timbalier Bay, Vermilion Bay, Vermillion Bay, Winter, biota, completed, environment, estuary, oceans, salinity, zones, Fewer tags

Gulf of Mexico Species and Habitat Data

SLEUTH Urban Growth

This dataset represents the extent of urbanization (for the year indicated) predicted by the model SLEUTH, developed by Dr. Keith C. Clarke, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography and modified by David I. Donato of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Eastern Geographic Science Center (EGSC). Further model modification and implementation was performed at the Biodiversity and Spatial Information Center at North Carolina State University.

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Submerged Aquatic Vegetation - Gulf of Mexico

This data represent a compilation of seagrass information for areas along the Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and Texas coasts from various source agencies. Seagrass areas were mapped from aerial photography taken between 1987 to 1999. The original source data were not all classified in the same manner, but the information from each of these sources was maintained in the final results.

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Final Report - Barrier-Island Vulnerability: Data Integration and Assessment

Fragile barrier islands are important nesting habitat for focal species of the Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative, such as brown pelicans, sea turtles, and black skimmers. Assessing the vulnerability of coastal ecosystems at a Gulf of Mexico-wide scale has become even more important in the wake of several destructive storms (e.g. Katrina, Rita, and Ike) and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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