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Mapping is a major under-taking of this research program. The goal is a description of sea-floor geology with direct linkages to important biological habitats identified by cooperating agencies. Digital interpretive maps of the seabed in each study area will define sediment texture and rock types, morphology, sediment pollutant concentrations, and geological structures along with infauna, epifuana and fisheries species.

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EAARL Topography–Vicksburg National Military Park 2008: Bare Earth

Description: This DVD contains Lidar-derived bare earth (BE) topography GIS datasets of the Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississipi. These datasets were acquired on March 6, 2008.
updated: 2009-12-01 pages include:

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LIDAR Illustration Home Purpose Link Metadata Link Collaborators Link Acronyms Link EAARL Topography–Vicksburg National Military Park 2007: First Surface

Description: This DVD contains Lidar-derived first surface (FS) topography GIS datasets of the Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississipi. These datasets were acquired on September 12, 2007.
updated: 2009-11-01 pages include:

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U.S. Geological Survey Karst Interest Group Proceedings, Bowling Green, Kentucky, May 27-29, 2008

Description: The concept for developing a Karst Interest Group evolved from the November 1999 National Ground-Water Meeting of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Water Resources Division. As a result, the karst Interest Group was formed in 2000. The Karst Interest Group is a loose-knit grass-roots organization of USGS employees devoted to fostering better communication among scientists working on, or interested in, karst hydrology studies.
updated: 2009-05-01 pages include:

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Open-File Report 2009-1029: Coastal processes study of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, California

Description: By Patrick L. Barnard, David L. Revell, Dan Hoover, Jon Warrick, John Brocatus, Amy E. Draut, Pete Dartnell, Edwin Elias, Neomi Mustain, Pat E. Hart, and Holly F. Ryan. The Santa Barbara littoral cell (SBLC) is a complex coastal system with significant management challenges. The coastline ranges broadly in exposure to wave energy, fluvial inputs, hard structures, and urbanization. Geologic influence (structural control) on coastline orientation exerts an important control on local beach behavior, with anthropogenic alterations and the episodic nature of sediment supply and transport also playing important roles.
updated: 2009-03-27 pages include:

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Development of High-Resolution Digital Elevation Products along the Northern Gulf of Mexico Coast

Description: Poster Absract
updated: 2009-03-01 pages include:

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EAARL Coastal Topography–Northeast Barrier Islands 2007: Bare Earth

Description: This DVD contains Lidar-derived bare earth (BE) topography GIS datasets of a portion of the northeast coastal barrier islands in New York and New Jersey. These datasets were acquired April 29-30 and May 15-16, 2007.
updated: 2009-03-01 pages include:

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AARL Coastal Topography–Northeast Barrier Islands 2007: First Surface

Description: This DVD contains Lidar-derived first surface (FS) topography GIS datasets of a portion of the northeast coastal barrier islands in New York and New Jersey. These datasets were acquired April 29-30 and May 15-16, 2007.
updated: 2009-03-01 pages include:

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USGS Gulf Coast Science Conference and Florida Integrated Science Center Meeting: Proceedings with Abstracts, October 20-23, 2008, Orlando, Florida

Description: Talks, posters, and abstracts from the USGS Gulf Coast Science Conference and Florida Integrated Science Center Meeting.
updated: 2009-01-01 pages include:

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Biological Communities and Geomorphology of Patch Reefs in Biscayne National Park, Florida, U.S.A.

Description: Purpose Coral reef ecosystem management benefits from continual, quantitative assessment of the resources being managed, plus assessment of factors that affect distribution patterns of organisms in the ecosystem. In this study, we investigated the relationships among physical, benthic, and fish variables in effort to help explain the distribution patterns of ecologically and economically important species on twelve patch reefs within Biscayne National Park (BNP), Florida, U.S.A. We visited 196 randomly-located sampling stations across twelve shallow (< 10m) patch reefs, using SCUBA to conduct our surveys. We measured physical variables (e.g., substratum type), estimated the percent cover of benthic community members (e.g., coral, algae), and counted and estimated mean size for each fish species observed. We also used high-density bathymetric data collected remotely via airborne laser surveying (Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL)) to calculate rugosity (bumpiness) of the reef habitat. Here we present our findings visually by graphing our quantitative community and physical structure data simultaneously in a GIS map format. You will see that biological organisms arrange themselves on each patch reef in a non-random manner. For example, many species of fish prefer to locate themselves in areas of the reef where the rugosity index is high. Rugose parts of the reef provide them with good hiding places from predators.
updated: 2009-01-01 pages include:

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EAARL Topography-Colonial National Historical Park

Description: These Lidar-derived topography maps were produced as a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Florida Integrated Science Center (FISC) St. Petersburg, the National Park Service (NPS) Inventory and Monitoring Program, Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Wallops Flight Facility. One objective of this research is to create techniques to survey coral reefs, barrier islands, and various nearshore coastal environments for the purposes of geomorphic change studies, habitat mapping, ecological monitoring, change detection, and event assessment. As part of this project, data from an innovative instrument under development at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility, the NASA Experimental Airborne Advanced Research Lidar (EAARL) are being used. This sensor has the potential to make significant contributions in this realm for measuring subaerial and submarine topography wthin cross-environment surveys. High spectral resolution, water-column correction, and low costs were found to be key factors in providing accurate and affordable imagery to coastal resource managers.
updated: 2009-01-01 pages include:

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EAARL Submerged Topography–U.S. Virgin Islands 2003

Description: This DVD contains Lidar-derived submerged topography GIS datasets of a portion of the U.S. Virgin Islands. These datasets were acquired on April 21, 23, and 30, May 2, and June 14 and 17, 2003.
updated: 2008-12-01 pages include:

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LIDAR Illustration Home Purpose Link Metadata Link Collaborators Link Acronyms Link EAARL Topography–Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve 2006

Description: This DVD contains Lidar-derived first surface (FS) and bare earth (BE) topography GIS datasets of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve in Louisiana. These datasets were acquired on September 22, 2006.
updated: 2008-12-01 pages include:

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EAARL Topography–Natchez Trace Parkway 2007: First Surface

Description: This DVD contains Lidar-derived first surface (FS) topography GIS datasets of a portion of the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississipi. These datasets were acquired on September 14, 2007.
updated: 2008-12-01 pages include:

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EAARL Coastal Topography–Fire Island National Seashore 2007

Description: This DVD contains Lidar-derived first surface (FS) and bare earth (BE) topography GIS datasets of Fire Island National Seashore in New York. These datasets were acquired on April 29-30 and May 15-16, 2007.
updated: 2008-12-01 pages include:

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EAARL Coastal Topography–Sandy Hook 2007

Description: This DVD contains Lidar-derived bare earth (BE) and first surface (FS) topography GIS datasets of the Gateway National Recreation Area's Sandy Hook Unit in New Jersey. These datasets were acquired on May 16, 2007.
updated: 2008-12-01 pages include:

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USGS OFR 2007-1366: Sidescan-Sonar Imagery and Surficial Geologic Interpretations of the Sea Floor in Central Rhode Island Sound, Title Page

Description: Sidescan-sonar imagery, bathymetry, and surficial geologic interpretations of the sea floor in Rhode Island Sound, Rhode Island.
updated: 2008-11-17 pages include:

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USGS OFR 2008-1174: Enhanced Sidescan-Sonar Imagery, North-Central Long Island Sound, Title Page

Description: Sidescan-sonar imagery from NOAA surveys H11043, H11044, and H11045 in north-central Long Island Sound were enhanced to remove tonal artifacts by matching backscatter tones in adjacent sonar lines. The enhanced imagery minimizes abrupt backscatter changes and striping, and more clearly delineates boundaries of backscatter tones and patterns."
updated: 2008-11-17 pages include:

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USGS OFR 2008-1004: Sea-Floor Character and Sedimentary Processes in the Vicinity of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Title Page

Description: Sea-floor geology and surface processes of Woods Hole based on sidescan sonar, multibeam bathymetry, bottom photography, and sediment samples."
updated: 2008-11-17 pages include:

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EAARL Topography - Thomas Stone National Historic Site

Description: This Web site contains Lidar-derived topography (first return and bare earth) maps and GIS files for Thomas Stone National Historic Site in Maryland.
updated: 2008-11-01 pages include:

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Archive of Digital CHIRP Seismic Reflection Data Collected During USGS Cruise 06SCC01 Offshore of Isles Dernieres, Louisiana, June 2006

Description: In June of 2006, the U.S. Geological Survey conducted a geophysical survey offshore of Isles Dernieres, Louisiana, as part of the USGS Barrier Island Coastal Monitoring project, which is part of a broader study focused on Subsidence and Coastal Change (SCC).
updated: 2008-11-01 pages include:

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GIS Compilation, Data Collected, Pulley Ridge Deep Coral Reef Region, USGS OF 2005-1089, Title Page

Description: GIS compilation of data from the southern portion of Pulley Ridge on the Florida Platform.
updated: 2008-10-11 pages include:

Research Project
WCMG Coastal Processes Studies

Description: California's beaches and nearshore regions are valuable economic and recreational resources but also provide habitats for numerous sensitive species. During winter storms, the coast represents a potentially dangerous interface between ocean and land, nature and humans. Storms produce high waves, strong currents, and elevated sea level that can rapidly erode beaches and inundate low-lying coastal regions, damaging and/or destroying public and private infrastructure as well as stressing coastal ecosystems. Over longer-time scales (e.g. decadal), persistent erosion exacerbated by the pressures of coastal development, reduction in sediment availability and climate change, can result in severely depleted beaches. The USGS performs research along the California coast to understand the physical processes that control coastal change on time scales from individual storms to decades to support the efforts of local, state and government agencies to make informed coastal management decisions to most effectively preserve and protect this valuable resource.
updated: 2008-09-23 pages include:

General Information
USGS WCMG News, Scientists Map Unexplored Arctic Sea Floor

Description: News and Information about the USGS research aboard the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy, mapping the sea floor - the extended continental shelf - in the Artic Ocean this month. This research is being done to define the limits of the extended continental shelf, over which coastal nations can claim sovereign rights under the United Nations Convension on the Law of the Sea.
updated: 2008-09-23 pages include:

Research Project
Southern California Coastal Hazards - USGS WCMG

Description: Southern California Coastal Hazards Study of the USGS Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team
updated: 2008-09-23 pages include:

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Open-File Report 2004-1447: A Preliminary Assessment of Geologic Framework and Sediment Thickness Studies Relevant to Prospective US Submission on Extended Continental Shelf

Description: A compilation of marine seismic reflection and refraction profile data and derivative sediment thickness studies in the United States 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone and beyond that would be relevant to a submission for extended continental shelf under the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS Article 76).
updated: 2008-08-28 pages include:

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