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List of recent USGS publications and data releases based on coastal and marine research.

This article is part of the August 2018 issue of the Sound Waves newsletter.

  • Doran, K.S., Long, J.W., Birchler, J.J., Brenner, O.T., Hardy, M.W., Morgan, K.L.M, Stockdon, H.F., and Torres, M.L., 2018, Lidar-derived beach morphology (dune crest, dune toe, and shoreline) for U.S. sandy coastlines (ver. 2.0, August 2018): U.S. Geological Survey data release [https://doi.org/10.5066/F7GF0S0Z]

  • Erikson, L.H., Barnard, P.L., O’Neill, A.C., Wood, N.J., Jones, J.M., Finzi Hart, Juliette, Vitousek, Sean, and others, 2018, Projected 21stcentury coastal flooding in the southern California bight, Part 2—tools for assessing climate change-driven coastal hazards and socio-economic impacts: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, v. 6, no. , p. 1–19 [https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse6030076]

  • Farris, A.S., Weber, K.M., Doran, K.S., and List, J.H., 2018, Comparing methods used by the U.S. Geological Survey Coastal and Marine Geology Program for deriving shoreline position from lidar data: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2018–1121, 13 p. [https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20181121.

  • Goldsmith, D.B., Kellogg, C.A., Morrison C.L., Gray, M.A., Stone, R.P., Waller, R.G., Brooke, S.D., and Ross, S.W., 2018, Comparison of microbiomes of cold-water corals Primnoa pacifica and Primnoa resedaeformis, with possible link between microbiome composition and host genotype: Scientific Reports, v. 8, Article number 12383 [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30901-z]

  • Kellogg, C.A., and Goldsmith, D.B., 2018, Cold-water coral microbiomes (Primnoa spp.) from Gulf of Alaska, Baltimore Canyon, and Norfolk Canyon—raw data: U.S. Geological Survey data release [https://doi.org/10.5066/F7P55KMJ]

  • Maier, K.L., Johnson, S.Y., and Patrick E. Hart, P.E., 2018, Controls on submarine canyon head evolution: Monterey Canyon, offshore central California: Marine Geology, v. 404, p. 24–40 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2018.06.014]

  • Marot, M.E., Kelso, K.W., Osterman, L.E., DeWitt, N.T., and Smith, C.G., 2018, Sedimentary data collected in April 2013 from Dauphin Island and salt marshes of coastal Alabama: U.S. Geological Survey data release [https://doi.org/10.5066/F7H70DSZ]

  • Wang, Ruo-Quian, Herdman, Liv , Erikson, L.H., Barnard, P.L., Hummel, Michelle, and Stacey, Mark, 2018, Interactions of estuarine shoreline infrastructure with multiscale sea level variability: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans v. 122, p. 9962–79 [https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JC012730]

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