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EAARL coastal topography--Alligator Point, Louisiana, 2010 EAARL coastal topography--Alligator Point, Louisiana, 2010
This project provides highly detailed and accurate datasets of a portion of Alligator Point, Louisiana, acquired on March 5 and 6, 2010. The datasets are made available for use as a management tool to research scientists and natural-resource managers. An innovative airborne lidar instrument originally developed at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Wallops Flight...
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Amar Nayegandhi, J.M. Bonisteel-Cormier, C. W. Wright, J. C. Brock, D.B. Nagle, Saisudha Vivekanandan, Xan Fredericks, J.A. Barras
Gap Analysis of Benthic Mapping at Three National Parks: Assateague Island National Seashore, Channel Islands National Park, and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Gap Analysis of Benthic Mapping at Three National Parks: Assateague Island National Seashore, Channel Islands National Park, and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
The National Park Service (NPS) Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Program initiated a benthic habitat mapping program in ocean and coastal parks in 2008-2009 in alignment with the NPS Ocean Park Stewardship 2007-2008 Action Plan. With more than 80 ocean and Great Lakes parks encompassing approximately 2.5 million acres of submerged territory and approximately 12,000 miles of coastline...
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Kathryn V. Rose, Amar Nayegandhi, Christopher S. Moses, Rebecca Beavers, Dawn Lavoie, John Brock
St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center's Core Archive Portal St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center's Core Archive Portal
This Web site contains information on rock cores archived at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (SPCMSC). Archived cores consist of 3- to 4-inch-diameter coral cores, 1- to 2-inch-diameter rock cores, and a few unlabeled loose coral and rock samples. This document - and specifically the archive Web site portal - is intended to be a 'living'...
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Chris Reich, Matt Streubert, Brendan Dwyer, Meg Godbout, Adis Muslic, Dan Umberger
Impact assessment of extreme storm events using a Bayesian network Impact assessment of extreme storm events using a Bayesian network
This paper describes an investigation on the usefulness of Bayesian Networks in the safety assessment of dune coasts. A network has been created that predicts the erosion volume based on hydraulic boundary conditions and a number of cross-shore profile indicators. Field measurement data along a large part of the Dutch coast has been used to train the network. Corresponding storm impact...
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C. den Heijer, Dirk T.J.A. Knipping, Nathaniel G. Plant, Jaap S. M. van Thiel de Vries, Fedor Baart, Pieter H. A. J. M. van Gelder
PhyloChipTM microarray comparison of sampling methods used for coral microbial ecology PhyloChipTM microarray comparison of sampling methods used for coral microbial ecology
Interest in coral microbial ecology has been increasing steadily over the last decade, yet standardized methods of sample collection still have not been defined. Two methods were compared for their ability to sample coral-associated microbial communities: tissue punches and foam swabs, the latter being less invasive and preferred by reef managers. Four colonies of star coral, Montastraea...
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Christina A. Kellogg, Yvette M. Piceno, Lauren M. Tom, Todd Z. DeSantis, David G. Zawada, Gary L. Andersen
Bathymetry and acoustic backscatter data collected in 2010 from Cat Island, Mississippi Bathymetry and acoustic backscatter data collected in 2010 from Cat Island, Mississippi
Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (SPCMSC), in collaboration with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), conducted geophysical and sedimentological surveys around Cat Island, the westernmost island in the Mississippi-Alabama barrier island chain (fig. 1). The objectives of the study were to understand the geologic...
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Noreen A. Buster, William R. Pfeiffer, Jennifer L. Miselis, Jack L. Kindinger, Dana S. Wiese, B.J. Reynolds
Over 100 years of environmental change recorded by foraminifers and sediments in a large Gulf of Mexico estuary, Mobile Bay, AL, USA Over 100 years of environmental change recorded by foraminifers and sediments in a large Gulf of Mexico estuary, Mobile Bay, AL, USA
The marine microfauna of Mobile Bay has been profoundly influenced by the development and expansion of the primary shipping channel over the last ∼100 years. Foraminifers and sediments from seven box cores with excess lead-210 chronology document that channel dredging and spoil disposal have altered circulation, reduced estuarine mixing, changed sedimentation patterns, and caused a...
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Lisa E. Osterman, Christopher G. Smith
In-ground disposal of human sewage can contaminate nearshore waters and reefs with bacteria and viruses In-ground disposal of human sewage can contaminate nearshore waters and reefs with bacteria and viruses
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Erin K. Lipp, Dale W. Griffin, J.C. Futch
On the use of wave parameterizations and a storm impact scaling model in National Weather Service Coastal Flood and decision support operations On the use of wave parameterizations and a storm impact scaling model in National Weather Service Coastal Flood and decision support operations
National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Forecast Offices (WFO) are responsible for issuing coastal flood watches, warnings, advisories, and local statements to alert decision makers and the general public when rising water levels may lead to coastal impacts such as inundation, erosion, and wave battery. Both extratropical and tropical cyclones can generate the prerequisite rise in water...
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Anthony Mignone, H. Stockdon, M. Willis, J.W. Cannon, R. Thompson
Initiation of long-term coupled microbiological, geochemical, and hydrological experimentation within the seafloor at North Pond, western flank of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge Initiation of long-term coupled microbiological, geochemical, and hydrological experimentation within the seafloor at North Pond, western flank of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 336 successfully initiated subseafloor observatory science at a young mid-ocean-ridge flank setting. All of the drilled sites are located in the North Pond region of the Atlantic Ocean (22°45′N, 46°05′W) in 4414–4483 m water depth. This area is known from previous ocean drilling and site survey investigations as a site of particularly...
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K.J. Edwards, N. Backert, W. Bach, K. Becker, A. Klaus, Dale W. Griffin, L. Anderson, A.G. Haddad, Y. Harigane, P.L. Campion, H. Hirayama, H.J. Mills, S.M. Hulme, K. Nakamura, S.L. Jorgensen, B. Orcutt, T.L. Insua, Y.-S. Park, V. Rennie, E.C. Salas, O. Rouxel, F. Wang, J.A. Russel, C.G. Wheat, K. Sakata, M. Brown, J.L. Magnusson, Z. Ettlinger
Sand grain sources at coral reefs indicate reef health Sand grain sources at coral reefs indicate reef health
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Barbara H. Lidz
Outlier reefs are found off the Florida Keys Outlier reefs are found off the Florida Keys
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Barbara H. Lidz