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USGS scientists working on the Future Landscape Adaptation and Coastal Change (FLACC) project bring together information on coastal environments, processes, and climate drivers to evaluate where and when future changes along our Nation’s coast may occur and what they may look like.

Scientists at the USGS are installing sensors in Wellfleet MA, part of the Cape Cod National Seashore to evaluate the long-term and short-term chemical and geomorphic changes within wetlands. 

The banner from the Coastal Science Navigator--a gateway to USGS Coastal Change Hazards resources and assists users in finding products and tools that will meet their specific needs.

William Danforth, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center geologist, looks out at the ocean while in the field on the R/V Falkor.

Scientists at the USGS are installing sensors in Wellfleet MA, part of the Cape Cod National Seashore to evaluate the long-term and short-term chemical and geomorphic changes within wetlands. 

As sea-level rise accelerates, vegetation transitions are increasingly observed and USGS scientists are busy assessing those changes. Shoreline at the Cape Cod National Seashore in Wellfleet, MA.

Time-series of number of seabeach amaranth observed in end-of-season surveys by NPS biologists. Shaded regions specify years where drought conditions persisted through the amaranth growing season. Vertical lines denote strong storms that occurred during the observation period.

Users can navigate the collection by clicking on the tiles on the cover page or the tabbed menu. With the Collection viewer, users can use a swipe tool to compare layers and click to see the values for each pixel. Users can also add other data to the viewer and bookmark any locations of interest.

The collection provides a motivation for the USGS coastal wetland research and individual web apps where users can browse each CONUS-wide data separately (relative tidal elevation, unvegetated-vegetated ratio, and aboveground biomass). It also provides a Collection viewer, where users can browse the CONUS-wide collection on the same map.

The Environmental Geoscience page of the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, fiscal year 2022 annual report.

The Sea-Level Rise and Carbon Cycle Processes in Managed Coastal Wetlands page of the fiscal year 2022 Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center annual report.

Pat Berube and Eric Moore traveled to CT to help the NY water science office retrieve some ADCPs.

In July and October, Jen Cramer and Jin-Si Over assisted USGS UAS pilots from NUSO and Fort Collins to collect pre-restoration LiDAR and thermal survey data for the Vermillion River on the Kootenai National Forest in Montana before construction begins to improve Bull Trout habitat.

USGS scientists from the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC) also installed pressure sensors at four sites along the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, including Sandwich Marsh tidal creek in Sandwich, Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro, Marconi Beach in Wellfleet, and Nauset Light Beach in Eastham to measure storm surge and flooding during Hurricane

Mira Anderberg and Marie Bartlett (USGS) digging up a fence post that had a pressure sensor attached to measure storm surge and flooding during Hurricane Lee.

Marie Bartlett (USGS) removes fence post at Marconi Beach in Wellfleet, MA while recovering pressure sensor. Pressure sensors were attached to fence posts and hammered into the sand to measure total water levels of Hurricane Lee. Photo by Jin-Si Over, USGS. 

USGS Scientists and Survey Technicians from the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (Laura Brothers, Dave Foster, Pat Berube and Chuck Worley) deploying geophysical survey systems on the R/V Pelican in the Gulf of Mexico.

Fall 2023 Photo Contest Winner: Seth Ackerman, Honorable Mention category

Hurricane Lee storm surge at Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro, Massachusetts on September 16, 2023.

Dr. John Warner, USGS, and Dr. Martha Schonau, Scripps, before deploying 11 buoys from a U.S. Navy P3 Orion aircraft from the VXS-1 squadron based out of Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland. These buoys measure waves, temperature, and physical ocean properties. 

USGS scientists Jen Cramer and Jin-Si Over pilot a drone at Nauset Light Beach in Nauset, MA. Drone imagery will be used to monitor coastal change before and after Hurricane Lee. Photo by Mira Anderberg, USGS.

Eric Marsjanik and Jin-Si Over (USGS) installing pressure sensors attached to 8-foot fence posts marked with buoys and anchors to measure storm surge and flooding caused by Hurricane Lee.