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Over the past two decades the use of living shorelines to address coastal erosion has increased dramatically as landowners seek more natural solutions to shoreline […]
The living shoreline feasibility model (LSFM) is an integrative tool that evaluates a suite of metrics to assess considerations involved in constructing and maintaining a […]
The purpose of the manual is to educate communities about dunes in the wake of natural disasters, sea level rise, and storm surge, by providing […]
With sea levels rising under global warming, dredge-and-fill programs are increasingly employed to protect coastal development from shoreline erosion. Such beach “nourishment” can bury shallow […]
Coastal flooding, from both extreme events and sea level rise, is one of the top management challenges facing U.S. coastal stakeholders today. The intensity of […]
The Saltmarsh Sparrow (Ammospiza caudacuta) is a Species of Special Concern in New Jersey (pending regulatory rule change; the recent species status review by the […]
This USGS Data Release represents geospatial data sets which were created to produce an Unvegetated to Vegetated Ratio (UVVR) for coastal wetlands of the conterminous […]
The Wetlands mapper is designed to deliver easy-to-use, map like views of America’s Wetland resources. It integrates digital map data along with other resource information […]
Opening the U.S. Atlantic to oil and gas exploration and development threatens vitally important segments of the U.S. economy as well as the livelihoods of […]
The central Portuguese coast is recognized as the region most vulnerable to coastal erosion in Portugal, with the actual loss of territory exceeding the forecasts […]