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The Dynamic Sands of North Core Banks: Hurricanes and Constant Change on Cape Lookout National Seashore
An interactive web product about hurricanes at North Core Banks, showcasing how USGS scientists monitor change in the landscape.
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This geonarrative features research focused on North Core Banks, a section of Cape Lookout National Seashore in North Carolina, and its history of change. After Hurricane Florence, the USGS started monitoring the Outer Banks, and after Hurricane Dorian, the USGS started working with the National Park Service to provide the park and the public information on the storm processes that put park resources at risk.
The geonarrative steps through barrier island morphology and hurricane processes and then a history of storm events on North Core Banks. It details the methods used by the USGS to monitor change, including the use of drones, sediment samples, and small remote-controlled boats. Finally, the narrative provides detailed examples of how Hurricane Dorian changed the landscape and how the island is recovering.
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Coastal Hazard Theme
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Publications
- Processing Coastal Imagery With Agisoft Metashape Professional Edition, Version 1.6—Structure From Motion Workflow Documentation
- Sound‐Side Inundation and Seaward Erosion of a Barrier Island During Hurricane Landfall
- Topographic, bathymetric, multispectral, vegetation, sediment, and supporting GPS data collected on North Core Banks, Cape Lookout National Seashore, North Carolina in October 2022, U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity 2022-034-FA (ver. 2.0, December 2023)
- Aerial photogrammetry data and products of the North Carolina coast
