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2022 Annual Report

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Mapping methane reduction potential of tidal wetland restoration in the United States

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Opportunities to improve alignment with the FAIR Principles for U.S. Geological Survey data

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Herring River, Wellfleet, MA

Calibrating optical turbidity measurements with suspended-sediment concentrations from the Herring River in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, from November 2018 to November 2019

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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center—2022 Annual Report.  The 2022 annual report highlights accomplishments, includes a list of publications, and summarizes the work of the center and each of the science groups.

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Sedimentological signatures of riverine-dominated phases in estuarine and barrier evolution along an embayed coastline: Chapter 15

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Ilya V. Buynevich, Duncan M. FitzGerald
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Thermal property measurements in Tetrahydrofuran (THF) hydrate and hydrate-bearing sediment between -25 and +4°C, and their application to methane hydrate

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William F. Waite, L.Y. Gilbert, William J. Winters, David H. Mason
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Survey explores active tectonics in northeastern Caribbean

There is renewed interest in studying the active and complex northeastern Caribbean plate boundary to better understand subduction zone processes and for earthquake and tsunami hazard assessments [e.g., ten Brink and Lin, 2004; ten Brink et al., 2004; Grindlay et al., 2005]. To study the active tectonics of this plate boundary, the GEOPRICO-DO (Geological, Puerto Rico-Dominican) marine geophysical

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A. Carbó, D. Córdoba, A. Muñoz-Martín, J.L. Granja, J. Martín-Dávila, A. Pazos, M. Catalán, M. Gómez, Uri S. ten Brink, Christa von Hillebrandt, J. Payero
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, 2020 Puerto Rico Earthquakes

Geologic framework, evolution, and sediment resources for restoration of the Louisiana Coastal Zone

The Louisiana Coastal Zone along the north-central Gulf of Mexico represents one of America's most important coastal ecosystems in terms of natural resources, human infrastructure, and cultural heritage. This zone also has the highest rates of coastal erosion and wetland loss in the nation because of a complex combination of natural processes and anthropogenic activities during the past century. I
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Mark Kulp, Shea Penland, S. Jeffress Williams, Chris Jenkins, Jim Flocks, Jack Kindinger
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St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

The Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 3.0, an ArcGIS extension for calculating historic shoreline cange

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E. Robert Thieler, Emily A. Himmelstoss, Jessica L. Zichichi, Tara L. Miller
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Processes influencing the transport and fate of contaminated sediments in the coastal ocean — Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay

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P. Soupy Alexander, Dann S. Blackwood, Jonathan Borden, Michael A. Casso, John Crusius, Joanne Goudreau, Linda H. Kalnejais, Paul J. Lamothe, William R. Martin, Marinna A. Martini, Sandra M. Milbert, Richard R. Rendigs, Frederick L. Sayles, Richard P. Signell, Page C. Valentine, John C. Warner
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Alaska Science Center, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Lake Mohave Geophysical Survey 2002: GIS Data Release

This CD-ROM contains sidescan-sonar imagery, sub-bottom reflection profiles, and an interpretive map derived from these data. These data were collected in Lake Mohave, a reservoir behind the Davis Dam and below the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. These data are veiwable within an Environmental system Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) Geographic Information system (GIS) ArcView 3.2 project file sto
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VeeAnn A. Cross, David S. Foster, David C. Twichell
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Project PROBE Leg II: Final report and archive of swath bathymetric sonar, CTD/XBT and GPS navigation data collected during USGS Cruise 03008 (NOAA Cruise RB0303) Puerto Rico Trench 18 February - 7 March, 2003

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Uri S. ten Brink, William Danforth, Christopher F. Polloni, Castle Eugene Parker, Toshihiko Uozumi, Glynn F. Williams
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

The Massachusetts Bay internal wave experiment, August 1998: Data report

This data report presents oceanographic observations made in Massachusetts Bay (fig. 1) in August 1998 as part of the Massachusetts Bay Internal Wave Experiment (MBIWE98). MBIWE98 was carried out to characterize large-amplitude internal waves in Massachusetts Bay and to investigate the possible resuspension and transport of bottom sediments caused by these waves. This data report presents a descri
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Bradford Butman, P. Soupy Alexander, Steven P. Anderson, Frances L. Lightsom, Alberto Scotti, Robert C. Beardsley
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St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Paleontology of the upper Eocene to quaternary postimpact section in the USGS-NASA Langley core, Hampton, Virginia

The USGS-NASA Langley corehole was drilled in 2000 in Hampton, Va. The core serves as a benchmark for the study of calcareous nannofossils, dinoflagellates, diatoms and silico flagellates, mollusks, ostracodes, planktonic foraminifera and bolboformids, and vertebrate remains in the upper Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene sediments in southeastern Virginia. These sediments were deposited aft
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Lucy E. Edwards, John A. Barron, David Bukry, Laurel M. Bybell, Thomas M. Cronin, C. Wylie Poag, Robert E. Weems, G. Lynn Wingard
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Volcano Hazards Program, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Volcano Science Center, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Project PROBE Leg I - Report and archive of multibeam bathymetry and acoustic backscatter , CTD/XBT and GPS navigation data collected during USGS Cruise 02051 (NOAA Cruise RB0208) Puerto Rico Trench September 24, 2002 to September 30, 2002

On September 24-30, 2002, six days of scientific surveying to map a section of the Puerto Rico Trench (PRT) took place aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship Ron Brown. The cruise was funded by NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration. Multibeam bathymetry and acoustic-backscatter data were collected over an area of about 25,000 sq. km of the Puerto Rico trench and its vi

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Uri S. ten Brink, Charles R. Worley, Shep Smith, Thomas Stepka, Glynn F. Williams
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Coastal vulnerability assessment of Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CAHA) to sea-level rise

A coastal vulnerability index (CVI) was used to map the relative vulnerability of the coast to future sea-level rise within Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CAHA) in North Carolina. The CVI ranks the following in terms of their physical contribution to sea-level rise-related coastal change: geomorphology, regional coastal slope, rate of relative sea-level rise, historical shoreline change rates, m
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Elizabeth A. Pendleton, E. Robert Theiler, S. Jeffress Williams
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center