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The U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center’s (USGS SPCMSC) Core Archive in St. Petersburg, FL contains a collection of coral-reef cores collected from throughout the Florida Keys reef tract (FKRT; Fig. 1). In a previous study (Toth and Stathakopoulos, 2019), USGS researchers analyzed the upper, Holocene (~11,700 years ago to present) sections of those...

As part of the Breton Island Post Construction Monitoring project, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center conducted a nearshore geophysical survey in August 2024 to map the borrow site created during the Breton Island, Louisiana (LA) restoration effort that began in December 2020. The restoration effort was part of the Deepwater...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) deployed a series of oceanographic instruments at Madeira Beach, Florida configured to measure water levels, temperature, waves, and three-dimensional flow velocities throughout the water column. The instruments include (1) Spotter wave buoys with Smart Mooring (2) RBR pressure loggers, and (3) RDI Sentinel-V Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP)...

Location and elevation data were collected along with peat auger cores during six U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) field activities from 2013-2018 in and around Grand Bay, Mississippi (MS) and Alabama (AL) and used by Smith and others (2024). Peat auger cores were described, photographed, and the thickness of the peat unit was measured with a measuring tape. Following collection, the...

In 2021, a collaborative scientific investigation (National Science Foundation Grant Award OCE-2148989, Project 880516) was stated for the purpose of quantifying shelf inventories and boundary fluxes of dissolved organic nitrogen and dissolved iron to the West Florida Shelf (WFS) to assess their role in supporting the oligotrophic WFS ecosystem. To assess the spatial and temporal...

Coastal shorelines commonly have recurring patterns of retreat and recovery that are related to annual patterns in wave climate. To assist with investigations of these seasonal cycles, we have analyzed shoreline position and wave data for the beaches of California to generate a series of metrics that describe the magnitude and timing of seasonal patterns of the shoreline and offshore...

This dataset, collected and prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (USGS - SPCMSC), includes sea turtle nesting decision point locations and cross-shore beach profiles at those locations. The data were collected by a person walking with a survey backpack equipped with a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and GPS antenna. The surveys...

This data release contains tidally corrected shoreline positions for three sites of western Long Island, NY (Rockaway Peninsula, Long Beach, and Jones Beach Island). Both CSV files of tidally corrected shorelines and GeoJSON files of the region of interests (ROIs), transects, and reference shorelines are provided within respective zip files. Both file types are derived from CoastSeg v1.1...

This data release presents aerial imagery and digital topography to support a geohazards assessment for an area of Sequoia National Park affected by debris flows in January 2023. Multiple atmospheric-river storms brought heavy precipitation to Sequoia National Park and the surrounding region in December 2022 and January 2023, triggering slope failures. Storm rainfall on January 9, 2023...

Ferromanganese crusts, nodules, and coated cobbles were collected via ROV from seamounts off the coast of Hawaii and within the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (PMNM) in the Pacific Ocean during E/V Nautilus expeditions NA134 and NA138 in 2021 and 2022, respectively. Ferromanganese rock samples were sent to USGS for subsampling, major and trace element geochemical analyses...

This data release presents digital elevation models (DEMs) derived from bathymetric and topographic measurements collected offshore of Santa Cruz, CA, from 2014 to 2024. Bathymetry data were collected using two personal watercraft (PWCs), each equipped with single-beam echosounders and survey-grade global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers. Topography data were collected on...

Two DJI M600 small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (sUAS) were used to collect aerial remote sensing data over various locations within the Lower Darby Creek Superfund Site and the adjacent John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge (NWR). Datasets included natural (RGB) color images, multispectral images, and LiDAR Point Clouds (LPCs). These data were processed to produce high resolution digital...