Environmental Quality and Contaminants
Environmental Quality and Contaminants
Hurricane floodwaters and inundation in urban environments have the potential to introduce and expose coastal and aquatic environments to chemical and microbial contaminants. USGS scientists characterize storm-released contaminants, the persistent risks of exposure and advance our understanding of contaminant impacts on ecosystem health.
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Promoting USGS Research on Environmental Impacts of a Major Storm – Hurricane Sandy
Support tasks performed by the WARC Advanced Applications Team for Hurricane Sandy-related projects include aerial imagery capture and processing, standards-compliant data formatting and transformation, metadata creation, and visualization of data in a spatial context.