Data products & reports

Data products

• Southwest Washington and Oregon beach and shoreline change plots
• Coastal erosion hazard assessment using historical aerial imagery (2006-2019)
• Puget Sound beach and bluff high-resolution DEMs from boat-based Lidar
• Puget Sound grain size distribution derived from Cobble Cam
• Sea level rise maps
• Washaway Beach shoreline change prediction map

Reports

• Coastline Assessment to Support Ecological and Economic Resilience of a Tribal Community on the Northern Washington Coast – Olympic Coast, Makah Tribe (November 2022)
• North Cove Dynamic Revetment Monitoring: Winter 2018-2019 – Pacific County (June 2019)
• Mapping Bluffs and Beaches of Puget Sound to Quantify Sediment Supply using boat-based lidar (September 2018)
• Coastal morphology change in response to bulkhead removal at Edgewater Beach, South Puget Sound (February 2018)
• Shoalwater Bay berm monitoring: 2014-2016 assessment – Pacific County (August 2017)
• Mapping and monitoring bluff erosion with boat-based Lidar and the development of a sediment budget and erosion model for the Elwha and Dungeness littoral cells in Clallam County (July 2014)
• Multibeam echosounder and mobile laser scanning data report for Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning – Olympic Coast, Wahkiakum County, and mouth of the Columbia River (July 2013)
• 2012-2013 Olympic Peninsula open coast beach data collection – analysis, and archiving for Washington Department of Natural Resources Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning Project; done in support with Quinault and Quileute tribal governments (July 2013)

Publications

• Behaviour and performance of a dynamic cobble berm revetment during a spring tidal cycle in North Cove, Washington State, USA (Coastal Engineering, August 2021)
• Extreme oceanographic forcing and coastal response due to the 2015–2016 El Niño (Nature Communications, February 2017)
• Dual-head mapping: A dual-mount multibeam sonar installation is used to conduct extreme shallow-water surveys of intertidal sea floor to track morphologic change (xyHt magazine, August 2016)
• Historical evolution of the Columbia River littoral cell (Marine Geology, August 2010)

Presentations

We have a wide variety of informative presentations available upon request. They highlight previous projects and research about Washington’s coastal shorelines such as:

• Coastal monitoring of erosion hot spots in Pacific County (May 2024)
• Beach monitoring near Kalaloch in Olympic National Park for applications in nature-based coastal protection engineering designs (February 2024)
• Coastline change at Cape Alava spanning the Ozette Reservation for protection of recreational and cultural resources (February 2024)
• Sediment Transport and Bluff Erosion along South Beach, San Juan Island National Historical Park (February 2024)
• Evaluating Puget Sound Beach Services for Restoration and Protection (October 2023)
• Coastal stabilization and restoration along a high-energy eroded shoreline using nature-based features at North Cove, Washington (October 2023)
• Monitoring a nature-based dynamic revetment in a high-energy marine environment (October 2023)
• Using Boat-Based LiDAR and Structure-from-Motion to Analyze Erosion and Morphology of Bluffs at Dungeness, WA (April 2023)
• A Quarter Century (1997-2022) of Nearshore-Beach-Dune Observations: Coastal Change in the Columbia River Littoral Cell (December 2022)
• Coastal zone mapping and monitoring (March 2017)
• Coastal impacts of the 2015-2016 El Niño winter (July 2016)
• Increasing coastal resiliency of bluff-top development through high-resolution imagery and information (April 2016)
• Coastal zone mapping along the Elwha drift cell, Central Strait of Juan de Fuca (April 2016)
• High resolution bathymetric and topographic survey to inform restoration efforts in Port Gamble Bay (April 2016)
• A geospatial approach to prioritizing drift cells for strategic protection, restoration and enhancement (April 2016)
• Mobile laser scanning and multi-beam sonar for coastal zone mapping and resource management (March 2013)

Posters

In addition to presentations, we also have a number of useful posters available upon request. They provide information about various topics including:

• Columbia River littoral cell beach monitoring: Informing coastal resilience work (March 2024)
• Coastal erosion hazard assessment results along the Strait of Juan de Fuca shoreline of Clallam County, WA (April 2022)
• Delineating and monitoring bluff toe positions from boat based lidar to quantify morphology change at Edgewater Beach, WA (April 2022)
• West Whidbey Island bluff change between 2015, 2018, and 2021 from boat-based lidar (April 2022)
• West Whidbey Island topo-bathymetric survey reveals diversity of nearshore sediment, morphology, and habitat (April 2022)
• Integration of survey platforms and methods for mapping an extremely shallow river channel reservoir for water resource management (March 2017)
• High resolution bathymetric and topographic survey to inform restoration efforts in Port Gamble Bay (April 2016)
• Initial characterization and comparison of beach sediment throughout Puget Sound (April 2016)
• Initial comparison of armored and unarmored beaches from boat-based Lidar (April 2014)
• Mobile laser scanning and mult-ibeam sonar for coastal zone mapping and resource management (March 2013)