Data products & reports

Data products

• Southwest Washington and Oregon beach and shoreline change plots
• 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

• Shoalwater Bay berm monitoring: 2014-2016 assessment (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

• 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 useful, informative presentations highlighting previous projects and research about Washington’s coastal shorelines that are available upon request. They address a wide variety of topics such as:

• 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:

• 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)