Data products & reports
Data products produced by our Coastal Monitoring and Analysis Program (CMAP) are publicly available. A selection of products from previous projects and research is available below.
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)
Related links
Contact information
George Kaminsky, PhD, PE
Coastal Engineer
george.kaminsky@ecy.wa.gov
360-407-6797