USGS Perspectives on Relative Sea Level Rise and

USGS Perspectives on Relative Sea Level Rise and Use of NOAA's Coastal Data, Products, and Services Presentation to: NOAA Hydrographic Services Review Panel Federal Advisory Committee Washington, DC, March 5 -7, 2019. Jack Eggleston, Ph. D, jegglest@usgs. gov Hydrologic Remote Sensing Branch USGS Water Mission Area

U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Resources Natural Hazards Energy and Minerals Land Resources Natural Resource Science Environmental Health Core Science Systems Ecosystems

U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Mission Area Water Hydrologic Modeling Resources Hydrologic Monitoring

USGS Use of NOAA–NOS Data Water Mission Area: • NOS elevation, geodetic, and tidal data are widely used • Surveying 10, 000 s of monitoring sites https: //webapps. usgs. gov/infrm/ • Tide and current data used in hydrodynamic models • Groundwater model boundaries • Forecasting effects of sea-level rise on water resources, landforms, and infrastructure Coastal flooding risk study, TX

USGS Use of NOAA–NOS Data Water Mission Area: Land Subsidence Studies • NOS geodetic data • Studying causes and patterns of land subsidence along coasts • Studying contribution of land subsidence to SLR

USGS Cooperative study with the Hampton Roads Sanitation District’s Sustainable Water Initiative for Tomorrow (SWIFT) Project

USGS Use of NOAA–NOS Data Ecosystems Mission Area: • Offshore missions are planned using NOS coastal and seafloor bathymetry data • Studies of fish movement and passage in Northeast rivers use NOS tide data • Studies of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease use NOS Florida Reef Tract maps USGS scientists installing fish tracking equipment at a tide gate • Studies of turtle disease use NOS stranding location data Release of a green sea turtle Release of a satellite-tagged hawksbill sea turtle

USGS Use of NOAA–NOS Data Core Science Systems Mission Area: USGS-National Geospatial Program works closely with NOAA-NOS-NGS • Interagency Working Group on Ocean and Coastal Mapping (IWGOCM) • Collaborative mapping and data collection, 3 DEP as prime example Lidar point cloud, San Juan, Puerto Rico

USGS Use of NOAA–NOS Data Natural Hazards Mission Area: • Includes Coastal/Marine Hazards & Resources Program (CMHRP)

USGS Use of NOAA–NOS Data Coastal/Marine Hazards and Resources Program (CMHRP): USGS coastal hydrodynamic and sediment transport models are based on NOS data • NOS data used • water levels, waves, currents, • sea surface temperatures and salinity • winds, atmospheric pressures • aerial imagery • Purpose: • Identify and evaluate SLR, spatial variations, and extreme coastal storm events and trends, • Quantify coastal hazards • Assess bathymetric changes over time

USGS Use of NOAA–NOS Data Coastal/Marine Hazards and Resources Program (CMHRP): • Sediment mapping and modeling Bedform Study of Assateague Island, MD and VA Pendleton and others, 2017

Joint NOS-USGS Coral Reef Work • • • Joint coral reef restoration science and efforts on US Coral Reef Task Force Funding provided by NOS to CMHRP via co-op Funding provided by CMHRP to NOS for field efforts on Puerto Rico CMHRP uses NOS biotic ecosystem data NOS uses CMHRP abiotic ecosystem data USGS CMHRP Coral Reef Project NOAA-NOS-Coral Reef Conservation Program

Questions? Meade River near Atkasuk AK (USGS station 15803000)