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issued: 2022-08-05T20:08:53.466986
modified: 2025-11-21T04:22:00.801571

Digital Data
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access URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1030/downloads/EastChukchi_sheltered_transects.zip
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issued: 2022-08-05T20:08:53.466993
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Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 4.3 transects with end-point rate calculations for sheltered shorelines between Point Barrow and Icy Cape for the time period 1947 to 2012
type: Dataset
contact point: Organization
  fn: Ann E. Gibbs
keyword: geo
keyword: elson-lagoon
keyword: amerigeo
keyword: north-america
keyword: jago-river
keyword: coastal-processes
keyword: pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center
keyword: national-petroleum-reserve-alaska
keyword: beaufort-sea
keyword: cmgp
keyword: alaska
keyword: shoreline-erosion
keyword: geoscientificinformation
keyword: npr-a
keyword: national
keyword: environment
keyword: demarcation-bay
keyword: historic-shoreline
keyword: peard-bay
keyword: dsas
keyword: oceans
keyword: shoreline
keyword: staines-river
keyword: anwr
keyword: geoss
keyword: shoreline-change-rate
keyword: united-states
keyword: tangent-point
keyword: chukchi-sea-ecoregion
keyword: transect
keyword: coastal-and-marine-geology-program
keyword: arctic-national-wildlife-refuge
keyword: cape-halkett
keyword: harrison-bay
keyword: drew-point
keyword: colville-river
keyword: arctic
keyword: digital-shoreline-analysis-system
keyword: effects-of-coastal-change
keyword: amerigeoss
keyword: barrow
keyword: usgs
keyword: u-s-geological-survey
keyword: shoreline-accretion
keyword: continental-island-shore-complex
keyword: north-slope
keyword: smith-bay
keyword: pcmsc
keyword: end-point-rate
keyword: ckan
keyword: sagavanirktok-river
keyword: accretion
keyword: erosion
keyword: baseline
theme: {geospatial}
description: The Arctic Coastal Plain of northern Alaska is an area of strategic economic importance to the United States, is home to remote Native American communities, and encompasses unique habitats of global significance. Coastal erosion along the north coast of Alaska is chronic, widespread, may be accelerating, and is threatening defense and energy-related infrastructure, natural shoreline habitats, and Native communities. There is an increased demand for accurate information regarding past and present shoreline changes across the United States. To meet these national needs, the Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is compiling existing reliable historical shoreline data along sandy shores of the conterminous United States and parts of Alaska and Hawaii under the National Assessment of Shoreline Change project. There is no widely accepted standard for analyzing shoreline change. Existing shoreline data measurements and rate calculation methods vary from study to study and prevent combining results into state-wide or regional assessments. The impetus behind the National Assessment project was to develop a standardized method of measuring changes in shoreline position that is consistent from coast to coast. The goal was to facilitate the process of periodically and systematically updating the results in an internally consistent manner.
issued: 2025-11-21T04:22:00.827113
modified: 20201019
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US Migrating
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