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Publications and References

Below is a list of selected USGS, Coastal and Marine Geology Program publications for the U.S. Atlantic East Coast. To search for additional publications, please visit the Woods Hole Science Center's (WHSC) Publications website or the USGS Publications Warehouse.

• usSEABED: Atlantic Coast Offshore Surficial Sediment Data Release; 2005, Jamey M. Reid, Jane A. Reid, Chris J. Jenkins, Mary E. Hastings, S. Jeffress Williams, and Larry J. Poppe; U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 118, 1 CD-ROM
• U.S. Geological Survey East-Coast Sediment Analysis: Procedures, Database, and GIS Data; 2005, Edited By: L.J. Poppe, S.J. Williams, and V.F. Paskevich; U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1001, 1 DVD-ROM. This publication supersedes Open-File Report 00-358.
• Coastal vulnerability assessment of Gateway National Recreation Area to sea-level rise: 2005, Pendleton, E.A., Thieler, E.R., and Williams, S.J., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1257, Web Only.
• Coastal vulnerability assessment of Cape Hatteras National Seashore to sea-level rise: 2005, Pendleton, E.A., Thieler, E.R., and Williams, S.J., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1064, Web Only.
• Coastal vulnerability assessment of Assateague Island National Seashore to sea-level rise: 2004, Pendleton, E.A., Williams, S.J., and Thieler, E.R., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1020, Web Only.
• Coastal vulnerability assessment of Cumberland Island National Park to sea-level rise: 2004, Pendleton, E.A., Hammar-Klose, E.S., Thieler, E.R., and Williams, S.J., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1021, Web Only.
• Coastal vulnerability assessment of Fire Island National Seashore to sea-level rise: 2004, Pendleton, E.A., Williams, S.J., and Thieler, E.R., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-439, Web Only.
• Coastal vulnerability assessment of Cape Cod National Seashore to sea-level rise: 2003, Hammar-Klose, E.S., Pendleton, E.A., Thieler, E.R., and Williams, S.J., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-233, Web Only.
• Sea-floor Photography from the Continental Margin Program: A Pictorial Survey of Benthic Character and Habitats Along the U. S. East Coast, 2001, V. F. Paskevich, L. J. Poppe, M. E. Hastings, and J. C. Hathaway, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-154, 1 CD-ROM
• Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise: A Preliminary Database for the U.S. Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf of Mexico Coasts, 2001, Erika S. Hammar-Klose and E. Robert Thieler, U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-68, 1 CD-ROM
• USGS East Coast Sediment Analysis: Procedures, Database, and Georeferenced Displays, 2000, L.J. Poppe and C.F. Polloni, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-358, 1 CD-ROM. This publication is superseded by Open-File Report 2005-1001.
• A Marine GIS library for Massachusetts Bay with a focus on disposal sites, contaminated sediments, and sea-floor mapping, 2000, Bradford Butman and John A. Lindsay, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-439, 1 CD-ROM.
• GLORIA Sidescan Sonar Field Data and Navigation Data Collected off Puerto Rico in 1985 and the Eastern United States in 1987, 1998, David Twichell, Valerie Paskevich and Catherine M. Delorey, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-619
• Digital Mosaics of the GLORIA Sidescan Sonar Data of the U.S. Atlantic East Coast, 1997, V.F. Paskevich, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-853, 2 CD-ROMs.
• Atlas of GLORIA sidescan-sonar imagery of the Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States: EEZ-View, 1997, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-540
• Navigation and Geophysical Data Collected Onboard the R/V FAY from 1975 - 1976, 1997, V.F. Paskevich and N.K. Soderberg, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-512
• CD-ROM Atlas of the Deepwater Parts of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone in the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Eastern Caribbean Sea, 1993, D.C. Twichell and C.F. Polloni, U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-15.

Fact Sheets

• South Carolina Coastal Erosion Study
• The USGS Role in Mapping the Nation’s Submerged Lands
• Vulnerability of U.S. National Parks to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Change
• Sand distribution on the inner shelf south of Long Island, New York
• Geology of the Woods Hole area, Massachusetts- the story behind the landscape
• Habitat geology studies on and near Georges Bank, off New England
• Mapping the sea floor of the Historic Area Remediation Site (HARS) offshore of New York City
• National assessment of coastal vulnerability to future sea-level rise
• Contaminants and marine geology in the New York Bight: modern sediment dynamics and a legacy for the future
• Oculina Bank: Geology of a deep-water coral reef habitat off Florida
• Contaminated-sediment database development and assessment in Boston Harbor
• Mapping the Sea Floor Geology Offshore of the New York-New Jersey Metropolitan Area
• The Chesapeake Bay bolide impact: A new view of coastal plain evolution
• The Chesapeake Bay: Geologic Product of Rising Sea Level
• Contaminant distribution and accumulation in sediments of Long Island Sound - initial results
• Sedimentary environments in Long Island Sound: a guide to sea-floor management in a large urbanized estuary
• Mapping the Sea Floor and Biological Habitats of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Region
• Predicting the long-term fate of sediments and contaminants in Massachusetts Bay

Publications

• Contaminated Sediments Database for Long Island Sound and the New York Bight, 2003, Mecray, E.L., Reid, J.M., Hastings, M.E., and Buchholtz ten Brink, M.R., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-241.
• Photographs of the sea floor offshore of New York and New Jersey, 2003, Butman, B., Gutierrez, B.T., Buchholtz ten Brink, M.R., Schwab, W.C., Blackwood, D.S., and Middleton, T.J., 2003, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File-Report 01-470, DVD-ROM. ONLINE
• Topography, shaded relief, and backscatter intensity of the Hudson Shelf Valley, offshore of New York, 2003, Butman, B., Middleton, T.J., Thieler, E.R., and Schwab, W.C., 2003, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File-Report 03-372, DVD-ROM.
• Seafloor Characterization Offshore of the New York-New Jersey Metropolitan Area using Sidescan-Sonar, 2000, Schwab, W.C., Denny, J.F., Butman, B., Danforth, W.W., Foster, D.S., Swift, B.A., Lotto, L.L., Allison, M.A., Thieler, E.R. and Hill, J.C., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-295
• Sea-Floor Sediment Distribution Off Southern Long Island, New York, 2000, Schwab, W.C., Thieler, E.R., Denny, J.F., Danforth, W.W., and Hill, J.C., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-243
• Stratigraphic Framework Maps of the Nearshore Area of Southern Long Island from Fire Island to Montauk Point, New York, 1999, Foster, D.S., Swift, B.A. and Schwab, W.C., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-559.
• Multibeam Bathymetric and Backscatter Maps of the Upper Hudson Shelf Valley and Adjacent Shelf, Offshore of New York,1998, Bradford Butman, William W. Danforth, William C. Schwab, and Marilyn Buchholtz ten Brink, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-616
• Sidescan-Sonar Imagery of the Shoreface and Inner Continental Shelf, Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, 1998, E. Robert Thieler, William C. Schwab, Mead A. Allison, Jane F. Denny, and William W. Danforth, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-596
• Geology of the United States Seafloor: The View from GLORIA, 1996, Gardner, J.V., Field, M.E., Twichell, D.C. editors, Cambridge University Press, 371p.
• EEZ-Scan 84 Scientific Staff, 1986, Atlas of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone, Western Conterminous United States: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series I-1792, 152p., scale 1:500,000.
• EEZ-Scan 85 Scientific Staff, 1987, Atlas of the U. S. Exclusive Economic Zone, Gulf of Mexico and eastern Caribbean areas: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations I-1864-A, 104 p., scale 1:500,000.
• EEZ-Scan 87 Scientific Staff, 1991, Atlas of the U. S. Exclusive Economic Zone Atlantic Continental Margin: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series I-2054, 174p.