WestBeaufort_sheltered_baselines.shp - Offshore baseline for the northern Alaska coastal region generated to calculate shoreline change rates along sheltered coastlines between the Colville River Delta and Point Barrow for the time period 1947 to 2005

• Main Author: U.S. Geological Survey
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2015
• Subjects: Baseline; Shoreline Change; Digital Shoreline Analysis System; DSAS; U.S. Geological Survey; USGS; Coastal and Marine Geology Program; CMGP; Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center; PCMSC; National Assessment of Shoreline Change Project; oceans; environment; geoscientificInformation; effects of coastal change; coastal processes; shoreline accretion; shoreline erosion; erosion; North Slope; Beaufort Sea; Barrow; Demarcation Bay; Jago River; Staines River; Sagavanirktok River; Colville River; Cape Halkett; Harrison Bay; Drew Point; Tangent Point; Smith Bay; Elson Lagoon; Peard Bay; Alaska; Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; United States; Arctic; National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska; NPR-A; ANWR; Pacific; north slope; Point Barrow
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/1f29cb3f-9b88-4c44-9278-63bff1fac249

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 accelera...