Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune Barrier Morphology- Elevation of Bear Island Sept 2011 ...

• Main Author: Rodriguez, Antonio
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem; Defense Coastal/Estuarine Research Program (DCERP) 2013
• Subjects: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; DCERP; SERDP; RESOURCE CONSERVATION; RC-2245; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY > TERRAIN ELEVATION > DIGITAL ELEVATION/TERRAIN MODEL DEM; Bear Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15485/1602217; https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1602217/

Critical military training and testing on lands along the nation’s coastal and estuarine shorelines are increasingly placed at risk because of encroachment pressures in surrounding areas, impairments due to other anthropogenic disturbances, and changes in climate and sea level. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) intends to enhance and sustain its training and testing assets and also optimize its stewardship of natural resources through the development and application of an ecosystem-based management approach on DoD installations. To accomplish this goal, particularly for installations in estuarine/coastal environments, the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) launched the Defense Coastal/Estuarine Research Program (DCERP) as a 10-year effort at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune (MCBCL) in North Carolina. The results of the second 5 years of the program (DCERP2) are presented in the DCERP2 Final Report.There were four overarching objectives of DCERP2. The first objective was to ...