Project Information

Title: ShoreZone Mapping for Prince William Sound 070805

Project Year and Number: 2007: 070805

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: None

Principal Investigator (PI): Mandy Lindeberg (NOAA )

Managing Agency: NOAA

Assisting Personnel: None

Research Location: Prince William Sound

Restoration Category: General Restoration

Injured Resources Addressed: Pacific Herring

Abstract: This proposal will continue ShoreZone mapping in Prince William Sound (PWS), Alaska. Approximately 8,400 km of shoreline has been mapped in the central Gulf of Alaska, including 1,600 km of shoreline in western PWS in 2004. The majority of the spill area inside PWS, including Knight island area and all of northern and eastern PWS have not been mapped. To support both future oil remediation efforts as well as restoration activities, such as possible herring intervention programs like moving spawn to rearing areas, would be supported by a single mapping protocol that included geomorphology, substrate type, as well as the biological substrate on all beaches. Completing PWS would fill the gap by providing a contiguous data set from across the entire spill area using a standard protocol. Most importantly, this data set will be useful to managers, as it combines photographs of the entire beach area, as well as having a data set that can be sorted by location, substrate type, and other factors. The ShoreZone data set is recognized as a significant tool for oil spill response planning, identifying essential fish and wildlife habitat, and for monitoring long-term changes in coastal habitat that may result from development, restoration, or even global climate change. Three 6-day aerial video imagery surveys (about 4,000 km of shoreline), mapping, ground-truthing, and nearshore fish sampling are proposed. Aerial video imagery would be completed in the first summer, mapping in the following winter, with ground truthing/fish sampling at a limited selection of sites the following summer.


Proposal: View (327 KB)

Reports:
Annual Report FY07: View (12,838 KB)
Annual Report FY08: View (743 KB)
Final Report: Final Report Not available. For current status, please contact us.

Publications from this Project: None Available

Datasets:
EVOSTC Data Archive: Received data disk from Mandy on 4/17/09