{
    "tag": 17508,
    "title": "Raster image of exposure potential to environmental health stressors in Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (32-bit GeoTIFF)",
    "pubdate": "2017",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "DOI:10.5066\/F7765CH1",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/whcmsc\/SB_data_release\/DR_F7765CH1\/scorr_EBFNWRp.faq.html",
    "format": null,
    "email": null,
    "descript": "Natural and anthropogenic contaminants, pathogens, and viruses are found in soils and sediments throughout the United States. Enhanced dispersion and concentration of these environmental health stressors in coastal regions can result from sea level rise and storm-derived disturbances. The combination of existing environmental health stressors and those mobilized by natural or anthropogenic disasters could adversely impact the health and resilience of coastal communities and ecosystems. This dataset displays the exposure potential to environmental health stressors in the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (EBFNWR), which spans over Great Bay, Little Egg Harbor, and Barnegat Bay in New Jersey, USA. Exposure potential is calculated with the Sediment-bound Contaminant Resiliency and Response (SCoRR) ranking system (Reilly and others, 2015) designed to define baseline and post-event sediment-bound environmental health stressors. Facilities obtained from the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s (EPA) Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) and Facility Registry Service (FRS) databases were ranked based on their potential contaminant hazard. Ranks were based in part on previous work by Olsen and others (2013), literature reviews, and an expert review panel. A 2000 meter search radius was used to identify nearby ranked facility locations.   As part of the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey has started a Wetland Synthesis Project to expand National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands. The intent is to provide federal, state, and local managers with tools to estimate their vulnerability and ecosystem service potential. For this purpose, the response and resilience of coastal wetlands to physical factors need to be assessed in terms of the ensuing change to their vulnerability and ecosystem services. EBFNWR was selected as a pilot study area.",
    "lang": null,
    "journal": null,
    "pwid": null,
    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Defne, Zafer",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Ganju, Neil K.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Jones, Daniel K.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Reilly, Timothy J.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Aquino, Kimberly C.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Carbo, Chelsea L.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Kaufhold, Erika E.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Benzel, William M.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Fisher, Shawn C.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Griffin, Dale W.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Iwanowicz, Luke R.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Loftin, Keith A.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
    "index_term": [
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "174",
            "name": "coastal ecosystems",
            "scope": "Biological communities and habitats within the narrow zones of land between the margin of oceans or seas and large landmasses."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1799",
            "name": "coastal processes",
            "scope": "Processes unique to coastal areas including longshore transport, beach erosion, storm surge, shoreline change, delta formation, barrier island migration, beach stabilization by vegetation"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "196",
            "name": "contaminant transport",
            "scope": "Processes involved in the movement of impurities through air, water, and soil."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "310",
            "name": "ecological processes",
            "scope": "Dynamic biogeochemical interactions that occur among and between biotic and abiotic components of the biosphere."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "320",
            "name": "ecotoxicology",
            "scope": "Scientific study of causes, dispersal, and effects of contaminants on the environment."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "343",
            "name": "environmental assessment",
            "scope": "The evaluation of the status of a specific ecosystem or geographic area and how a proposed change in management or a proposed project will affect that status."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1036",
            "name": "sedimentation",
            "scope": "Process of deposition of sediments (loose, uncemented pieces of rock, mineral fragments, or biological materials).  The sediments settle out of water or air into layers on a surface."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1326",
            "name": "wetland ecosystems",
            "scope": "Ecosystems whose soil is saturated for long periods seasonally or continuously, including marshes, swamps, and ephemeral ponds.  More detailed terms for wetlands can be selected from the FGDC Wetland Classification <http:\/\/fgdc.gov\/standards\/status\/sub3_4.html>."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1327",
            "name": "wetland functions",
            "scope": "Processes related to wetlands such as support of ecosystems, evaporation effects on weather, nutrient cycles, etc."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "012",
            "name": "inlandWaters",
            "scope": "Inland water features, drainage systems and characteristics, for example rivers and glaciers, salt lakes, water utilization plans, dams, currents, floods and flood hazards, water quality, hydrographic charts, watersheds, wetlands, hydrography"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "014",
            "name": "oceans",
            "scope": "Features and characteristics of salt water bodies (excluding inland waters), for example tides, tidal waves, coastal information, reefs, maritime, outer continental shelf submerged lands, shoreline"
        }
    ],
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    "image": [
        {
            "name": "https:\/\/www.sciencebase.gov\/catalog\/file\/get\/586eab1fe4b0f5ce109fcd98?name=scorr_EBFNWRp.png",
            "description": "Graphic that shows the exposure potential to environmental health stressors in the EBFNWR salt marsh complex overlaying Esri Shaded World Relief Map."
        }
    ],
    "fan": []
}