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Additional Information and Data

Partners

Accomack County
http://www.co.accomack.va.us/

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Accomack-Northampton Planning District Commission
http://a-npdc.org/wordpress/

Town of Chincoteague
http://www.co.accomack.va.us/

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
https://www.nasa.gov/

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National Park Service (NPS)
http://www.nps.gov/gis/

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The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
http://www.nature.org/

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US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
http://www.usace.army.mil/

US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)
http://www.fws.gov/
Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
www.vims.edu
Shoreline Studies Program
http://www.vims.edu/research/departments/physical/programs/ssp/index.php		 logo

Mapping Links

NOAA
Digital Coast – Provides coastal data, tools, training and information for coastal management communities
http://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/
Historical T-Sheets – Topographic sheets providing high-water line and may include planimetric data along the coast as well. This web page allows viewing and downloading of these T-Sheets and access to federal shoreline data.
https://shoreline.noaa.gov/data/index.html

Virginia Coastal Zone Management
Virginia Coastal Zone GEMS: Interactive map showing coastal datasets and resources

http://www.coastalgems.org/

FEMA
National Flood hazard layer as a digital geospatial version of the flood hazard panels FIRMS (Flood Insurance Rate Maps) published on paper

http://fema.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=cbe088e7c8704464aa0fc34eb99e7f30

USGS
Map locator and downloader for current and historical topographic sheets

http://historicalmaps.arcgis.com/usgs/

US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)
National Wetlands Inventory - This map shows wetland type and extent based on biological definition of wetlands and allows user to download the data

http://www.fws.gov/wetlands/Data/Mapper.html

US Army Corps of Engineers
This map allows users to view and download USACE datasets
http://corpsmapu.usace.army.mil/cm_apex/cm2.cm2.map


Information and Data

US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)

http://www.fws.gov/refuge/eastern_shore_of_virginia/

USFWS Geospatial Datasets
Access to digital datasets for viewing and downloading

http://www.fws.gov/gis/data/national/

National Park Service - maps, tools and other links to more digital geospatial data and information

http://www.nps.gov/gis/data_info/links.html

The Nature Conservancy - This site shows the global spatial data in GIS and Google Earth KML formats and interactive conservation maps

http://maps.tnc.org/gis_data.html

NOAA - ocean products and data produced from nautical charts that are useful for all projects, ocean related or not.

http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/staff/gisintro.htm

Virginia Coastal Zone Management: Gateway to Virginia coastal resource data, maps, policies, facts on coastal resource values and more.

http://www.deq.state.va.us/Programs/CoastalZoneManagement.aspx

USGS
Coastal change hazards portal
http://marine.usgs.gov/coastalchangehazardsportal/
Coastal Landscape Response to Sea-Level Rise
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/coastal_response/index.html
Hurricane Sandy Response-Estuarine Physical Response to Storms (Chincoteague Bay)
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/estuarine-physical-response/
Hurricane Sandy Response-Linking the Delmarva Peninsula's Geologic Framework to Coastal Vulnerability
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/delmarva/
Hurricane Sandy Response-Barrier Island and Estuarine Wetland Physical Change Assessment (Chincoteague Bay)

http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/sandy-wetland-assessment/