GIS
Assessing spatial distributions and vulnerability of stored soil carbon in St. Jones and Blackbird Marshes
Delaware is home to extensive networks of tidal marshes, which provide an array of critical ecosystem services including carbon sequestration. These marshes accumulate carbon due to their relatively high plant productivity and relatively low rates of litter decomposition.
Morphology and Tidal Inundation of Tidal Wetlands in the Delaware Estuary
An expanse of tidal wetlands fringes the Delaware Estuary and provides Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey with abundant ecosystem services including habitat for indigenous and migrating plants and wildlife, biogeochemical cycling of nutrients, preserving water quality, flood hazard mitigation
Delaware StreamStats
The USGS StreamStats application is a valuable online, mapbased tool for water resource management and engineering design. StreamStats allows users to obtain drainage basin characteristics and peak streamflow statistics at any location along a stream, gaged and ungaged.
Development of Delmarva Fox Squirrel Habitat Maps from LiDAR Data for Sussex County, Delaware
The Delaware Geological Survey (DGS) is working with the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and E