Sea Floor Maps - Why do we care? Fisheries management, especially marine protected areas Characterization of benthic habitats and ecosystems Safe navigation and commerce Marine Spatial Planning Evaluating sites, offshore infrastructure (energy, aquaculture, etc.) Earthquake and tsunami sources hazard assessment Baselines for monitoring change and ecosystem restoration Coastal processes; sediment and contaminant budgets and transport Regional sediment management, coastal erosion High-resolution grid for circulation and sediment transport modeling (e.g., inundation from storm surge or tsunamis) Public education and awareness San Francisco Coastal Processes Natural and human-induced sediment transport and coastal erosion Establishing baselines and monitoring change - Mapping supports modeling Tsunami and storm inundation modeling and coastal change California Seafloor Mapping Program, Preliminary data courtesy of Fugro Pelagos California Seafloor Mapping Program Looking west under the Golden Gate Bridge. National Ocean and Coastal Mapping Planning Workshop Charleston, South Carolina - 11/09 Take home messages Success through partnerships and leveraging Seafloor mapping is foundational science Mapping has numerous important applications. Map once, use many times. You cant manage it, monitor it, or model it, if you dont know what the it is. Mapping saves $s. It is more expensive not to map than it is to map. Essential for Marine Spatial Planning California Seafloor Mapping Program California Ocean Protection Council California Coastal Conservancy California Geological Survey California Dept. of Fish and Game CSUMB Seafloor Mapping Lab Center for Habitat Studies, MLML Private sector (e.g., Fugro Pelagos, Inc.) Army Corps of Engineers NOAA Office of Coast Surveys NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service NOAA National Geophysical Data Center NOAA Coastal Services Center Minerals Management Service U.S. Geological Survey Coastal and Marine Geology Oregon State Waters Mapping Workshop March 18-19, 2008: Corvallis, OR, ~ 80 participants 1. Needs and uses 2. Current and planned mapping activities 3. Developing an Oregon Seafloor Mapping Plan Comprehensive map folio - Half Moon Bay, CA Progress California Seafloor Mapping Program Action 6.3: Complete a sea-floor map of the bathymetry, benthic substrate, relief, geology, and habitat of all state tidelands and submerged lands out to 3 miles