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Building Resilience Along a Changing Coast

Delivering accurate, field-based data to help communities and agencies make informed decisions and build coastal resilience.

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Our Mission:

To advance the understanding and protection of dynamic coastal systems through applied science.

What We Do:

High-accuracy coastal monitoring and geospatial services for shoreline mapping, marsh elevation, and data-driven coastal management.

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About FCES

Services

Diagram showing how a rod set measuring 3 to 25 meters deep can detect ground subsidence. It illustrates the root zone, elevation change, zone of shallow subsidence, deep subsidence, and the horizon surface, with markers indicating the horizon and vertical accretion.

Surface Elevation Table (SET)

High-precision measurements to track vulnerability to sea-level rise

Map showing shoreline erosion at Canaveral National Seashore from spring 2022 to fall 2022, with a legend indicating maximum and greatest erosion, a north arrow, and author credit to Abigail Gonzalez.

Shoreline Change

Tracking and projecting changes in shorelines

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Precision Mapping

High-accuracy GNSS and GIS mapping for coastal and wetland environments

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