Presentations and Publications

Tutorials

• "Webinar, presented August 16 and 18, 2011.", by Dave Minkel, Michael Michalski and Scott Duncan

• "Webinar, presented March 2-3 and 9th, 2010.", by Dave Doyle, Gerald Hovis and Cristina Urizar

Publications

2025

• Tang, L., l. Shi, E. Meyers, I. Jeong, S. White, J. Riley, S. Peeri, N. Murry, L. Huang, M. Michalski, C. Fanelli, C. Hoang, D. Graham (2025). Regional VDatum Upgrade for the U.S. West Coast: Tidal Datums, Tides Assimilation, Spatially Varying Uncertainty, and Topography of the Sea Surface. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS CS 61.

2023

• Tolkova, E., L. Tang, J. Riley, I. Jeong, S. White (2023).  VDatum Update for Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay, and Adjacent Waters: Tidal Datums, Sea Surface Topography, and Their Spatially Varying Uncertainties. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS CS 55.

2022

• Wu, W., E. Myers, L. Shi, K. Hess, M. Michalski, S. White, I. Jeong (2022).  Update VDatum for the New York Bight, New York Harbor, Hudson River, Long Island Sound, and Narragansett Bay: Tidal Datums and their associated Spatially Varying Uncertainties, and Sea Surface Topography.

2016

• S. White, I. Jeong, Hess, K. (2016).  An Assessment of the Revised VDatum for Eastern Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.  NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS CS 38.
• Hess, K., S. White, I. Jeong (2016).  Update to the Tidal Data in VDatum for Eastern Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.  NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS CS 37.

2013

• Wang, J., E. Myers, I. Jeong, S. White (2013).  VDatum for the Coastal Waters of Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands:Tidal Datums, Marine Grid, and Sea Surface Topography.  NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS CS 33.
• Yang, Z., E. Myers, I. Jeong, S. White (2013). VDatum for the Gulf of Maine:Tidal Datums and Topography of the Sea Surface. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS CS 31.
• Hess, K., I. Jeong, S. White (2013). Revised VDatum For Eastern Florida. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS CS 30.
• Xu, J., E. Myers, I. Jeong, S. White (2013). VDatum For Coastal Waters of Texas and Western Louisiana: Tidal Datums and Topography of the Sea Surface. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS CS 29.

2012

• VDatum Manual for Development and Support of NOAA's Vertical Datum Transformation Tool, VDatum. Version 1. 01, June 2012.
  (This is not an Operational Manual of the Software)
• Yang, Z., E. Myers, I. Jeong, S. White (2012). VDatum For Coastal Waters From The Florida Shelf to the South Atlantic Bight: Tidal Datums, Marine Grids, And Sea Surface Topography. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS CS 27.

2011

2010

• Yang, Z., E. Myers, S. White (2010). VDatum For Eastern Louisiana And Mississippi Coastal Waters: Tidal Datums, Marine Grids, And Sea Surface Topography. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS CS 19.
• Yang, Z., E. Myers, S. White (2010). VDatum for Great South Bay, New York Bight And New York Harbor: Tidal Datums, Marine Grids, and Sea Surface Topography. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS CS 21.
• Xu, J., E. Myers, S. White (2010). VDatum for the Coastal Waters of North/Central California, Oregon and Western Washington: Tidal Datums and Sea Surface Topography. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS CS 22.

2009

2008

• Yang, Z., E. Myers, A. Wong, S. White (2008). VDatum for Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay and adjacent coastal water areas: Tidal datums and sea surface topography. NOAA Technical Report NOS.
• Yang, Z., K. Hess, A. Wong, E. Spargo, S. White, E. Myers (2008). VDatum for the Long Island Sound, Narragansett Bay, and New York Bight: Tidal datums, marine grids, and sea surface topography. NOAA Technical Report NOS.
• Spargo, E., S. White, and K. Hess (2008). VDatum for the northeast Gulf of Mexico from Mobile Bay, Alabama, to Cape San Blas, Florida: Tidal datum modeling and population of the marine grids. NOAA Technical Report NOS.
• Myers, E., J. Woolard, Z. Yang, and F. Aikman (2008). Development of a vertical datum transformation tool and a bathymetric/topographic digital elevation model for southern California. The Coastal Society Conference. Redondo Beach, CA.

2007

• Yang, Z. and E. Myers (2007). The Chesapeake and Delaware Bays VDatum development, and progress towards a national VDatum. U. S. Hydrographic Conference. Norfolk, VA.
• Yang, Z. and E. Myers (2007). Barotropic tidal energetics and tidal datums in the gulf of Maine. 10th Estuarine and Coastal Modeling Conference. Newport, RI.
• White, S. (2007). Utilization of LiDAR and NOAA’s vertical datum transformation tool (VDatum) for shoreline delineation. Proceedings of the Marine Technology Society /IEEE Oceans Conference, Vancouver, BC.
• Myers, E. K. Hess, Z. Yang, J. Xu, A. Wong, D. Doyle, J. Woolard, S. White, B. Le, S. Gill, G. Hovis (2007). VDatum and strategies for national coverage. Marine Technology Society / IEEE OCEANS Conference. Vancouver, BC.

2006

• Spargo, E. A., Hess, K. W., White S. A. (2006). VDatum for the San Juan Islands and Strait of Juan de Fuca with updates for Puget Sound: Tidal datum modeling and population of the grids. NOAA Technical Report NOS CS 23. 50 p.
• Myers, E. P., and Hess, K. W. (2006). Modeling of tidal datum fields in support of VDatum development along the north and central coasts of California.  NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS  CS 6. 15 p.
• Feyen, J., Hess, K., Spargo, E., Wong, A., White, S., Sellars, J., Gill, S. (2006).  Development of a continuous bathymetric/topographic unstructured coastal flooding model to study sea level rise in North Carolina.  Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling, M. Spaulding, editor: 338-356.

2005

• Spargo, E. A., and Woolard, J. W. (2005). VDatum for the Calcasieu river from Lake Charles to the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana: Tidal datum modeling and population of the grid. NOAA Technical Report NOSCS 19. 26 p.
• Myers, E. P. (2005). Review of progress on VDatum, a vertical datum transformation tool. Marine Technology Society / IEEE OCEANS Conference. Washington, D. C.
• Myers, E. P., Wong, A., Hess, K., White, S., Spargo, E., Feyen, J., Yang, Z., Richardson, P., Auer, C., Sellars, J., Woolard, J., Roman, D., Gill, S., Zervas, C., Tronvig, K. (2005). Development of a national VDatum, and its application to sea level rise in North Carolina. U. S. Hydrographic Conference. San Diego, California.
• Hess, K. W., Spargo, E., Wong, A., White, S. A., and Gill, S. K. (2005). VDatum for coastal North Carolina: Tidal datums, marine grids, and sea surface topography. NOAA Technical Report NOS CS 21. 46 p.

2004

• Roman, D. R., Y. M. Wang, W. Henning, and J. Hamilton (2004). Assessment of the new national geoid height model: GEOID 03. Proceedings of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, Nashville, Tennessee.
• Hess, K. W., and White, S. A. (2004). VDatum for Puget Sound: Generation of the grid and population with tidal datums and sea surface topography. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS CS 4. 27 p.
• Hess, K. W., Wilson, R., Roman, D., and Milbert, D. (2004). Final report on NOAA's work on the Southern Louisiana coastal topographic/bathymetric project. unpublished manuscript.
• Hess, K. W., White, S. A., Sellars, J., Spargo, E. A., Wong, A., Gill, S. K., and Zervas, C. (2004). North Carolina sea level rise project: Interim technical report. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS CS 5. 25 p.
• National Research Council (2004). A geospatial framework for the coastal zone: National needs for coastal mapping and charting - Report in brief. Washington, D. C. National Academies Press.

2003

• Parker, B., Hess, K. W., Milbert, D. G., and Gill, S. (2003). National VDatum - the implementation of a national vertical datum transformation database U. S. Hydrographic Conference. Biloxi, Mississippi.
• Parker, B. (2003). The difficulties in measuring a consistently defined shoreline – the problem of vertical referencing. Journal of Coastal Research Vol. 38. 44-56.
• Parker, B., Hess, K. W., Milbert, D. G., and Gill, S. (2003). A national vertical datum transformation tool. Sea TechnologyVol. 44(9). 10-15.
• Hess, K. W. (2003). Water level simulation in bays by spatial interpolation of tidal constituents, residual water levels, and datums. Continental Shelf Research Vol. 23. 395-414.
• Hess, K. W., and Gill, S. K. (2003). Puget Sound tidal datums by spatial interpolation. Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, American Meteorological Society, Seattle, Washington: Paper 6. 1, pp. 108-112.
• Hess, K. W., Milbert, D. G., Gill, S. K., Roman, D. R. (2003). Vertical datum transformations for Kinematic GPS Hydrographic surveys. U. S. Hydrographic Conference. Biloxi, Mississippi.

2002

• Parker, B. (2002). The integration of bathymetry, topography, and shoreline and the vertical datum transformations behind it. International Hydrographic ReviewVol. 3(3). 35-47.
• Milbert, D. G. (2002) Documentation for VDatum and a datum tutorial: Vertical datum transformation software, version 1. 06.
• Hess, K. W. (2002). Spatial interpolation of tidal data in irregularly-shaped coastal regions by numerical solution of laplace’s equation. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf ScienceVol. 54. 175-192.

2001

• Smith, D. A., and Roman, D. R. (2001). GEOID 99 and G99SSS: One arc-minute models for the United States. Journal of GeodesyVol. 75. 469-490.
• Parker, B., Milbert, D. G., Wilson, R., Hess, K. W., Bailey, J., Berry, R., Fowler, C., Gesch, D. (2001).  A Tampa Bay bathymetric / topographic digital elevation model with internally consistent shorelines for various datums.  Proceedings of the Twelfth Biennial International Symposium of the Hydrographic Society, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK: 11-11 through 11-11.
• Parker, B., Milbert, D. G., Wilson, R., Bailey, J., Gesch, D. (2001). Blending bathymetry with topography: The Tampa Bay demonstration project. U. S. Hydrographic Conference.
• Parker, B., Berry, R., Fowler, C., Bailey, J. (2001).  NOAA-USGS bathy / topo / shoreline Tampa Bay demonstration project. Proceedings of the Second Biennial Coastal GeoTools Conference, Charleston, South Carolina.
• Milbert, D. G. and Hess, K. W. (2001).  Combination of topography and bathymetry through application of calibrated vertical datum transformations in the Tampa Bay region.  Proceedings of the Second Biennial Coastal GeoTools Conference, Charleston, South Carolina.
• Hess, K. W. (2001). Generation of tidal datum fields for Tampa Bay and the New York Bight. NOAA Technical Report NOS CS 11. 43 p.
• Gesch, D. and R. Wilson (2001). Development of a seamless multisource topographic/bathymetric elevation model. and Figures.  ESRI Users Conference.
• Gesch, D. and R. Wilson (2001).  Development of a seamless multisource topographic / bathymetric elevation model for Tampa Bay.  Proceedings of the Second Biennial Coastal GeoTools Conference,Charleston,South Carolina.
• Gesch, D. and R. Wilson (2001). Development of a seamless multisource topographic / bathymetric elevation model for Tampa Bay. Marine Technology Society Journal 35(4).
• Parker, Bruce (2001). Where is the shoreline?Hydro International, July/August 2001, 6-9 p.

2000 and earlier

• Hess, K. W., R. A. Schmalz, C. Zervas, and W. C. Collier (1999). Tidal constituent and residual interpolation (TCARI): A new method for the tidal correction of bathymetric data. NOAA Technical Report NOS CS 4. 99 p.
• Hess, K. W. (1994). Tampa Bay oceanography project: Development and application of the numerical circulation model.  NOAA Technical Report NOS OES 005.
• Hess, K. W. (1993). Modeling astronomical tides and currents in Tampa Bay. Proceedings of the International Conference on Hydro Science and Engineering, Washington, D. C. : 1499-1506.