Hurricane Damage to Coral Reefs Increases Future Flood Risk. The blue polygons show the results of NOAA surveys of damages to reefs after Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017 around San Juan, Puerto Rico. The white bars indicate expected flood risk in the 100-year floodplain before the hurricanes and the colored bar tops indicate how much risk has increased because of damages to reefs per 50,000 m2 (hexagon max width = 277 m). 

Map created in collaboration with Jessica Kendall-Bar and Chris Lowrie using data from UCSC & USGS  Report: Storlazzi et al. 2021 https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20211056