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Distribution and mapping of the snail Cerithideopsis (Cerithidea) californica at Carpinteria Salt Marsh, California USA, June to August 2012 We collected detailed spatial data on the density and size distribution of intertidal snails as part of a broader effort to understand food webs in California estuaries. The survey area was Carpinteria Salt Marsh, California USA, which comprises 9 Ha tidal channels, 2 Ha salt flats, 17 Ha upland habitat, 6 Ha tidal pans, 52 Ha vegetated marsh, 2 Ha tidal flats. Using nearly 4,000 transects in potential snail habitat, we mapped snails throughout the estuary. Specifically, we systematically placed transects at intervals stratified within targeted habitat types: channels, pans, or marsh (or planar habitat that was mixed marsh and pan). At a quarter of the quadrats, we also estimated snail size-frequency distributions.... Categories: Data; Tags: California, Carpinteria, Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, Santa Barbara County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... distribution, estuary, habitat, mapping, salt marsh, snail, trematodes, Fewer tags A subset of 2017 Louisiana Coastal Master Plan model output to estimate climate change mitigation potential of Louisiana’s coastal area A subset of the Louisiana's 2017 Coastal Master Plan model output was used to estimate the potential climate mitigation role of Louisiana’s coastal area. Model output of surface water salinity, land/water classification, and area of eight habitats for elapsed years of 6, 11, 16, 26, and 36 were post-processed to estimate habitat areas at years of 2020, 2025, 2030, 2040, and 2050, that align with the Governor of Louisiana’s greenhouse gas reduction targets. In addition, the Louisiana coastal boundary and a static mask of upland and developed area were used to define the coastal area. The modeled habitat areas with literature review of net ecosystem carbon balance fluxes per habitat were used in an analytical framework... Tags: Aquatic Biology, Botany, Climatology, Ecology, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Land Use Change, Louisiana, Louisiana Coastal, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, carbon sequestration, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, coastal submergence, environment, estuary, habitats, inlandWaters, wetlands, Fewer tags Sedimentary data from the lower Pascagoula River, Mississippi, USA Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center investigated the sedimentary and geochemical properties of the lower reaches of the Pascagoula River along the Mississippi coast of the Gulf of Mexico by collecting estuarine, riverine and marsh sediments. This was done in order to increase understanding of the region's environmental history, describe the long-term (millennial-scale) depositional history, and identify sedimentary intervals associated with extreme marine intrusions. To this end, the group obtained long sediment cores, shovel-dug sediment slabs and marsh and riverine channel/estuarine surface samples from a north-south transect along the river edge from... Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Geochemistry, Geomorphology, Hurricane Katrina, Marine Geology, All tags... Pascagoula, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), estuary, fresh-brackish-salt marsh, geology, geoscientificInformation, isotopes, location, sediment, stratigraphy, unconsolidated deposits, Fewer tags 2008 - Present Ecosystem History of South Florida's Estuaries Database (ver. 2.0, June 2022) The 2008 - Present Ecosystem History of South Florida's Estuaries Database contains listings of all sites (modern and core) and modern monitoring site survey information (water chemistry, floral and faunal data, etc.). Three general types of data are contained within this database: 1) Modern Field Data (2008-present), 2) Master list of location information on all modern sites, and 3) Core data - location information. Data are available for modern sites (from 2008 to present) and cores in the general areas of Florida Bay, Biscayne Bay, and the southwest (Florida) coastal mangrove estuaries. Specific sites in the Florida Bay area include Taylor Creek, Bob Allen Key, Russell Bank, Pass Key, Whipray Basin, Rankin Bight,... Categories: Data Release - Revised; Tags: 002, 004, 007, 008, 012, All tags... 014, Alinas Reef, Alligator Bay, Arsenicker Bank, Arsenicker Key, Arsenicker Shoal, Barnes Key, Big Cypress National Preserve, Big Lostmans Bay, Biscayne Bay, Black Creek Canal, Black Point, Black Point Creek Canal, Bob Allen Key, Bottle Key, Broad River, Broad River Bay, Broward County, Buchanan Bank, Butternut Key, Buttonwood Keys, C-111 Canal, Caesars Cut, Cape Sable, Card Bank, Central Everglades, Chicken Key, Chokoloskee Bay, Clive Key, Collier County, Convoy Point, Crab Keys, Crocodile Point, Dead Terrapin Basin, Dragover Bank, Duck Key, Everglades National Park, FL, Featherbed Bank, Florida, Florida Bay, Florida City Canal, Florida Keys, Gopher Pass, Goulds Canal, Gun Rock Point, Harney River, Huston River, Ironwood Channel, Jim Foot Key, Johnson Key, Lake Key, Lignumvitae Basin, Little Blackwater Sound, Little Madeira Bay, Long Sound, Lostmans River, Manatee Bay, McCormick Creek, Miami-Dade County, Middle Key Basin, Military Canal, Monroe County, Monroe Lake, Mowry Canal, Nest Key, North Canal, North Prong Otter Creek, North River, Old Dan Bank, Old Sweat Bank, Otter Creek, Oyster Bay, Park Key, Pass Key, Pavillion Key, Pelican Bank, Peterson Keys, Ponce de Leon Bay, Porjoe Key, Princeton Canal, Prong Creek, Rabbit Key, Rabbit Key Basin, Rankin Basin, Rankin Lake, Roberts River, Rodgers River Bay, Russell Key, SW Big Cypress, Samphire Keys, Schooner Bank, Shark River, Shell Creek, Sid Key, South East Coast, Sprigger Bank, Spy Key, Storter Bay, Tarpon Bay, Taylor Creek, Trout Creek, US, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Whipray Basin, White Water Bay, biology, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, conservation paleobiology, diatoms, ecology, ecology, ecosystem history, environment, estuary, foraminifera, gastropods, geography, geologic core, geology, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, molluscs, mollusks, oceans, ostracodes, paleoecology, paleontology, pelecypods, pollen, salinity, sedimentology, vegetation, Fewer tags LEAN-Corrected DEM for Suisun Marsh Lidar-derived digital elevation models often contain a vertical bias due to vegetation. In areas with tidal influence the amount of bias can be ecologically significant, for example, by decreasing the expected inundation frequency. We generated a corrected digital elevation mode (DEM) for Suisun marsh using a modification of the Lidar Elevation Adjustment with NDVI (LEAN) technique (Buffington et al. 2016). GPS survey data (6912 points, collected across public and private land in 2018), Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) derived from an airborne multispectral image (June 2018), a 1 m lidar DEM from September 2018, and a 1 m canopy surface model were used to generate models of predicted bias across the... Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Remote Sensing, San Francisco Bay Estuary, Suisun marsh, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), digital elevation models, All tags... elevation, estuary, lidar, wetlands, Fewer tags LEAN-corrected San Francisco Bay Digital Elevation Model, 2018 Lidar-derived digital elevation models often contain a vertical bias due to vegetation. In areas with tidal influence the amount of bias can be ecologically significant, for example, by decreasing the expected inundation frequency. We generated a corrected digital elevation mode (DEM) for tidal marsh areas around San Francisco Bay using the Lidar Elevation Adjustment with NDVI (LEAN) technique (Buffington et al. 2016). Survey-grade GPS survey data (6614 points), NAIP-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, and original 1 m lidar DEM from 2010 were used to generate a model of predicted bias across tidal marsh areas. The predicted bias was then subtracted from the original lidar DEM and merged with the NOAA... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Remote Sensing, San Francisco Bay, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, digital elevation models, All tags... estuary, lidar, wetlands, Fewer tags Estuarine drainage area boundaries for the conterminous United States To quantify the potential for landward migration at the estuary level, we developed a geospatial dataset for the conterminous United States (CONUS) that identifies the boundaries for estuarine drainage areas. Nine estuarine drainage areas in south Florida were delineated using data developed by the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD 2018). For the rest of CONUS, we used information contained within the National Fish Habitat Action Plan (NFHAP) - Coastal Spatial Framework (CSF) (National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science 2021). The original NFHAP-CSF data included 612 drainage areas, which were too many for our purposes. Therefore, we merged smaller drainage areas with larger, adjacent drainage areas... Tags: Alabama, Aquatic Biology, Atlantic coast, Botany, California, All tags... Climatology, Connecticut, Conterminous United States, Contiguous United States, Delaware, District of Columbia, East coast, Ecology, Florida, Georgia, Gulf of Mexico coast, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pacific coast, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Virginia, Washington, West coast, biota, boundaries, coastal, coastal drainage area, environment, estuarine drainage area, estuary, Fewer tags Potential landward migration of coastal wetlands in response to sea-level rise within estuarine drainage areas and coastal states of the conterminous United States We quantified the potential area available for landward migration of tidal saline wetlands and freshwater wetlands due to sea-level rise (SLR) at the estuary scale for 166 estuarine drainage areas and at the state scale for 22 coastal states and District of Columbia. We used 2016 Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) data in combination with the future wetland migration data under the 1.5 m global SLR scenario to evaluate the potential for wetland migration into all the individual C-CAP classes and into the following six land cover categories: (1) freshwater forest (wetland); (2) freshwater marsh (wetland); (3) terrestrial forest (upland); (4) terrestrial grassland (upland); (5) agricultural croplands (upland);... Categories: Data; Tags: Alabama, Aquatic Biology, Atlantic coast, California, Climatology, All tags... Connecticut, Conterminous United States, Contiguous United States, Delaware, District of Columbia, East coast, Ecology, Florida, Forestry, Georgia, Gulf of Mexico coast, Hydrology, Land Use Change, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pacific coast, Pennsylvania, Remote Sensing, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Virginia, Washington, West coast, biota, coastal, coastal drainage area, coastal wetland, environment, estuarine drainage area, estuary, freshwater wetland, tidal saline wetland, wetland migration, Fewer tags Monthly Trematode Infections of the Snail Cerithideopsis (Cerithidea) californica at Carpinteria Salt Marsh, California USA, February 2012 to January 2014 Each month (except March 2012), we collected detailed data on the infection status of intertidal snails from ten fixed sites as part of a broader effort to understand food webs in California Estuaries. The study site was Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, California USA, (University of California Natural Reserve System), which comprises 9 Ha tidal channels, 2 Ha salt flats, 17 Ha upland habitat, 6 Ha tidal pans, 52 Ha vegetated marsh, 2 Ha tidal flats. Each site was a fixed location in channel or flat habitat, with a diameter approximately 50 m in size, centered at the site location marker used in Kuris et al. (2008). At each site/month, we collected, measured, sexed, and dissected ~58 snails (11,643 dissections total,... Categories: Data; Tags: California, Carpinteria, Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, Santa Barbara County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... distribution, estuary, habitat, mapping, salt marsh, snail, trematodes, Fewer tags Monthly densities of the snail Cerithideopsis (Cerithidea) californica at Carpinteria Salt Marsh, California USA, February 2012 to January 2014 Each month (except March 2012), we collected detailed data on the density, size distribution, and infection status of intertidal snails from ten fixed sites as part of a broader effort to understand food webs in California Estuaries. The study site was Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, California USA, (University of California Natural Reserve System), which comprises 9 Ha tidal channels, 2 Ha salt flats, 17 Ha upland habitat, 6 Ha tidal pans, 52 Ha vegetated marsh, 2 Ha tidal flats. Each site was a fixed location in channel or flat habitat, with a diameter approximately 50m in size, centered at the site location marker used in Kuris et al. (2008). At each site/month, we collected, measured, sexed, and dissected ~58... Categories: Data; Tags: California, Carpinteria, Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, Santa Barbara County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... density, distribution, estuary, habitat, mapping, salt marsh, snail, trematodes, Fewer tags LEAN-Corrected Collier County DEM for wetlands Lidar-derived digital elevation models often contain a vertical bias due to vegetation. In areas with tidal influence the amount of bias can be ecologically significant, for example, by decreasing the expected inundation frequency. We generated a corrected digital elevation model (DEM) for wetlands throughout Collier county using a modification of the Lidar Elevation Adjustment with NDVI (LEAN) technique (Buffington et al. 2016). GPS survey data (15,223 points), NAIP-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (2010), a 10 m lidar DEM from 2007, and a 10 m canopy surface model were used to generate a model of predicted bias across marsh, mangrove, and cypress habitats. The predicted bias was then subtracted from... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Collier county, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, cypress, All tags... digital elevation models, estuary, lidar, mangroves, marsh, wetlands, Fewer tags Maumee River, Toledo, Ohio Mixing Data 2013 These data were collected to examine water mixing in the lower Maumee River to determine the extent to which water from Lake Erie backflows into the river, and under what conditions this occurs. We used a combination of fixed hydrologic gauges; water chemistry including stable isotopes and conservative tracers; and direct physical measurements to estimate the percentages of lake and river water at both fixed sites and transects. Those results were compared with concurrent flows and estimates of seiche activity. Data suggest that during 2013 mixing did occur, but was confined to the lowest river reach within the city limits of Toledo, Ohio. This tabular data set could be used for any questions involving large river... Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Great Lakes, Maumee River, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, All tags... biota, environment, estuary, inlandWaters, mixing, rivermouth, Fewer tags Blackwater LEAN-Corrected Chesapeake Bay Digital Elevation Models, 2019 Lidar-derived digital elevation models often contain a vertical bias due to vegetation. In areas with tidal influence the amount of bias can be ecologically significant, for example, by decreasing the expected inundation frequency. We generated a corrected digital elevation model (DEM) for the area surrounding Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Chesapeake Bay using a modification of the Lidar Elevation Adjustment with NDVI (LEAN) technique (Buffington et al. 2016). GPS survey data (3699 points, collected across four tidal marsh sites in Chesapeake Bay (Eastern Neck, Martin, Bishops Head, and Blackwater) in 2010 and 2017. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) derived from an airborne multispectral image... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Chesapeake Bay, biota, digital elevation models, estuary, lidar, All tags... wetlands, Fewer tags Southwest Everglades coastal soil pore water data Everglades National Park 1997-2012 Soil porewater (30cm and 60cm depth) was sampled for specific conductance, salinity and temperature in the southwest coastal Everglades, Everglades National Park from 1997-2012 at four sampling locations. Principal sampling location (HR) was located adjacent the Harney River and had five sampling sites (~ 60m apart) along a 300m N-S transect in a coastal mangrove fringe forest sampled from 1997-2011. Porewater was sampled from 2002-2012 at three secondary locations: Tarpon Bay (TB), Shark River (SR) and Shark Slough (SS). At each of these sampling locations, there were at least three 30cm and three 60cm porewater sampling pipes. Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Estuary, Everglades, Hydrology, Mangrove, All tags... National Park, Peat, Porewater, Salinity, Soil, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Wetland, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, environment, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags Carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis of Diamondback terrapin tissues, vegetative, and benthic invertebrate resources within Barnegat Bay, New Jersey during 3 sampling sessions between 2011-2019 This dataset represents stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic information from tissue samples collected from diamondback terrapins, potential prey items, and vegetation from 6 salt marsh sites (4 mainland, 2 island) within a 30 km section of southern Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, USA. Red blood cells were collected from terrapins in 2011 (mature females), and whole blood samples were collected in 2015 and 2019 from mature males and females and immature females. Vegetation and invertebrates prey samples were collected within proximity of terrapin capture sites in 2015 and 2019. Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Barnegat Bay, Ecology, New Jersey Coastal, Salt Marsh, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, benthic ecosystems, carbon isotope analysis, community ecology, ecosystem monitoring, estuary, farming, hurricanes, light stable isotope analysis, wetlands, Fewer tags Landward migration of tidal saline wetlands with sea-level rise and urbanization: a comparison of northern Gulf of Mexico estuaries Coastal wetland ecosystems are expected to migrate landward in response to accelerated sea-level rise. However, due to differences in topography and coastal urbanization extent, estuaries vary in their ability to accommodate wetland migration. The landward movement of wetlands requires suitable conditions, such as a gradual slope and land free of urban development. Urban barriers can constrain migration and result in wetland loss (coastal squeeze). For future-focused conservation planning purposes, there is a pressing need to quantify and compare the potential for wetland landward movement and coastal squeeze. For 41 estuaries in the northern Gulf of Mexico (i.e., the USA gulf coast), we quantified and compared... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Alabama, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, All tags... North America, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, South Central CASC, Southeast CASC, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water, Coasts and Ice, Wetlands, biota, climate change, climate change, effects of climate change, environment, estuaries, estuary, natural resource management, planning Cadastre, sea level change, sea-level change, wetlands, wetlands, Fewer tags Bird Distribution Surveys at Carpinteria Salt Marsh, California USA, January 2012 to March 2013 We collected spatial data on birds as part of a broader effort to understand food webs in California Estuaries. The survey area was Carpinteria Salt Marsh, California USA, which comprises 9 Ha tidal channels, 2 Ha salt flats, 17 Ha upland habitat, 6 Ha tidal pans, 52 Ha vegetated marsh, and 2 Ha tidal flats. A fixed transect was walked and birds were mapped if they were in the intertidal habitat. We also included some species, like raptors, if they were perched in adjacent upland habitats, but potentially interact with the estuary. With GIS, these data can be used to evaluate bird distributions, by species, in space and time, in this habitat. There are two data files in this release (1) Bird distribution surveys... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: California, Carpinteria, Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, Santa Barbara County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... bird, distribution, estuary, habitat, mapping, salt marsh, trematodes, Fewer tags 1995 - 2007 Ecosystem History of South Florida's Estuaries Database (ver. 1.1, June 2022) The 1995 - 2007 Ecosystem History of South Florida's Estuaries Database contains listings of all sites (modern and core), modern monitoring site survey information (water chemistry, floral and faunal data, bottom type, etc.), and published core data. Three general types of data are contained within this database: 1) Modern Field Data (1995-2007), 2) Master list of location information on all modern sites, and 3) Core data - faunal assemblages and location information. Data are available for modern sites and cores in the general areas of Florida Bay, Biscayne Bay, and the southwest (Florida) coastal mangrove estuaries. Specific sites in the Florida Bay area include Taylor Creek, Bob Allen Key, Russell Bank, Pass... Categories: Data Release - Revised; Tags: 002, 004, 007, 008, 012, All tags... 014, Alinas Reef, Alligator Bay, Arsenicker Bank, Arsenicker Key, Arsenicker Shoal, Barnes Key, Big Cypress National Preserve, Big Lostmans Bay, Biscayne Bay, Black Creek Canal, Black Point, Black Point Creek Canal, Bob Allen Key, Bottle Key, Broad River, Broad River Bay, Broward County, Buchanan Bank, Butternut Key, Buttonwood Keys, C-111 Canal, Caesars Cut, Cape Sable, Card Bank, Central Everglades, Chicken Key, Chokoloskee Bay, Clive Key, Collier County, Convoy Point, Crab Keys, Crocodile Point, Dead Terrapin Basin, Dragover Bank, Duck Key, Everglades National Park, FL, Featherbed Bank, Florida, Florida Bay, Florida City Canal, Florida Keys, Gopher Pass, Goulds Canal, Gun Rock Point, Harney River, Huston River, Ironwood Channel, Jim Foot Key, Johnson Key, Lake Key, Lignumvitae Basin, Little Blackwater Sound, Little Madeira Bay, Long Sound, Lostmans River, Manatee Bay, McCormick Creek, Miami-Dade County, Middle Key Basin, Military Canal, Monroe County, Monroe Lake, Mowry Canal, Nest Key, North Canal, North Prong Otter Creek, North River, Old Dan Bank, Old Sweat Bank, Otter Creek, Oyster Bay, Park Key, Pass Key, Pavillion Key, Pelican Bank, Peterson Keys, Ponce de Leon Bay, Porjoe Key, Princeton Canal, Prong Creek, Rabbit Key, Rabbit Key Basin, Rankin Basin, Rankin Lake, Roberts River, Rodgers River Bay, Russell Key, SW Big Cypress, Samphire Keys, Schooner Bank, Shark River, Shell Creek, Sid Key, South East Coast, Sprigger Bank, Spy Key, Storter Bay, Tarpon Bay, Taylor Creek, Trout Creek, US, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Whipray Basin, White Water Bay, biology, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, conservation paleobiology, diatoms, ecology, ecology, ecosystem history, environment, estuary, foraminifera, gastropods, geography, geologic core, geology, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, mollusks, mollusks, oceans, ostracodes, paleoecology, paleontology, pelecypods, pollen, salinity, sedimentology, vegetation, Fewer tags LEAN-Corrected Chesapeake Bay Digital Elevation Models, 2019 Lidar-derived digital elevation models often contain a vertical bias due to vegetation. In areas with tidal influence the amount of bias can be ecologically significant, for example, by decreasing the expected inundation frequency. We generated a corrected digital elevation mode (DEM) for Chesapeake Bay using a modification of the Lidar Elevation Adjustment with NDVI (LEAN) technique (Buffington et al. 2016). GPS survey data (3699 points, collected across four tidal marsh sites (Eastern Neck, Bishops Head, Martin, and Blackwater) in 2010 and 2017, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) derived from an airborne multispectral image (2013), a 1 m lidar DEM and a 1 m canopy surface model were used to generate... Tags: Chesapeake Bay, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, digital elevation models, estuary, All tags... lidar, wetlands, Fewer tags Walking transect path We designed a 12.2 km walking transect so that an observer would pass within 50m of all habitat in the estuary and also minimize fording large channels. This transect was drawn using the path tool in Google Earth on a satellite image of the survey area. The path was printed on top of paper maps and used by observers as a map in the field. Most often, the entire transect was walked by two observers, one starting in the far West, the other in the middle of the estuary. Observers were permitted to deviate from the map to get clear views of certain features like incised channels or to identify a particular bird. The transect spacing worked for most birds, but was too sparse to accurately count Belding’s Savannah Sparrows.... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, Carpinteria, Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, Santa Barbara County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... bird, distribution, estuary, habitat, mapping, salt marsh, trematodes, Fewer tags 1 2 »