NOAA Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program

NOAA’s Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program (DSCRTP) is compiling a national database of the locations of deep-sea corals and sponges, beginning in U.S. waters. The DSCRTP will make this information accessible to resource managers, the scientific community, and the public over the World Wide Web. The database fulfills NOAA’s requirements under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA) to identify and map locations of deep-sea corals and to submit this information for use by regional fishery management councils. At present, there is no comprehensive, national-scale data portal for deep-sea corals and sponges. Given the authorities outlined in MSA, NOAA’s Deep Sea Coral Research...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, North America, All tags... Pacific Ocean, United States, benthic habitat, biodiversity, biology, coral, coral reefs, fisheries management, invertebrates, marine animals, protected species, sponge, Fewer tags

Bivalvia Subset of Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) - USA Dataset Collection for NFHP Thematic Viewer 20141202

Species occurrence records of the taxonomic class of Bivalvia in oceans within 1000 kilometers of the United States shoreline. This is a subset of the OBIS-USA dataset where Bivalvia records were queried on December 2, 2014. After initial queries, the remaining data were further queried to retain only samples within 1000 kilometers of the U.S. shoreline. Spatial queries were then used to remove samples overlaying land masses. Data are provided in a geodatabase format, as well as a comma seperated values format. OBIS-USA provides aggregated, interoperable biogeographic data collected primarily from U.S. waters and oceanic regions--the Arctic, the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Abundance (organisms), Aquatic animals, Aquatic environments, Aquatic habitats, Arctic Ocean, All tags... Atlantic Ocean, Biocomplexity, Biodiversity, Biological Data, Bivalves, Caribbean Sea, Fishery management, Gulf of Maine, Gulf of Mexico, Marine Invertbrates, Marine ecosystems, Marine mollusks, North America, OBIS, Ocean Biogeographic Information System, Pacific Ocean, Puget Sound, South Atlantic Bight, Spatial Data, United States, benthic habitat, biogeography, coastal habitat, reef habitat, Fewer tags

Intertidal Soft-Sediment Bivalves from Prince William Sound, Kachemak Bay, Katmai National Park and Preserve, and Kenai Fjords National Park

These data are part of the Gulf Watch Alaska (GWA) long-term monitoring program and describe bivalve count and size sampling and observations conducted at intertidal soft-sediment sampling sites in the northern Gulf of Alaska. This dataset consists of five comma separated files (.csv): 1) bivalve taxonomy table, 2) bivalve sampling site table, 3) bivalve count table, 4) bivalve size table, and 5) list of Gulf Watch Alaska principal investigators and collaborators.

Tags: Alaska Peninsula, Animals/Invertebrates, Aquatic biology, Aquatic ecosystems, Aquatic ecosystems, All tags... Benthic ecosystems, Benthic habitat, Biota, Bivalve, Coastal ecosystems, Coastal habitat, Ecology, Environment, Field inventory and monitoring, Field sampling, Gulf of Alaska, Kachemak Bay, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Kenai Fjords National Park, Kenai Fjords National Park, Macroinvertebrates, Marine ecosystems, Marine environment monitoring, Marine environments, Mollusks, Prince William Sound, Size distribution, Spatial distribution, USGS:ASC198, Wildlife, Fewer tags

Submerged Aquatic Vegetation - Gulf of Mexico

This data represent a compilation of seagrass information for areas along the Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and Texas coasts from various source agencies. Seagrass areas were mapped from aerial photography taken between 1987 to 1999. The original source data were not all classified in the same manner, but the information from each of these sources was maintained in the final results.

Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Alabama, Aransas Bay, Big Bend, Carolinian, All tags... Charlotte Harbor, Clearwater Harbor, Conservation NGOs, Corpus Christi Bay, Estero Bay, Federal resource managers, Florida, Florida Keys, Florida Panhandle, Floridian, Gulf Of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, Indian River Lagoon, Lemon Bay, Mississippi, Northern Gulf Of Mexico, Regional & county planners, San Antonio Bay, Sarasota Bay, Southeast Shelf, State agencies, Tampa Bay, Texas, aquatic vegetation, benthic habitat, biota, biota, dataset, environment, environment, oceans, oceans, planningCadastre, planningCadastre, seagrass, Fewer tags

Intertidal Mussel (Mytilus) Data from Prince William Sound, Katmai National Park and Preserve, and Kenai Fjords National Park

These data are part of the Gulf Watch Alaska (GWA) long-term monitoring program and describe mussel sampling and observations conducted in the northern Gulf of Alaska. This dataset consists of six comma separated files (.csv): 1) mussel sampling site layout information, 2) mussel counts for mussels greater than 20 millimeters in a quadrat, 3) mussel size measurements for mussels greater than 20 millimeters in a quadrat, 4) mussel counts for all mussels collected from core samples, 5) mussel size frequencies for all mussels collected from core samples, and 6) list of Gulf Watch Alaska principal investigators and collaborators.

Tags: Alaska, Animals/Invertebrates, Aquatic biology, Aquatic ecosystems, Aquatic ecosystems, All tags... Benthic ecosystems, Benthic habitat, Bioindicator, Biospheric indicators, Biota, Coastal ecosystems, Coastal habitat, Coastal processes, Ecology, Environment, Field inventory and monitoring, Field sampling, Gulf of Alaska, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Kenai Fjords National Park, Macroinvertebrates, Marine ecosystems, Marine environment monitoring, Marine environments, Mollusks, Mollusks, Mussels, Pacific Blue Mussel, Prince William Sound, Size distribution, Spatial distribution, Wildlife, Fewer tags

Still-image frame grabs and benthic habitat interpretation of underwater video footage, March 2014, Faga`alu Bay, American Samoa

Underwater video was collected in March 2014 in the nearshore waters of Faga`alu Bay on the island of Tutuila, American Samoa, as part of the U.S. Geological Survey Coastal and Marine Geology Program's Pacific Coral Reefs Project. This dataset includes 2,119 still images extracted from the video footage every 10 seconds and an Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) shapefile of individual still-image locations with benthic habitat interpretations for each image.

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: American Samoa, Benthic Habitat, Biological Occurrence, CMG, CMGP, All tags... Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Coral Reefs, Faga`alu Bay, PCMSC, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Physical Habitats and Geomorphology, Remote Sensing, Substrate, Tutuila, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, biota, boundaries, data release, ecosystem monitoring, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, oceans, relative abundance analysis, underwater photography, videography, Fewer tags

test 1 sd file

This part of USGS Data Series 781 presents substrate, geomorphic, and geologic attributed polygons in the Offshore of Morro Bay, California, map area, one of 83 map areas of the California State Waters Map Series. MBES data used to derive this data were generated from bathymetry and backscatter data collected by Fugro Pelagos in 2008. The surveys were conducted to map surficial geology and benthic habitat as part of the USGS California Seafloor Mapping Program, a collaboration with California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB, 2016) and the National Oceanic and Atmosphereic Administration (NOAA).The batymetry and backscatter intensity data was processed by the California State University Monterey Bay Seafloor...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Benthic Habitat, CMECS, California, EXPRESS, Geology, All tags... MBES, Morro Bay, Fewer tags

Sea Otter Spraint Data from Kachemak Bay, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Kenai Fjords National Park and Prince William Sound

These data are part of the Gulf Watch Alaska (GWA) long-term monitoring program. This dataset consists of observations of sea otter (Enhydra lutris) fecal samples (spraint). Observers examined fresh spraint piles to identify major prey classes in the samples and to determine sea otter diets in the Gulf of Alaska region.

Tags: Alaska, Animals/Vertebrates, Aquatic biology, Aquatic ecosystems, Benthic ecosystems, All tags... Benthic habitat, Biota, Coastal ecosystems, Coastal habitat, Ecology, Environment, Field sampling, Foraging behavior, Gulf of Alaska, Intertidal environments, Kachemak Bay, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Kenai Fjords National Park, Marine ecosystems, Marine environment monitoring, Marine mammals, Otters, Prey consumption, Prince William Sound, USGS:ASC464, Wildlife, Fewer tags

Underwater video footage, March 2014, Faga'alu Bay, Tutuila Island, American Samoa

Underwater video imagery was collected in March 2014 in the nearshore waters of Faga'alu Bay on the Island of Tutuila, American Samoa, as part of the U.S. Geological Survey Coastal and Marine Geology Program's Pacific Coral Reefs Project. Included here are 40 video files in .mpg format and an Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) shapefile with location (navigation) points every two seconds.

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: American Samoa, Benthic Habitat, CMG, CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, All tags... Coral Reefs, Faga'alu Bay, PCMSC, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Remote Sensing, Tutuila, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, biota, boundaries, data release, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, oceans, Fewer tags