NFHP 2015 National Estuary Assessment Results

This dataset provides the results of an assessment of estuary habitat condition in the conterminous United States. To analyze estuary condition, a cumulative disturbance index was developed based on habitat stressor variable data available at a national scale for anthropogenic disturbances measured within estuaries and their associated watersheds. Twenty-eight variables were combined within stressor categories to develop four sub-indices of disturbance for land use, alterations of river flows, pollution sources, and estuary eutrophication. These four sub-indices of disturbance were then combined to develop cumulative disturbance index scores for each estuary. This index describes the estimated combined stress on...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, Map Service; Tags: 2015 National Assessment, 2015 National Assessment, CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DataProduct, Direct habitat alteration, All tags... EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > ESTUARINE HABITAT, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE > LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, Habitat Characterization, Marine, NFHP Cooperator, National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP), Spatial Data, Terrestrial - Land Cover, Terrestrial - River Discharge, VERTICAL LOCATION > LAND SURFACE, Visual, anthropogenic impact, biota, dataset, environment, fish habitat, watershed, Fewer tags

Bird Conservation Regions

"Bird Conservation Regions (BCRs) are ecologically distinct regions in North America with similar bird communities, habitats, and resource management issues. They are based on the scale-flexible hierarchical framework of nested ecological units delineated by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). These ecoregions encompass areas that are similar in their biotic (e.g., plant and wildlife) and abiotic (e.g., soils, drainage patterns, temperature, and annual precipitation) characteristics. BCRs may be partitioned into smaller ecological units when finer scale conservation planning, implementation, and evaluation are necessary. Conversely, BCRs may be aggregated to facilitate conservation partnerships...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: BCR, bird conservation regions, marine, terrestrial

February 2020 National Wetlands Inventory, Mississippi Barrier Islands Habitat Classification: (Cat Island, Ship Island, Petit Bois Island and Horn Island)

This data set consists of digital data describing wetlands and uplands habitats for the Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program (MsCIP) area, consisting of Cat, Ship, Horn and Petit Bois Islands for the year 2020. Wetlands were classified using the Cowardin, et al., wetlands classification scheme to the level of freshwater and tidal, salinity modifiers. Uplands were classified using a customized classification scheme which can be cross-referenced to Anderson, et. al. For this dataset, upland dunes were delineated as areas at or above 1.524 meters (5 feet) as determined in the Lidar data that was referenced without modification for this classification. With this elevation criteria some delineated upland dune features...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Cat Island, Geography, Habitats, Horn Island, Land Use Change, All tags... Land Use Change, Mississippi Barrier Islands, Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program (MSCIP), National Wetlands Inventory, National Wetlands Inventory (NWI), Petit Bois Island, Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing, Ship Island, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wetland ecosystems, avian resources, biota, coastal ecosystems, environment, habitat analysis, habitat monitoring, marine, terrestrial, turtle resources, wetland restoration, Fewer tags

EnviroAtlas - Clean and Plentiful Water Metrics for the Conterminous United States

This EnviroAtlas web service supports research and online mapping activities related to EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas). The Clean and Plentiful Water category in this web service includes layers illustrating the ecosystems and natural resources that filter and regulate water, the need or demand for clean and plentiful water, the impacts associated with water quality, and factors that place stress on water quality and supply. EnviroAtlas allows the user to interact with a web-based, easy-to-use, mapping application to view and analyze multiple ecosystem services for the conterminous United States. Additional descriptive information about each attribute in this web service is located within each web...

Types: Citation; Tags: 12-digit HUCs, Agriculture, Air, Alabama, Alaska, All tags... Arizona, Arkansas, Austin, TX, Biodiversity, Biology, Biophysical, Biota, Boundaries, California, Census Block Groups, Cleanup, Climate, Colorado, Communities, Compliance, Connecticut, Conservation, Contaminant, Delaware, Demand for Ecosystem Services, Demographics, Detroit, MI, Disaster, Drinking Water, Drivers of Change - Ecosystem Services, Durham, NC, Ecology, Economy, Ecosystem, Ecosystem, Ecosystem Services, Elevation, Emergency, Endangered, Energy, EnviroAtlas, Environment, Environment, Environmental Atlas, Environmental Justice, Estuary, Exposure, Facilities, Florida, Food, Fresno, CA, Georgia, Green Infrastructure, Green Space, Ground Water, Habitat, Hawaii, Hazards, Health, Human, Human Well-being, Idaho, Illinois, Impact, Imperiled, Indiana, Indicator, Indoor Air, Inspections, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Land, Land Cover, Louisiana, Maine, Management, Marine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Milwaukee, WI, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Modeling, Monitoring, Montana, Natural Resources, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Permits, Pesticides, Phoenix, AZ, Portland, ME, Portland, OR, Potential for Change - Ecosystem Services, Protected Lands, Quality, Radiation, Recreation, Regulatory, Remediation, Response, Rhode Island, Riparian, Risk, Sites, Society, Soils, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spills, Structure, Supply of Ecosystem Services, Surface Water, Sustainability, Tampa Bay, FL, Tennessee, Texas, Threatened, Toxics, Transportation, United States, Utah, Utilities, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington DC, Waste, Water, West Virginia, Wetlands, Wisconsin, Wyoming, environment, Fewer tags

BCMCA_ECO_Physical_Seamounts_DATA

The British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis (BCMCA) is a collaborative project assembling and analyzing spatial information about Canada's Pacific Ocean. The overall goal of the BCMCA is to identify marine areas of high conservation value and marine areas important to human use. Results of the project are intended to inform and help advance marine planning initiatives in BC by providing collaborative, peer-reviewed scientific analyses based on the best ecological and human use spatial data at scales relevant to a BC coast-wide analysis.

Tags: BC, BCMCA, British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis, Canadian Pacific EEZ, Marine, All tags... NPLCC, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Seamount, Fewer tags

Sea Kayaking Routes

This data represents the location of coastal British Columbia marine kayaking routes.

Tags: BC, BCMCA, British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis, Marine, NPLCC, All tags... North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Pacific Ocean, kayak, kayaking, route, Fewer tags

Tow Boat Reserves

The Towboat reserves were put in place at the request of the Council of Marine Carriers (CMC) to protect harbours along the BC Coast to ensure harbours of refuge (temporary shelter during inclement weather or when waiting for favorable tides) remained available for commercial marine traffic - eg. tugs towing booms and barges up and down the coast. These harbours needed to be of adequate size, be located along commercial navigation routes and provide adequate shelter to accommodate the tug and the load being towed. Certain harbours were identified as critical harbours because they meet the size, location and shelter criteria required. To ensure the harbour remains available as a harbour refuge, shoreline development...

Tags: BC, BCMCA, British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis, Commercial Marine Traffic, Harbours of Refuge, All tags... Marine, NPLCC, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Pacific Ocean, shipping and transportation, towboat reserves, Fewer tags

bcmca_hu_tenures_featurecount_data

The British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis (BCMCA) is a collaborative project assembling and analyzing spatial information about Canada's Pacific Ocean. The overall goal of the BCMCA is to identify marine areas of high conservation value and marine areas important to human use. Results of the project are intended to inform and help advance marine planning initiatives in BC by providing collaborative, peer-reviewed scientific analyses based on the best ecological and socio-economic spatial data at scales relevant to a BC coast-wide analysis.

Tags: BCMCA, British Columbia, British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis, Canadian Pacific EEZ, Feature Count, All tags... Human Use, Marine, NPLCC, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Richness Map, Tenures, Fewer tags

Coastal Campsites and Kayak Use Sites

This data represents the location of coastal British Columbia coastal campsites, kayak use sites and kayak staging areas.

Tags: BC, BCMCA, British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis, Marine, NPLCC, All tags... North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Pacific Ocean, campsite, coastal, destination, kayak, kayaking, Fewer tags

Aggregated Humpback Shrimp Catch Grid 1997-2004

The Humpback Shrimp catch grid dataset has been assembled directly from the Shellfish Data Units harvest log database located at the Pacific Biological Station (PBS). The dataset has been modified to meet the sensitive nature of the data as per the Access to Information Act20(1)(b,c); which specifies that Fisheries and Oceans Canada will not disclose to a third party confidential information that may prejudice the competitive position of the fisher, in which fishing location has been identified as one of the entities to be protected. There was a 10km x 10km grid used in the desensitization process as well information was limited to total Effort (kilometre) and total Catch (lbs). The dataset is comprised of Humpback...

Tags: BC, BCMCA, British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis, Humpback, Marine, All tags... NPLCC, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Pacific Ocean, Shellfish, Shrimp, Trawl, catch, economy, Fewer tags

Aggregated Sidestripe Shrimp Catch Grid 1997-2004

The Sidestripe Shrimp catch grid dataset has been assembled directly from the Shellfish Data Units harvest log database located at the Pacific Biological Station (PBS). The dataset has been modified to meet the sensitive nature of the data as per the Access to Information Act20(1)(b,c); which specifies that Fisheries and Oceans Canada will not disclose to a third party confidential information that may prejudice the competitive position of the fisher, in which fishing location has been identified as one of the entities to be protected. There was a 10km x 10km grid used in the desensitization process as well information was limited to total Effort (kilometre) and total Catch (lbs). The dataset is comprised of Sidestripe...

Tags: BC, BCMCA, British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis, Marine, NPLCC, All tags... North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Pacific Ocean, Shellfish, Shrimp, Sidestripe, Trawl, catch, economy, Fewer tags

Ocean Energy - Oil and Gas Prospectivity

This data represents the relative subsurface hydrocarbon exploration potential of sedimentary basins along the British Columbia coast.

Tags: BC, BCMCA, British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis, Marine, NPLCC, All tags... North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Pacific Ocean, Petroleum, hydrocarbon potential, offshore oil and gas, prospectivity, sedimentary basin, Fewer tags

bcmca_hu_commercialfish_featurecount_data

The British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis (BCMCA) is a collaborative project assembling and analyzing spatial information about Canada's Pacific Ocean. The overall goal of the BCMCA is to identify marine areas of high conservation value and marine areas important to human use. Results of the project are intended to inform and help advance marine planning initiatives in BC by providing collaborative, peer-reviewed scientific analyses based on the best ecological and socio-economic spatial data at scales relevant to a BC coast-wide analysis.

Tags: BC, BCMCA, British Columbia, British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis, Canadian Pacific EEZ, All tags... Commercial Fishing, Feature Count, Human Use, Marine, NPLCC, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Richness Map, Fewer tags

Marine Blueprint Test2

The Florida Marine Blueprint V. 2 depicts marine and estuarine priorities based on combined natural resource priorities, providing guidance for efficient and effective conservation planning and implementation. The FLMB Version 2 used six natural resource datasets to prioritize area of natural habitats in Florida’s EEZ extent. The datasets comprised 19 separate spatial feature layers acquired through a variety of monitoring and management organizations. Spatial layers represent vital conservation and/or management data, such as endangered and threatened species (i.e., critical habitat), overall species richness in estuarine habitats, commercially and recreationally important species (i.e., essential fish habitat),...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Florida, Marine, Marine Blueprint

Marine Blueprint test2

The Florida Marine Blueprint V. 2 depicts marine and estuarine priorities based on combined natural resource priorities, providing guidance for efficient and effective conservation planning and implementation. The FLMB Version 2 used six natural resource datasets to prioritize area of natural habitats in Florida’s EEZ extent. The datasets comprised 19 separate spatial feature layers acquired through a variety of monitoring and management organizations. Spatial layers represent vital conservation and/or management data, such as endangered and threatened species (i.e., critical habitat), overall species richness in estuarine habitats, commercially and recreationally important species (i.e., essential fish habitat),...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Florida, Marine, Marine Blueprint

Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 1996

In 1998, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Fisheries Independent Monitoring (FIM) program began a long-term monitoring effort of key reef fish populations in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. This effort was aimed at evaluating the relative abundance, size structure, and habitat utilization of specific reef fish species that are targeted by commercial and recreational fisheries.; Smith, S.G., et al. 2011, Multispecies survey design for assessing reef-fish stocks, spatially explicit management performance, and ecosystem condition. Fisheries Research 109(2011)25-41; Brandt, M.E., et. al. 2009, A Cooperative Multi-agency Reef Fish Monitoring Protocol for the Florida Keys Coral...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuaries Reef Fish Monitoring, array, array-data, basis, basisOfRecord, All tags... bibliographic, bibliographiccitation, body, citation, class, code, collection, collectionCode, comprehensive, coordinate, coordinateUncertaintyInMeters, count, country, data, data_set_ID, data_set_name, dataset, datasetID, datasetName, date, datum, dep, depth, dynamic, dynamicProperties, event, eventDate, eventDateRemarks, eventDateTimeZone, eventdate, eventdatetimezone, family, fish, fish sampling, florida, florida keys, genus, geodetic, geodeticDatum, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitat, higher, higherInstitutionCode, identification, identifier, individual, institution, institutionCode, keys, kingdom, large, latitude, length, locality, longitude, marine, material, materialSampleID, max, maximum, maximumDepthInMeters, meters, min, minimum, minimumDepthInMeters, miniumDepthInMeters, monitoring, name, national, number, observed, observedIndividualLengthInCm, observedMeanLengthInCm, order, owner, ownerInstitutionCode, phylum, properties, province, quality, quantificationMethod, quantificationName, quantificationStatus, quantificationUnit, quantificationValue, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, sample, samples, sanctuaries, scientific, scientificName, sea, seawater, service, set, specificEpithet, state, stateProvince, statistics, status, stewardship, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxonomy, time, timeUncertainty, timeseries, timeuncertainty, type, typeStatus, uncertainty, vernacular, vernacularName, verticalDatum, water, waterBody, waterbody, zone, Fewer tags

Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project Florida Keys 2001

ThThe purpose of the Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP) is to monitor the status and trends of selected reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary(FKNMS). CREMP assessments have been conducted annually at fixed sites since 1996 and data collected provides information on the temporal changes in benthic cover and diversity of stony corals and associated marine flora and fauna. The core field methods continue to be underwater videography and timed coral species inventories. Findings presented in this report include data from 109 stations at 37 sites sampled from 1996 through 2008 in the Florida Keys and 1999 through 2008 in the Dry Tortugas. The report describes the annual differences (between...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP), about, absence, accepted, acceptedNameAuthorship, All tags... acceptedNameUsage, acceptedNameUsageID, accepted_aphia_database_identification_number, accepted_authorship_information, accepted_name_usage, aphia, aphia_database_identification_number, area, array, array-data, associatedreferences, associatedreferences, authorship, authorship_information, basis, basis of record, basis of record, basisOfRecord, biogeographic, biology, class, class, commission, common, comprehensive, conservation, coral, coral monitoring, coverage, cremp, data, data_set_identification, data_set_name, database, dataset, dataset, datasetName, date, dry tortugas, evaluation, event, eventID, eventdate, eventdate, family, family, fish, florida, florida keys, fwc, fwc-fwri, fwri, genus, genus, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitatid, hierarchy, identification, identifier, information, institute, keys, kingdom, kingdom, large, latitude, longitude, marine, meters, monitoring, name, number, obis, occurrence, occurrenceID, occurrenceStatus, occurrence_identification, ocean, order, order, organism, organismQuantity, organismQuantityType, organism_per_sample_area, per, percent, percent_coverage, phylum, phylum, presence, project, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, register, research, revisited, sample, samples, scientific, scientificNameAuthorship, scientific_name, scientificname, scientificnameid, service, set, sitecode, siteid, species, species_name, specificEpithet, square, statement, station, status, stewardship, subregionid, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxon_rank, taxon_status, taxonomic, taxonomicStatus, taxonomic_status, taxonomy, time, unaccepted, usage, v2.3, value, vernacular, vernacularName, vernacular_name, wildlife, world, worms, year, Fewer tags

Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 1994

In 1998, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Fisheries Independent Monitoring (FIM) program began a long-term monitoring effort of key reef fish populations in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. This effort was aimed at evaluating the relative abundance, size structure, and habitat utilization of specific reef fish species that are targeted by commercial and recreational fisheries.; Smith, S.G., et al. 2011, Multispecies survey design for assessing reef-fish stocks, spatially explicit management performance, and ecosystem condition. Fisheries Research 109(2011)25-41; Brandt, M.E., et. al. 2009, A Cooperative Multi-agency Reef Fish Monitoring Protocol for the Florida Keys Coral...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuaries Reef Fish Monitoring, array, array-data, basis, basisOfRecord, All tags... bibliographic, bibliographiccitation, body, citation, class, code, collection, collectionCode, comprehensive, coordinate, coordinateUncertaintyInMeters, count, country, data, data_set_name, dataset, datasetID, datasetName, date, datum, dep, depth, dynamic, dynamicProperties, event, eventDate, eventDateRemarks, eventDateTimeZone, eventdate, eventdatetimezone, family, fish, fish sampling, florida, florida keys, genus, geodetic, geodeticDatum, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitat, higher, higherInstitutionCode, identification, identifier, individual, institution, institutionCode, keys, kingdom, large, latitude, length, locality, longitude, marine, material, materialSampleID, max, max_depth, maximum, maximumDepthInMeters, meters, min, min_depth, minimum, minimumDepthInMeters, monitoring, name, national, number, observed, observedIndividualLengthInCm, observedMeanLengthInCm, order, owner, ownerInstitutionCode, phylum, properties, province, quality, quantificationMethod, quantificationName, quantificationStatus, quantificationUnit, quantificationValue, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, sample, samples, sanctuaries, scientific, scientificName, sea, seawater, service, set, specificEpithet, state, stateProvince, statistics, status, stewardship, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxonomy, time, timeUncertainty, timeseries, timeuncertainty, type, typeStatus, uncertainty, vernacular, vernacularName, verticalDatum, water, waterBody, waterbody, zone, Fewer tags

Offshore Half Moon Bay Web Services

The map area offshore of the city of Half Moon Bay, California, which is referred to herein as the “Offshore of Half Moon Bay” map area is located in northern California, on the Pacific Coast of the San Francisco Peninsula about 40 kilometers south of the Golden Gate. The city of Half Moon Bay (population, about 11,000) is the nearest significant onshore cultural cente. The Pillar Point Harbor at the north edge of Half Moon Bay offers a protected landing for boats and provides other marine infrastructure. The harbor, which was formed by the construction of two riprap jetties, is managed by the San Mateo County Harbor District. The harbor has 369 berthing slips and supports a commercial fishing fleet and search-and-rescue...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: California, coastal, geology, habitat, marine

Web Services--Offshore Scott Creek

In 2007, the California Ocean Protection Council initiated the California Seafloor Mapping Program (CSMP), designed to create a comprehensive seafloor map of high-resolution bathymetry, marine benthic habitats, and geology within the 3-nautical-mile limit of California’s State Waters. The CSMP approach is to create highly detailed seafloor maps through collection, integration, interpretation, and visualization of swath sonar data, acoustic backscatter, seafloor video, seafloor photography, high-resolution seismic-reflection profiles, and bottom-sediment sampling data. The map products display seafloor morphology and character, identify potential marine benthic habitats, and illustrate both the surficial seafloor...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: California, coastal, geology, habitat, marine, All tags... seafloor, Fewer tags