NOAA Office for Coastal Management Benthic Habitat Data, Apalachicola Bay, Dry Tortugas, Florida Bay, and Indian River Lagoon, Florida, 1991-2001 (NODC Accession 0001045)

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2015
• Subjects: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 0001045; 1045; BENTHIC COMMUNITIES; BENTHIC SPECIES; BIOLOGICAL DATA; BOTTOM TYPE; CORAL; HABITAT; HABITAT - BENTHIC; MACROALGAE; PLANT COVER; SEA GRASSES - DENSITY; SEDIMENTS; SHORELINE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SUBSTRATE DESCRIPTION; acoustic sensor; biota surveys; camera; coral reef surveys; photograph; sediment sampler - grab; visual analysis; benthic; biological; composition & location; derived products; GIS product; survey; survey - biological; US DOC; NOAA; National Ocean Service; US DOC; NOAA; NOS; Coastal Services Center; COASTAL; Coral Reef Information System (CoRIS); CORAL REEF STUDIES; Coastal Waters of Florida; Coastal Waters of Gulf of Mexico; Florida Bay - Florida; Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary; Gulf of Mexico; Indian River - Florida; North American Coastline-South; North Atlantic Ocean; oceanography; Indian; Sav’; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/{701A7AD8-F5BB-4C30-8F33-F26C7B6C844C}

These data are a collection of regional GIS (Arcview shapefiles and associated Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) metadata) benthic habitat files from studies conducted in specific locations within Florida. Data were collected in partnership with the NOAA Office for Coastal Management (formerly the Coastal Services Center) following the guidelines detailed by the NOAA Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP). Each regions's data is held in a separate subdirectory within this dataset. These GIS benthic data vary in type and attributes depending on the purpose of the study for each region as follows - Apalachicola Bay, sediment profiling data and benthic community information gathered from grab sampling, Dry Tortugas, RoxAnn single-beam acoustic surveys which were part of a larger biogeographic characterization effort intended to characterize benthic habitats and ocean circulation patterns in the newly established Tortugas Ecological Reserve, Florida Bay, habitat polygons developed from National Geodetic Survey aerial photography according to NOAA Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) protocol, and Indian River Lagoon, mapping SAV beds and benthic habitat according to C-CAP protocol. Each set of benthic data was developed according to protocols described in the associated FGDC metadata for each regional study. A generalized browse graphic was generated at the NODC for each region and included with these data.