Hudson River Benthic Habitat Mapping Reports Index: 2000-2016

Reports document benthic habitats of the Hudson River, produced by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and partner agencies. The index lists reports published between 2000 and 2016. These reports are publicly available online.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in habitat study focus by extracting report titles and publication years.
• Map the geographic scope of studies by parsing location descriptions from report metadata fields.
• Identify contributing organizations and authors for research collaboration networks using agency and author columns.
• Catalog available technical resources for specific river segments by filtering reports based on described river reach or section.

Strengths

• Covers a 17-year time range from 2000 to 2016.
• Aggregates reports from multiple governmental and non-governmental sources.

Limitations

• Unknown total number of indexed reports (row count).
• Data may be stale, with the last update in the index occurring in 2026 but covering reports only up to 2016.
• Specific data columns and features within reports are not described.

Provenance

Source

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC) and partner agencies.

Collection Method

Compilation of published technical reports.

Time Range

2000 - 2016

Freshness

Index last updated in 2026, but report coverage ends in 2016.

Geography

Hudson River Estuary, New York State.