Thousands of stations along U.S. coasts provide data on estuarine and coastal conditions collected by the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) and its partners. This national coastal assessment includes sampling from biogeographic provinces and Regional EMAP studies, with data collection beginning in 1990. The dataset is managed by the organization SCIOPS and hosted on NASA's Earthdata platform.
Use Cases
- Analyze spatial trends in water quality parameters across thousands of coastal stations.
- Model long-term changes in estuarine conditions using data collected since 1990.
- Compare environmental metrics between different biogeographic provinces along the U.S. coastline.
- Assess regional differences by integrating data from EPA Regional Offices' REMAP studies.
Strengths
- Data collection spans over 30 years, beginning in 1990.
- Samples from thousands of monitoring stations provide broad spatial coverage of U.S. coasts.
Limitations
- Specific row counts, column names, and sample sizes are not provided.
- The temporal recency and update frequency of the data are unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) and partners, via NASA Earthdata.
- Collection Method
- Field sampling at estuarine and coastal stations.
- Time Range
- 1990 onward.
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Coasts of the continental United States, including the Gulf of Maine.