Thirty Bioeffects Assessments have been conducted as part of the National Status and Trends program. This dataset contains planned and actual sampling location information for sites, beginning with the St. Lucie Estuary Study from 2001. It is compiled by NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science.
Use Cases
- Analyze spatial distribution of monitoring sites using planned and actual latitude and longitude coordinates.
- Study sampling sequence and geographic patterns using the site sequence number, which orders sites counter-clockwise around the U.S. coast.
- Identify and categorize sampling locations by state using the state abbreviation and state name fields.
- Link site information to specific studies and species using the five-letter site acronym and species information fields.
Strengths
- Contains data from approximately thirty distinct Bioeffects Assessments conducted over time.
- Provides both planned (nominal) and actual recorded geographic coordinates for each site.
Limitations
- Site information is currently only available for the St. Lucie Estuary Study (2001), with other studies to be added later.
- The total number of rows (sites) and temporal completeness for the full program time range is unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), National Status and Trends Program.
- Collection Method
- Planned by program coordinators, with actual coordinates recorded at the time of field sampling.
- Time Range
- 1986 to present, though current file coverage starts with 2001.
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Coastal sites around the United States, sequenced from the northernmost East coast counter-clockwise.