NCCOS Kachemak Bay Ecological Assessment for Coastal Management

NOAA's NCCOS Project: Kachemak Bay Ecological Assessment synthesizes diverse information on a rich, diverse marine ecosystem in Cook Inlet, Alaska. It documents significant long-term and recent environmental changes across all estuarine and coastal habitat types found in the Gulf of Alaska. The dataset provides tools for stakeholder groups to inform coastal management and understand ecosystem changes along Alaska's coasts.

Use Cases

• Informing coastal management decisions based on synthesized ecological assessments.
• Monitoring long-term environmental changes in estuarine and coastal habitats.
• Understanding ecosystem shifts in the Gulf of Alaska based on habitat type data.
• Supporting stakeholder planning with tools derived from multimodal information.

Strengths

• Cross-platform presence on Data.gov and NASA EarthData suggests importance and broad utility.
• Produced by the authoritative National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
• Likely contains geospatial and multimodal data types, as suggested by platform tags and file formats.

Limitations

• Critical metadata is missing or unknown, including column names, row count, file size, and specific license.
• The dataset's core data structure and granularity cannot be inferred from the provided descriptions.
• The 'last updated' date of 2026-03 13 appears to be a future date, indicating a potential metadata error.

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Ecological assessment synthesizing diverse information; specific collection methods are not detailed.

Time Range

Covers significant long-term and recent changes; specific years are not provided.

Freshness

2026-03-13 20:41:26.084788 (Note: This is a future date, which may be an error.)

Geography

Kachemak Bay, Cook Inlet, Alaska, representing habitat types from the Gulf of Alaska.