Delaware Bay Upper Shelf Bottom Sediments 2008-2010

Description

The Coastal Program of Delaware's Division of Soil and Water conservation (DNREC), the University of Delaware, Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection have partnered and are carrying out a bottom and sub-bottom imaging project to identify and map the benthic habitat and sub-bottom sediments of Delaware Bay and River. This project was initiated to better understand the distribution of bottom sediment types, habitat biodiversity, and most importantly, human's impact on the bay bottom and its living resources. The project integrates the use of three types of acoustical systems: Roxann Seabed classification system, chirp sub-bottom profiling, and multi-beam bathymetric mapping. Verification of the acoustic data with bottom and sub-bottom sediments is performed through the collection of bra banc core samples and underwater video images. Original contact information: Contact Name: Bartholomew Wilson Contact Org: Delaware Coastal Program (DNREC) Phone: 302-739-9283

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page https://coast.noaa.gov
57 FTP download of data files. ftp://ftp.coast.noaa.gov/pub/benthic/Benthic_Cover_Data/DE_DelawareBay.zip
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/47983
0 Information on the NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) https://coast.noaa.gov/
0 NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page https://coast.noaa.gov
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/47983.pdf

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  • united states of america
  • office of coastal management
  • delaware
  • benthic habitat
  • benthic
  • national ocean service
  • ecosystems
  • biosphere
  • delaware bay
  • bottom sediments
  • environmental monitoring
  • continent
  • noaa
  • sediment water interface
  • marine ecosystems
  • north america
  • doc/noaa/nos/ocm
  • coastal
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • state of delaware
  • estuary
  • new jersey
  • usa
  • delaware river
  • state of new jersey
  • surface sediment mapping

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