Humboldt Bay Benthic Habitats 2009 Aquatic Setting

Description

Humboldt Bay is the largest estuary in California north of San Francisco Bay and represents a significant resource for the north coast region. Beginning in 2007 the Coastal Services Center began collaborating with the California SeaGrant program and other local partners to support an ecosystem-based management (EBM) project for Humboldt Bay. One element of this project was to develop subtidal habitat goals for the long-term management of the bay and provide a framework for conservation and management across the land-sea interface. An aerial imagery-based mapping effort was conducted between 2008 and 2010 which produced a shallow benthic habitat map classified using the Florida System for Classifying Habitats in Estuarine and Marine Environments (SCHEME) system. This effort resulted in a single polygon shapefile which was later converted to the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS)classification and organized into separate feature layers for three CMECS components; geoform, substrate, and biotic. Aquatic setting layers (#1 and #2) were produced to further populate the CMECS data structure. Ancillary data was used to accomplish this process in 2015. Original contact information: Contact Org: NOAA Office for Coastal Management Phone: 843-740-1202 Email: coastal.info@noaa.gov

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 Searchable online catalog of CMECS units, descriptions, and source references https://www.cmecscatalog.org/
0 Information and resources on the CMECS standard and how to apply it https://iocm.noaa.gov/cmecs
0 NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page https://coast.noaa.gov
0 NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page https://coast.noaa.gov
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/47851
0 Information on the NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) https://www.coast.noaa.gov/
57 FTP download of data files. ftp://ftp.coast.noaa.gov/pub/benthic/Benthic_Cover_Data/CA_HumboldtBay.zip
0 The website provides not only coastal data, but also the tools, training, and information needed to make these data truly useful. Content comes from many sources, all of which are vetted by NOAA. https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/47851.pdf
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2024. GCMD Keywords, Version 19. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords

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  • united states of america
  • office of coastal management
  • benthic
  • cmecs
  • eel river delta
  • national ocean service
  • ecosystems
  • biosphere
  • environmental monitoring
  • continent
  • south bay
  • noaa
  • aquatic setting
  • marine ecosystems
  • north america
  • entrance bay
  • geoform component
  • doc/noaa/nos/ocm
  • coastal
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • estuary
  • coastal and marine ecological classification standard
  • california
  • substrate component
  • biotic component
  • california seagrant
  • humboldt bay
  • arcata bay
  • habitat
  • u.s.

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