NOAA NCCOS Assessment: Prioritizing Areas for Future Seafloor Mapping, Research, and Exploration Offshore of California, Oregon, and Washington

Description

Spatial information about the seafloor is critical for decision-making by marine resource science, management and tribal organizations. Coordinating data needs can help organizations leverage collective resources to meet shared goals. To help enable this coordination, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) developed a spatial framework, process and online application to identify common data collection priorities for seafloor mapping, sampling and visual surveys offshore of the West Continental United States Coast (WCC). Twenty-six participants from NOAA’s West Coast Deep Sea Coral Initiative (WCDSCI) and Expanding Pacific Research and Exploration of Submerged Systems (EXPRESS) entered their priorities in an online application, using virtual coins to denote their priorities in 10x10 minute grid cells. Grid cells with more coins were higher priorities than cells with fewer coins. Participants also reported why these locations were important and what data types were needed. Results were analyzed and mapped using statistical techniques to identify significant relationships between priorities, reasons for those priorities and data needs. Ten high priority locations were broadly identified for future mapping, sampling and visual surveys. These locations were distributed throughout the WCC, primarily in depths less than 1,000 m. Participants consistently selected (1) Exploration, (2) Biota/Important Natural Area and (3) Research as their top reasons (i.e., justifications) for prioritizing locations, and (1) Benthic Habitat Map and (2) Bathymetry and Backscatter as their top data or product needs. This ESRI shapefile summarizes the results from this spatial prioritization effort. This information will enable NOAA WCDSCI, EXPRESS and other WCC organization to more efficiently leverage resources and coordinate their mapping of high priority locations along California, Oregon and Washington.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 U.S. West CONUS Coast (WCC) Spatial Prioritization Data Viewer https://maps.coastalscience.noaa.gov/wc_wa/
0 U.S. West CONUS Coast (WCC) Spatial Prioritization Data Viewer https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=83ca1496c2af414993600a5f82fe9336
23 Geospatial MapServer Web Service: NCCOS Assessment: West Coast Prioritization Results https://gis.ngdc.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/nccos/BiogeographicAssessments_WestCoastPrioritizationResults/MapServer
0 Costa, B., K. Buja, M. Kendall, B. Williams, and J. Kraus. 2019. NOAA NCCOS Assessment: Prioritizing Areas for Future Seafloor Mapping, Research, and Exploration Offshore of California, Oregon, and Washington from 2019-03-01 to 2019-04-01. Zenodo. Dataset, V1.0. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3533201 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3533200
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/58183
0 NOAA GeoPlatform Metadata: U.S. West CONUS Coast (WCC) Spatial Prioritization Data Viewer https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=83ca1496c2af414993600a5f82fe9336#overview
55 NOAA Service Metadata: West Coast Prioritization MapServer https://data.noaa.gov/waf/NOAA/nos/nccos/services/iso/xml/BioAssess_NCCOS_West_Coast.xml
23 Geospatial MapServer Web Service: NCCOS Assessment: West Coast Prioritization https://gis.ngdc.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/nccos/BiogeographicAssessments_NCCOS_West_Coast_Prioritization/MapServer
0 NCCOS Project Webpage: Prioritizing Areas for Future Seafloor Mapping, Research, and Exploration Offshore of California, Oregon, and Washington https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/prioritizing-areas-for-future-seafloor-mapping-research-and-exploration-offshore-of-california-oregon-and-washington/
55 NOAA Service Metadata: West Coast Prioritization Results MapServer https://data.noaa.gov/waf/NOAA/nos/nccos/services/iso/xml/BioAssess_WestCoastPrioritization.xml
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/nccos/dmp/pdf/58183.pdf
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

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  • derived data product
  • human dimensions
  • united states of america
  • nccos research priority
  • nccos research location
  • nccos research topic
  • environmental governance/management
  • benthic
  • national ocean service
  • ecosystems
  • geospatial
  • national centers for coastal ocean science
  • biosphere
  • habitat mapping
  • west continental united states coast (wcc)
  • continent
  • noaa
  • marine ecosystems
  • environmental assessments
  • north america
  • coastal
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • ocean
  • california
  • nccos research data type
  • region
  • doc/noaa/nos/nccos
  • eastern pacific ocean
  • washington
  • coastal waters of california (57d)
  • u.s. states and territories
  • nccos habitatâ mappingâ team
  • marine spatial ecology
  • pacific ocean
  • ecological and biogeographic assessments
  • coastal waters of washington/oregon (57e)
  • oregon

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