NOAA's Coastal Protection and Restoration Division: Watershed Database and Mapping Projects

Description

Protection and restoration of coastal watersheds requires the synthesis of complex environmental issues. Contaminated site remediation, dredging and disposal of contaminated sediments, and restoring injured habitats are a few of the challenges facing coastal managers. The evaluation of multiple environmental issues can be significantly improved by combining scientific data and watershed characteristics into a Geographic Information System (GIS).NOAA's Coastal Protection and Restoration Division (CPRD) has developed decision-support tools for specific watersheds around the country that combine the use of a standard database structure, database-mapping application, and GIS. CPRD Watershed Database & Mapping Projects facilitate sediment and tissue chemistry and bioeffects data, natural resources, and potential habitat restoration projects to be overlaid on a watershed's features and land uses, and displayed on maps at flexible spatial scales. This approach simplifies data analysis and presentation, provides valuable tools for complex decision-making, and improves our understanding of dynamic aquatic ecosystems.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/40197
21 Online Resource http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/cpr/watershed/watershedtools.html
21 Downloadable Data http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/cpr/watershed/watershedtools.html
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/orr/dmp/pdf/40197.pdf

Tags

  • san francisco bay
  • contaminant release
  • kalamazoo river
  • coastal storms initiative
  • charles river
  • anacostia river
  • st. lawrence river
  • national ocean service
  • massachusetts bay
  • data management
  • newark bay
  • toxicity
  • query manager
  • st. louis river
  • environmental monitoring
  • united states
  • doc/noaa/nos/orr
  • hurricane mitch
  • tissue chemistry
  • noaa
  • christina river
  • calcasieu estuary
  • elizabeth river
  • puget sound
  • u.s. exclusive economic zone
  • chemical threat
  • st. andrew bay
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • sheboygan river
  • orr gis
  • sediment chemistry
  • marplot
  • aquatic ecosystems
  • willamette river
  • watershed
  • data sharing
  • coastal region
  • southern california
  • npl
  • restoration
  • superfund site
  • portland harbor
  • sediment bioassay
  • charleston harbor
  • new bedford
  • hudson river
  • st. john's river
  • environmental sensitivity index
  • office of response and restoration
  • alcoa/lavaca bay

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