• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2021-04-14T00:00:00.000+00:00

This dataset contains the concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAHs) and biomarkers (hopanes, steranes, alkanes) in marine sediment cores using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2021-01-06T00:00:00.000+00:00

This study examined temporal and spatial variability in shallow, soft bottom macrofauna communities in Mamala Bay, Oahu, Hawaii. Both short term (weekly) and long term (monthly) temporal changes...

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• Organization: Department of the Interior
• Updated: 2020-08-30T00:00:00Z

Deep-sea corals create complex habitats that support distinct sediment communities. Several deep-sea coral habitats were impacted by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill, and recovery of associated...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-10-08T18:26:25.000+00:00

The NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center has, through the years, accumulated an extensive data base of qualitative and quantitative (wet weight and number per square meter) data on the...

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• Organization: Department of the Interior
• Updated: 2020-08-30T00:00:00Z

Deep-sea corals can create a highly complex, three-dimensional structure that facilitates sediment accumulation and influences adjacent sediment environments through altered hydrodynamic regimes....

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2022-09-14T00:00:00.000+00:00

The results of the 2012 Chukchi Sea bottom trawl survey of bottomfishes, crabs, and other dermersal macrofauna are presented. The 2012 survey was only the fourth Chukchi Sea survey conducted by...

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• Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Updated: 2017-11-20

The dataset includes benthic infaunal abundance data derived from the EPA National Coastal Assessment and Southern California Coastal Water Research Program Bight ’03 studies west coast shelf...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2000-01-06T00:00:00.000+00:00

Benthic communities are structured by dynamically interacting factors that determine habitat quality. Since benthic macrofauna demonstrate strong and often narrowly defined affinities, forces...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2022-09-13T00:00:00.000+00:00

Benthic macrofauna, sediments and sediment metals were collected for a 1974 National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) survey in the Baltimore Canyon Trough off New Jersey. Data were collected using...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

We sampled experimental research areas in the Barataria Basin of Louisiana during March and May, 1995, to examine the effects of structural marsh management on habitat use by small nekton (100 mm...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

Study compared densities of nekton, benthos, and seagrass among newly deposited dredged sediments and nearby and distant natural seagrass sites over a three year period. Recovery of seagrass and...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:15:56.000+00:00

Samples were collected from October 15, 1985 through June 12, 1987 in emergent marsh and non-vegetated habitats throughout the Lavaca Bay system to characterize usage of saline coastal and...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2018-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Densities of nekton were measured in three created salt marshes to examine habitat development rate. All three marshes were created from dredged material from the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway....

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-04-01T17:16:21.000+00:00

The Calcasieu Ship Channel provides an avenue for the rapid movement of high-salinity water into the East Mud Lake project area of southern Louisiana resulting in plant death and marsh loss....

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2018-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The effect of salinity on utilization of shallow-water nursery habitats by aquatic fauna was assessed in San Antonio Bay, Texas. Overall, 272 samples were collected in a variety of marsh,...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:16:01.000+00:00

Between May 5, 1993 and September 19, 1994, we collected quantitative 1-m2 area drop samples and measured a variety of habitat attributes using field surveys and aerial photography to characterize...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:16:01.000+00:00

Salt marsh habitats along the shoreline of Halls Lake are threatened by wave erosion, but the reconstruction of barrier islands to reduce this erosion will modify or destroy nonvegetated habitats...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2018-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Measured fine-scale distributions of nekton on the vegetated marsh surface using drop samplers and utilized these patterns to estimate population size. Natant decapod crustaceans were most...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:16:01.000+00:00

During September 1995 and May 1996, a total of 100 drop samples were taken in Upper Galveston Bay to assess potential oil spill damage to salt marsh habitats and fishery resources. Few...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2018-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

During September 20-23, 1993 and May 9-12, 1994, a total of 200 samples were collected at proposed dredge disposal sites along the Intercoastal Waterway in Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Texas....

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