NCCOS Long-term Monitoring Project: Regional Ecological Assessments and National Benthic Inventory
NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) works in partnership with other federal agencies and coastal states to conduct assessments of ecological condition and potential stressor impacts throughout our Nation’s estuaries, coastal-ocean waters, and NOAA protected areas; carry out studies to determine environmental impacts of specific pollution events or natural disasters; and perform additional related research to develop new ecological indicators and improved diagnostic tools to assess, predict, and manage future conditions.
NCCOS has conducted a series of Regional Ecological Assessments (REA) aimed at evaluating condition of living resources and ecosystem stressors in estuarine and coastal areas including National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS), National Marine Sanctuaries (NMS), and continental shelf regions of the Mid-Atlantic Bight, South-Atlantic Bight, Florida Shelf, and Gulf of Mexico. Information from these studies provides a means to assess the current status of ecological condition and stressor impacts throughout these areas, and serves as a baseline for evaluating future changes due to natural or human-induced disturbances.
The NOAA National Benthic Inventory (NBI) is a quantitative database on benthic species distributions obtained from studies conducted by NOAA and partnering institutions in estuarine and other coastal-ocean areas around the country.
A corresponding taxonomic voucher collection of preserved benthic specimens collected in studies conducted between 1991 and 2007 was maintained at the NCCOS Charleston lab until April 2019. The voucher collection was transferred to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in May 2019 and will be incorporated into their Non-Molluscan Invertebrate research collections. More information can be found at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences website.
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| issued | 1991-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
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"EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY STRUCTURE",
"EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS",
"EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > ECOTOXICOLOGY > TOXICITY LEVELS",
"EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC",
"EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > COASTAL",
"EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > ESTUARY",
"EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE SEDIMENTS > SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY",
"EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY",
"EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > WATER QUALITY > OCEAN CONTAMINANTS",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > ALABAMA",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > CALIFORNIA",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > DELAWARE",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > FLORIDA",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > GEORGIA",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > GREAT LAKES",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > HAWAII",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > LOUISIANA",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > MARYLAND",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > MASSACHUSETTS",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > MISSISSIPPI",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > NEW JERSEY",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > NEW YORK",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > NORTH CAROLINA",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > OHIO",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > RHODE ISLAND",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > SOUTH CAROLINA",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > TEXAS",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > VIRGINIA",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > WASHINGTON",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > WISCONSIN",
"OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN",
"OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA",
"OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN",
"OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN",
"BOX CORE",
"GRAB SAMPLERS",
"NISKIN BOTTLES",
"In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Corers > SEDIMENT CORERS",
"In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Profilers/Sounders > CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth",
"DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce",
"DOC/NOAA/NOS/NCCOS > National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce",
"NCCOS Research Data Type > Field Observation",
"NCCOS Research Data Type > Long-term Monitoring",
"NCCOS Research Priority > Coastal Change: Vulnerability, Mitigation, and Restoration",
"NCCOS Research Priority > Marine Spatial Ecology",
"NCCOS Research Priority > Stressor Impacts and Mitigation",
"NCCOS Research Topic > Biological Effects of Contaminants and Nutrients",
"NCCOS Research Topic > Climate Impacts on Ecosystems",
"NCCOS Research Topic > Ecological and Biogeographic Assessments",
"NCCOS Research Location > Region > Atlantic Ocean",
"NCCOS Research Location > Region > Great Lakes",
"NCCOS Research Location > Region > Gulf of Mexico",
"Ashtabula River; Biscayne Bay; Chesapeake Bay; Delaware Bay; Dry Tortugas; Florida Bay; Florida Keys; Galveston Bay; Great Lakes; Gulf of Mexico; Hudson River; Manatee Bay; Massachusetts Bay; Milwaukee Estuary; Neuse River; Northwest Hawaiian Islands",
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"North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve (NCNERR); Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve (SINERR); Guana-Tolomato-Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve (GTMNERR)",
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"NOAA Ship Pisces",
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"Nutrients",
"Sediment Quality",
"Toxicity",
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| temporal | 1991-03-18T00:00:00+00:00/1991-03-18T00:00:00+00:00 |
| title | NCCOS Long-term Monitoring Project: Regional Ecological Assessments and National Benthic Inventory |
