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StreamCat

Published by U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Metadata Last Checked: August 02, 2025 | Last Modified: 2017-07-11
The StreamCat Dataset provides summaries of natural and anthropogenic landscape features for ~2.65 million streams, and their associated catchments, within the conterminous USA. This dataset is associated with the following publications: Hill, R.A., M. Weber , S. Leibowitz , T. Olsen , and D.J. Thornbrugh. The Stream-Catchment (StreamCat) Dataset: A database of watershed metrics for the conterminous USA. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION. American Water Resources Association, Middleburg, VA, USA, 9, (2015). Hill, R., E. Fox, S. Leibowitz, T. Olsen, D. Thornbrugh, and M. Weber. Predictive Mapping of the Biotic Condition of Conterminous-USA Rivers and Streams. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS. Ecological Society of America, Ithaca, NY, USA, 27(8): 2397-2415, (2017). Fox, E., R. Hill, S. Leibowitz, T. Olsen, D. Thornbrugh, and M. Weber. Assessing the accuracy and stability of variable selection methods for random forest modeling in ecology. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT. Springer, New York, NY, USA, 189(316): 1-20, (2017). Thornbrugh, D., S. Leibowitz, R. Hill, M. Weber, Z. Johnson, T. Olsen, J. Flotemersch, J. Stoddard, and D. Peck. Mapping watershed integrity for the conterminous United States... ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS. Elsevier Science Ltd, New York, NY, USA, 85: 1133-1148, (2018).

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