US Fish and Wildlife Service
Consevation Management Institute
2009
Connecticut Eelgrass Beds 2009 Field Data
vector digital data
http://www.ct.gov/deep
This data layer was created by the Conservation Management Institute, Virginia Tech University for the USFWS National Wetlands Inventory, Region 5. The project area encompasses the eastern end of Long Island Sound, including Fishers Island and the North Fork of Long Island. It includes all coastal embayments and nearshore waters (i.e., to a depth of -15 feet at mean low water) bordering the Sound from Clinton Harbor in the west to the Rhode Island border in the east and including Fishers Island and the North Shore of Long Island from Southold to Orient Point and Plum Island. The study area includes the tidal zone of 18 sub-basins in Connecticut: Little Narragansett Bay, Stonington Harbor, Quiambog Cove, Mystic Harbor, Palmer-West Cove, Mumford Cove, Paquonock River, New London Harbor, Goshen Cove, Jordan Cove, Niantic Bay, Rocky Neck State Park, Old Lyme Shores, Connecticut River, Willard Bay, Westbrook Harbor, Duck Island Roads, and Clinton Harbor, and two areas in New York: Fishers Island and a portion of the North Shore of Long Island. Delineations of 2009 eelgrass beds were completed using 1:20,000 true color aerial photography flown at low tide on 7/14/2009 and 7/15/2009. Extensive field work was conducted by the USFWS Region 5 Southern New England-New York Bight Coastal Program Office in October, November, and December 2009 with 193 field sites checked. The 2009 photography was scanned and geo-rectified using 2006 NAIP 1 meter true color imagery. Data have been summarized in a technical report: Tiner, R., K. McGuckin, M. Fields, N. Fuhrman, T. Halavik, and A. MacLachlan. 2010. 2009 Eelgrass Survey for Eastern Long Island Sound, Connecticut and New York. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wetlands Inventory Program, Northeast Region, Hadley, MA. National Wetlands Inventory report. 16 pp. plus Appendix.
This dataset was developed for an ongoing eelgrass monitoring of the Long Island Sound. Funding was provided by the EPA, Region 2.
2009
ground condition
None planned
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ISO 19115 Topic Category
environment
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the Identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the Outlying Areas of The United States, and Associated Areas (Federal Information Processing Standard 5-2): Washington, DC, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Connecticut
CT
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1995, Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 10-4): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology.
United States of America
USA
None. The data is in the public domain and may be redistributed.
Per US Fish and Wildlife Service:
Contraints based on limitation of methods of aquiring data through remotely sensed processes.
Per State of Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection:
No restrictions or legal prerequisites for using the data. Although this data set has been used by the State of Connecticut, Department of Environmental Protection, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the State of Connecticut, Department of Environmental Protection as to the accuracy of the data and or related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the State of Connecticut, Department of Environmental Protection in the use of these data or related materials. The user assumes the entire risk related to the use of these data. Once the data is distributed to the user, modifications made to the data by the user should be noted in the metadata.
Ralph Tiner
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Northeast Region
National Wetlands Inventory, R5 Coordinator
mailing and physical address
300 Westgate Center Drive
300 Westgate Center Drive
MA
01035
413-253-8620
ralph_tiner@fws.gov
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North American Datum of 1983
Geodetic Reference System 80
6378137.000000
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Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates
depgis.DEP.EELGRASS_BEDS_2009_FIELD_DATA
OBJECTID
Internal feature number.
ESRI
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
SHAPE
Feature geometry.
ESRI
Coordinates defining the features.
ID
SITE
LAT
LON
SITE_1
LATITUDE
LONGITUDE
SITE_AREA
SITE_NAME
INSP_DATE
INSP_TIME
DEPTH_FT
EELGRASS
COVER
COMMENTS
TIDE_TIME
TIDE_HEIGH
INVESTIGAT
Connecticut Eelgrass Beds 2009 Field Data
0.005
20120119
Kevin McGuckin
Consevation Management Institute
GIS Manager
mailing and physical address
1900 Kraft Dr. Suite 250
Blacksburg
VA
24061
540-231-9197
kmcguckn@vt.edu
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998
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