Dataset

NEFSC Benthic Database

OBIS Secretariat Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Benthic fauna data has been collected from 1881 to the present by the National Marine Fisheries Service Laboratories at Woods Hole, MA and Sandy Hook, NJ. The data includes the work by Wigley and Theroux on the macrofauna of the Northeastern United States. Other major studies include Ocean Pulse, the Northeast Monitoring Program, New York Bight, 12 Mile Dumpsite, Long Island Sound and Raritan Bay surveys. Parameters included in these surveys include depth, sediment type, gear type, number, weight, family, class, genus, species name, and abundance. A total of 21,000 sample sites are included in this data set with 4,000 meters being the maximum depth sampled.

Citation
Northeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce. 2010. NEFSC Benthic Database. Northeast Fisheries Science Center, 166 Water Street, Woods Hole Laboratories, Woods Hole, MA 02543.Retrieved from http://www.usgs.gov/obis-usa/
License
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URL
http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/resource?r=nefscbenthicdatabase
Archive
http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/archive.do?r=nefscbenthicdatabase

Contacts

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; National Marine Fisheries Service Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NOAA-NEFSC)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; National Marine Fisheries Service Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NOAA-NEFSC)

Steven Fromm
Federal Government of the United States of America; Department of Commerce; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; National Marine Fisheries Service; Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC)

OBIS Secretariat
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

225,432
total submitted occurrences
224,304
accepted occurrences
2,655
taxa
1,723
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 225,432
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 21,288
9.4%
minimumDepthInMeters 21,288
9.4%
occurrenceStatus 225,432
100.0%
scientificNameID 576 667
0.6%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 21,288
9.4%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 2,587
1.1%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 2,435
1.1%
NO_MATCH 1,118
0.5%
ON_LAND 1,073
0.5%
NOT_MARINE 10
0.0%
MARINE_UNSURE 1
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data