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#1 Federal

Benthic Habitat Dataset

Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Dataset Last Updated: April 30, 2026 at 12:00 AM

Beam trawl (2 m) and otter trawl (36' Yankee) demersal and epibenthic catches from targeted areas of interest including mid-Atlantic shelf and vicinity of Hudson Canyon

Search relevance: 121.43 | Views last month: 1 | Catalog Last Checked: August 03, 2026 at 02:35 AM

#2 Federal

NCCOS Mapping: Satellite derived bathymetry and benthic habitat mapping to support sea level rise models for the area surrounding Roi-Namur Island, Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands (NCEI Accession 0259452)

Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Dataset Last Updated: September 14, 2022 at 12:00 AM

Satellite Derived Bathymetry (SDB), benthic habitat, and hydrodynamic friction maps were generated for a study area surrounding Roi-Namur Island, part of the Kwajalein Atoll of the Republic of the...

Search relevance: 60.56 | Views last month: 2 | Catalog Last Checked: October 26, 2026 at 09:38 PM

#3 Federal

NCCOS mapping: Collaborative Benthic Habitat Mapping in the Nearshore Waters of the Great Lakes Basin - Benthic Imagery and Annotations in and around the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary (WSCNMS), Lake Michigan from 2024-03-02 to 2024-11-20 (NCEI Accession 0319021)

Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Dataset Last Updated: October 08, 2026 at 12:00 AM

This dataset includes underwater photos and video frames, along with corresponding annotations of benthic substrates and communities, and their metadata collected in and around the Wisconsin...

Search relevance: 55.35 | Views last month: 1 | Catalog Last Checked: October 26, 2026 at 10:11 PM

#4 Federal

NCCOS mapping: seafloor mapping products for Kachemak Bay, Cook Inlet, AK, from 2005-07-06 to 2017-07-19 (NCEI Accession 0209109)

Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Dataset Last Updated: April 04, 2020 at 12:00 AM

This dataset contains seafloor mapping data from hydrographic multibeam sonar surveys, a thematic benthic habitat map created from these multibeam sonar surveys, and georeferenced benthic...

Search relevance: 55.19 | Views last month: 1 | Catalog Last Checked: October 26, 2026 at 09:20 PM

#5 State

Predicted Nearshore Benthic Substrates of California - R7 - CDFW [ds3091]

Organization: State of California
Dataset Last Updated: November 22, 2023 at 05:17 PM

This dataset uses rugosity measurements collected during the California Seafloor Mapping Project (CSMP) as a proxy to classify benthic habitat as either Hard or Soft. While originally developed...

Search relevance: 53.56 | Views last month: 0 | Catalog Last Checked: September 10, 2026 at 06:17 PM

#6 Federal

Data collected in support of the Minerals Management Service-supported Deepwater Program: Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope Habitat and Benthic Ecology, 1999 - 2003

Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Dataset Last Updated: February 02, 2026 at 12:00 AM

This dataset includes data collected in support of the U.S. Minerals Management Service-supported program entitled "The Deepwater Program: Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope Habitat and...

Search relevance: 53.14 | Views last month: 2 | Catalog Last Checked: October 27, 2026 at 12:12 AM

#7 Federal

NOAA Office for Coastal Management Benthic Habitat Data, Apalachicola Bay, Dry Tortugas, Florida Bay, and Indian River Lagoon, Florida, 1991-2001 (NCEI Accession 0001045)

Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Dataset Last Updated: July 13, 2012 at 12:00 AM

These data are a collection of regional GIS (Arcview shapefiles and associated Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) metadata) benthic habitat files from studies conducted in specific locations...

Search relevance: 50.18 | Views last month: 6 | Catalog Last Checked: November 03, 2026 at 03:52 PM

#8 Federal

USVI Land-Based Threat to Benthic Habitats

Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Dataset Last Updated: January 01, 2006 at 12:00 AM

This data set describes the potential threat of sediment delivery and land-based sources of pollution to benthic habitats. This dataset is derived from NOAA's study, the Benthic Habitats of Puerto...

Search relevance: 50.11 | Views last month: 1 | Catalog Last Checked: August 02, 2026 at 05:12 PM

#9 Federal

The benthic food web connects the estuarine habitat mosaic to adjacent ecosystems

Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Dataset Last Updated: April 02, 2023

Supplementary data for "Ester Dias, Pedro Morais, Carlos Antunes, Joel C. Hoffman, The benthic food web connects the estuarine habitat mosaic to adjacent ecosystems, Food Webs, Volume 35, 2023,...

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Search relevance: 50.10 | Views last month: 2 | Catalog Last Checked: September 10, 2026 at 07:00 PM

#10 Federal

Puerto Rico Land-Based Threat to Benthic Habitats

Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Dataset Last Updated: November 01, 2005 at 12:00 AM

This data set describes the potential threat of sediment delivery and land-based sources of pollution to benthic habitats. This dataset is derived from NOAA's study, the Benthic Habitats of...

Search relevance: 49.97 | Views last month: 1 | Catalog Last Checked: August 02, 2026 at 05:09 PM

#11 Federal

Octocoral Species Richness for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary from 1999-2009 (NODC Accession 0123059)

Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Dataset Last Updated: January 01, 2014 at 12:00 AM

The dataset includes species richness of benthic branching and encrusting gorgonians collected from multiple habitat types across the south Florida shelf, inside and outside of the no-take...

Search relevance: 47.98 | Views last month: 2 | Catalog Last Checked: August 01, 2026 at 06:32 AM

#12 Federal

Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program: Towed-diver Surveys of Benthic Habitats, Key Benthic Species, and Marine Debris Sightings of the U.S. Pacific Reefs from 2000-09-09 to 2012-05-19 (NCEI Accession 0163745)

Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Dataset Last Updated: August 19, 2017 at 12:00 AM

The towed-diver method is used to conduct benthic surveys, assessing large-scale disturbances (e.g., bleaching) and quantifying benthic components such as habitat complexity/type and the general...

Search relevance: 47.40 | Views last month: 2 | Catalog Last Checked: October 26, 2026 at 09:03 PM

#13 Federal

Benthic Imagery from the Kahekili Herbivore Fisheries Management Area (HFMA)

Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Dataset Last Updated: June 03, 2026 at 12:00 AM

Photoquadrat benthic images were collected within the Kahekili Herbivore Fisheries Management Area (KHFMA) in West Maui by the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) Ecosystem Sciences...

Search relevance: 47.08 | Views last month: 1 | Catalog Last Checked: October 27, 2026 at 12:16 AM

#14 Federal

Coral reef fish species survey data GIS from the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (NCEI Accession 0001394)

Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Dataset Last Updated: January 03, 2022 at 12:00 AM

This data set consists of an ArcView shapefile set that contains locations of sampled coral reef fish species at the National Marine Sanctuary along the Florida Keys. The dataset contains...

Search relevance: 46.86 | Views last month: 2 | Catalog Last Checked: October 26, 2026 at 07:29 PM

#15 Federal

Coral ecosystem connectivity from Pulley Ridge to the Florida Keys: habitat and benthic macrobiota from underwater still images from 2012-08-17 to 2015-09-02 (NCEI Accession 0210993)

Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Dataset Last Updated: December 17, 2020 at 12:00 AM

This dataset comprises still images recorded by remotely operated vehicle (ROV) surveys during four cruises from 2012 to 2015, which characterized the mesophotic coral ecosystems at Pulley Ridge...

Search relevance: 46.56 | Views last month: 1 | Catalog Last Checked: October 26, 2026 at 09:23 PM

#16 Federal

National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Towed-diver Surveys of Benthic Habitat, Key Benthic Species, and Marine Debris Sightings of the Hawaiian Archipelago in 2016

Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Dataset Last Updated: January 01, 2016 at 12:00 AM

The towed-diver method is used to conduct benthic surveys, assessing large-scale disturbances (e.g., bleaching) and quantifying benthic components such as habitat complexity/type and the general...

Search relevance: 46.55 | Views last month: 3 | Catalog Last Checked: September 01, 2026 at 10:33 PM

#17 Federal

National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Towed-diver Surveys of Benthic Habitat, Key Benthic Species, and Marine Debris Sightings of the Marianas since 2014

Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Dataset Last Updated: January 01, 2016 at 12:00 AM

The towed-diver method is used to conduct benthic surveys, assessing large-scale disturbances (e.g., bleaching) and quantifying benthic components such as habitat complexity/type and the general...

Search relevance: 46.55 | Views last month: 2 | Catalog Last Checked: September 01, 2026 at 10:33 PM

#18 Federal

National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Towed-diver Surveys of Benthic Habitat, Key Benthic Species, and Marine Debris Sightings of the Pacific Remote Island Areas since 2014

Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Dataset Last Updated: January 01, 2016 at 12:00 AM

The towed-diver method is used to conduct benthic surveys, assessing large-scale disturbances (e.g., bleaching) and quantifying benthic components such as habitat complexity/type and the general...

Search relevance: 46.39 | Views last month: 3 | Catalog Last Checked: September 01, 2026 at 10:32 PM

#19 Federal

Benthic Images from Stratified Random Site (StRS) Surveys in the Main Hawaiian Islands from 2019-10-08 to 2019-11-14 During the 2019 Bleaching Event (NCEI Accession 0270550)

Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Dataset Last Updated: December 08, 2022 at 12:00 AM

Data provided in this dataset are benthic habitat imagery that result from benthic photo-quadrat surveys conducted along transects at stratified random sites surveyed across the Main Hawaiian...

Search relevance: 46.37 | Views last month: 1 | Catalog Last Checked: October 26, 2026 at 09:39 PM

#20 Federal

Florida Reef Fish Visual Census 1986 Species Site Matrix (NODC Accession 0001394)

Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Dataset Last Updated: January 01, 2002 at 12:00 AM

This data set is an ArcView shapefile set that contains locations of sampled coral reef fish species at the National Marine Sanctuary along the Florida Keys. The dataset contains information about...

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Search relevance: 46.35 | Views last month: 9 | Catalog Last Checked: August 01, 2026 at 07:31 AM

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NCCOS Mapping: Satellite derived bathymetry and benthic habitat mapping to support sea level rise models for the area surrounding Roi-Namur Island, Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands (NCEI Accession 0259452)

NCCOS mapping: Collaborative Benthic Habitat Mapping in the Nearshore Waters of the Great Lakes Basin - Benthic Imagery and Annotations in and around the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary (WSCNMS), Lake Michigan from 2024-03-02 to 2024-11-20 (NCEI Accession 0319021)

NCCOS mapping: seafloor mapping products for Kachemak Bay, Cook Inlet, AK, from 2005-07-06 to 2017-07-19 (NCEI Accession 0209109)

Predicted Nearshore Benthic Substrates of California - R7 - CDFW [ds3091]

Data collected in support of the Minerals Management Service-supported Deepwater Program: Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope Habitat and Benthic Ecology, 1999 - 2003

NOAA Office for Coastal Management Benthic Habitat Data, Apalachicola Bay, Dry Tortugas, Florida Bay, and Indian River Lagoon, Florida, 1991-2001 (NCEI Accession 0001045)

USVI Land-Based Threat to Benthic Habitats

The benthic food web connects the estuarine habitat mosaic to adjacent ecosystems

Puerto Rico Land-Based Threat to Benthic Habitats

Octocoral Species Richness for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary from 1999-2009 (NODC Accession 0123059)

Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program: Towed-diver Surveys of Benthic Habitats, Key Benthic Species, and Marine Debris Sightings of the U.S. Pacific Reefs from 2000-09-09 to 2012-05-19 (NCEI Accession 0163745)

Benthic Imagery from the Kahekili Herbivore Fisheries Management Area (HFMA)

Coral reef fish species survey data GIS from the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (NCEI Accession 0001394)

Coral ecosystem connectivity from Pulley Ridge to the Florida Keys: habitat and benthic macrobiota from underwater still images from 2012-08-17 to 2015-09-02 (NCEI Accession 0210993)

National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Towed-diver Surveys of Benthic Habitat, Key Benthic Species, and Marine Debris Sightings of the Hawaiian Archipelago in 2016

National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Towed-diver Surveys of Benthic Habitat, Key Benthic Species, and Marine Debris Sightings of the Marianas since 2014

National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Towed-diver Surveys of Benthic Habitat, Key Benthic Species, and Marine Debris Sightings of the Pacific Remote Island Areas since 2014

Benthic Images from Stratified Random Site (StRS) Surveys in the Main Hawaiian Islands from 2019-10-08 to 2019-11-14 During the 2019 Bleaching Event (NCEI Accession 0270550)

Florida Reef Fish Visual Census 1986 Species Site Matrix (NODC Accession 0001394)