Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Skip to content
This is a Non-Federal dataset covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov.

Surface Water - Benthic Macroinvertebrate Results

Metadata Updated: September 23, 2025

Data collected for marine benthic infauna, freshwater benthic macroinvertebrate (BMI), algae, bacteria and diatom taxonomic analyses, from the California Environmental Data Exchange Network (CEDEN). Note bacteria single species concentrations are stored within the chemistry template, whereas abundance bacteria are stored within this set. Each record represents a result from a specific event location for a single organism in a single sample.

The data set contains two provisionally assigned values (“DataQuality” and “DataQualityIndicator”) to help users interpret the data quality metadata provided with the associated result.

Zip files are provided for bulk data downloads (in csv or parquet file format), and developers can use the API associated with the "CEDEN Benthic Data" (csv) resource to access the data.

Users who want to manually download more specific subsets of the data can also use the CEDEN Query Tool, which provides access to the same data presented here, but allows for interactive data filtering.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

Downloads & Resources

Dates

Metadata Created Date July 23, 2021
Metadata Updated Date September 23, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from State of California

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date July 23, 2021
Metadata Updated Date September 23, 2025
Publisher California State Water Resources Control Board
Maintainer
Identifier c14a017a-8a8c-42f7-a078-3ab64a873e32
Data First Published 2019-08-10T04:03:08.517396
Data Last Modified 2025-09-08T23:35:20.781248
Category Water
Public Access Level public
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 8631e1bf-1d84-404a-82eb-250ae085b992
Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
Harvest Source Title State of California
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 5e3315874bc61135f8a1611323ad751b624fe6fe488eca3b5c0d23813ae08ad9
Source Schema Version 1.1

Didn't find what you're looking for? Suggest a dataset here.