Baywide Benthic Database

Data Type: Benthos, sediment images

Geographic Extent: Chesapeake Bay and tidal tributaries

Date Range: 1975-present

Data is currently being collected under the following grants: CB98361804, CB98385303, CB98382503

Alert: Due to changes in benthic IBI calculation protocol, we have recalculated all benthic IBI data. If you have downloaded data prior to January 21, 2003, you should download the new IBI data. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Contact:

Mike Mallonee

Documentation:

• Tidal Benthic Monitoring Database: Database Design Documentation And Data Dictionary-Version 4.0 (320.22 KB)

• Quality Assurance Plan for the Virginia Benthic Monitoring Program-2010-2011 (908.87 KB)

• Quality Assurance Plan for the Maryland Benthic Monitoring Program-2011-2012 (6.09 MB)

• The 2012 User's Guide to CBP Biological Monitoring Data (1.2 MB)

• NOAA-Coastal Ocean Assessments - Status and Trends - Special Survey (451.93 KB)

• Maryland Power plant Research Program: Long Term Benthic Monitoring and Assessment Program (174.63 KB)

• USEPA- Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessment -Special Chesapeake Bay Data Subset (256.85 KB)

• USEPA-EMAP Virginian Provence-Special Chesapeake Bay Data Subset (352.22 KB)

• Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Estuarine Probabilistic Monitoring Program: Benthic Components (413.52 KB)

Documentation Links:

• Map of Fixed Benthic Monitoring Stations in Maryland
• Map of Fixed Benthic Monitoring Stations in Virginia
• Maryland Benthic Monitoring Project Data Documentation
• Virginia Benthic Monitoring Project Data Documentation
• Virginia Historic Lower Ches. Bay and Tribs Benthic Taxonomic Data Project Documentation
• Benthic Database Entity Relationship Diagram
• A Comprehensive List of Chesapeake Bay Basin Species 2007
• Quality Assurance Plan for the Virginia Benthic Monitoring Program
• Quality Assurance Plan for the Maryland Benthic Monitoring Program

Metadata:

• FGDC Compliant Metadata for the Maryland Tidal Benthic monitoring program (44.3 KB)

• FGDC Compliant Metadata for the Virginia Tidal Benthic monitoring program (51.38 KB)

• FGDC Compliant Metadata for the Virginia Historic Lower Chesapeake Bay Benthic Data Project (32.82 KB)

Summary Data Products:

• Methods for calculating Benthic Index of Biotic Integrity - November 2002