Watershed Wide Benthic Invertebrate Database

Data Type:

Benthic Macroinverebrates, Water Quality and In Stream Habitat Assessment Data.

Geographic Extent:

All wadable non tidal waters in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Date Range:

1986-present

Contact:

Peter Tango

Data is currently being provided by over 20 federal, state, local and academic monitoring efforts across the watershed on a voluntary basis.

Alert: The Chesapeake Bay Program is unable to provide raw Maryland Department of Natural Resources Biological Stream Survey data to our users at this time. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Documentation:

• Methods for calculation if the Chessie - BIBI (pdf - 73.952 KB)
• The Non-Tidal Benthic Monitoring Database: Version 3.0; Database Design Documentation And Data Dictionary (pdf - 1.965 MB)
• A Comprehensive List of Chesapeake Bay Basin Species 2007 (pdf - 1.714 MB)
• The 2012 User's Guide to CBP Biological Monitoring Data (pdf - 1.26 MB)

Metadata:

• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Anne Arundel County Stream Monitoring Program (pdf - 53.092 KB)
• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all City of Baltimore stream and reservoir Monitoring Data (pdf - 75.161 KB)
• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection and Sustainability Monitoring Data (pdf - 74.545 KB)
• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Monitoring Data (pdf - 82.928 KB)
• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all District of Columbia Department of the Environment, Natural Resources Administration, Water Quality Division Monitoring Data (pdf - 76.764 KB)
• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all USEPA-EMAP and MAIA Programs Monitoring Data (pdf - 75.943 KB)
• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all USEPA-Wadeable Streams Assessment Program Monitoring Data (pdf - 84.186 KB)
• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Fairfax County Virginia Monitoring Data (pdf - 87.005 KB)
• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Fredrick County Maryland Monitoring Data (pdf - 73.417 KB)
• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Howard County Maryland Monitoring Data (pdf - 33.479 KB)
• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Loudoun County Virginia Monitoring Data (pdf - 34.969 KB)
• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Maryland Biological Stream Survey Monitoring Data (pdf - 79.229 KB)
• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Maryland Streamwaders Monitoring Data (pdf - 30.547 KB)
• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Montgomery County Maryland Monitoring Data (pdf - 75.177 KB)
• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all New York Department Of Environmental Conservation Stream Monitoring Data (pdf - 82.226 KB)
• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Pennsylvania Department of the Environment Stream Monitoring Data (pdf - 79.986 KB)
• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Prince Georges County Maryland Monitoring Data (pdf - 85.173 KB)
• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Susquehanna River Basin Commission Monitoring Data (pdf - 81.126 KB)
• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all United States Forest Service Monitoring Data (pdf - 82.265 KB)
• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all United States Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Program Monitoring Data (pdf - 73.733 KB)
• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Monitoring Data (pdf - 79.468 KB)
• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Virginia Commonwealth University INteractive STream Assessment Resource Program Data (pdf - 96.795 KB)
• FGDC Compliant Metadata for all West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Monitoring Data (pdf - 60.584 KB)