20230105 12444600 1.0 TRUE Daniel Rosales e4sciences, LLC 2032708100 27 Glen Road Sandy Hook CT 06482 US 20150812 ArcGIS Metadata 1.0 withheld Biological Community Statistics 2015-08-05 (845) 889-4745 NYS DEC Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve Vector Digital Data Summary statistics of benthic macroinvertebrate communities sampled on portions of the west side Manhattan and Brooklyn waterfronts. The purpose of this dataset is to provide biologic information about the nearshore environment of portions of the New York City waterfront to accompany acoustic surveys of the same areas.<br /><a href='https://opdgig.dos.ny.gov/datasets/7f516d3625424209af861b4b94ead445/explore' target='_self' rel='nofollow ugc'>View Dataset on the Gateway</a> Biologic information about the nearshore environment of portions of the New York City waterfront to accompany acoustic surveys of the same areas. Pamela Neubert, Ph.D., Stantec; EcoAnalysts,Inc.; and e4sciences, LLC John Ladd New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Benthic Mapping Coordinator 8452563146 21 South Putt Corners Road New Paltz NY 12561 US New York Harbor New York City Hudson River Hudson RiverbenthicspeciesAtlantic Ocean Programhabitats This dataset and related graphics are being provided to the public free of charge and for informational purposes only. They are not legal documents and are not intended to be used as such. This dataset was not prepared for, nor is it to be used for or relied upon for legal, engineering, navigation, or surveying purposes. The data are not better than the original sources from which they were derived. It is the responsibility of the data user to use the data appropriately and within the limitations of geospatial data in general, and these data in particular. 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Bathymetry for Shallow Water benthic surveys, West Side of Manhattan and Brooklyn waterfront referened to MLLW: 2015 including ungridded single-beam data 2015-08-05 e4sciences, LLC Raster Digital Data Set withheld Orthosonograph side-scan for Shallow water benthic surveys, West Side of Manhattan and Brooklyn waterfront 2015-08-05 e4sciences, LLC NYS DEC Albany, NY Raster Digital Data Set Hudson River Estuary Program Harbor Surveys withheld Sub-bottom seismic data for Shallow water benthic surveys, West Side of Manhattan and Brooklyn waterfront 2015-08-05 e4sciences, LLC NYS DEC Albany, NY jpeg, gif, and SEG-Y Hudson River Estuary Program Harbor Surveys withheld Sediment isopach (black silt) for Shallow water benthic surveys, West Side of Manhattan and Brooklyn waterfront 2015-08-05 e4sciences, LLC NYS DEC Albany, NY Vector Digital Data Set (Polyline) Hudson River Estuary Program Harbor Surveys withheld Bottom sediment classification for Shallow water benthic surveys, West Side of Manhattan and Brooklyn waterfront 2015-08-05 e4sciences, LLC NYS DEC Albany, NY Vector Digital Data Set (Polygon) Hudson River Estuary Program Harbor Surveys withheld Bathymetric Data Viewer 2016 National Centers for Environmental Information National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Silver Spring, MD http://maps.ngdc.noaa.gov/viewers/bathymetry/ Report for H11600 - multibeam surveys of Upper Bay, New York Harbor 2006 National Centers for Environmental Information National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Silver Spring, MD Hudson River Estuary Program Harbor Surveys http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/docucomp/page?url=http://surveys.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/NOS/hsmdb/H10001-H12000/H11600_hsmdb.xml&view=hydro/survey&header=none Esri ArcGIS 10.3.1 (Build 4959) Service Pack N/A (Build N/A) true -74.039144 -73.971198 40.80416 40.648755 observed 2014-09-14 2014-12-12 position was determined using GPS +/- 0.1 meters +/- 0.1 meters e4sciences conducted the initial sampling at Bay Ridge Flats on the anchored Time and Tide. Because of the difficulties sampling in New York Harbor due to winds, tidal currents, and extremely busy marine traffic, e4sciences used a 20m steel self-spudding utility boat, the Samantha Miller, for all remaining sampling. The large vessel ensured not only the safety of the crew, but also the best possible results. James Trotta and Bruce Ward of e4sciences oversaw the collection of push cores and of the grab samples and maintained the chain of custody for the samples. Pam Neubert oversaw the mobilization and training for the infaunal sampling. Sarah Boucher and Ally Sullivan, both of Stantec, collected the infaunal samples in the field. e4 collected the grab samples with a Ponar grab sample device. At each site, the captain spudded the vessel as close as possible to the planned location. Once the vessel was stable, the crew collected the first grab sample with a 6”x6” Ponar grab sampler (in a few problematic areas, a 9”x9” grab sampler was used). Ponar samples were repeated until sufficient recovery (at least 80% full) for the benthic infauna sample. The crew then repeated the sampling until sufficient recovery for the grain size, 7Be and 137Cs analyses. The crew cleaned the grab sampler between attempts. e4 deployed two grab samples: the first for infaunal organisms, the second for sediment samples. e4 kept the infaunal samples if recovery was greater than 80% of the sample. Immediately after sampling, infaunal samples were washed through a 500-micron mesh sieve and preserved in 10% buffered formalin. 2014-12-12 Taxonomic identifications of infaunal organisms were performed to the lowest practical taxonomic level. These data were entered into PRIMER + Version 6.0 and analyzed for both univariate and multivariate benthic community metrics 2015-09-10 55 sediment biology statistics of benthic infauna community e4sciences SHAPE Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. Region waterfront area where samples were taken e4sciences Brooklyn Bridge Park a portion of the Brooklyn waterfront e4sciences Bay Ridge Flats a shoal area in the inner harbor e4sciences Brooklyn Navy Yard a portion of the Brooklyn waterfront e4sciences Governors Island the waterfront surrounding Governors Island e4sciences Manhattan westside waterfront middle Manhattan waterfront on the Hudson River from Pier 59 north to Pier 94 e4sciences Manhattan westside waterfront north Manhattan waterfront on the Hudson River from Pier 98 north to West 107th Street e4sciences Manhattan westside waterfront south Manhattan waterfront on the Hudson River from Pier 25 north to Pier 53 e4sciences Sunset Park waterfront Brooklyn waterfront off Sunset Park e4sciences Sample_sit Identifier of each sediment sample e4sciences The form is XX14-ZZ where XX is two or three letters that are abbreviation of the region; 14 indicates that sample was taken in 2014; ZZ is the station identifier Lat latitude in decimal degrees e4sciences 40.645882 40.80416 Long longitude in decimal degrees; negative for West longitude e4sciences -74.039144 -73.971198 Northing distance in meters north of the equator e4sciences 4499898 4517525 Easting distance in meters east of zonal meridian (-75 degrees) + false easting of 500,000 e4sciences 581400 586904 Species_cn number of species found in the sample e4sciences 3 21 beast_cnt number of animals found in 5 square cm of sample e4sciences 5 777 Margalef_d species diversity index = (Speices_cn-1)/ln beast_cnt Stantec 0.869 3.574 Pileou_Ev Pileou's Evenness = H/Hmax where H is derived from Shannon diversity index and Hmax is maximum possible value of H = ln(species_cn). This is a measure of biodiversity which quantifies how equal the community is numerically. Lower values indicate dominant species. Stantec 0.313 1 Fishers_al Fisher's alpha diversity index Fisher et.al., 1943, The relation between the number of species and the number of individuals in a random sample of an animal population, Journal of Animal Ecology, 12,42-58. 1.453 10.489 S_W_Divers Shannon-Weiner diversity index Stantec 0.802 2.172