Virginian and Carolinian Province Estuarine Metal (1990-1996 EMAP-Estuaries) and Landscape (1992 NLCD) Synthesis Dataset

The Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program - Estuaries (EMAP-E) dataset, the
National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD), the National Coastal Pollution Discharge Inventory
(NCPDI), the USGS River Gauge data, the NOAA Tide Gauge data, and the National
Elevation Dataset (NED) are three datasets I compiled for use in modeling metal
concentrations in estuarine sediment. Although these datasets cover the same general
geographic extent and are publicly available via the web, in their native formats they are not readily synthesized or modeled. Considerable processing and compilation steps are required to form the
EMAP Virginian and Carolinian Province Station Data and the Multi-scale watersheds used to
subset the NLCD. Although these datasets do not represent new data per se, the manipulation
and compilation of the data into a form ready for landscape analyses is novel and provides
added benefit to the use of these data.