Shenandoah National Park - University of Virginia Fish in Sensitive Habitats Project Data from 1992-2023 as of 2025-01-14

This data package was created 2025-01-14 10:46:11 by NPSTORET and includes selected project, location, and result data.

The Shenandoah National Park - University of Virginia 'Fish in Sensitive Habitats' project is intended to: (1) describe the water chemistry, physical habitat, and fish communities in selected streams in Shenandoah National Park and the Saint Mary's River Wilderness Area in the George Washington & Jefferson National Forests; (2) determine if and how fish communities in these streams are influenced by stream acidification; and (3) use current physical, chemical, and biological data to predict future trends in acidification and effects on stream biota. This is a joint effort between the National Park Service, University of Virginia, U.S. Forest Service, and Virginia Tech.

Only the data collected within Shenandoah National Park (SHEN) are contained in the SHEN_UVA_FISH_IN_SENSITIVE_HABITATS project. Data from the Fish in Sensitive Habitats project collected on U.S. Forest Service land can be obtained from the University of Virginia or the Water Quality Portal under the USFS_UVA_FISH_IN_SENSITIVE_HABITATS project.

Data contained in the Shenandoah National Park - University of Virginia NPSTORET back-end file (NPS_UVA_NPSTORET_BE_20250108.ACCDB) were filtered to include:

Project:
- SHEN_UVA_FISH_IN_SENSITIVE_HABITATS: Fish in Sensitive Habitats
Station:
- Include Trip QC And All Station Visit Results
Park/Unit Code:
- SHEN
Value Status:
- Accepted or Certified (exported as Final) or Final

The data package is organized into five data tables:
- Projects.csv - describes the purpose and background of the monitoring efforts
- Locations.csv - documents the attributes of the monitoring locations/stations
- Results.csv - contains the field measurements, observations, and/or lab analyses for each sample/event/data grouping
- HUC.csv - enumerates the domain of allowed values for 8-digit and 12-digit hydrologic unit codes utilized by the Locations datatable
- Characteristics.csv - enumerates the domain of characteristics available in NPSTORET to identify what was sampled, measured or observed in Results

Period of record for filtered data is 1992-03-08 to 2023-12-14. This data package is a snapshot in time of one National Park Service project. The most current data for this project, which may be more or less extensive than that in this data package, can be found on the Water Quality Portal at:
https://www.waterqualitydata.us/data/Result/search?project=SHEN_UVA_FISH_IN_SENSITIVE_HABITATS