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Elizabeth River Reports
Benthic Applications
EPA Biocriteria Report (PDF)

Chesapeake Bay Program Data Resources

Water Quality

Current and historical fixed point physical profile, nutrient, suspended solids and chlorophyll a data, as well as, the horizontal and vertioal fluorometric profile chlorophyll a the Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Monitoring Program are available at the Chesapeake Bay Program Data Hub: http://www.chesapeakebay.net/data/downloads/cbp_water_quality_database_1984_present.

Phytoplankton

Current and historical phytoplankton and picoplankton count data collected as part of the Virginia Phytoplankton Monitoring Program are available in ASCII format Chesapeake Bay Program Data Hub http://www.chesapeakebay.net/data/downloads/baywide_cbp_plankton_database and in and in SAS format by request by contacting Mike Lane at (757) 683-6480 or by email at mflane@odu.edu.

C14 Productivity

Historical C14 productivity data collected as part of the Virginia Phytoplankton Monitoring Program are available from the following sourcesin ASCII format Chesapeake Bay Program Data Hub http://www.chesapeakebay.net/data/downloads/baywide_cbp_plankton_database and in and in SAS format by request by contacting Mike Lane at (757) 683-6480 or by email at mflane@odu.edu

Zooplankton

Virginia historical microzooplankton and mesozooplankton count data are available from the following sources from the in ASCII format Chesapeake Bay Program Data Hub http://www.chesapeakebay.net/data/downloads/baywide_cbp_plankton_database and in SAS format by request by contacting Mike Lane at (757) 683-6480 or by email at mflane@odu.edu.

Benthos

Benthic, sediementary, physiochemical and biological data for fixed point and probability based monitoring stations for both Maryland and Virginia are available from the following sources: in ASCII text at Versar’s Chesapeake Bay Benthic Monitoring Program homepage http://esm.versar.com/Vcb/Benthos/data.htm or at the USEPA’s Chesapeake Bay Program Data Hub http://www.chesapeakebay.net/data and in SAS format by request contact Mike Lane at (757) 683-6480 or by email at mflane@odu.edu.