Sediment Data from off New Hampshire (WARD01 shapefile)

Dataset Identification:

Resource Abstract:
The sediment data contained in this set were produced as part of the site description and monitoring phases of an aquaculture demonstration project. The site is located off the coast of New Hampshire in the Gulf of Maine.
Citation
Title Sediment Data from off New Hampshire (WARD01 shapefile)
publication  Date   2003-01-01
Edition 1.0
presentationForm  mapDigital
Series
Name Open-File Report
Issue 03-001
cited responsible party - publisher
organisation Name  U. S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Contact information
Address
, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  Lawrence J. Poppe
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  L.J. Poppe
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  V.F. Paskevich
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  S.J. Williams
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  M.E. Hastings
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  J.T. Kelley
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  D.F. Belknap
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  L.G. Ward
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  D.M. Fitzgerald
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  P.F. Larsen
cited responsible party -
organisation Name  
Contact information
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-001/data/seddata/ward01/ward01.zip
cited responsible party -
organisation Name  
Contact information
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-001/htmldocs/data.htm
Topic Category:  oceans,location,geoscientificInformation
Keywords:
Theme keywords (theme):
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS
Woods Hole Science Center
WHSC
Unversity of New Hampshire
UNH
sediment
texture
grain size
classification
gravel
sand
silt
clay
mud
Open-File Report 03-001
Coastal and Marine Geology Program
CMGP
sediment classification
surficial classification
point shapefile
points
GIS
Geographic Information System
thesaurus name >
Title None
Location keywords:
New Hampshire
New England
Gulf of Maine
U.S. East Coast
Atlantic Ocean
U.S. East Coast
New Hampshire coast
thesaurus name >
Title None
purpose:
The purpose of this data layer is to make available a subset of a data set produced by Larry Ward and others at the University of New Hampshire. This data layer contains information for those samples with raw grain size data which are located on the inner continental shelf from off New Hampshire, Gulf of Maine.
Browse image (thumbnail):
thumbnail file name:  ...
file type: GIF
thumbnail file description:  Thumbnail image showing extent and distribution of data layer coverage.
Browse image (thumbnail):
thumbnail file name:  ...
file type: GIF
thumbnail file description:  Image map showing extent and distribution of data layer coverage.
Resource language:  eng; USA
Resource progress code:  completed
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  notPlanned
Constraints on resource usage:
Constraints
Use limitation statement:
Although these data have been used by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the USGS in the use of these data or related materials. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
use constraint:  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Use Constraints: Public domain data from the U.S. Government are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as the source of this information.
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
Access Constraints  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Access Constraints: None
Spatial representation type code:  vector
Processing environment:  Native Dataset Environment: Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.2.2.1350 Technical Prerequisites: These data are available in Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) shapefile format. The user must have ArcGIS or ArcView 3.0 or greater software to read and process the data file. In lieu of ArcView or ArcGIS, the user may utilize another GIS application package capable of importing the data. A free data viewer, ArcExplorer, capable of displaying the data is available from ESRI at www.esri.com.
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -70.701000
eastBoundLongitude  -70.536483
northBoundLatitude  43.076667
southBoundLatitude  42.918333
Temporal Extent
1997-10-21 2002-07-19
Credits:
Please review the cross reference information for the original data set credit to Ward and others (2001), and Larry Poppe for creating this ArcView shapefile.
point of contact - pointOfContact
individual Name Lawrence J. Poppe
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey
position Name Geologist
Contact information
Telephone
Voice (508) 548-8700 x2314
Fax (508) 457-2310
Address
384 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA, 02543-1598 Country USA
electronic Mail Address lpoppe@usgs.gov
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Vector spatial representation information

Geometric Objects
geometric Object Type  point
geometric Object Count  199
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Grid spatial representation

number of grid dimensions: 2
Grid axis property:
Grid Dimension
Dimension Name:  column
Dimension Size 
Grid Dimension
Dimension Name:  row
Dimension Size 
transformation parameter availability:  false
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Coverage description

Type of coverage content 
Cell value attribute description:  
Band
descriptor Internal feature number.
sequence Identifier
name FID
Band
descriptor Feature geometry.
sequence Identifier
name Shape
Band
descriptor Name used to designate this data set
sequence Identifier
name PROJECTID
Band
descriptor Date sample was collected
sequence Identifier
name DATE
Band
descriptor Name used to designate sampling locations
sequence Identifier
name STATION
Band
descriptor Devie used to collect samples
sequence Identifier
name DEVICE
Band
descriptor Top depth of sampling interval in cores
sequence Identifier
name T_DEPTH
Long Wavelength  92
Short Wavelength  2
units
Band
descriptor Bottom depth of sampling interval in cores
sequence Identifier
name B_DEPTH
Long Wavelength  94
Short Wavelength  4
units
Band
descriptor Water depth
sequence Identifier
name DEPTH_M
Long Wavelength  74
Short Wavelength  17
units
Band
descriptor Latitude coordinate of sample location
sequence Identifier
name LATITUDE
Long Wavelength  43.076667
Short Wavelength  42.918333
units
Band
descriptor Longitude coordinate of sample location
sequence Identifier
name LONGITUDE
Long Wavelength  -70.536483
Short Wavelength  -70.701000
units
Band
descriptor Textural classification based on a gravel, sand, mud triangular diagram of Folk (1974)
sequence Identifier
name FOLK_GSM
Band
descriptor Textural classification based on a sand, silt, clay triangular diagram of Folk (1974)
sequence Identifier
name FOLK_SZC
Band
descriptor Textural classification based on a sand, silt, clay triangular diagram devised by Shepard (1954)
sequence Identifier
name SHEPARD_SZ
Band
descriptor Textural classification based on a sand, silt, clay triangular diagram devised by Shepard (1954) and modified by Schlee (1973)
sequence Identifier
name SEDCLASS
Band
descriptor Percentage of gravel in sample
sequence Identifier
name GRAVEL
Long Wavelength  98
Short Wavelength  0
units
Band
descriptor Percentage of sand in sample
sequence Identifier
name SAND
Long Wavelength  93
Short Wavelength  1
units
Band
descriptor Silt plus clay in sample
sequence Identifier
name MUD
Long Wavelength  86
Short Wavelength  1
units
Band
descriptor Percentage of silt in sample
sequence Identifier
name SILT
Long Wavelength  60
Short Wavelength  2
units
Band
descriptor Percentage of clay in sample
sequence Identifier
name CLAY
Long Wavelength  30
Short Wavelength  1
units
Band
descriptor Mean of the size distribution
sequence Identifier
name MEAN
Long Wavelength  6.77
Short Wavelength  -4.03
units
Band
descriptor Standard deviation of the size distribution
sequence Identifier
name STDEV
Long Wavelength  4.28
Short Wavelength  0.56
units
Band
descriptor Skewness of the size distribution
sequence Identifier
name SKEWNESS
Long Wavelength  0.89
Short Wavelength  -2.29
units
Band
descriptor Krtosis of the size distribution
sequence Identifier
name KURTOSIS
Long Wavelength  8.81
Short Wavelength  0.64
units
Band
descriptor Percent weight loss on ignition
sequence Identifier
name LOI
Long Wavelength  5.3
Short Wavelength  0.7
units
Band
descriptor Comments on sampling
sequence Identifier
name COMMENTS
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Content information: feature catalog description

Included With Dataset  true
Feature Types  
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Scope of quality information
scope level  dataset
Resource lineage description
source
source description  Source Contribution: Information unavailable from original metadata.Source Type Excel File
source citation
Title University of New Hampshire Open Ocean Aquaculture Demonstration Project: Site Description and Environmental Monitoring, Report on Activities from Fall 1997 to Winter 2000
publication  Date   2001-01-01
Edition 1.0
Series
Name NOAA/UNH Cooperative Institute for New England Mariculture and Fisheries (CINEMAR) Report
Issue UNH CMB/JEL Report Series, Number 55
cited responsible party - publisher
organisation Name  University of New Hampshire
Contact information
Address
, Durham, NH
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  L.G. Ward
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  R.E. Grizzle
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  F.L. Bub
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  R. Langan
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  G. Schnaittacher
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  J.A. Dijkstra
Resource extent
Temporal Extent
2001-01-01
AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy
name Of Measure Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
evaluation Method Description  Navigation was done with differential GPS (+/- 10 m)
Completeness Commission
evaluation Method Description  Sample locations, grain-size data, textural classifications, and sample identifiers are provided for 199 records
Completeness Omission
evaluation Method Description  Sample locations, grain-size data, textural classifications, and sample identifiers are provided for 199 records
ConceptualConsistency
measure Description  No additional checks for topological consistency were performed on this data.

Resource distribution information

Distributor
distributor contact - distributor
individual Name Lawrence J. Poppe
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey
position Name Geologist
Contact information
Telephone
Voice (508) 548-8700 x2314
Fax (508) 457-2310
Address
384 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA, 02543-1598 Country USA
electronic Mail Address lpoppe@usgs.gov
Standard ordering process
fees None
plannedAvailableDateTime  2003-01-01T00:00:00
Format
Format name SHP
Format version 3.2
specification > ESRI point shapefile
file Decompression Technique  zip
Digital Transfer Options
transfer Size 0.1
Linkage for online resource
name SHP
URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-001/data/seddata/ward01/ward01.zip
link function 
Description Five files (ward01.shp, ward01.dbf, ward01.shx, ward01.sbx, ward01.sbn) comprising the ArcView point shapefile components, 'prj' and 'avl' files, metadata text file and browse graphic.
Digital Transfer Options
Medium of distribution
name  cdRom
medium Format  iso9660
density 650
density Units Mbytes
medium Note Format Information Content: Five files (ward01.shp, ward01.dbf, ward01.shx, ward01.sbx, ward01.sbn) comprising the ArcView point shapefile components, 'prj' and 'avl' files, metadata text file and browse graphic. Compatibility Information: The user must have a computer system with a CD-ROM available. To browse the information contained on this CD-ROM, the user must have a current WWW browser available. The user must also have software installed on their computer to unzip the archived file.

Metadata data stamp:  2015-12-02
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  annually
notes: This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard (version FGDC-STD-001-1998) using the 2012-06-20T17:21:00 version of the FGDC RSE to ISO 19115-2 transform.
Metadata Constraints
Legal Constraints
Access Constraints  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Metadata Access Constraints: None
Metadata Constraints
Legal Constraints
Access Constraints  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Metadata Use Constraints: None
Metadata contact - pointOfContact
individual Name Lawrence J. Poppe
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey
position Name Geologist
Contact information
Telephone
Voice (508) 548-8700 x2314
Fax (508) 457-2310
Address
384 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA, 02543-1598 Country USA
electronic Mail Address lpoppe@usgs.gov
Metadata scope code  dataset
Metadata language  eng; USA
Metadata character set encoding:   utf8
Metadata standard for this record:  ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data
standard version:  ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
Metadata record identifier:  32c7cf85-b76e-4d95-b0a8-b83706689b80

Metadata record format is ISO19139-2 XML (MI_Metadata)