Page C. Valentine Lian A. Scully Sarah J. Fuller 2005 1.0 vector digital data Scientific Investigations Map2840 Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, MA U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/2005/2840/data/stations/sbnmsallsta.zip Page C. Valentine, editor 2005 1.0 Scientific Investigations Map 2840 Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, MA U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/2005/2840/1 DVD-ROM sbnmsallsta Development of interpretive seabed maps, sea floor imagery, and a GIS database that are accessible to scientists, policymakers, managers, and the general public. enThis data set contains point locations for data stations in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Region off Boston, Massachusetts, an area of approximately 1100 nautical square miles. The Stellwagen Bank NMS Mapping Project is designed to provide detailed maps of the Stellwagen Bank region's environments and habitats and the first complete multibeam topographic and sea floor characterization maps of a significant region of the shallow EEZ. Stations represent the location of a sediment sample and/or the end of a video transect. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) was recorded for each station location; latitude and longitude were later extracted from a GPS navigational log file using this time. 19932004 ground condition Complete As needed -70.611920 -70.024330 42.798900 42.084650 -70.611920-70.02433042.08465042.798900 General Geographic Information Systems GIS U.S. Geological Survey USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program CMGP Woods Hole Science Center WHSC topographic data sea floor topography bathymetry sea floor photos sea floor video sea floor features interpretationpoint features General Massachusetts MA Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary SBNMS Shallow EEZ EEZ Gulf of Maine Atlantic Ocean Boston oceans and estuariesISO 19115 Topic CategorygeoscientificInformationlocation None 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. Page C. Valentine U.S. Geological Survey Research Geologist mailing and physical address

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Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 USA (508) 548-8700 x2239 (508) 457-2310 pvalentine@usgs.gov Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.0.0.535 Shapefile sbnmsallsta.shpsbnmsallsta.dbfsbnmsallsta.shxStation location point data were created using latitude and longitude from a GPS navigational log collected during research cruises from 1993 through 2004. Dataset copied.f:\new_vineyard\stellwagen\stations\sbnmsallsta2005102716275500 No additional checks for topological consistency were performed on the data. Vector Entity point 3392 SimplePointFALSE3392FALSEFALSE North American Datum of 1983 Geodetic Reference System 80 6378137.000000 298.257222 GCS_North_American_1983Decimal degrees0.0000000.000000 sbnmsallsta Shapefile Attribute Table Feature Class3392ESRI TAPE_COU_1TAPE_COU_1Number5Time in hours, minutes and seconds for the end of the video transect for that station, to be used to find the correct drift using the counter on a video viewer. Time starts at 0 seconds and counts up; format is hmmss.USGS020318integer count1 FID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. Number105 LONGITUDELONGITUDENumber95Longitude in decimal degrees (west longitudes are recorded as negative values)-70.61192-70.02433signed decimal degrees.00001USGSLATITUDELATITUDENumber71Latitude in decimal degrees42.08046542.7989signed decimal degrees.00001USGSSTATIONSTATIONString8Unique value identifying the station 1.04207.0integer count1.0USGSSAMPLE_TAKSAMPLE_TAKNumber2Value indicating whether or not a sediment sample was taken at this locationUSGSTRUESample was acquired at location.USGSFALSESample was NOT acquired at this location.USGSCRUISECRUISENumber3Name of cruise on which seabed observation station data and/or sample was collectedUSGSCharacter string containing ship abbreviation, year and leg of cruiseQUADRANGLEQUADRANGLENumber1Quadrangle within which the station is located. Quadrangles are not United States Geological Survey quads, but rather a custom set of quads created for the Stellwagen Bank Marine Sanctuary.118integer count1USGSNAVIGATIONNAVIGATIONString12Navigation file number containing edited GPS location data and time; station locations are extracted from this file.018integer count1USGSUTCUTCNumber4Time when station location was taken in Coordinated Universal Time; first set of numbers represent the Julian Day, second set the hours (on a 24-hr clock), third set the minutes, and fourth set the seconds.USGSCharacter string containing date and time of observation in UTC as JDAY:HH:MM:SSYEARYEARString5Year of cruise/data collectionUSGS19932004integer count1PHOTOGRAPHPHOTOGRAPHString4Value indicating whether or not pictures were taken of the sea floor for this station and/or associated video transect.USGSTRUEPhotograph exists at this locationUSGSFALSEPhotograph does NOT exist at this locationUSGSVIDEO_TAKEVIDEO_TAKENumber7Value indicating whether or not a video transect was taken of the seafloor for this location. All video was recorded on 8mm videotape.USGSTRUEVideo exists at this location.USGSFALSEVideo does NOT exist at this location.USGS1VIDEOTAPE_VIDEOTAPE_Number5Video tape numberUSGSNoneVideo is NOT available at this location.USGSTAPE_COUNTTAPE_COUNTNumber5Time in hours, minutes and seconds for the beginning of the video transect for that station, to be used to find the correct drift using the counter on a video viewer. Time starts at 0 seconds and counts up; format is hmmss.USGS020003integer count1DEPTH_METEDEPTH_METEString5Depth of water in meters at beginning of video drift transect or at seabed observation station if video does not exist.USGS0199meters1 Page C. Valentine U.S. Geological Survey Research Geologist mailing and physical address

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Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 USA (508) 548-8700 x2239 (508) 457-2310 pvalentine@usgs.gov Downloadable Data Although these data have been used by the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. SHP 0.442 0.0913.3ESRI shapefileThe SHP file contains the geospatial data. The SHX file contains the index of the geospatial data. The DBF file contains the attribute data in dBase format. The PRJ file contains the coordinate system information (optional). The AVL file contains the legend information (optional). The SBN and SBX files contain the spatial index of the geospatial data (optional). The XML file contains the metadata describing the data set <data set name>.shp.xml. An ASCII version of the metadata file. A browse graphic showing the data layer coverage and extent (optional).zip DVD-ROM 4.75GbytesUDF http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/2005/2840/data/stations/sbnmsallsta.zip None 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 the importing data. A free data viewer, arcexplorer, capable of displaying the data is available from ESRI at www.esri.com. 20051027 U.S. Geological Survey Page C. Valentine Research Geologist mailing and physical address

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Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 USA (508) 548-8700 x2239 (508) 457-2310 pvalentine@usgs.gov FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time enNoneNonehttp://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.htmlESRI Metadata Profile 20051027162946002005102716275500FALSE2005102716294600{724A7937-1094-454C-8EC7-2C74D5CA4353}20051027Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.0.0.535sbnmsallsta-70.61192-70.0243342.798942.084651-70.61192-70.0243342.798942.084651ISO 19115 Geographic Information - MetadataDIS_ESRI1.0dataset002file://\\ERIHEFDTXP\dataforCD_081505\stations\sbnmsallsta.shpLocal Area Network0.091ShapefileGCS_North_American_19833392