Watershed Wide Benthic Invertebrate Database
- Data Type:
- Benthic Macroinverebrates, Water Quality and In Stream Habitat Assessment Data.
- Geographic Extent:
- All wadable non tidal waters in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
- Date Range:
- 1986-present
- Contact:
- Peter Tango
Data is currently being provided by over 20 federal, state, local and academic monitoring efforts across the watershed on a voluntary basis.
Alert: The Chesapeake Bay Program is unable to provide raw Maryland Department of Natural Resources Biological Stream Survey data to our users at this time. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Documentation:
- Methods for calculation if the Chessie - BIBI [PDF, 74.0 KB]
- The Non-Tidal Benthic Monitoring Database: Version 3.0; Database Design Documentation And Data Dictionary [PDF, 2.0 MB]
- A Comprehensive List of Chesapeake Bay Basin Species 2007 [PDF, 1.7 MB]
- The 2012 User's Guide to CBP Biological Monitoring Data [PDF, 1.3 MB]
Metadata:
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Anne Arundel County Stream Monitoring Program [PDF, 53.1 KB]
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all City of Baltimore stream and reservoir Monitoring Data [PDF, 75.2 KB]
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection and Sustainability Monitoring Data [PDF, 74.5 KB]
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Monitoring Data [PDF, 82.9 KB]
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all District of Columbia Department of the Environment, Natural Resources Administration, Water Quality Division Monitoring Data [PDF, 76.8 KB]
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all USEPA-EMAP and MAIA Programs Monitoring Data [PDF, 75.9 KB]
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all USEPA-Wadeable Streams Assessment Program Monitoring Data [PDF, 84.2 KB]
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Fairfax County Virginia Monitoring Data [PDF, 87.0 KB]
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Fredrick County Maryland Monitoring Data [PDF, 73.4 KB]
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Howard County Maryland Monitoring Data [PDF, 33.5 KB]
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Loudoun County Virginia Monitoring Data [PDF, 35.0 KB]
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Maryland Biological Stream Survey Monitoring Data [PDF, 79.2 KB]
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Maryland Streamwaders Monitoring Data [PDF, 30.5 KB]
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Montgomery County Maryland Monitoring Data [PDF, 75.2 KB]
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all New York Department Of Environmental Conservation Stream Monitoring Data [PDF, 82.2 KB]
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Pennsylvania Department of the Environment Stream Monitoring Data [PDF, 80.0 KB]
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Prince Georges County Maryland Monitoring Data [PDF, 85.2 KB]
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Susquehanna River Basin Commission Monitoring Data [PDF, 81.1 KB]
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all United States Forest Service Monitoring Data [PDF, 82.3 KB]
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all United States Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Program Monitoring Data [PDF, 73.7 KB]
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Monitoring Data [PDF, 79.5 KB]
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all Virginia Commonwealth University INteractive STream Assessment Resource Program Data [PDF, 96.8 KB]
- FGDC Compliant Metadata for all West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Monitoring Data [PDF, 60.6 KB]