This file contains provisional data about sites that were sample for the National Coastal Condition Assessment in 2020 and 2021. "Preliminary quality reviews of these data have been completed. However, they are not considered to be final until the National Coastal Condition Assessment 2020 & 21 Report is published. " Data may be updated at any time. The changelog for the associated file may be found below the column name definitions. End-users are responsible for reviewing the suitability of these data for their purposes. "Please bring any questions about the data to the attention of Hugh Sullivan, NCCA Lead at sullivan.hugh@epa.gov. " This file does not include information used to determine the statistical weight for each site. Future updates of this file will include site weights. Future publications of the SITEINFO Files will include information about site weights "For information about NCCA protocols, please check the NCCA 2020 Field Operations Manual, Site Evaluation Guidelines; Lab Operations Manual, and Quality Assurance Project Plan on the NCCA Website: https://www.epa.gov/national-aquatic-resource-surveys/manuals-used-national-aquatic-resource-surveys#National%20Coastal%20Condition%20Assessment" COLUMN_NAME LEGAL_VALUES DESCRIPTION COUNTRY USA | CANADA Country where sampling site is located. Only sites located within USA Waters were sampled for the NCCA 2020 survey. DATE_COL |01|02|03|04|05|06|07|08|09|10|11|12 Date collected DESIGN_YR Year for which sample draw was designed to occur. DSGN_CYCLE Cycle for which sample design was created. NCCA surveys are designed to occur in years ending in 0 and 5. DWH_REGION Inside DWH Area|Outside DWH Area|Outside Gulf Coast "Site is located in the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill impact area or located outside of impact area within Gulf Coast region. ""Outside of Gulf Coast"" if outside of Gulf Coast region. Blank if not an estuarine site." EPA_REG Region_01|Region_02| Region_03|Region_04|Region_06|Region_09|Region_10| EPA Region. No missing values allowed. EST_GROUP "34 major estuaries plus 7 other groups of estuaries organized by EMAP Provinces. 41 possible values. \blank\"" or NA not allowed. Values begin with Province appreviation followed by major estuary name or Other.""" EVAL_CAT "NCCA site evaluation result. Frame_NotAssessed is used to identify pseudo sites that were created to identify polygons that were not in 1999-2001, 2005-2006, and 2010 sample frames but were in 2015 sample frame. No missing values allowed." FEAT_NM "Most detailed name available and may identify different portions of an estuary. \blank\"" if missing""" GREAT_LAKE Great Lakes where sampling site is located. LAKE_REG "Region of a Great Lake where sampling site is located. Currently the only Lake Region delineation are the East, Central and West Basins of Lake Erie." LAT_DD Actual latitude where sampling occurred in decimal degrees LAT_DD83 Design latitude in decimal degrees. From sample frame. No missing values allowed. LON_DD Actual longitude where sampling occurred in decimal degrees LON_DD83 Design longitude in decimal degrees. From sample frame. No missing values allowed. NCA_REG East_Coast|Gulf_Coast|West_Coast| National Coastal Assessment Region. Used prior to NARS in 2010. No missing values allowed. NCCA_REG Northeast|Southeast|Gulf|West|Great Lakes| "National Coastal Condition Assessment Region. Northeast includes states ME, NH, MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, MD, DE, and VA. Southeast includes NC, SC, GA, and east coast of FL. No missing values allowed." NEP_NAME Albemarle-Pamlico Sounds|Barataria-Terrebonne NEP|Barnegat Bay|Buzzards Bay Estuary Program|Casco Bay Estuary Partnership|Charlotte Harbor NEP|Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries|Delaware Estuary|Delaware Inland Bays|Galveston Bay|Indian River Lagoon|Long Island Sound Study|Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership|Maryland Coastal Bays|Massachusetts Bays|Mobile Bay|Narragansett Bay|New York-New Jersey Harbor|Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership|Peconic Estuary Program|Puget Sound Partnership|San Francisco Estuary Partnership|Santa Monica Bay|Sarasota Bay|Tampa Bay|Tillamook Estuaries|Chesapeake Bay|Not_NEP| National Estuary Program name if site is in the NEP or Chesapeake Bay if site in Chesapeake Bay. Missing value if site is not in any NEP or Chesapeake Bay. NPS_PARK Name of National Park Service park in the Great Lakes. Or Not_NPS PANEL_USE "NCCA Panel Assignment. Text that has form NCAnn_mmXXXn_YYYY, where nn is current cycle year (09, 14, 19, etc), mm is cycle year coastal site was first selected for sampling, XXXn denotes revisit status, and YYYY denotes base or over sample status. XXXn equals either RVT2 (if site should be visited twice in current cycle year) or RVT (if site should be visited once in current cycle and was previously visited in a prior cycle year) and is blank otherwise. YYYY is either blank (if the coastal site is a base site) or equals OverSamp (if the coastal site is an over sample site). Note: For state specific designs, state two letter code is added." PROB_CAT "Text | \blank\""""" NCCA unequal probability categories used within a stratum. Missing values valid for Hand-picked sites as they are not a site from probability design. PROVINCE "Acadian Province|Californian Province|Carolinian Province|Columbian Province|Louisianian Province|West Indian Province |All Great Lakes sites are listed as ""GREAT LAKES Province""" Marine biogeographical province defined by EMAP Near Coastal Program. No missing values allowed. PSTL_CODE "State two letter postal code for site sampled. 50 state postal codes plus (if applicable) AS, MP, GU, PR, VI for American Samoa, Commonwealth of Northern Marianas, Guam, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands. No missing values allowed." PUBLICATION_DATE Date the dataset was published to the NARS site SITE_ID "NCCA Site ID for the study and year sampled. Preferred form is NCAnn_MM-xxxxx where nn is survey cycle year (05, 10, 15, 20, etc), MM is two letter state code, and xxxxx is between 10001 and 99999. No missing values allowed. No missing values allowed." SITETYPE PROB|HAND| "Site type (Probability-based or hand-picked). PROB for sites from probability survey. HAND for hand-picked sites. Currently, NCCA does not have Hand-picked sites. No missing values allowed. PROB | HAND" SMALL_EST Target|Target_Presumed|Uncertain|Non_Target|Not_Needed|Frame_NotAssessed| Small|Large Indicator of whether an estuary site is in a small or large estuary. Not identified for Great Lakes or Long Island Sound 2021 sampling STATE_NM State or territory complete name. No missing values allowed. STATION_DEPTH "Numeric, depth of station in m" STRATUM Strata used in NCCA survey design STUDY Name of the study. A unique site may belong to multiple studies but only the primary study is listed. No missing values allowed. TNT_CAT NCCA target status assigned based on site evaluation. UID Unique identifier for a single sampling event at a site/visit. Use the UID to associate data in other NCCA files with station information included in this file. UNIQUE_ID Unique site ID based on location. Does not depend on year sampled or any other factor. Follows a unique site through multiple survey designs. Form is NCA_ss_nnnnn where ss state and nnnnn is number that starts at 10001. No missing values allowed. Text VALXSITE Identifies site as located in an estuary or a Great Lake. VISIT_NO |1|2 Visit: 1/2 WGT_CAT NCCA categories used to adjust weights for site. WTBDY_NM General estuary or tidal river name. XCOORD x-coordinate from US Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic projection EXCEPT Hawaii sites which are calculated from Hawaii Albers Equal Area Conic projection. No missing values allowed. YCOORD y-coordinate from US Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic projection EXCEPT Hawaii sites which are calculated from Hawaii Albers Equal Area Conic projection. No missing values allowed. YEAR Year site visited CHANGE LOG PROVISIONAL_NCCA20_21_ECOFISH_SPECIMENT_DATA DATE ACTION 6/17/2022 Initial publication of provisional data to the National Aquatic Resource Surveys Data page.