Coastal Environmental Baseline Program: List of National Target Ecosystem Components

Physical/Oceanographic

• Physical
  • Surface current
  • Winds and wave
  • Tides
• Biogeochemical
  • Temperature
  • Salinity
  • Bottom depth
  • Dissolved organic carbon
  • pH
  • Chlorophyll
  • Fluorescence
  • Water clarity/turbidity
  • Oxygen
  • Nutrients
• Sediment Quality
  • Hydrocarbons (polychlorinated biphenyls, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons)
  • Organometallics
  • Metals
• Substrate
  • Substrate characterization

Biological

• Emergents
  • Seagrasses
• Micro-algae
  • Phytoplankton
• Macro-algae
  • Macro-algae/marine algae
• Invertebrates
  • Zooplankton/nekton
  • Infauna
  • Epifauna
• Fish
  • Benthic
  • Pelagic
• Mammals
  • Cetaceans
  • Pinnipeds