Data Sources

Relevant Data Clearinghouses

• Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure GeoConnections Discovery Portal
• Conservation Commons Conservation Geoportal
• EPA National Coastal Assessment
• EPA Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental ResultS (WATERS)
• Eur-Oceans European Data Portal
• NASA Goddard Space Center Global Change Master Directory
• The National Map
• The National Atlas
• NOAA Coastal Assessment and Data Synthesis System
• NOAA Coastal Services Center Coastal Geospatial Information: Examples of Internet Resources
• NOAA Coastal Services Center Coastal Information Directory
• NOAA Coral Reef Assessment and Monitoring Database
• NOAA Coral Reef Information System (CORIS)
• NOAA EcoGIS Data Sources
• NOAA Fisheries Directory of Coastal and Marine Data Sources
• NOAA Integrated Coral Observing Network
• NOAA National Coastal Data Development Services
• NOAA National Ocean Service Ocean and Coastal Data Explorer
• NOAA Office of Coastal Survey Data
• NOAA West Coast Living Marine Resources Data Atlas
• Ocean Data and Information Network for Africa (ODINAFRICA) African Marine Atlas
• US Geospatial One-Stop
• ReefBase Coral Reef Datasets
• SERVIR MesoAmerican Data Portal
• The Nature Conservancy's Data Directory of Ownership and Leasing of US Coastal Waters

Land Cover, Topographic, Shoreline, and Benthic Habitat Data

• Large Marine Ecosystems Elevation/Bathymetry Data
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Prototype Global Shoreline Data
• NOAA Coastal Services Center Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP)
• NOAA Coastal Map and Vector Shoreline Data
• NOAA Coastal Services Center Topographic Data
• NOAA Coastal Services Center Shoreline Data Central
• NOAA Coastal Services Center Benthic Habitat Mapping Website and Data Portal
• USGS Coastal and Marine Geology InfoBank
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory Wetlands Digital Data
• WWF-USGS Hydrosheds Worldwide River Network, and Watershed Boundaries Data

Biological Data

• Globcolour Global Ocean Colour Data
• Large Marine Ecosystems Boundaries Data
• NatureServe Biodiversity Data
• NOAA Fisheries Fisheries Data
• Ocean Biogeographic Information System  
• PISCO U.S. West Coast Subtidal and Intertidal Community Surveys and Recruitment Databases
• World Fish Center Fishbase Information System
• World Ocean Database Plankton Data

Physical Oceanographic Data

• Aviso Sea Surface Altimetry Products
• DOE Oak Ridge National Laboratory Ocean Carbon Data
• NASA JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center 
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Ocean Color Products
• NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center
• NOAA NODC 4 km AVHRR Pathfinder Project
• NOAA Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System
• Medspiration European Sea Surface Temperature Data
• World Ocean Database Oceanographic Data

Hazard and Contaminant Data

• FEMA Flood Maps
• NOAA Coastal Services Center Storm Information Data Guide
• NOAA National Status and Trends Program Coastal and Marine Contamination Databases

Socioeconomic, Protected Area, and Other Data

• EVRI Environmental Values Reference Inventory
• A Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems
• MPA Global Database of World's Marine Protected Areas
• National Ocean Economics Program Federal Marine Expenditures Data
• National Ocean Economics Program Living Marine Resources Database
• National Ocean Economics Program Market Values Database
• National Ocean Economics Program Non-Market Values Portal
• NOAA Coastal and Ocean Resource Economics Spatial Trends in Coastal Socioeconomics Data
• NOAA Coastal Services Center Ocean Planning Information System (OPIS)
• NOAA MPA Center U.S. Marine Managed Areas Inventory
• NOAA National Weather Service GIS Data
• NOAA Digital Coast Legislative Atlas
• Sonoran Institute Automatic System for Developing Custom Socio-economic Profiles
• UNEP World Commission on Protected Areas World Database on Protected Areas

In addition to existing, formal geospatial datasets, EBM practitioners can develop additional datasets by soliciting expert opinion and local knowledge about coastal and marine resources, coastal communities, and resource use. For additional information about participatory GIS, see the Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development (IAPAD) website