Metadata: Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Publication_Date: 2012 Title: Locations of bottom photographs collected by the USGS within Red Brook Harbor, MA, 2009 (RB_BottomPhotos) Edition: 1.0 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 2011-1091 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20101091 Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1091/GIS/shapefile/RB_BottomPhotos.zip Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1091/html/appendix1.html Larger_Work_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Aaron M. Turecek Originator: William W. Danforth Originator: Wayne E. Baldwin Originator: Walter A. Barnhardt Publication_Date: 2012 Title: High-Resolution Geophysical Data Collected Within Red Brook Harbor, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, in 2009 Edition: 1.0 Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 2010-1091 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, VA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1091/ Description: Abstract: These data were collected under a cooperative agreement with the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC). Initiated in 2003, the primary objective of this program is to develop regional geologic framework information for the management of coastal and marine resources. Accurate data and maps of sea-floor geology are important first steps toward protecting fish habitat, delineating marine resources, and assessing environmental changes due to natural or human impacts. The project is focused on the inshore waters (5-30 m deep) of Massachusetts between the New Hampshire border and Cape Cod Bay. Data collected for the mapping cooperative have been released in a series of USGS Open-File Reports (http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/coastal_mass/). This is the spatial dataset for the Red Brook Harbor survey area within Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. These data are the results of a high-resolution geophysical (bathymetry, backscatter intensity, and seismic reflection) and ground validation (sediment samples and bottom photographs) survey, conducted in 2009. In addition to inclusion within the USGS-CZM geologic mapping effort, these Red Brook Harbor data will be used to assess the shallow-water mapping capability of the geophysical systems deployed for this project, with an emphasis on identifying resolution benchmarks for the interferometric sonar system. (http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2009-018-FA) Purpose: This data set represents the locations of 300 photographs acquired at 48 sample stations in Red Brook Harbor, MA, during USGS survey 09018. Photography was collected in conjunction with sediment samples on November 16th and 17th, 2009, aboard the R/V Rafael. Photographs and samples were collected with the USGS Mini-SEABed Observation and Sampling System (Mini SEABOSS). These photographs were collected to ground-truth (verify) the acoustic datasets that were acquired in Red Brook Harbor. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 20091116 Ending_Date: 20091117 Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -70.673706 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -70.620550 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.688865 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.664588 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Metadata Identifier Theme_Keyword: USGS:0dff11ad-9c8b-4eba-92ba-e129d506ec03 Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey Theme_Keyword: USGS Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Program Theme_Keyword: CMGP Theme_Keyword: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Theme_Keyword: WHCMSC Theme_Keyword: Seafloor Theme_Keyword: Marine Geology Theme_Keyword: WHCMSC field activity serial number 09018 Theme_Keyword: WHCMSC Field Activity 2009-018-FA Theme_Keyword: photography Theme_Keyword: photo Theme_Keyword: R/V Rafael Theme_Keyword: ground-truth Theme_Keyword: bottom photographs Theme_Keyword: seabed photographs Theme_Keyword: stations Theme_Keyword: sediments Theme_Keyword: Mini-SEABOSS sampler Theme_Keyword: JPEG images Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category Theme_Keyword: oceans Theme_Keyword: location Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Thesaurus Theme_Keyword: navigational data Theme_Keyword: underwater photography Theme_Keyword: geospatial datasets Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Place_Keyword: North America Place_Keyword: United States Place_Keyword: Atlantic Ocean Place_Keyword: Massachusetts Place_Keyword: Buzzards Bay Place_Keyword: Red Brook Harbor Stratum: Stratum_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Stratum_Keyword: Seafloor Stratum_Keyword: Surface Stratum_Keyword: sea floor Temporal: Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Temporal_Keyword: 2009 Access_Constraints: None Use_Constraints: Public domain data from the U.S. Government are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize the U.S. Geological Survey as the source of this information. Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Aaron Turecek Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geographer Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2230 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: aturecek@usgs.gov Browse_Graphic: Browse_Graphic_File_Name: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1091/GIS/browse_jpg/big/RB_BottomPhotos.jpg Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Location of bottom photos collected by the USGS within Red Brook Harbor, MA, 2009 Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG Native_Data_Set_Environment: Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.1850 Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: D. Blackwood Originator: K. Parolski Publication_Date: 2001 Title: Seabed observation and sampling system Edition: 1.0 Series_Information: Series_Name: Sea Technology Issue_Identification: v. 42, no. 2, p. 39-43 Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Walter A. Barnhardt Originator: Brian D. Andrews Originator: Bradford Butman Publication_Date: 2006 Title: High-Resolution Geologic Mapping of the Inner Continental Shelf: Nahant to Gloucester, Massachusetts Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 2005-1293 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, VA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1293/ Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Seth D. Ackerman Originator: Bradford Butman Originator: Walter A. Barnhardt Originator: William W. Danforth Originator: James M. Crocker Publication_Date: 2006 Title: High-Resolution Geologic Mapping of the Inner Continental Shelf: Boston Harbor and Approaches, Massachusetts Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 2006-1008 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, VA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1008/ Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Walter A. Barnhardt Originator: Brian D. Andrews Originator: Seth D. Ackerman Originator: Wayne E. Baldwin Originator: Christopher J. Hein Publication_Date: 2009 Title: High-Resolution Geologic Mapping of the Inner Continental Shelf: Cape Ann to Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 2007-1373 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, VA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1373/ Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Walter A. Barnhardt Originator: Seth D. Ackerman Originator: Brian D. Andrews Originator: Wayne E. Baldwin Publication_Date: 2010 Title: Geophysical and Sampling Data from the Inner Continental Shelf: Duxbury to Hull, Massachusetts Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 2009-1072 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, VA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1072/ Data_Quality_Information: Attribute_Accuracy: Attribute_Accuracy_Report: All attributes were checked in a consistent manner. Logical_Consistency_Report: Gaps in sequential photo numbers exist. Photographs accidentally acquired on deck or in the water column were not included in this dataset. Completeness_Report: A total of 300 photographs acquired at 48 planned sample stations within the Red Brook Harbor survey area are included in this dataset. The sea floor composition prohibited acquiring sediment samples at seven of the planned sample stations, so in these instances photographs do not have a corresponding sediment sample. Photography and sediment samples were collected with the USGS Mini-SEABOSS sampling device. Photographs accidentally acquired on deck or in the water column were not included in this dataset. Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: Horizontal positions for photographs were provided by a Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) with an estimated accuracy of ± 2 meters. However, the recorded position of each photograph is actually the position of the DGPS antenna on the survey vessel, not the Mini-SEABOSS sampler. The Mini-SEABOSS was deployed approximately 5 meters astern of the DGPS antenna, off the starboard side of the R/V Rafael. In addition to this 5-meter offset, currents may have caused the Mini-SEABOSS to drift horizontally from the survey vessel. Based on the various horizontal offsets, a conservative estimate for the horizontal accuracy of the Mini-SEABOSS locations for the Red Brook Harbor survey is 10-15 meters. Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: The source information was incomplete and had to be modified to meet the standard. Assumed to be USGS. Publication_Date: unknown Title: Information unavailable from original metadata. Type_of_Source_Media: Information unavailable from original metadata. Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 20091116 Ending_Date: 20091117 Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Information unavailable from original metadata. Source_Contribution: Bottom photos and corresponding sediment samples were collected with the USGS Mini-SEABOSS sampling device. In areas where sediment sampling was not possible due to the seafloor composition, photos were still acquired. Half of the 48 planned photo and sample locations were chosen based on interferometric sonar backscatter intensity values, with a focus on collecting ground-truth data in areas of transition between high and low backscatter, and areas of homogeneous backscatter. The remaining 24 sample locations were chosen by a randomized GIS routine. In addition to being used for ground-truthing the Red Brook Harbor geophysical data, these photos and samples will be used in future habitat modeling efforts. Each bottom photo point is hotlinked to a corresponding JPEG image and has an attribute that identifies its corresponding sediment sample. Process_Step: Process_Description: Using Cygwin/X (version 1.1), DGPS nav positions were extracted from each HYPACK raw file (grep) (HYPACK DEV 1, POS 1) and compiled into a single nav file (cat) for both bottom sample survey days. Duplicate times were removed (awk) from each file, resulting in 1-second nav points. Process_Date: 2010 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Aaron Turecek Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geographer Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2230 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: aturecek@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: In Cygwin/X (version 1.1), time stamps in the nav files from the previous processing step were converted from HYPACK time (seconds after midnight) to UTC (hours, minutes and seconds). Process_Date: 2010 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Aaron Turecek Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geographer Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2230 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: aturecek@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: All 313 bottom photos (JPEG) were visually reviewed. A total of 300 high quality photos were retained after mis-triggered and poor quality photos were removed. Index files with photo name and acquisition time (as recorded by camera system, UTC in the EXIF header of the image) in hours, minutes and seconds, were created in Cygwin/X (version 1.1) for both survey days ($ ls --full-time *JPG > index.txt; grep index.txt for file name and time). Process_Date: 2010 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: JPEG photographs Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Aaron Turecek Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geographer Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2230 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: aturecek@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: The 1-second nav files were imported into ArcMap (version 9.3) as event themes (UTM, zone 19, WGS84, meters), and converted to shapefiles. The photo index files from the previous processing step were imported into ArcMap (version 9.3), and joined with the 1-second nav files by their respective time fields. The nav points that were joined with a photo were exported to new shapefiles, and then merged into one final bottom photo shapefile. The following fields were added and populated: PICNAME, TIME, JULDAY, YEAR, HOTLINK, SURVEYID, DEVICEID, VEHICLEID, and SEDSAMPLE. The final bottom photos shapefile was reprojected from UTM (zone 19, meters, wgs84) projection to Geographic (WGS 1984). Process_Date: 2010 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Aaron Turecek Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geographer Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2230 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: aturecek@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: Edits to the metadata were made to fix any errors that MP v 2.9.32 flagged. This is necessary to enable the metadata to be successfully harvested for various data catalogs. In some cases, this meant adding text "Information unavailable" or "Information unavailable from original metadata" for those required fields that were left blank. Other minor edits were probably performed (title, publisher, publication place, etc.). Fixed URL in abstract. The source information was incomplete and had to be modified to meet the standard. The link to the data in the Distribution_Information section had to be fixed. The metadata date (but not the metadata creator) was edited to reflect the date of these changes. The metadata available from a harvester may supersede metadata bundled within a download file. Compare the metadata dates to determine which metadata file is most recent. Process_Date: 20160415 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross Contact_Position: Marine Geologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2251 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: USGS Thesaurus keywords added to the keyword section. Process_Date: 20180720 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross Contact_Position: Marine Geologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address: 384 Woods Hole Road City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2251 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: Crossref DOI link was added as the first link in the metadata. Process_Date: 20191118 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross Contact_Position: Marine Geologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address: 384 Woods Hole Road City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2251 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: Added keywords section with USGS persistent identifier as theme keyword. Process_Date: 20200908 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross Contact_Position: Marine Geologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address: 384 Woods Hole Road City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2251 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov Spatial_Data_Organization_Information: Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector Point_and_Vector_Object_Information: SDTS_Terms_Description: SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Entity point Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 300 Spatial_Reference_Information: Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Geographic: Latitude_Resolution: 0.000001 Longitude_Resolution: 0.000001 Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees Geodetic_Model: Horizontal_Datum_Name: D_WGS_1984 Ellipsoid_Name: WGS_1984 Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000 Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257224 Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Detailed_Description: Entity_Type: Entity_Type_Label: RB_BottomPhotos Entity_Type_Definition: Point location of sediment samples Entity_Type_Definition_Source: USGS Attribute: Attribute_Label: FID Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated Attribute: Attribute_Label: Shape Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry. Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features Attribute: Attribute_Label: PICNAME Attribute_Definition: Name of the JPEG photograph. File names assigned by camera were retained. Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Character string Attribute: Attribute_Label: TIME Attribute_Definition: Time of photograph in UTC (hh:mm:ss) Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Character string Attribute: Attribute_Label: JULDAY Attribute_Definition: Julian day photograph was acquired based on UTC time where Julian day is the integer number representing the interval of time in days since January 1 of the year. Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Character string Attribute: Attribute_Label: YEAR Attribute_Definition: Calendar year photos were acquired Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Character string Attribute: Attribute_Label: HOTLINK Attribute_Definition: Name of the associated JPEG photograph; can be used as a hyperlink field. Pathname is relative to the location of the Arcmap mxd file provided in the "GIS" directory. Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Character string Attribute: Attribute_Label: SURVEYID Attribute_Definition: WHCMSC field activity number Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Character string Attribute: Attribute_Label: DEVICEID Attribute_Definition: Device used to acquire photographs. Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Character string Attribute: Attribute_Label: VEHICLEID Attribute_Definition: Survey vessel name Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Character string Attribute: Attribute_Label: SEDSAMPLE Attribute_Definition: Corresponding sediment sample station. Sediment samples were not collected successfully at all stations. Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Character string Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Aaron Turecek Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geographer Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2230 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: aturecek@usgs.gov Resource_Description: Downloadable Data Distribution_Liability: Neither the U.S. Government, the Department of the Interior, nor the USGS, nor any of their employees, contractors, or subcontractors, make any warranty, express or implied, nor assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, nor represent that its use would not infringe on privately owned rights. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the USGS in the use of these data or related materials. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Standard_Order_Process: Digital_Form: Digital_Transfer_Information: Format_Name: SHP Format_Version_Number: ArcGIS 9.3 Format_Specification: ESRI point shapefile Format_Information_Content: Point shapefile with locations of bottom photographs collected in Red Brook Harbor, Massachusetts associated metadata. File_Decompression_Technique: Use Winzip or pkUnzip Transfer_Size: 0.2 Digital_Transfer_Option: Online_Option: Computer_Contact_Information: Network_Address: Network_Resource_Name: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1091/GIS/shapefile/RB_BottomPhotos.zip Access_Instructions: Data can be downloaded via the World Wide Web (WWW) Fees: none Technical_Prerequisites: This data is an Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) point shapefile. 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 importing the data. A free data viewer, ArcExplorer, capable of displaying the data is available from ESRI at www.esri.com. Metadata_Reference_Information: Metadata_Date: 20211116 Metadata_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Aaron Turecek Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geographer Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2230 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: whsc_data_contact@usgs.gov Contact_Instructions: The metadata contact email address is a generic address in the event the metadata contact is no longer with the USGS or the email is otherwise invalid. Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998 Metadata_Time_Convention: local time