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MapCoast License Agreement

The MapCoast Partnership shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. These data, related graphics, and the information contained herein, are not legal documents and are not intended to be used as such. These data are provided as-is, and MapCoast is not responsible for any use or interpretation of these data by other entities, or for any conclusions or products derived from use or interpretation of these data by other entities.

The information contained in these data are dynamic and may change over time. It is the responsibility of the data user to use the data appropriately and consistent within the limitations of geospatial data in general and these data in particular. The related graphics are intended to aid the data user in acquiring relevant data; it is not appropriate to use the related graphics as data.

Bathymetric data especially are not intended for navigation and under no circumstances should be used as such. Soils mapping contained on this IMS/Download page are NOT official SSURGO soils data provided by the USDA-NRCS but are considered as "Advanced Information subject to change upon the completion and correlation of the Coastal Zone Soil Survey for Rhode Island" for official soils information please visit the soil data mart http://soildatamart.nrcs.usda.gov/.

The MapCoast Partnership gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of these data. It is strongly recommended that these data are directly acquired from the MapCoast website and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the University of Rhode Island, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the utility of the data on another system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data.

Downloadable Data

License Agreement

Name	Description	Type	Download
Bathymetry	A point dataset of all depths and elevations measured in Ninigret, Quonochontaug, Point Judith (NOAA 1948 Hydrographic Survey Data), and Wickford Harbor (bathymetry only).		Ninigret (ZIP, MET) Quonnie (ZIP, MET) Point Judith(ZIP, MET) Wickford (ZIP,MET)
Bathemetry - Grid	A seamless interpolated grid of bathymetry and elevation for Ninigret, Quonochontaug, Point Judith (NOAA 1948 data) Ponds, and Wickford Harbor		Ninigret (ZIP, MET) Quonnie (ZIP, MET) Point Juidth (ZIP, MET) Wickford (ZIP, MET)
Contours	Contour lines in feet for Ninigret, Quonochontaug, Point Judith (NOAA 1948 data, in meters) Ponds, and Wickford Harbor		Ninigret (ZIP, MET) Quonnie (ZIP, MET) Point Judith (ZIP, MET) Wickford (ZIP, MET)
Geology	Depositional environments and geology of Ninigret pond delineated by URI-GEO		Ninigret (ZIP, e00)
Habitat	URI-GSO Ninigret habitat polygons derived from side scan sonar images		Ninigret (ZIP, MET)
Eelgrass	Eelgrass polygons for the RI coastal ponds and Narragansett Bay. Polygons were delineated from aerial photography, side scan sonar images, and field work		Coastal Ponds, 1999 (ZIP, MET) Coastal Ponds, 2006 (ZIP, MET) Quonnie 2005 (ZIP, MET) Narr. Bay, Block Island, 2006 (ZIP, MET)
Shoreline protection structures	Hardened shorelines delineated in the field and from orthorphotography for Ninigret, Quonochontaug, and Point Judith Ponds		Hardened Shorelines (ZIP, MET)
Shorelines	Shorelines (polygons) of Quonochontaug, Ninigret, Point Judith Ponds, and Wickford Harbor delineated from 2003/04 orthophotography.		Shorelines (ZIP, MET)
Outcrops	A point dataset of outcrops (boulders and sand / gravel) for Ninigret, Quonochontaug, and Point Judith Ponds		Outcrops (ZIP, MET)
Subaqueous Soil Survey	A seamless soil survey with subaqueous and coastal soil mapping units for Ninigret and Quonochontaug Ponds		Ninigret (ZIP, MET) Quonnie (ZIP, MET)
Soil Survey sampling locations	Sampling locations (cores and field descriptions) and data used to make soil survey map		Sampling locations (ZIP, MET)

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Internet Map Services (IMS)

Name	Preview
MapCoast Data Layers (2008). All MapCoast data and sites mapped to date.
Ninigret SPI Imagery (EPA and SAIC)

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Static Maps

Name	Preview
Shallow-Subtidal and Coastal Habitats of Ninigret Pond, RI (JPG, 2.1 Mb)
Ninigret Soil Survey (JPG, 2.4 Mb)

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Other Data

Name	Description	Download
Glossary	A glossary of subaqueous soil terms published by USDA - NRCS	SASglossary (PDF, 135 K)
GeoTek Analyser data	GeoTek data collected and processed by URI - GSO Paleomagnetics lab	ningeotek (PDF, 59 Mb zipped)
EPA Photos	Map view of the pond bottom
Soil Sampling Locations (Ninigret)	Map containing locations of soil sampling in Ninigret Pond with links to data collected.
Sediment Profile Image (SPI) data (Ninigret)	Map of SPI locations in Ninigret Pond with hyperlinked photos.

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