Integrating Fish Trawl, Water Quality, and Benthic Mapping Data in the Peconic Estuary (2017)

A number of extensive environmental and faunal data sets are available for the Peconic Estuary system. These include high resolution multibeam and side-scan sonar, grain-size and benthic fauna data, water quality data, and finfish and mobile invertebrates. The availability of these data sets presents a unique opportunity to examine and better understand habitat-animal relationships at the ecosystem level in the Peconics. The overall goal of this project was to carry out an integrated analysis of existing finfish, benthic fauna, water quality, grain-size, and sonar data to better understand habitat-animal relationships in the Peconic Estuary system.