Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU), Rocky Mountain CESU

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Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU), Rocky Mountain CESU: The Ecological National Synthesis (ENS) Project of the U.S. Geological Surveys National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program provides a national-scale perspective and assessments on aquatic ecology, and the chemical and physical factors that affect aquatic conditions and health. Implemented in 1991, data have been collected by NAWQA on chemistry, hydrology, land use, stream habitat, and aquatic life in parts or all of nearly 50 States using a nationally consistent study design and uniform methods of sampling. As part of this on-going work, the ENS Project seeks to support the development of a National Reference Site Clearinghouse (NRSC). The NRSC would be a publicly available database containing the biological data (and appropriate metadata) need to characterize biological assemblages in reference-quality or least-disturbed streams throughout the Nation. Such information would be critical to those conducting ecological assessments at a variety of spatial scales.