Hampton Roads Datathon Sources

General Sources

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources

DCD Natural Heritage Data Explorer

American Community Survey

CDC 500 Cities / PLACES

Forestry Sources

Significant Trees in Norfolk

Tree Planting Program

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Forest Statistics for the Coastal Plain of Virginia, 1985

Forest Inventory Analysis Database

Marine Sources

Virginia Fisheries Data

Virginia Institute of Marine Science Data

Chesapeake Bay Open Data Portal

Chesapeake Bay Program Data

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Search

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Environmental Conservation Online System

Virginia Institute of Marine Science Field Guide

Norfolk Tide Gauge Dashboard

VDH Beach Water Quality

SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Metric Data

Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal

Marine Mammal Health and Stranding

Litter Sources

Keep Norfolk Beautiful Litter Index

Keep Norfolk Beautiful International Coastal Cleanup

Geographic Sources

Norfolk Open GIS Data

Half-Earth Project

National Land Cover Database

Biophilic Cities

Hampton Roads Geospatial Exchange Online (HRGEO)

Virginia Department of Environmental Quality

Virginia Land Cover Dataset

Virginia Shoreline & Tidal Marsh Inventory

Geological Sources

USGS Data Catalog

Weather Sources

National Centers for Environmental Information

Terrestrial Wildlife Sources

Southeastern Phenology Network

Native Plants for Southeast Virginia

Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora

Migratory Bird Data Center

Ferns and Flowering Plants of Seashore State Park, Virginia

Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries: Wild Mammals of Virginia, 1947

Local Ant Datasets from Dr. Zizhong John Wang and Virginia Wesleyan University (see VWU Datathon Project section)

Project FeederWatch

Avibase World Bird Database

Hampton Roads GIS Sources

Virginia Beach GIS Open Data Portal

Chesapeake GIS Open Data Portal

Hampton GIS Data

Newport News GeoHub

Have a suggestion for another source? Email CivicLab@norfolk.gov.