Many monitoring programs collect data from wadeable streams to assess watershed condition status and trends. These datasets answer agency-specific management questions and fulfill reporting requirements but are often not released in full, and methods for integrating data across programs are lacking. The Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership--or PNAMP-- led a working group of experts from four federally managed monitoring programs to discuss data compatibility and develop a process for integrating compatible data. The resulting Stream Habitat Metrics Integration data exchange standard contains a data mapping file used to transform source data to a conformed format based on a consistent vocabulary. The working group found 26 stream habitat metrics to be sufficiently comparable to be integrated into a meaningful dataset. This report describes the data exchange standard and its development, the compatibility assessment, and the data integration process, so that others may reuse the exchange standards and its components as well as the data integration processes. 

Scully, R.A., Dlabola, E.K., Bayer, J.M., Heaston, E.D., Courtwright, J.L., Snyder, M.N., Hockman-Wert, D.P., Saunders, W.C., Blocksom, K.A., Hirsch, C., and Miller, S.W., 2024, A data exchange standard for wadeable stream habitat monitoring data: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 16-B2, 28 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/tm16B2.