Description
Original provider: NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) Dataset credits: Marine Mammal and Turtle Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NMFS, NOAA Abstract: The 1997 Sperm Whale Abundance and Population Structures (SWAPS) line-transect survey was designed to census sperm whales near the end of their breeding season in the North Pacific Ocean from the west coast of the U.S. out to 158 degrees west longitude. This survey was conducted by the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center aboard the NOAA ship McArthur for a total of approximately 12,000 kilometers surveyed from early March to early June 1997. This dataset provides the time-date and geographical coordinates, by species/stock, of all cetaceans detected during the survey, as well as the daily and intra-daily start and end points of the line-transect survey. Purpose: The primary objective was to census sperm whales near the end of their breeding season in the North Pacific Ocean from the west coast of the U.S. out to 158 degrees west longitude. Supplemental information: Data of SWFSC Marine Mammal Sightings from 1997 to 2009 were put together and submitted to OBIS-SEAMAP by Tim Gerrodette, NOAA SWFSC. The data are registered separately per cruise.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 228 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Taylor, B. 2014. SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, SWAPS 1997, Cruise 1607. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1028) on yyyy-mm-dd.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 68706325-a5af-4918-bf8c-217ed954eaed. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence,Vessels,Sightings,Sperm Whale,Population,Abundance,Survey,Census,SWAPS; Observation; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1028 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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FGDC Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1028/xml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Northeastern Pacific Ocean
Bounding Coordinates | South West [20.51, -160.93], North East [46.01, -118.58] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Order | Cetacea (cetaceans), Cetacea (cetaceans), Cetacea (cetaceans), Cetacea (cetaceans) |
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Suborder | Caniformia (pinnipeds) |
Family | Cheloniidae (Sea Turtles) |
Genus | Ziphius (goose-beaked whales), Mesoplodon (beaked whales), Balaenoptera (baleen whales), Kogia (pygmy sperm whales), Balaenoptera (baleen whales) |
Species | Stenella attenuata (Pantropical Spotted Dolphin), Stenella coeruleoalba (Striped Dolphin), Steno bredanensis (Rough-toothed Dolphin), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked Common Dolphin), Tursiops truncatus (Common Bottlenose Dolphin), Grampus griseus (Risso's Dolphin), Lagenorhynchus obliquidens (Pacific White-sided Dolphin), Lissodelphis borealis (Northern Right Whale Dolphin), Feresa attenuata (Pygmy Killer Whale), Pseudorca crassidens (False Killer Whale), Globicephala macrorhynchus (Short-finned Pilot Whale), Orcinus orca (Killer Whale), Phocoenoides dalli (Dall's Porpoise), Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm Whale), Balaenoptera borealis (Sei Whale), Balaenoptera physalus (Fin Whale), Balaenoptera musculus (Blue Whale), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback Whale), Caretta caretta (Loggerhead Sea Turtle), Callorhinus ursinus (Northern Fur Seal), Lepidochelys olivacea (Olive Ridley), Zalophus californianus (California Sea Lion) |
Temporal Coverage
Start Date / End Date | 1997-03-09 / 1997-06-08 |
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Project Data
No Description available
Title | SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, SWAPS 1997, Cruise 1607 |
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Funding | NA |
The personnel involved in the project:
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Sampling Methods
NA
Study Extent | NA |
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Method step description:
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Collection Data
Collection Name | zd_1028 |
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Collection Identifier | zd_1028 |
Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
Purpose | The primary objective was to census sperm whales near the end of their breeding season in the North Pacific Ocean from the west coast of the U.S. out to 158 degrees west longitude. |
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Alternative Identifiers | 68706325-a5af-4918-bf8c-217ed954eaed |
http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1028 |