Description
Original provider: NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) Dataset credits: NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) Abstract: During 7-26 August 2011, the Northeast Fisheries Science Center(NEFSC)conducted an aerial abundance survey targeting marine mammals and sea turtles. The NEFSC’s survey covered waters from Long Island, New York, USA to the southern tip of Nova Scotia, Canada, and from the coastline to about the 100 m depth contour. This aerial survey was a component of the AMAPPS project. The airplane flew at 600 feet above the water surface at about 110 knots. The two independent team data collection methods were used. Within the study area of 199,656 km2, there were about 6,481 km of on-effort track lines, of which 5,979 km were conducted in sea state conditions less than Beaufort 4.On these track lines, there were 10 species of identifiable cetaceans,and 3 sea turtle species detected. Purpose: The objectives of the NEFSC aerial survey were 1) to estimate abundance of cetaceans and turtles in waters north of New Jersey and shallower than 100 m depth and 2) to investigate how the animals' distribution and abundance relate to their physical and biological ecosystem. Supplemental information: Perpendicular distance to the animal is not publicly available.
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 816 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:
Josephson, B. 2015. AMAPPS Northeast Aerial Cruise Summer 2011. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1233) on yyyy-mm-dd.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: ab382b87-0112-4c23-a6d4-74054ba6e9d8. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Sea turtles,Visual Sighting,Aircraft; Observation; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1233 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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FGDC Metadata | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1233/xml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
Geographic Coverage
Oceans
Bounding Coordinates | South West [40.193, -73.273], North East [44.956, -65.629] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Phylum | Chordata, Chordata |
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Class | Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes) |
Order | Perciformes, Cetacea (cetaceans) |
Family | Balaenopteridae (rorquals), Delphinidae (dolphins), Delphinidae (dolphins), Phocidae (earless seals), Cheloniidae (Sea Turtles) |
Genus | Sphyrna (bonnethead sharks) |
Species | Cetorhinus maximus (basking shark), Prionace glauca (blue shark), Balaenoptera physalus (Fin Whale), Chelonia mydas (Green Sea Turtle), Phocoena phocoena (Harbor Porpoise), Phoca vitulina (Harbor Seal), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback Whale), Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback Sea Turtle), Caretta caretta (Loggerhead Sea Turtle), Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Minke Whale), Tursiops truncatus (Common Bottlenose Dolphin), Mola mola (ocean sunfish), Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic Right Whale), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked Common Dolphin), Balaenoptera borealis (Sei Whale), Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm Whale), Lagenorhynchus acutus (Atlantic White-sided Dolphin) |
Temporal Coverage
Start Date / End Date | 2011-08-08 / 2011-08-26 |
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Project Data
No Description available
Title | AMAPPS Northeast Aerial Cruise Summer 2011 |
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Funding | NA |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Owner
Sampling Methods
NA
Study Extent | NA |
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Method step description:
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Collection Data
Collection Name | zd_1233 |
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Collection Identifier | zd_1233 |
Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
Purpose | The objectives of the NEFSC aerial survey were 1) to estimate abundance of cetaceans and turtles in waters north of New Jersey and shallower than 100 m depth and 2) to investigate how the animals' distribution and abundance relate to their physical and biological ecosystem. |
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Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1233 |