AMAPPS Northeast Aerial Cruise Winter 2011

Occurrence Observation
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Description

Original provider: NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) Dataset credits: NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) 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.

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 260 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

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Josephson, B. 2015. AMAPPS Northeast Aerial Cruise Winter 2011. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/0e79cf1a.

Rights

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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: 00766494-f1d1-4ab9-8b89-220287d5fdb9.  OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation; Marine Biology; Visual sighting; Marine Animal Survey; Marine mammals; Sea turtles; Visual Sighting; Aircraft; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1243 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1243/fgdc UTF-8 XML
EML Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1243/eml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Beth Josephson
  • Owner
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Primary contact
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
  • A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US

Geographic Coverage

Oceans

Bounding Coordinates South West [39.65, -73.525], North East [45.008, -65.215]

Taxonomic Coverage

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Phylum Chordata (chordates)
Class Chondrichthyes (Cartilaginous fishes)
Order Cetacea (Cetaceans)
Family Delphinidae (Dolphins), Phocidae (Earless seals)
Species Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Common minke whale), Balaenoptera borealis (Sei whale), Balaenoptera physalus (Fin whale), Caretta caretta (Loggerhead sea turtle), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked common dolphin), Grampus griseus (Risso's dolphin), Lagenorhynchus acutus (Atlantic white-sided dolphin), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback whale), Mola mola (Ocean sunfish), Phocoena phocoena (Harbor porpoise), Tursiops truncatus (Common bottlenose dolphin)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2011-01-28 / 2011-03-15

Project Data

No Description available

Title AMAPPS Northeast Aerial Cruise Winter 2011
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Beth Josephson
  • Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_1243
Collection Identifier zd_1243
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Northeast Fisheries Science Center and Southeast Fisheries Science Center. 2011. A Comprehensive Assessment of Marine Mammal, Marine Turtle, and Seabird Abundance and Spatial Distribution in US Waters of the western North Atlantic Ocean. 2011 Annual Report to the Inter-Agency Agreement M10PG00075/0001. http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/psb/AMAPPS/docs/NMFS_AMAPPS_2011_annual_report_final_BOEM.pdf

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS. Perpendicular distance to the animal is not publicly available.

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.

Alternative Identifiers https://doi.org/10.82144/0e79cf1a
https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1243
https://www.gbif.org/dataset/00766494-f1d1-4ab9-8b89-220287d5fdb9
https://obis.org/dataset/035be567-3064-485e-9773-b936f0482cbb
00766494-f1d1-4ab9-8b89-220287d5fdb9
https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1243