Occurrence

Virginia CZM Wind Energy Area Survey- Right side - January 2014 through March 2016

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Description

Original provider: Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Foundation and University of North Carolina Wilmington Dataset credits: Virginia Aquarium Foundation - Sarah D. Mallette, Gwen G. Lockhart, Susan G. Barco University of North Carolina Wilmington - William A. McLellan, Ryan J. McAlarney Erin W. Cummings and D. Ann Pabst Abstract: The data provided were collected as part of the Documenting Whale Migration off Virginia's Coast for Use in Marine Spatial Planning project - funded by the Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program Grant Section 306 Environmental Enhancement Program Strategy Project of Special Merit. NA14NOS4190141 Jan 2014 - March 2016 Aerial surveys were conducted under NOAA Scientific Permits No. 948-1692-00 and 16473, held by UNCW. Purpose: On November 1, 2013, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced Dominion Virginia Power was the provisional winner of the commercial lease area offshore of Virginia (VA WEA). Development of off shore wind energy poses potential threats to marine mammals, including direct effects (i.e.vessel interactions, collision and entanglement with structures, displacement, avoidance, or injury due to noise from construction or operations) and indirect threats (i.e. effects on prey species, increased risk of fishery and vessel interaction through displacement out of the WEA) (BOEM 2012). This information is important to mitigate the potentially harmful impacts from ocean development, shipping, and other anthropogenic activities. To address these existing data gaps, we have collected marine mammal and sea turtle sighting data from aerial surveys conducted off the coast of Virginia from November 2012 to December 2016. Supplemental information: The sightings are split into the left and right sides. The sightings from the left side are available in http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1373 Opportunistic sightings (eventcode=10.0) are not included. Effort data (tracklines) are available upon request and permission from the provider.

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 221 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:

Mallette S.D., Lockhart G G., McAlarney R.J., Cummings E.W., Pabst D. A., McLellan W.A., Barco S.G. 2016. Offshore Energy Planning: Documenting Megafauna off Virginia’s Coast Using Aerial Surveys. VAQF Scientific Report. 2016-04.

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: bbe07432-d0d4-43b7-b60c-9ef4fb812881.  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/1375 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1375/xml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Sue Barco
  • Owner
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Primary contact
Virginia Marine Science Museum
Gwen Lockhart
  • Originator
Secondary contact
Naval Facilities Engineering Command Atlantic
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US

Geographic Coverage

Virginia

Bounding Coordinates South West [36.607, -75.968], North East [37.268, -74.827]

Taxonomic Coverage

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

Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Osteichthyes (bony fishes)
Class Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes)
Family Cheloniidae (Sea Turtles)
Species Caretta caretta (Loggerhead Sea Turtle), Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback Sea Turtle), Manta birostris (Atlantic manta), Mola mola (ocean sunfish), Rhinoptera bonasus (cownose ray), Tursiops truncatus (Common Bottlenose Dolphin)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2015-01-20 / 2015-11-01

Project Data

No Description available

Title Virginia CZM Wind Energy Area Survey- Right side - January 2014 through March 2016
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Sue Barco
  • Owner
Gwen Lockhart
  • Originator

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_1375
Collection Identifier zd_1375
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Purpose On November 1, 2013, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced Dominion Virginia Power was the provisional winner of the commercial lease area offshore of Virginia (VA WEA). Development of off shore wind energy poses potential threats to marine mammals, including direct effects (i.e.vessel interactions, collision and entanglement with structures, displacement, avoidance, or injury due to noise from construction or operations) and indirect threats (i.e. effects on prey species, increased risk of fishery and vessel interaction through displacement out of the WEA) (BOEM 2012). This information is important to mitigate the potentially harmful impacts from ocean development, shipping, and other anthropogenic activities. To address these existing data gaps, we have collected marine mammal and sea turtle sighting data from aerial surveys conducted off the coast of Virginia from November 2012 to December 2016.
Alternative Identifiers http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1375