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
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
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 |
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FGDC Metadata | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1375/xml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
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- Point Of Contact
- Originator
- Metadata Provider ●
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Geographic Coverage
Virginia
Bounding Coordinates | South West [36.607, -75.968], North East [37.268, -74.827] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Subphylum | Vertebrata |
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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 |
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Project Data
No Description available
Title | Virginia CZM Wind Energy Area Survey- Right side - January 2014 through March 2016 |
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Funding | NA |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Owner
- Originator
Sampling Methods
NA
Study Extent | NA |
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Method step description:
- NA
Collection Data
Collection Name | zd_1375 |
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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. |
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Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1375 |