MIRC Shore-Based Surveys March 2015

Occurrence Observation
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Description

Original provider: HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc. Dataset credits: The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program Abstract: Data in this dataset represent animal sightings recorded during a 10-day shore-based marine mammal survey in the Mariana Islands. Observations were conducted from two separate vantage points, both located on Andersen Air Force Base on the northeast coast of Guam. Survey dates were 3-12 Mar 2015. Work was performed under HDR task order KB23 (IDIQ contract award N62470-10-D-3011, NAVFAC LANT).

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 30 records.

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Ampela, K. and C. Bacon. 2019. MIRC Shore-Based Surveys March 2015. Version 1.0.1. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/f2186dc9.

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 51f67287-1ef4-4389-9951-1cb5067a5875.  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; Mariana Islands Range Complex; Marine Animal Survey; Marine mammals; Sea turtles; Visual Sighting; Land-based; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1963 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1963/fgdc UTF-8 XML
EML Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1963/eml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Kristen Ampela
  • Owner
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Primary contact
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.
Cathy Bacon
  • Originator
  • Secondary contact
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
  • A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US

Geographic Coverage

Oceans,Pacific

Bounding Coordinates South West [13.46, 144.94], North East [13.606, 144.994]

Taxonomic Coverage

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

Class Chondrichthyes (Cartilaginous fishes)
Family Cheloniidae (Sea turtles)
Species Chelonia mydas (Green sea turtle), Coryphaena hippurus (Dolphinfish), Stenella longirostris (Spinner dolphin), Tursiops truncatus (Common bottlenose dolphin)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2015-03-03 / 2015-03-12

Project Data

No Description available

Title The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program
Funding The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program

The personnel involved in the project:

Kristen Ampela
  • Owner
Cathy Bacon
  • Originator

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_1963
Collection Identifier zd_1963
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS. Survey station locations are available as a static layer. One sighting of Melon-headed whale on 2015-03-12 13:36:50 (144.993618, 13.459862) was far from the shore stations and deleted by OBIS-SEAMAP.