SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 1999, Cruise 1613

Occurrence Observation
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Description

Original provider: NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) Dataset credits: Marine Mammal and Turtle Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NMFS, NOAA Abstract: This 1999 eastern tropical Pacific cetacean line-transect survey was part of the Stenella Abundance Research Project (STAR), a multi-year cetacean and ecosystem assessment study designed to assess the status of dolphin stocks which have been taken as incidental catch by the yellowfin tuna purse-seine fishery in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. This survey was conducted by the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center aboard NOAA ships <i>David Starr Jordan</i> and <i>McArthur</i> for a combined total of approximately 31,000 kilometers surveyed from late July to early December 1999. This dataset provides the time-date and geographical coordinates, by species/stock, of all cetaceans detected during the survey, as well as the daily and intra-daily start and end points of the line-transect survey by the NOAA Ship <i>David Starr Jordan<i>.

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Moore, J. and D. Weller. 2021. SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 1999, Cruise 1613. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/1df53966.

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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: 97e32c9a-9f3a-417d-8b20-3846e3cf5901.  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; Vessels; Sightings; Cetaceans; Whales; Dolphins; Stenella; Delphinus; Population; Abundance; Survey; Census; Occurrence

External data

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OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1039 UTF-8 Interactive map
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EML Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1039/eml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Jeffrey Moore
  • Owner ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Primary contact
Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA
Dave Weller
  • Originator
  • Secondary contact
NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
  • A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US

Geographic Coverage

Oceans,Pacific,Eastern Tropical Pacific,ETP

Bounding Coordinates South West [-14.25, -119.57], North East [32.22, -77.41]

Taxonomic Coverage

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

Order Cetacea (Cetaceans)
Suborder Caniformia (Pinnipeds)
Family Cheloniidae (Sea turtles), Otariidae (Eared seals)
Genus Balaenoptera (Baleen whales), Chelonia (Green sea turtles), Delphinus (Common dolphins), Globicephala (Pilot whales), Mesoplodon (Beaked whales), Ziphius (Goose-beaked whales)
Species Arctocephalus australis (South american fur seal), Balaenoptera edeni (Eden's whale), Balaenoptera musculus (Blue whale), Balaenoptera physalus (Fin whale), Caretta caretta (Loggerhead sea turtle), Delphinus capensis (Long-beaked common dolphin), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked common dolphin), Feresa attenuata (Pygmy killer whale), Globicephala macrorhynchus (Short-finned pilot whale), Grampus griseus (Risso's dolphin), Kogia sima (Dwarf sperm whale), Lagenorhynchus obliquidens (Pacific white-sided dolphin), Lagenorhynchus obscurus (Dusky dolphin), Lepidochelys olivacea (Olive ridley), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback whale), Mesoplodon peruvianus (Peruvian beaked whale), Mirounga angustirostris (Northern elephant seal), Orcinus orca (Killer whale), Otaria flavescens (South american sealion), Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm whale), Pseudorca crassidens (False killer whale), Stenella attenuata (Pantropical spotted dolphin), Stenella coeruleoalba (Striped dolphin), Stenella longirostris (Spinner dolphin), Steno bredanensis (Rough-toothed dolphin), Tursiops truncatus (Common bottlenose dolphin), Zalophus californianus (California sea lion), Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier's beaked whale)
Subspecies Stenella attenuata graffmani (Coastal spotted dolphin), Stenella longirostris orientalis

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1999-07-28 / 1999-12-07

Project Data

No Description available

Title SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 1999, Cruise 1613
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Jeffrey Moore
  • Owner
Dave Weller
  • Originator

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_1039
Collection Identifier zd_1039
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Kinzey, Douglas, Tim Gerrodette, Jay Barlow, Andrew E. Dizon, Wayne L. Perryman and Paula Olson. 2000. Marine mammal data collected during a survey in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean aboard the NOAA ships McArthur and David Starr Jordan, July 28 - December 9, 1999. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-293. http://swfsc.noaa.gov/publications/TM/SWFSC/NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-293.PDF

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS. This dataset is supplemental to the following datasets: SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, MOPS 1986, Cruise 989 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, MOPS 1986, Cruise 990 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, MOPS 1987, Cruise 1080 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, MOPS 1987, Cruise 1081 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, MOPS 1988, Cruise 1164 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, MOPS 1988, Cruise 1165 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, MOPS 1989, Cruise 1267 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, MOPS 1989, Cruise 1268 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, MOPS 1990, Cruise 1369 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, MOPS 1990, Cruise 1370 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 1998, Cruise 1610 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 1998, Cruise 1611 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 1998, Cruise 1612 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 1999, Cruise 1614 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 2000, Cruise 1615 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 2000, Cruise 1616 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 2003, Cruise 1623 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 2003, Cruise 1624 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 2006, Cruise 1630 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 2006, Cruise 1631 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR-LITE 2007, Cruise 1634