SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, ORCAWALE 2001, Cruise 1617

Occurrence Observation
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Description

Original provider: NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) Dataset credits: NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) Abstract: The 2001 Oregon, California and Washington Line-Transect Experiment (ORCAWALE) was designed to estimate the abundance of and to describe the distribution of dolphins, whales, and porpoises off the west coast of the United States out to 300 nautical miles. 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 10,000 kilometers surveyed from late July to early December 2001. 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

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 440 records.

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Moore, J. and D. Weller. 2021. SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, ORCAWALE 2001, Cruise 1617. Version 1.8.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/837f1e53.

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: bfc5f84c-c88e-44e1-8d65-445d4dfc0f2e.  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; Population; Abundance; Survey; Census; CSCAPE; ORCAWALE; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1047 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1047/fgdc UTF-8 XML
EML Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1047/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,U.S. West Coast,California,Oregon,Washington,California Current

Bounding Coordinates South West [31.849, -130.966], North East [47.717, -117.866]

Taxonomic Coverage

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

Order Cetacea (Cetaceans)
Family Cheloniidae (Sea turtles), Delphinidae (Dolphins), Hyperoodontidae (Beaked whales)
Genus Balaenoptera (Baleen whales), Delphinus (Common dolphins), Kogia (Pygmy sperm whales)
Species Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Common minke whale), Balaenoptera borealis (Sei whale), Balaenoptera musculus (Blue whale), Balaenoptera physalus (Fin whale), Berardius bairdii (Baird's beaked whale), Callorhinus ursinus (Northern fur seal), Delphinus capensis (Long-beaked common dolphin), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked common dolphin), Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback sea turtle), Eschrichtius robustus (Gray whale), Grampus griseus (Risso's dolphin), Lagenorhynchus obliquidens (Pacific white-sided dolphin), Lissodelphis borealis (Northern right whale dolphin), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback whale), Orcinus orca (Killer whale), Phocoena phocoena (Harbor porpoise), Phocoenoides dalli (Dall's porpoise), Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm whale), Stenella coeruleoalba (Striped dolphin), Tursiops truncatus (Common bottlenose dolphin), Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier's beaked whale)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2001-07-30 / 2001-11-09

Project Data

No Description available

Title SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, ORCAWALE 2001, Cruise 1617
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_1047
Collection Identifier zd_1047
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Jason Appler, Jay Barlow, Shannon Rankin. 2004. MARINE MAMMAL DATA COLLECTED DURING THE OREGON, CALIFORNIA AND WASHINGTON LINE-TRANSECT EXPEDITION (ORCAWALE) CONDUCTED ABOARD THE NOAA SHIPS McARTHUR AND DAVID STARR JORDAN, JULY - DECEMBER 2001. NOAA Technical Memorandum: NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-359. https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/3463

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS. SWFSC MMTD Cruise Number: 1617 Perpendicular distance will be released upon permission by the contributor. Please contact the contributor if needed. Attribute descriptions for effort data: dist: Length of the segment (km) Mode: Effort mode type (C = closing mode; P = passing mode)

Purpose

The primary purpose of this survey was to estimate the abundance of and to describe the distribution of dolphins, whales, and porpoises off the west coast of the United States out to 300 nautical miles.

Alternative Identifiers https://doi.org/10.82144/837f1e53
https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1047
https://www.gbif.org/dataset/bfc5f84c-c88e-44e1-8d65-445d4dfc0f2e
https://obis.org/dataset/23a662e6-5fdb-4b04-b2b5-dc142be6b250
bfc5f84c-c88e-44e1-8d65-445d4dfc0f2e
https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1047