Description
Original provider: Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center 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 309 Environmental Enhancement Program Strategy Project of Special Merit No. NA12NOS4190027. Aerial surveys were conducted under NOAA Scientific Permits No. 948-1692-00 and 16473, held by UNCW.
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 109 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:
Barco, S. 2016. Virginia CZM Wind Energy Area Survey- Left side - November 2012 through April 2014. Version 1.6.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/1467084c.
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: b4b66bdd-f0c2-43ad-b642-1f0c2cb44654. 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; Marine Animal Survey; Marine mammals; Sea turtles; Visual Sighting; Aircraft; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1192 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1192/fgdc UTF-8 XML |
| EML Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1192/eml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
- Owner ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Primary contact
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
- A328 LSRC building
Geographic Coverage
Oceans,North Atlantic
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [36.607, -76.129], North East [37.267, -74.787] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Class | Chondrichthyes (Cartilaginous fishes) |
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| Family | Cheloniidae (Sea turtles), Delphinidae (Dolphins) |
| Species | Balaenoptera physalus (Fin whale), Caretta caretta (Loggerhead sea turtle), Cetorhinus maximus (Basking shark), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked common dolphin), Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback sea turtle), Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback whale), Tursiops truncatus (Common bottlenose dolphin) |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2012-11-26 / 2014-04-25 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Virginia CZM Wind Energy Area Survey- Left side - November 2012 through April 2014 |
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| Funding | NA |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Owner
Sampling Methods
NA
| Study Extent | NA |
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Method step description:
- NA
Collection Data
| Collection Name | zd_1192 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_1192 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Bibliographic Citations
- Sarah D. Mallette, Gwen G. Lockhart, Ryan J. McAlarney, Erin W. Cummings, William A. McLellan, D. Ann Pabst and Susan G. Barco. 2014. Documenting Whale Migration off Virginia’s Coast for Use in Marine Spatial Planning: Aerial and Vessel Surveys in the Proximity of the Virginia Wind Energy Area (VA WEA). VAQF Scientific Report 2014-08: pp. 89.
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS. The original survey data are separated into two datasets, collected from left-side and right-side observers to address variance in environmental and sighting conditions. This dataset is from the left side sightings data. The right side sightings data are available on OBIS-SEAMAP in the Virginia CZM Wind Energy Area Survey- Right side - November 2012 through April 2014 dataset. The effort data layer, for this project is static transect lines. The plane track lines are available by request. Off-effort sightings were removed from this dataset.
| 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 sighting data from multiple platforms in addition to sea turtle sighting data off the coast of Virginia from 2012 to 2014. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | https://doi.org/10.82144/1467084c |
| https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1192 | |
| https://www.gbif.org/dataset/b4b66bdd-f0c2-43ad-b642-1f0c2cb44654 | |
| https://obis.org/dataset/eaae2852-255f-45b3-a345-dfb0bf20e6a6 | |
| b4b66bdd-f0c2-43ad-b642-1f0c2cb44654 | |
| https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1192 |