Empire Wind Digital Aerial Wildlife Surveys for BOEM Lease Area OCS-A 0512, Equinor Wind US LLC, November 2017-October 2018

Occurrence Observation
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Description

Original provider: APEM Limited Dataset credits: APEM Inc. and Normandeau Associates Inc. Abstract: Equinor Wind US, LLC were committed to undertaking a Construction and Operation Plan (COP) of their lease area located in the New York Bight (OCS-A 0512), now called Empire Wind. To facilitate this, 12 surveys were undertaken by APEM Inc. and Normandeau Associates, Inc. (Normandeau-APEM Team) between November 2017 and October 2018 to provide baseline information for consideration in the assessment of potential impacts. Additional surveys were collected between February 2019 and December 2019 and can be accessed https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2159.

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 3,763 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

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Jervis, L. and M. Fogarty. 2022. Empire Wind Digital Aerial Wildlife Surveys for BOEM Lease Area OCS-A 0512, Equinor Wind US LLC, November 2017-October 2018. Version 1.3.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/9b17dc03.

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: 4a391c5e-47aa-4e30-9374-4c3e143c4eca.  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; Seabirds; 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/2067 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2067/fgdc UTF-8 XML
EML Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2067/eml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Michelle Fogarty
  • Owner ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Primary contact
Laura Jervis
  • Owner ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Primary contact
APEM Limited
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
  • A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US

Geographic Coverage

North Atlantic

Bounding Coordinates South West [40.158, -73.644], North East [40.418, 40.418]

Taxonomic Coverage

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

Superclass Osteichthyes (Bony fishes)
Class Mammalia (Mammals)
Subclass Elasmobranchii (Cartilaginous fishes)
Order Ciconiiformes (Ciconiiformes), Perciformes (perch-like fishes), Procellariiformes (Tube-nosed Swimmers)
Family Alcidae (Murres), Anatidae (Ducks), Carcharhinidae (requiem sharks), Centrarchidae (Sunfishes), Cheloniidae (Sea turtles), Delphinidae (Dolphins), Gaviidae (Divers), Laridae (Gulls), Phalacrocoracidae (Cormorants), Podicipedidae (Grebes), Procellariidae (Fulmars / petrels / shearwaters), Sphyrnidae (Bonnethead sharks)
Genus Melanitta (Scoters), Phalaropus (Phalaropes), Sterna (Typical Terns)
Species Alle alle (Dovekie), Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard), Anas rubripes (American black duck), Ardea herodias (Great blue heron), Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Common minke whale), Calonectris diomedea (Cory's shearwater), Carcharodon carcharias (Great white shark), Caretta caretta (Loggerhead sea turtle), Chroicocephalus philadelphia (Bonaparte's gull), Clangula hyemalis (Long-tailed duck), Coryphaena hippurus (Dolphinfish), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked common dolphin), Fulmarus glacialis (Northern fulmar), Galeocerdo cuvier (Tiger shark), Gavia immer (Common loon), Gavia stellata (Red-throated loon), Larus argentatus (Herring gull), Larus delawarensis (Ring-billed gull), Larus fuscus (Lesser black-backed gull), Larus marinus (Great black-backed gull), Lepidochelys kempii (Kemp's ridley), Leucophaeus atricilla (Laughing gull), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback whale), Melanitta fusca (Velvet scoter), Melanitta nigra (Black scoter), Melanitta perspicillata (Surf scoter), Mola mola (Ocean sunfish), Morus bassanus (Northern gannet), Phalaropus fulicarius (Red phalarope), Phocoena phocoena (Harbor porpoise), Prionace glauca (Blue shark), Pterodroma hasitata (Black-capped petrel), Puffinus gravis (Great shearwater), Puffinus griseus (Sooty shearwater), Puffinus puffinus (Manx shearwater), Rachycentron canadum (Cobia), Rhinoptera bonasus (Cownose ray), Rissa tridactyla (Black-legged kittiwake), Sphyrna lewini (Scalloped hammerhead), Sterna forsteri (Forster's tern), Sterna hirundo (Common tern), Sternula antillarum (Least tern), Thunnus thynnus (Atlantic bluefin tuna), Tursiops truncatus (Common bottlenose dolphin)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2017-11-28 / 2018-10-26

Project Data

No Description available

Title Empire Wind Digital Aerial Wildlife Surveys for BOEM Lease Area OCS-A 0512, Equinor Wind US LLC, November 2017-October 2018
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Michelle Fogarty
  • Owner
Laura Jervis
  • Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_2067
Collection Identifier zd_2067
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Phillips, D. 2020. Empire Wind Digital Aerial Wildlife Surveys for BOEM Lease Area OCS-A 0512, Equinor Wind US LLC, November 2017-October 2018. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2067) on yyyy-mm-dd

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS. [2021-08-23] No-animal objects (e.g. boats) were given species names and codes. These wrong assignments are corrected. Each record represents 1 individual (except for Fish Shoals which is one entry per 1 shoal encompassing uncounted number of fish). Locations of digital snapshots are available as a static point layer.

Purpose
Alternative Identifiers 10.82144/9b17dc03
4a391c5e-47aa-4e30-9374-4c3e143c4eca
https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2067
cd28a3e1-f146-4638-85ae-a5ea6b739144
https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_2067