Beacon Wind Digital Aerial Wildlife Surveys for BOEM Lease Area OCS-A 0520, Equinor Wind US LLC, December 2019 – November 2020

Occurrence Observation
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Description

Original provider: APEM Inc. Dataset credits: APEM Inc. and Normandeau Associates Inc. Abstract: Equinor Wind US, LLC were committed to undertaking a Construction and Operation Plan (COP) of Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Lease Area Outer Continental Shelf (OCS-A) 0520, now called Beacon Wind. To facilitate this, 16 surveys were undertaken by APEM Inc. and Normandeau Associates, Inc. (Normandeau-APEM Team) between December 2019 and November 2020 to provide baseline information for consideration in the assessment of potential impacts. Additional surveys were collected between March 2021 and October 2021 and can be accessed at https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2187.

Data Records

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Fogarty, M., M. Arundale and J. Neveu. 2025. Beacon Wind Digital Aerial Wildlife Surveys for BOEM Lease Area OCS-A 0520, Equinor Wind US LLC, December 2019 – November 2020. Version 1.0.1. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/c2b72183.

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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: 4abc37ad-5067-4800-999f-2487b28690d7.  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; Marine mammals; Sea turtles; Visual Sighting; Vessel; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2192 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2192/fgdc UTF-8 XML
EML Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2192/eml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Matthew Arundale
  • Owner
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Primary contact
Michelle Fogarty
  • Owner
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Primary contact
James Neveu
  • Originator
  • Secondary contact
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 [40.632, -70.743], North East [41.055, 41.055]

Taxonomic Coverage

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

Superclass Osteichthyes (Bony fishes)
Class Aves (Birds), Mammalia (Mammals)
Subclass Elasmobranchii (Cartilaginous fishes)
Order Perciformes (perch-like fishes), Procellariiformes (Tube-nosed Swimmers)
Family Alcidae (Murres), Anatidae (Ducks), Carcharhinidae (requiem sharks), Centrarchidae (Sunfishes), Delphinidae (Dolphins), Gaviidae (Divers), Hyperoodontidae (Beaked whales), Istiophoridae (Billfishes), Laridae (Gulls), Otariidae (Eared seals), Procellariidae (Fulmars / petrels / shearwaters), Sphyrnidae (Bonnethead sharks)
Genus Melanitta (Scoters), Phalacrocorax (Cormorants), Phalaropus (Phalaropes), Sterna (Typical Terns), Uria (Murres)
Species Alca torda (Razorbill), Alle alle (Dovekie), Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Common minke whale), Balaenoptera physalus (Fin whale), Calonectris diomedea (Cory's shearwater), Carcharhinus limbatus (Blacktip shark), Carcharhinus longimanus (Oceanic whitetip shark), Carcharhinus obscurus (Dusky shark), Carcharhinus plumbeus (Sandbar shark), Carcharodon carcharias (Great white shark), Caretta caretta (Loggerhead sea turtle), Cetorhinus maximus (Basking shark), Chroicocephalus philadelphia (Bonaparte's gull), Clangula hyemalis (Long-tailed duck), Coryphaena hippurus (Dolphinfish), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked common dolphin), Fratercula arctica (Atlantic puffin), Fulmarus glacialis (Northern fulmar), Galeocerdo cuvier (Tiger shark), Gavia immer (Common loon), Gavia stellata (Red-throated loon), Halichoerus grypus (Atlantic gray seal), Isurus oxyrinchus (Shortfin mako), Larus argentatus (Herring gull), Larus delawarensis (Ring-billed gull), Larus fuscus (Lesser black-backed gull), Larus glaucoides (Iceland 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), Mobula tarapacana (Sicklefin devil ray), Mola mola (Ocean sunfish), Morus bassanus (Northern gannet), Oceanites oceanicus (Wilson's storm petrel), Phalaropus fulicarius (Red phalarope), Phoca vitulina (Harbor seal), Phocoena phocoena (Harbor porpoise), Prionace glauca (Blue shark), Puffinus gravis (Great shearwater), Puffinus griseus (Sooty shearwater), Puffinus puffinus (Manx shearwater), Rissa tridactyla (Black-legged kittiwake), Somateria mollissima (Common eider), Sphyrna lewini (Scalloped hammerhead), Sphyrna mokarran (great hammerhead), Sphyrna zygaena (Smooth hammerhead), Squalus acanthias (Piked dogfish), Stercorarius parasiticus (Parasitic jaeger), Sterna dougallii (Roseate tern), Sterna forsteri (Forster's tern), Sterna hirundo (Common tern), Thunnus thynnus (Atlantic bluefin tuna), Tursiops truncatus (Common bottlenose dolphin), Xema sabini (Sabine's gull), Xiphias gladius (Atlantic swordfish)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2019-12-07 / 2020-11-04

Project Data

No Description available

Title Beacon Wind Digital Aerial Wildlife Surveys for BOEM Lease Area OCS-A 0520, Equinor Wind US LLC, December 2019 – November 2020
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Matthew Arundale
  • Owner
Michelle Fogarty
  • Owner
James Neveu
  • Originator

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_2192
Collection Identifier zd_2192
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS.

Purpose

N/A

Alternative Identifiers 10.82144/c2b72183
4abc37ad-5067-4800-999f-2487b28690d7
https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2192
92474b6c-761f-4e2c-99b1-68d91b38dc93
https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_2192