Description
Original provider: Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Foundation Dataset credits: Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Foundation Abstract: The Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center Foundation, Inc. (VAQF) is tasked to conduct aerial surveys for the continental shelf region off the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay within the Virginia Capes Operating Area (VACAPES OPAREA) to provide marine species monitoring services. In 2007, a multi-institutional project utilizing multiple platforms (i.e., aerial, vessel, and passive acoustic monitoring) aimed at protected species monitoring off the East Coast of the United States commenced. The current survey will complement existing United States (U.S.) Navy marine species monitoring efforts (Aerial Survey Baseline Monitoring- Atlantic Fleet Training and Testing) and supports environmental planning and regulatory compliance along the East Coast of the United States. This project represents the first year of U.S. Department of the Navy-funded aerial survey efforts off Virginia Beach, Virginia. These surveys build upon previous survey efforts funded by Virginia Coastal Zone Management (CZM) Program to document large whale occurrence in the vicinity of the Virginia Wind Energy Area (VA WEA) and contribute to regional mid-Atlantic ocean planning efforts. VAQF in collaboration with University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) conducted line-transect aerial surveys from 2012 through 2017, although surveys were not flown every month or with consistent effort between years (Mallette et al. 2014, 2016). The goal of the current aerial survey project is to complement existing monitoring projects and contribute baseline protected species occurrence data, including species distribution; abundance; density estimates; and seasonal habitat usage. The survey site includes an approximately 6,500-square-kilometer area off the coast of Virginia extending from the southern portion of the eastern shore of Virginia to the North Carolina/Virginia state border. The aerial survey design was established based upon advisements from the Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modeling (CREEM) at the University of St. Andrews and objectives identified by the U.S. Navy. VAQF conducted fixed-wing aerial line-transect surveys, using previously established distance-sampling protocols, to document the occurrence of marine mammals and sea turtles. VAQF worked closely with the UNCW to maintain consistency among the safety, flight, and data-reporting protocols for Hatteras/Onslow/JAX baseline monitoring projects (McAlarney et al. 2013, 2015). The current report describes monitoring activities that occurred between January 2017 and June 2017. Between the months of January and June 2017, 12 sightings of 14 humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) were recorded within the "VAQ on-shelf" survey area off the coast of Virginia. No other baleen whale species were recorded during the NAVFAC funded "VAQ on-shelf" aerial surveys during this period. Sightings of whales were documented over four survey days between January and June 2017: 11 January (5 sightings of 5 whales), 12 January (3 sightings of 3 whales), 21 February (1 sighting of 2 whales) and 24 February (3 sightings of 4 whales).
Enregistrements de données
Les données de cette ressource occurrence ont été publiées sous forme d'une Archive Darwin Core (Darwin Core Archive ou DwC-A), le format standard pour partager des données de biodiversité en tant qu'ensemble d'un ou plusieurs tableurs de données. Le tableur de données du cœur de standard (core) contient 439 enregistrements.
Cet IPT archive les données et sert donc de dépôt de données. Les données et métadonnées de la ressource sont disponibles pour téléchargement dans la section téléchargements. Le tableau des versions liste les autres versions de chaque ressource rendues disponibles de façon publique et permet de tracer les modifications apportées à la ressource au fil du temps.
Versions
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Comment citer
Les chercheurs doivent citer cette ressource comme suit:
Bort Thornton, J. and S. Mallette. 2022. Aerial Survey Baseline Monitoring in the Continental Shelf Region of the VACAPES OPAREA: January - February 2017. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/a8dfd47f.
Droits
Les chercheurs doivent respecter la déclaration de droits suivante:
L’éditeur et détenteur des droits de cette ressource est OBIS-SEAMAP. Ce travail est sous licence Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0.
Enregistrement GBIF
Cette ressource a été enregistrée sur le portail GBIF, et possède l'UUID GBIF suivante : 6cd06298-4870-4fe7-804a-8903257a665c. OBIS-SEAMAP publie cette ressource, et est enregistré dans le GBIF comme éditeur de données avec l'approbation du Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Mots-clé
Occurrence; Observation; Marine Biology; Visual sighting; VACAPES Aerial; Marine Animal Survey; Marine mammals; Visual Sighting; Aircraft; Occurrence
Données externes
Les données de la ressource sont disponibles dans d'autres formats
| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2212 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2212/fgdc UTF-8 XML |
| EML Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2212/eml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
- Propriétaire ●
- Créateur ●
- Personne De Contact
- Primary contact
- Fournisseur Des Métadonnées ●
- Distributeur
- A328 LSRC building
Couverture géographique
Oceans,North Atlantic,Virginia
| Enveloppe géographique | Sud Ouest [36,544, -76,042], Nord Est [37,329, -75,046] |
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Couverture taxonomique
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Superclass | Osteichthyes (Bony fishes) |
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| Class | Chondrichthyes (Cartilaginous fishes) |
| Subclass | Elasmobranchii (Cartilaginous fishes) |
| Superfamily | Chelonioidea |
| Family | Delphinidae (Dolphins) |
| Species | Caretta caretta (Loggerhead sea turtle), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked common dolphin), Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback sea turtle), Manta birostris (Atlantic manta), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback whale), Mola mola (Ocean sunfish), Rhinoptera bonasus (Cownose ray), Tursiops truncatus (Common bottlenose dolphin) |
Couverture temporelle
| Date de début / Date de fin | 2017-01-11 / 2017-06-22 |
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Données sur le projet
Pas de description disponible
| Titre | The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program |
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| Financement | The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program |
Les personnes impliquées dans le projet:
- Propriétaire
- Créateur
Méthodes d'échantillonnage
NA
| Etendue de l'étude | NA |
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Description des étapes de la méthode:
- NA
Données de collection
| Nom de la collection | zd_2212 |
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| Identifiant de collection | zd_2212 |
| Identifiant de la collection parente | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Citations bibliographiques
- Mallette S. and Barco, S. 2017. Aerial Survey Baseline Monitoring in the Continental Shelf Region of the VACAPES OPAREA: January - February 2017. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2212)
Métadonnées additionnelles
marine, harvested by iOBIS. This data was created and submitted to the U.S. Department of the Navy on aerial surveys conducted along the continental shelf off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia, from January to June 2017. To build upon the existing dataset in the proximity of the VA WEA, previously established transect lines were modified based upon recommendations from CREEM and discussions with UNCW and the Navy to manage overlap between the coastal (VAQF) and Norfolk Canyon Survey Area offshore (UNCW) survey areas. Static map of effort (tracklines) are visible on the OBIS-SEAMAP web site but not included in the download.
| Objet | n/a |
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| Identifiants alternatifs | https://doi.org/10.82144/a8dfd47f |
| https://www.gbif.org/dataset/6cd06298-4870-4fe7-804a-8903257a665c | |
| https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2212 | |
| https://obis.org/dataset/7453cccb-6d2f-47c9-a68f-09c2bd2a59bc | |
| 6cd06298-4870-4fe7-804a-8903257a665c | |
| https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_2212 |