Description
Original provider: Biodiversity Research Institute Dataset credits: Evan Adams, Biodiversity Research Institute Abstract: The goal of the Mid-Atlantic Baseline Studies (MABS) Project was to provide comprehensive baseline ecological data and associated predictive models and maps to regulators, developers, and other stakeholders for offshore wind energy. This knowledge on wildlife distributions, movements, and habitat use will help inform the siting and permitting of offshore wind facilities on the mid-Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf.
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 107,183 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:
Adams, E. 2023. Aerial digital survey of ecological studies for offshore wind energy development in Mid-Atlantic Bight. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/c5cf8caa.
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 (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: a2e9f688-fdbe-4b4c-8faa-8a955089a64d. 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; Aircraft; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2271 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2271/fgdc UTF-8 XML |
| EML Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2271/eml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
- Owner ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Primary contact
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
- A328 LSRC building
Geographic Coverage
Oceans,Atlantic
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [36.562, -75.952], North East [38.854, -74.398] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Subphylum | Vertebrata (vertebrates) |
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| Superclass | Osteichthyes (Bony fishes) |
| Class | Aves (Birds), Chondrichthyes (Cartilaginous fishes), Mammalia (Mammals), Scyphozoa (Jellyfish) |
| Subclass | Elasmobranchii (Cartilaginous fishes) |
| Order | Anseriformes (Ducks), Cetacea (Cetaceans), Ciconiiformes (Ciconiiformes), Passeriformes (Perching birds) |
| Superfamily | Chelonioidea |
| Family | Alcidae (Murres), Alopiidae (thresher sharks), Delphinidae (Dolphins), Gaviidae (Divers), Laridae (Gulls), Mobulidae (Devil rays), Podicipedidae (Grebes), Procellariidae (Fulmars / petrels / shearwaters), Sphyrnidae (Bonnethead sharks) |
| Genus | Balaenoptera (Baleen whales), Dasyatis (Stingrays), Limnodromus (Dowitchers), Melanitta (Scoters), Phalaropus (Phalaropes), Stercorarius (Jaegers) |
| Species | Alca torda (Razorbill), Alle alle (Dovekie), Ardea herodias (Great blue heron), Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Common minke whale), Balaenoptera physalus (Fin whale), Bombycilla cedrorum (Cedar Waxwing), Botaurus lentiginosus (American Bittern), Branta bernicla (Brant), Calonectris diomedea (Cory's shearwater), Caretta caretta (Loggerhead sea turtle), Cetorhinus maximus (Basking shark), Chelonia mydas (Green sea turtle), Chlidonias niger (Black tern), Chordeiles minor (Common nighthawk), Chroicocephalus philadelphia (Bonaparte's gull), Clangula hyemalis (Long-tailed duck), Coragyps atratus (Black Vulture), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked common dolphin), Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback sea turtle), Egretta thula (Snowy egret), Eretmochelys imbricata (Hawksbill sea turtle), Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale), Fratercula arctica (Atlantic puffin), Fulmarus glacialis (Northern fulmar), Gavia immer (Common loon), Gavia stellata (Red-throated loon), Grampus griseus (Risso's dolphin), Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald eagle), Hirundo rustica (Barn swallow), Hydroprogne caspia (Caspian tern), Icterus galbula (Northern Oriole), Larus argentatus (Herring gull), Larus delawarensis (Ring-billed gull), Larus fuscus (Lesser black-backed gull), Larus marinus (Great black-backed gull), Lasiurus blossevillii (Red Bat), Lepidochelys kempii (Kemp's ridley), Leucophaeus atricilla (Laughing gull), Manta birostris (Atlantic manta), Megaceryle torquata (Ringed kingfisher), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback whale), Melanitta fusca (Velvet scoter), Melanitta nigra (Black scoter), Melanitta perspicillata (Surf scoter), Mergus serrator (Red-breasted merganser), Mola mola (Ocean sunfish), Morus bassanus (Northern gannet), Oceanites oceanicus (Wilson's storm petrel), Pandion haliaetus (Osprey), Pelecanus occidentalis (Brown pelican), Phalacrocorax auritus (Double-crested cormorant), Phocoena phocoena (Harbor porpoise), Podiceps auritus (Horned grebe), Podiceps grisegena (Red-necked grebe), Puffinus gravis (Great shearwater), Puffinus griseus (Sooty shearwater), Puffinus puffinus (Manx shearwater), Rhinoptera bonasus (Cownose ray), Sphyrna lewini (Scalloped hammerhead), Stercorarius parasiticus (Parasitic jaeger), Stercorarius pomarinus (Pomarine jaeger), Sterna hirundo (Common tern), Thalasseus maximus (Royal tern), Thalasseus sandvicensis (Sandwich tern), Tursiops truncatus (Common bottlenose dolphin), Xema sabini (Sabine's gull) |
| Subspecies | Anser caerulescens atlanticus |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2012-03-26 / 2014-05-23 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Aerial digital survey of ecological studies for offshore wind energy development in Mid-Atlantic Bight |
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| Funding | NA |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Owner
- Originator
Sampling Methods
NA
| Study Extent | NA |
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Method step description:
- NA
Collection Data
| Collection Name | zd_2271 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_2271 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Bibliographic Citations
- Williams, K.; Connelly, E.; Johnson, S.; Stenhouse, J. 2015. Wildlife Densities and Habitat Use Across Temporal and Spatial Scales on the Mid-Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (2012-2014). DOE Report No. BRI2015-11 https://tethys.pnnl.gov/sites/default/files/publications/Mid-Atlantic-Studies-Summary.pdf
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS. The study report is available at https://briwildlife.org/mabs/reports/ The records for the following IDs were removed (record numbers in the parentheses). Duplicate (21,811) error (38,097) ID Impossible (7,441) Not Applicable (705,217) Nothing (11,231) unknown (231,816)
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| Alternative Identifiers | https://doi.org/10.82144/c5cf8caa |
| https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2271 | |
| https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_2271 |