Description
Original provider: NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) Dataset credits: NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) Purpose: The objectives of this aerial flight was to collect the data needed to estimate abundance of cetaceans and turtles in the study area and to investigate how the animals’ distribution and abundance relate to their ecosystem.
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 490 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:
Josephson, B. 2025. AMAPPS Northeast Aerial Cruise Spring 2023. Version 1.1.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/d1f47150.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 38ae6f84-4b5b-40bb-bf0d-56bf6ef74a52. 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/2310 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2310/fgdc UTF-8 XML |
| EML Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2310/eml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
- A328 LSRC building
Geographic Coverage
Oceans,North Atlantic Ocean
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [39.668, -73.257], North East [44.898, -65.865] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Phylum | Chordata (chordates) |
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| Class | Chondrichthyes (Cartilaginous fishes), Mammalia (Mammals) |
| Order | Cetacea (Cetaceans), Perciformes (perch-like fishes) |
| Family | Cheloniidae (Sea turtles), Delphinidae (Dolphins), Phocidae (Earless seals) |
| Species | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Common minke whale), Balaenoptera physalus (Fin whale), Carcharodon carcharias (Great white shark), Cetorhinus maximus (Basking shark), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked common dolphin), Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback sea turtle), Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale), Grampus griseus (Risso's dolphin), Halichoerus grypus (Atlantic gray seal), Lagenorhynchus acutus (Atlantic white-sided dolphin), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback whale), Mola mola (Ocean sunfish), Phoca vitulina (Harbor seal), Phocoena phocoena (Harbor porpoise), Prionace glauca (Blue shark), Tursiops truncatus (Common bottlenose dolphin) |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2023-04-20 / 2023-05-27 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | AMAPPS Northeast Aerial Cruise Spring 2023 |
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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_2310 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_2310 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Bibliographic Citations
- Palka, D. 2025. 2023 Annual Report of a Comprehensive Assessment of Marine Mammal, Marine Turtle, and Seabird Abundance and Spatial Distribution in U.S. waters of the Western North Atlantic Ocean : AMAPPS III. Report to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management110 pp. https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/61801
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS. The survey code is TONE23SPR. Perpendicular distance to the animal is not publicly available. Please contact the data provider to obtain this attribute.
| Purpose | The objectives of this aerial flight was to collect the data needed to estimate abundance of cetaceans and turtles in the study area and to investigate how the animals’ distribution and abundance relate to their ecosystem. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | https://doi.org/10.82144/d1f47150 |
| https://www.gbif.org/dataset/38ae6f84-4b5b-40bb-bf0d-56bf6ef74a52 | |
| https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2310 | |
| https://obis.org/dataset/c0136793-2359-4981-a0aa-f773cab3372c | |
| 38ae6f84-4b5b-40bb-bf0d-56bf6ef74a52 | |
| https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_2310 |