Description
Original provider: University of Rhode Island Dataset credits: University of Rhode Island Bureau of Land Management US Dept of the Interior Abstract: The Cetacean and Turtle Assessment Program (CETAP) was sponsored by the Bureau of Land Management and conducted between October 1978 and January 1982 by the University of Rhode Island in outer continental shelf waters of the northeastern United States from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to the Gulf of Maine and from shore to 9.3 km (5 nautical miles) seaward of the 1829 m (1000 fathoms) isobath. Population surveys were conducted by CETAP to assess the distribution and abundance of whales, dolphins and sea turtles inhabiting the study area. Supplemental information: [2020-09-30] The following invalid species names were corrected according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Turtles: Testudines (173749) => Testudines (948936) This dataset is a subset of CETAP sightings, extracting opportunistic sighting records, with the addition of taxonomic information of species sighted. The full dataset may be available upon request. Requests for more data, further details on the dataset, proper use of the dataset, and questions should be directed to the primary contact person. Also note that the metadata is in edits. For further details of the dataset or questions, contact the contact person. Sighting points that are more than 2km inland were eliminated. Those from 1km to 2km inland can be considered as on-water sightings. Accuracy of date/time varies. See tprecision field.
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 9,960 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:
Kenney, R. 2013. BLM CETAP OPP Sightings. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/284) on yyyy-mm-dd.
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 Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 381bf3e9-df40-46b9-a3ee-b55542a3bd64. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Sea turtles,Aircraft,Visual Sighting; Observation; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/284 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/284/xml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
- Owner ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
Geographic Coverage
North Atlantic Ocean
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [1.867, -98], North East [63.983, -5.333] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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) |
| Order | Cetacea (cetaceans), Cetacea (cetaceans), Cetacea (cetaceans), Testudines (Turtles), Cetacea (cetaceans) |
| Family | Delphinidae (dolphins), Hyperoodontidae, Delphinidae (dolphins), Balaenopteridae (rorquals), Scombridae (albacores) |
| Genus | Mesoplodon (beaked whales), Sphyrna (bonnethead sharks), Globicephala (pilot whales), Kogia (pygmy sperm whales), Stenella (spinner dolphins), Balaenoptera (baleen whales), Balaenoptera (baleen whales), Lagenorhynchus (white-beaked dolphins), Stenella (spinner dolphins) |
| Species | Lagenorhynchus acutus (Atlantic White-sided Dolphin), Cetorhinus maximus (basking shark), Delphinapterus leucas (Beluga), Prionace glauca (blue shark), Balaenoptera musculus (Blue Whale), Tursiops truncatus (Common Bottlenose Dolphin), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked Common Dolphin), Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier's Beaked Whale), Pseudorca crassidens (False Killer Whale), Balaenoptera physalus (Fin Whale), Chelonia mydas (Green Sea Turtle), Phocoena phocoena (Harbor Porpoise), Phoca vitulina (Harbor Seal), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback Whale), Lepidochelys kempii (Kemp's Ridley), Orcinus orca (Killer Whale), Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback Sea Turtle), Caretta caretta (Loggerhead Sea Turtle), Stenella longirostris (Spinner Dolphin), Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Minke Whale), Hyperoodon ampullatus (Northern bottlenose whale), Mola mola (ocean sunfish), Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic Right Whale), Grampus griseus (Risso's Dolphin), Balaenoptera borealis (Sei Whale), Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm Whale), Stenella coeruleoalba (Striped Dolphin), Xiphias gladius (Atlantic swordfish), Lagenorhynchus albirostris (White-beaked Dolphin) |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1935-03-25 / 1982-12-21 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | BLM CETAP OPP Sightings |
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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_284 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_284 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Purpose | Not available |
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| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_284 |