Sightings for AN/AQS-20 Sonar Aerial Monitoring in the NSWC PCD Study Area from July 2011 and May 2012

Occurrence Observation
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Description

Original provider: HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc. Dataset credits: The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program Abstract: Three aerial marine-species monitoring surveys for an AN/AQS-20 sonar research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) event occurred, with daily marine-species surveys from 05 July through 09 July 2011, 23 July through 26 July 2011, and 20 May through 26 May 2011 off the coast of Florida in the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) Study Area in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The AN/AQS-20 is a high-frequency active sonar (HFAS) system used in mine countermeasures detection.

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Latusek-Nabholz, J. 2020. Sightings for AN/AQS-20 Sonar Aerial Monitoring in the NSWC PCD Study Area from July 2011 and May 2012. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/88900254.

Rights

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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: 445c5799-cb09-46b5-89dd-bf739070b430.  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; Other surveys; Aircraft; Sightings; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/947 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/947/fgdc UTF-8 XML
EML Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/947/eml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Jennifer Latusek-Nabholz
  • Owner
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Primary contact
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
  • A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US

Geographic Coverage

Oceans,Gulf of Mexico

Bounding Coordinates South West [29.748, -86.187], North East [30.124, -85.71]

Taxonomic Coverage

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

Subclass Elasmobranchii (Cartilaginous fishes)
Order Testudines (Turtles)
Family Cheloniidae (Sea turtles), Delphinidae (Dolphins)
Genus Sphyrna (Bonnethead sharks)
Species Caretta caretta (Loggerhead sea turtle), Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback sea turtle), Lepidochelys kempii (Kemp's ridley), Mola mola (Ocean sunfish), Stenella frontalis (Atlantic spotted dolphin), Tursiops truncatus (Common bottlenose dolphin)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2011-07-05 / 2012-05-26

Project Data

No Description available

Title The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program
Funding The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program

The personnel involved in the project:

Jennifer Latusek-Nabholz
  • Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_947
Collection Identifier zd_947
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS. References will be available when they are ready.