SOCAL Marine Mammal Aerial Monitoring 2008-2009

Smultea Environmental Sciences, LLC

Dataset credit

The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program

Contacts

RoleNameOrganization 
Primary contact Mari Smultea Smultea Environmental Sciences, LLC
Secondary contact Cathy Bacon HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.
Data entry Ei Fujioka Duke University

Citation

Abstract

N/A

Purpose

N/A

Supplemental information

The sighting records in 2010 were removed and registered as a new dataset "SOCAL Marine Mammal Aerial Monitoring 2010" (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1467) with new attributes and tracklines.

References

Attributes

Overview

This section explains attributes included in the original dataset. OBIS-SEAMAP restricts the attributes available to the public to date/time, lat/lon and species names/counts only. Should you need other attributes described here, you are encouraged to contact the data provider.

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
All attributes are included in the downloadable file (CSV or ESRI File Geodatabase) for "Complete Set of Dataset".

Attributes in dataset

Attribute (table column)Description
oidUnique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP)
locationLocation name
surveySurvey name
obs_datetimeDate of the sighting
sightingiddefinition not provided
sp_obsSpecies name recorded
sp_tsnTaxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
obs_countGroup size
marinemammaldefinition not provided
marmamsizedefinition not provided
mamtypedefinition not provided
mamtypesizedefinition not provided
commongenusdefinition not provided
commonspeciesCommon name of the species
sp_orderTaxon rrder
sp_familyTaon family
sp_genusTaxon genus
speciesSpecies name recorded
certaintydefinition not provided
longitudeLongitude in decimal degrees
latitudeLatitude in decimal degrees
altitude_mAltitude in meters
altitude_ftAltitude in foot
beaufortBeaufort sea scale
waterseasondefinition not provided
stglegtypedefinition not provided
effortstatusEffort status (On or Off)
geomGeometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP
OBIS-SEAMAP ID756
Seabirds0
Marine mammals766
Sea turtles0
Rays and sharks0
Other species0
Non spatial0
Non species0
Total766
Date, Begin2008-10-17
Date, End2009-11-23
Temporal prec.111111
Latitude32.19 - 33.88
Longitude-119.24 - -117.27
Coord. prec.6 decimal digits
PlatformPlane
Data typeAnimal sighting
EffortN/A
Traveled (km)0
0
Contr. throughNavy
Registered2011-05-16
Updated2017-03-08
StatusPublished
Sharing policy CC-BY (All)
Shared with OBIS
GBIF (via DOI)
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See metadata in FGDC XML
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