https://doi.org/10.82144/313f2c0b https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1231 https://www.gbif.org/dataset/3be1c976-f176-4532-9466-90ce1e851844 https://obis.org/dataset/34bac215-9adb-4ada-9259-fc9bd85a6339 Sue Barco Virginia Aquarium Stranding Response Primary contact SGBarco@virginiaaquarium.com OBIS-SEAMAP Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

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seamap-contact@duke.edu https://seamap.env.duke.edu distributor Sue Barco Virginia Aquarium Stranding Response Primary contact SGBarco@virginiaaquarium.com owner 2025-07-31 eng Original provider: Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center Dataset credits: Virginia Aquarium Foundation - Sarah D. Mallette, Gwen G. Lockhart, Susan G. Barco University of North Carolina Wilmington - William A. McLellan, Ryan J. McAlarney Erin W. Cummings and D. Ann Pabst Abstract: The data provided were collected as part of the Documenting Whale Migration off Virginia's Coast for Use in Marine Spatial Planning project - funded by the Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program Grant Section 309 No. NA13NOS4190135. Aerial surveys were conducted under NOAA Scientific Permits No. 948-1692-00 and 16473, held by UNCW. Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml Observation GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml Marine Biology Visual sighting Marine Animal Survey Marine mammals Sea turtles Visual Sighting Aircraft N/A The original survey data are separated into two datasets, collected from left-side and right-side observers to address variance in environmental and sighting conditions. This dataset is from the right side sightings data. The left side sightings data are available on OBIS-SEAMAP in the <a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1229">Virginia CZM Wind Energy Area Survey - Left side - May 2014 through December 2014</a> dataset. Both on- and off-effort sightings are included. The effort data layer, for this project is static transect lines. The plane track lines are available by request. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1231 Oceans,North Atlantic -76.068197 -74.824887 37.270611 36.724808 2014-05-15 2014-12-16 Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). species Caretta caretta Loggerhead sea turtle family Cheloniidae Sea turtles class Chondrichthyes Cartilaginous fishes family Delphinidae Dolphins species Delphinus delphis Short-beaked common dolphin species Manta birostris Atlantic manta species Mola mola Ocean sunfish species Rhinoptera bonasus Cownose ray genus Sargassum species Stenella frontalis Atlantic spotted dolphin species Tursiops truncatus Common bottlenose dolphin On November 1, 2013, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced Dominion Virginia Power was the provisional winner of the commercial lease area offshore of Virginia (VA WEA). Development of off shore wind energy poses potential threats to marine mammals, including direct effects (i.e. vessel interactions, collision and entanglement with structures, displacement, avoidance, or injury due to noise from construction or operations) and indirect threats (i.e. effects on prey species, increased risk of fishery and vessel interaction through displacement out of the WEA) (BOEM 2012). This information is important to mitigate the potentially harmful impacts from ocean development, shipping, and other anthropogenic activities. To address these existing data gaps, we have collected marine mammal and sea turtle sighting data from aerial surveys conducted off the coast of Virginia from May 2014 to December 2014. notPlanned Sue Barco Virginia Aquarium Stranding Response Primary contact SGBarco@virginiaaquarium.com NA NA NA Sue Barco owner NA zd_1231 2025-07-31T16:39:30-04:00 dataset Barco, S. 2015. Virginia CZM Wind Energy Area Survey - Right side - May 2014 through December 2014. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/313f2c0b. OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page UTF-8 Interactive map https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1231 FGDC Metadata UTF-8 XML https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1231/fgdc EML Metadata UTF-8 XML https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1231/eml OBIS-SEAMAP zd_1231 zd_1231 Sarah D. Mallette, Gwen G. Lockhart, Ryan J. McAlarney, Erin W. Cummings, William A. McLellan, D. Ann Pabst and Susan G. Barco. 2014. 2014. Documenting Whale Migration off Virginia’s Coast for Use in Marine Spatial Planning: Aerial Surveys in the Proximity of the Virginia Wind Energy Area (VA WEA). VAQF Scientific Report 2015-02: pp. 24.