https://doi.org/10.82144/857f7e7c
https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1356
https://www.gbif.org/dataset/da395b19-58eb-41d9-b3b5-2a434e143160
https://obis.org/dataset/9f0c12a3-3e31-4ee0-ba8c-478f77386e44
UNCW Norfolk Canyon Aerial Survey - Right side - 2015
William
McLellan
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Primary contact
mclellanw@uncw.edu
OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
Durham
NC
27708
US
seamap-contact@duke.edu
https://seamap.env.duke.edu
OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
Durham
NC
27708
US
seamap-contact@duke.edu
https://seamap.env.duke.edu
distributor
William
McLellan
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Primary contact
mclellanw@uncw.edu
owner
2025-07-31
eng
Original provider:
University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Dataset credits:
William A. McLellan, University of North Carolina Wilmington
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
Norfolk Canyon Aerial
Marine Animal Survey
Marine mammals
Sea turtles
Visual Sighting
Vessel
N/A
This dataset includes the animal observations toward the right side of the airplane. The left side observations are registered in <a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1354">UNCW Norfolk Canyon Aerial Survey - Left side - 2015</a> (Dataset ID: 1354)
This dataset includes a subset of the data collection for the Norfolk Canyon Aerial surveys.
Other data of the collection are available in the following datasets:
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1672" target="_blank">UNCW Norfolk Canyon Aerial Survey -Left side- 2017</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1674" target="_blank">UNCW Norfolk Canyon Aerial Survey -Right side- 2017</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1479" target="_blank">UNCW Norfolk Canyon Aerial Survey - Left side - 2016</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1481" target="_blank">UNCW Norfolk Canyon Aerial Survey - Right side - 2016</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1354" target="_blank">UNCW Norfolk Canyon Aerial Survey - Left side - 2015</a>
All the US Navy-funded survey datasets are found in the <a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/partner/NAVY" target="blank">OBIS-SEAMAP US Navy</a> page.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.
https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1356
Oceans,North Atlantic,Virginia
-75.172183
-74.281328
37.323072
36.185961
2015-03-19
2015-11-16
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
species
Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Common minke whale
species
Caretta caretta
Loggerhead sea turtle
species
Cetorhinus maximus
Basking shark
family
Cheloniidae
Sea turtles
class
Chondrichthyes
Cartilaginous fishes
family
Delphinidae
Dolphins
species
Delphinus delphis
Short-beaked common dolphin
species
Dermochelys coriacea
Leatherback sea turtle
species
Globicephala macrorhynchus
Short-finned pilot whale
species
Grampus griseus
Risso's dolphin
species
Manta birostris
Atlantic manta
species
Megaptera novaeangliae
Humpback whale
species
Mesoplodon mirus
True's beaked whale
species
Mola mola
Ocean sunfish
species
Rhincodon typus
Whale shark
species
Rhinoptera bonasus
Cownose ray
species
Stenella coeruleoalba
Striped dolphin
species
Stenella frontalis
Atlantic spotted dolphin
species
Tursiops truncatus
Common bottlenose dolphin
species
Ziphius cavirostris
Cuvier's beaked whale
notPlanned
William
McLellan
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Primary contact
mclellanw@uncw.edu
NA
NA
NA
The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program
William
McLellan
owner
The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program
zd_1356
2025-07-31T16:41:20-04:00
dataset
McLellan, W. 2019. UNCW Norfolk Canyon Aerial Survey - Right side - 2015. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/857f7e7c.
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