Aerial surveys were flown in parallel lines from the South Carolina/North Carolina border to the south end of Assateague Island, Virginia, United States from October 2005 to April 2006. All large whale, small cetaceans, sea turtles and large fish, and ship sightings were recorded. Surveys were conducted in Beaufort sea states of 5 or under and in clear weather conditions. Photos of all large whales exist in the VAB LAB photo data base at University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW). UNCW houses a data base that now extends from 1998 to 2006 for aerial surveys conducted in the mid-Atlantic and southeast Atlantic bight. To conduct systematic aerial surveys for large whales, specifically targeting right whales, during the fall, winter and spring off North Carolina and Virginia, United States. McLellan, W2011https://doi.org/10.82144/893fb415OBIS-SEAMAP360http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/360OBIS-SEAMAPVersion 1.0.0 ground condition 2005-10-27 2006-04-20 Complete None planned -78.41053-74.90204437.73204833.388424-78.41053-74.90204437.73204833.388424 PlatformAircraftSightings Open public unless otherwise noted. See Use Constraints for details. 1. Not to use data obtained from OBIS-SEAMAP in any publication, product, or commercial application without proper attribution to the original data provider(s) and OBIS-SEAMAP unless the datasets are explicitly shown under the CC0 policy. Citations or credits are suggested as attribution. If the data you downloaded come from multiple datasets, a citation or credit to each of the datasets is required. Suggested citation for this dataset: McLellan, W. 2011. UNCW Right Whale Aerial Survey 05-06. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/360) on yyyy-mm-dd. Suggested citation for OBIS-SEAMAP: Halpin, P.N., A.J. Read, E. Fujioka, B.D. Best, B. Donnelly, L.J. Hazen, C. Kot, K. Urian, E. LaBrecque, A. Dimatteo, J. Cleary, C. Good, L.B. Crowder, and K.D. Hyrenbach. 2009. OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions. Oceanography 22(2):104-115 2. To forward the citation of any publication / report that made use of the data / tools provided by OBIS-SEAMAP for inclusion in our list of references. 3. Not to hold OBIS-SEAMAP or the original data providers liable for errors in the data. While we have made every effort to ensure the quality of the database, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of these datasets. 4. The burden for determining fitness for use of the downloaded data for any analyses lies entirely with the user. OBIS-SEAMAP or the original data providers do not support outcomes of your analyses that used the data you downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP. 5. To consider inclusion of the accompanying transect (effort) dataset if available into the methodology of your analyses. 6. Not to redistribute the data you downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP through any media without contect from OBIS-SEAMAP and the original data providers unless the datasets are explicitly shown under the CC0 policy. Shapefile William McLellan University of North Carolina Wilmington mailing and physical address

601 South College Road

Wilmington NC 28403 USA 910-962-7266 mclellanw@uncw.edu University of North Carolina Wilmington Integrated Taxonomic Information Systemhttp://www.itis.usda.gov/Downloaded April, 2004Refer to the contact information of the datasetKingdomAnimalia202423PhylumChordata158852SubphylumVertebrata331030ClassMammalia179913SubclassTheria179916InfraclassEutheria179925OrderCetacea180403SuborderMysticeti552298FamilyBalaenopteridae180522GenusBalaenoptera180523SpeciesBalaenoptera physalus180527GenusMegaptera180529SpeciesMegaptera novaeangliae180530FamilyBalaenidae180531GenusEubalaena180536SpeciesEubalaena glacialis180537SuborderOdontoceti180404FamilyDelphinidae180415GenusDelphinus180437SpeciesDelphinus delphis180438GenusGlobicephala180464SpeciesGlobicephala macrorhynchus180466GenusTursiops180425SpeciesTursiops truncatus180426FamilyPhyseteridae180486GenusPhyseter180487SpeciesPhyseter macrocephalus180488ClassReptilia173747OrderTestudines173749FamilyCheloniidae173828GenusCaretta173829SpeciesCaretta caretta173830GenusChelonia173832SpeciesChelonia mydas173833GenusLepidochelys173838SpeciesLepidochelys kempii551770FamilyDermochelyidae173841GenusDermochelys173842SpeciesDermochelys coriacea173843ClassMammalia179913SubclassTheria179916InfraclassEutheria179925OrderCetacea180403SuborderOdontoceti180404FamilyZiphiidae180493FamilyZiphiidae180493 Halpin, P.N., A.J. Read, E. Fujioka, B.D. Best, B. Donnelly, L.J. Hazen, C. Kot, K. Urian, E. LaBrecque, A. Dimatteo, J. Cleary, C. Good, L.B. Crowder, and K.D. Hyrenbach2009vector digital dataOceanography22(2):104-115http://www.tos.org/oceanography/article/obis-seamap-the-world-data-center-for-marine-mammal-sea-bird-and-sea-turtle Ei FujiokaDuke Universitymailing and physical address

LSRC A328

DurhamNCUSAefujioka@duke.edu http://www.nbii.gov/ Biological Data Profile 2006-07-11 OBIS-SEAMAPNicholas School of Environment, Duke Universitymailing and physical address

A328, LSRC

DurhamNC27708USA919-613-8021seamap-contact@duke.eduNot to hold OBIS-SEAMAP liable for errors in the data. While we have made every effort to ensure the quality of the database, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of these datasets. Also please refer to Use Constraints.FreeGo to the OBIS-SEAMAP web sitezipzipped shapefilehttp://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/360idRecord iddateDate of observationtimeTime of the datewaypointlatLatitude in decimal degreelonglongitude in decimal degreeeventheadingtrackobsrvaltvisibilitybsscloudglarelglareranglesightcuespeciescommontsnscientificgroup_rankreliabilitminnummaxnumbestBest estimate of the number of adultscalvesNumber of calves in the groupavoidpho_vidcommentsoidUniversity of North Carolina WilmingtonThis 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.GCS_WGS_1984Decimal degrees0.0001670.000167D_WGS_1984WGS_19846378137.000000298.257224