https://doi.org/10.82144/cf9cfcd9
https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/437
https://www.gbif.org/dataset/3b3cd34a-39c1-4fd9-8a1c-a22eb81161e0
https://obis.org/dataset/5e6b1ba2-45e0-438a-a3b0-30ce20283679
UNCW Aerial Surveys for monitoring of proposed Onslow Bay USWTR site - Right side -
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
Abstract:
Onslow Bay, off the coast of North Carolina, is currently the United States Navy's preferred site for an undersea warfare training range (USWTR). To determine the abundance and distribution of marine mammals and sea turtles within the USWTR, a monitoring program that includes aerial, vessel and passive acoustic survey techniques is currently being undertaken by Duke University, St. Andrews University and the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Surveys were flown in a Cessna 337, at 305 m altitude and 185 km/hr speed, with a pilot, co-pilot and two observers. The survey, consisting of ten 74 km long track-lines spaced 6.5 km apart, creating a 5 km boundary around the USWTR site, was flown 1 - 2 times a month.
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
Onslow Aerial
Aircraft
Sightings
USWTR Monitoring Aerial Surveys
N/A
This dataset includes a subset of the data collection for the Onlsow Aerial surveys.
Other data of the collection are available in the following datasets:
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/751" target="_blank">USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Right side- 2010-2011</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/749" target="_blank">USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Left side- 2010-2011</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/586" target="_blank">USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Left side- 2008-2010</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/588" target="_blank">USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Right side- 2008-2010</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/435" target="_blank">UNCW Aerial Surveys for monitoring of proposed Onslow Bay USWTR site - Left side -</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/437
Oceans,North Atlantic
-77.160951
-76.041044
34.210804
33.445632
2007-06-26
2007-12-11
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
species
Caretta caretta
Loggerhead sea turtle
order
Cetacea
Cetaceans
family
Cheloniidae
Sea turtles
class
Chondrichthyes
Cartilaginous fishes
family
Delphinidae
Dolphins
species
Globicephala macrorhynchus
Short-finned pilot whale
species
Mola mola
Ocean sunfish
species
Tursiops truncatus
Common bottlenose dolphin
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_437
2025-07-31T14:17:39-04:00
dataset
McLellan, W. 2013. UNCW Aerial Surveys for monitoring of proposed Onslow Bay USWTR site - Right side -. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/cf9cfcd9.
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https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/437
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EML Metadata
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https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/437/eml
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