TOPP Albatrosses 2002-06

https://doi.org/10.82144/f3b5323e https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/477 https://obis.org/dataset/5df9142f-39ea-4009-bdf8-e706fe32a9f6 TOPP Albatrosses 2002-06 zd_477 Scott Shaffer San Jose State University Primary contact scott.shaffer@sjsu.edu Dan Costa University of California, Santa Cruz Secondary contact costa@biology.ucsc.edu OBIS-SEAMAP Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

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seamap-contact@duke.edu https://seamap.env.duke.edu distributor Scott Shaffer San Jose State University Primary contact scott.shaffer@sjsu.edu owner Dan Costa University of California, Santa Cruz Secondary contact costa@biology.ucsc.edu originator 2025-09-29 eng Original provider: Scott Shaffer Dataset credits: Scott Shaffer, Michelle Kappes, Bill Henry, Yann Tremblay, Melinda Conners, Dan Costa, and the TOPP program Abstract: Laysan (Phoebastria immutabilis) and black-footed (P. nigripes) albatrosses were studied using Microwave Pico-100 and Wildlife Computers SPOT 4 satellite transmitters. Birds were studied at Tern Island, French Frigate Shoals, Northwest Hawaiian Islands (23.872 N, 166.272 W) from December 2002 to March 2009. The primary tracking period covers the incubation and chick-brooding phases during each year. In nearly all cases, albatrosses were equipped with a tag for a single trip to sea. Trip durations range from 1-32 days in duration and some albatrosses traveled over 15,000 km in a single trip. Marine Biology Telemetry Tagged animal albatrosses Laysan black-footed Argos PTT incubation chick brooding Radio transmitters Animal movements N/A ARGOS points used for the dataset extent, inferred track and population of upstream OBIS archive were filtered according to McConnell et al. (1992), with a maximum velocity of 100 km/hr, or 27.8 m/s using the vmask function in the argosfilter R package (Frietas et al. 2008). This is the recommended method by the TOPP Seabird Research Team and others from the Global Procellariiform Tracking Workshop Report (Taylor 2004). References: Freitas, C., C. Lydersen, M.A. Fedak, and K.M. Kovacs. 2008. A simple new algorithm to filter marine mammal Argos locations. Marine Mammal Science, 24(2): 315-325. McConnell, B.J., C. Chambers and M.A. Fedak. 1992. Foraging ecology of southern elephant seals in relation to the bathymetry and productivity of the Southern Ocean. Antarctic Science, 4(04): 393-398. Taylor, F. 2004. Methods. In: J.P. Croxall (ed.). Global Procellariiform Tracking Workshop Report. BirdLife International, Cambridge, p. 3. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/477 Western Pacific 0 61.311 61.311 -16.522 2002-12-15 2006-03-09 Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). species Phoebastria immutabilis Laysan albatross species Phoebastria nigripes Black-footed albatross The purpose of this research was to examine: 1) albatross distribution during breeding and post breeding phases, 2) characterize oceanic habitat of albatross habitat, 3) how both albatross species partition oceanic habitats, 4) commonalities in the distribution or physical features of their environment, 5) overlap and possible interaction with other TOPP organisms (e.g., elephant seals, tuna, sea turtles), and 6) highlight conservation priorities such as overlap with fisheries notPlanned Scott Shaffer San Jose State University Primary contact scott.shaffer@sjsu.edu NA NA NA TOPP Albatrosses 2002-06 Scott Shaffer owner Dan Costa originator NA 2025-09-29T11:05:51-04:00 dataset Shaffer, S. and D. Costa. 2025. TOPP Albatrosses 2002-06. Version 1.0.1. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/f3b5323e. Kappes, M.A., S.A. Shaffer, Y. Tremblay, D.G. Foley, D.M. Palacios, P.W. Robinson, S.J. Bograd and D.P. Costa. 2010. Hawaiian albatrosses track interannual variability of marine habitats in the North Pacific. Progress in Oceanography86(1-2): 246-260. OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page UTF-8 Interactive map https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/477 FGDC Metadata UTF-8 XML https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/477/fgdc EML Metadata UTF-8 XML https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/477/eml OBIS-SEAMAP zd_477 zd_477