USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Left side- 2008-2010

University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Dataset credit

William A. McLellan, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Contacts

RoleNameOrganization 
Primary contact William McLellan University of North Carolina Wilmington
Data entry Ei Fujioka Duke University

Citation

Abstract

The protected species monitoring program, initiated in response to Onslow Bay, North Carolina, United States being identified as a potential site for the United States Navy’s Undersea Warfare Training Range (USWTR), is now into its third year. To estimate marine mammal density, distribution, and seasonality, a multi-platform approach was implemented using traditional visual line transect survey methods from aerial and vessel platforms along with passive acoustic monitoring from vessels and moored instruments. This project represents a long term data set used to assess residency and abundance patterns of this offshore area in the waters off North Carolina.

Purpose

To estimate marine mammal density, distribution, and seasonality, a multi-platform approach was implemented using traditional visual line transect survey methods from aerial and vessel platforms along with passive acoustic monitoring from vessels and moored instruments.

Supplemental information

[UPDATE 2012-12-07] The following two sightings were remarked as event 10.0 (opportunistic)

10/02/09, 9:50:00, bottlenose

10/02/09, 10:01:00, bottlenose


The original survey data are separated into two datasets, from left and right observers. This dataset is from the left side sightings data.
The right side sightings data are available on OBIS-SEAMAP in the USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Right side- 2008-2010 dataset.

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:
USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Right side- 2010-2011
USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Left side- 2010-2011
USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Right side- 2008-2010
UNCW Aerial Surveys for monitoring of proposed Onslow Bay USWTR site - Left side -
UNCW Aerial Surveys for monitoring of proposed Onslow Bay USWTR site - Right side -

All the US Navy-funded survey datasets are found in the OBIS-SEAMAP US Navy page.

References

McLellan, W. 2010. UNCW USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Left side- 2008-2010.

Attributes

Overview

This 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.

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
Only minimum required attributes are visible and downloadable online. Other attributes may be obtained upon provider's permission.

Attributes in dataset

Attribute (table column)Description
oidUnique ID number (generated by SEAMAP)
idRow ID assigned by OBIS-SEAMAP
obs_datedate of observation
obs_timetime of observation
latitudeLatitude in decimal degrees
longitudeLongitude in decimal degrees
way_pointway point
eventEvent. 1.1 = On effort/on track; 1.2 = Off effort. Full codes are available upon request.
headingHeading
track_noTrack Number
observerObserver Number
vizabilityVisibility
bssBSS
cloudCloud
angle_outVerticale angle
glare_lGlare Left
glare_rGlare Right
degree_forwardHorizontal angle
reliabilityReliability
sighting_cueSighting Cue
speciesspecies observed in provider-specific codes
num_minMin number of animals
num_maxMaximum number of animals
obs_countbest estimate of number of animals
commentsComments
sp_tsnITIS taxonomic serial number. This field added by OBIS-SEAMAP
datetime_ini
latitude_ini
longitude_ini
OBIS-SEAMAP ID586
Seabirds0
Marine mammals107
Sea turtles363
Rays and sharks49
Other species9
Non spatial0
Non species0
Total528
Date, Begin2008-02-25
Date, End2010-04-12
Temporal prec.111111
Latitude33.37 - 34.27
Longitude-77.17 - -76.04
Coord. prec.6 decimal digits
PlatformPlane
Data typeAnimal sighting
EffortYES (ID: 587)
Traveled (km)37,769
Effort hours290
Contr. throughNavy
Registered2010-04-19
Updated2011-05-23
StatusPublished
Sharing policy CC-BY-NC (Minimum)
Shared with OBIS
GBIF (via DOI)
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