CRESLI marine mammal observations from whale watch cruises 2000-2019

Coastal Research and Education Society of Long Island, Inc.

These data were collected during local (5-8 hour) whale watching trips
conducted by the Viking Fleet and CRESLI. Trips originated from
Montauk Harbor in Montauk, New York and occurred regularly from
1997-2002 and again from 2009 - present, during July, August and
early September.

The data were collected during efforts to gather information about the
distribution, abundance, habitat use and site fidelity of cetaceans in
the waters around Montauk, New York. The general public were
educated, and volunteers were involved in collecting data, as citizen
scientists. The data are maintained by CRESLI and are submitted to
appropriate catalogs when possible.

The Coastal Research and Education Society of Long Island is a non-
profit research and education organization. Our mission is: "To
promote and foster understanding and stewardship of coastal
ecosystems through research and education ." Part of our work is to
observe and document the whale and sea bird populations of NY and
New England and to take people to see these animals in the wild.

Since 2002 we have been offering incredible and successful multi-day
offshore pelagic bird and whale observation trips.

[2022-03-17] A record for Atlantic white-sided dolphin on 2009-07-06 was added.
[2020-10-16] The 2018-19 data were appended.
[2020-08-07] The existing data was updated and 2016-2017 data were added.
[2015-05-12] Dataset was updated with 2012-2014 data.

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
oid	Unique ID (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP)
date	Date
time	Time at local time zone
common_name	Common name
species	Scientific name
sp_tsn	Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
numanimals	Number of animals
declat	Latitude in decimal degrees
declong	Longitude in decimal degrees
depth	Depth (ft)
preydistrrange	definition not provided
preydensity	definition not provided
watertemp	Water temperature (F)
notes	Notes (since 2019 data)
geom	Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP