https://doi.org/10.82144/e9e19c79 https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/907 https://www.gbif.org/dataset/2f87fc54-c036-4b6f-94f4-4ee8da995989 https://obis.org/dataset/65091597-7d3c-432a-a73c-9629c85bb0ab Zach Swaim Duke University Primary contact Zach.Swaim@duke.edu http://superpod.ml.duke.edu/read/about/ OBIS-SEAMAP Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

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seamap-contact@duke.edu https://seamap.env.duke.edu distributor Zach Swaim Duke University Primary contact Zach.Swaim@duke.edu http://superpod.ml.duke.edu/read/about/ owner 2025-07-31 eng Original provider: Duke University Marine Laboratory Dataset credits: Duke University Marine Laboratory Abstract: The site off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina is subsumed within the U.S. Navy’s Atlantic Fleet Training and Testing (AFTT) Monitoring Program. The survey area encompasses approximately 16,000 km² and includes continental shelf waters and deeper waters beyond the shelf break. The area also includes a large portion of the Cape Hatteras Special Research Area (CHSRA), designated by NOAA Fisheries to address interactions between short-finned pilot whales (<i>Globicephala macrorhynchus</i>) and the pelagic longline fisheries. A monitoring program (shipboard and aerial surveys) was implemented in 2011 to estimate density and document distribution and seasonal residency of marine mammals and sea turtles in the CHSRA. 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 VACAPES Vessel Vessels Sightings N/A This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/907 Oceans,North Atlantic -75.52872 -74.46877 37.16638 35.06367 2009-07-20 2015-12-09 Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). genus Balaenoptera Baleen whales species Balaenoptera physalus Fin whale species Caretta caretta Loggerhead sea turtle order Cetacea Cetaceans species Chelonia mydas Green sea turtle family Delphinidae Dolphins species Delphinus delphis Short-beaked common dolphin species Globicephala macrorhynchus Short-finned pilot whale species Grampus griseus Risso's dolphin genus Kogia Pygmy sperm whales species Megaptera novaeangliae Humpback whale genus Mesoplodon Beaked whales species Physeter macrocephalus Sperm whale species Stenella frontalis Atlantic spotted dolphin species Tursiops truncatus Common bottlenose dolphin species Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier's beaked whale The primary objectives of these surveys are to: (1) document species occurrence and examine patterns of residency of marine mammals and turtles in the defined study area (2) determine relatedness among individuals, populations and species within the study area (3) supplement the visual surveys with acoustic monitoring using a High-frequency Acoustic Recording Package (HARP) (4) collect baseline data on the diving behavior of deep diving cetaceans e.g. short-finned pilot whales and beaked whales notPlanned Zach Swaim Duke University Primary contact Zach.Swaim@duke.edu http://superpod.ml.duke.edu/read/about/ NA NA NA Zach Swaim owner The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program zd_907 2025-07-31T16:05:16-04:00 dataset Swaim, Z. 2016. DUML vessel-based photo-id and biopsy surveys in VACAPES OPAREA off Hatteras 2009, 2011-2015. Version 1.7.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/e9e19c79. OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page UTF-8 Interactive map https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/907 FGDC Metadata UTF-8 XML https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/907/fgdc EML Metadata UTF-8 XML https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/907/eml OBIS-SEAMAP zd_907 zd_907