HRC Koa Kai-11 Marine Species Monitoring Vessel Surveys November 2010

The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program

The marine mammal and sea turtle monitoring, vessel- and aerial-based surveys, were conducted
between November 11–23, 2010, before, during, and after the Pacific Fleet training event in the
HRC.
The objectives of the vessel-based monitoring effort for Koa Kai 11-1 consisted of the following:



- Perform focal behavioral follows of marine mammals during the course of a training event
involving ASW

- Assess the occurrence, distribution, and behavior of target species (marine mammals and
sea turtles) using a vessel-based line transect survey within the HRC in waters within or
adjacent to the area where ships were training

- Locate individual false killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens), pygmy killer whales (Feresa
attenuata), and short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) tagged by
Dr. Robin Baird with Cascadia Research

- Investigate the occurrence, distribution, and behavior of target species (marine mammals
and sea turtles) using vessel-based line transect survey in waters within or adjacent to the
area where Navy ships were training.

not provided

[2017-10-13] Data fields are changed so that they follow other Navy datasets.

[2014-11-19] The dataset name was changed, replacing 2011 with 2010.

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.
All attributes are included in the downloadable file (CSV or ESRI File Geodatabase) for "Complete Set of Dataset".

Attributes in dataset

Attribute (table column)	Description
oid	Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP)
objectid	Internal ID
altitudem	Altitude in meters
angle	Angle (blank)
animalheading	(blank)
animallatitude	(blank)
animallongitude	(blank)
bearing	Bearing
beaufortscale	Beaufort sea scale
behavioralevent	(blank)
calvespercent	(blank)
calvestotal	(blank)
contract	Contract name
obs_date	Date of the sighting (local time zone)
efforttype	Effort type (ON or OFF)
groupbest	Best estimate of group size
grouphigh	High estimate of group size
groupid	(blank)
grouplow	Low estimate of group size
island	(blank)
legnumber	(blank)
legtype	Leg type
notes	Notes
numberreacted	(blank)
observer	Observer ID
observerport	(blank)
observerstarboard	(blank)
pctime	(blank)
percentcloudcover	(blank)
photoframes	(blank)
photos	(blank)
platform	Platform (always Vessel)
platformded	(blank)
platformheadingmagnetic	(blank)
platformheadingtrue	(blank)
platformlatitude	Latitude in decimal degrees
platformlongitude	Longitude in decimal degrees
range	definition not provided
reaction	definition not provided
reticle	Reticle
sightability	(blank)
sightingnumber	Sighting number
sightingtype	Sighting type (always Standard)
species	Species name recorded
speciescode	Species code by provider
speciescodebw	(blank)
speciescomname	Species common name
sp_tsn	Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
specieshauledout	(blank)
speciespossresight	(blank)
speciessciname	Species scientific name
surveycat	(blank)
surveyid	Survey ID
surveylink	(blank)
surveytype	Survey type
swell	swell height
obs_time	Time of the sighting (local time zone)
timeend	(blank)
timestamp_	(blank)
video	(blank)
depth	Botom depth in meters
recordno	Record Number
separator	(blank)
aspect	(blank)
binoculars	(blank)
cargoships	(blank)
confidence	(blank)
conversionfactor	(blank)
crc_number	(blank)
cue	Cue of the sighting
endlatitude	(blank)
endlongitude	(blank)
eventnumber	(blank)
females	(blank)
ferries	(blank)
fishingboats	(blank)
glare	(blank)
glareleft	(blank)
glaremaxangle	(blank)
glareminangle	(blank)
glareright	(blank)
groupcohesion	(blank)
initialbehavior	(blank)
juveniles	(blank)
males	(blank)
militaryvessels	(blank)
maxdispersion	(blank)
mindispersion	(blank)
mixedgroup	(blank)
mixedwithsighting	(blank)
mixedwithspecies	(blank)
motoryachts	definition not provided
newborns	definition not provided
numofanimalsmixed	definition not provided
observeraft	(blank)
observerforward	(blank)
percentspecies	definition not provided
reactiontype	definition not provided
recorder	Recorder ID
sailingboats	definition not provided
speed	definition not provided
subgroups	Group code
surveynumber	definition not provided
surveysegmentid	definition not provided
surveysegmentno	definition not provided
unidadults	definition not provided
unknowntype	definition not provided
visibility	definition not provided
visibilityleft	definition not provided
visibilityright	definition not provided
weather	definition not provided
winddirection	(blank)
windspeed	(blank)
time_text	definition not provided
date_text	definition not provided
geom	Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP