AMAPPS Northeast Aerial Cruise Spring 2019

NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC)

Dataset credit

NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC)

Contacts

RoleNameOrganization 
Primary contact Beth Josephson NOAA Fisheries
Data entry Ei Fujioka Duke University

Citation

NEFSC. 2020. 2019 Annual Report of a Comprehensive Assessment of Marine Mammal, Marine Turtle, and Seabird Abundance and Spatial Distribution in US waters of the Western North Atlantic Ocean – AMAPPS II. Annual Report. TO BE PUBLISHED.

Abstract

During spring (3 April – 15 May 2019) the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) conducted aerial abundance surveys targeting marine mammals and sea turtles. The southwestern extent was New Jersey and the northeastern extent was off of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on the Scotia Shelf. The surveys covered waters from the coastline to about the 2000-m depth contour. Track lines were flown 183 m (600 ft) above the water surface, at about 200 kph (110 knots). The two-independent team methodology was used to collect data. Approximately 10,392 km of on-effort track lines were surveyed, where 89% of this effort was in Beaufort 3 and below.

Purpose

The objectives of this aerial flight was to collect the data needed to estimate abundance of cetaceans and turtles in the study area and to investigate how the animals’ distribution and abundance relate to their ecosystem.

Supplemental information

The survey code is TONE19SPR.

Perpendicular distance to the animal is not publicly available. Please contact the data provider to obtain this attribute.

References

NEFSC. 2020. 2019 Annual Report of a Comprehensive Assessment of Marine Mammal, Marine Turtle, and Seabird Abundance and Spatial Distribution in US waters of the Western North Atlantic Ocean – AMAPPS II. Annual Report. TO BE PUBLISHED.

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.
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
oidUnique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP)
tripidTrip ID
platformvltsAlways A (Airplane)
oneffortFlag (Y/N) to indicate on effort
speciescodeSpecies code by provider
comnameCommon name
sp_tsnTaxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
kingdomKingdom
phylumPhylum
classClass
order_sciOrder
familyFamily
scientificnameScientific name
references_References
observationheightAltitude of aircraft in feet above sea level
platformspeedSpeed of the platform at the time of the sighting in knots
higherinstitutioncodeHigher institution code "DOC:NOAA:NEFSC"
institutioncodeInstitution code "NEFSC"
ownerinstitutioncodeInstituion who owns the data "NEFSC"
basisofrecordBasis of record "HumanObservation"
recordtypeRecord type "VLTS" (visual line transect survey)
sightidSight ID
individualcountIndividual count
latitudeLatitude in decimal degrees
sighttypeSighting type ("O")
longitudeLongitude in decimal degrees
perpendiculardistancePerpendicular distance to the animal
datasetnameDataset name by provider
eventdateDate and time of the sigthing at local time
eventdatetimezoneThe time zone of the observation event
eventdate_utcDate of the sighting in UTC
time_utcTime of the sighting in UTC
effortidEffort ID
cueSighingt cue
behaviorBehavior
beaufortBeaufort sea scale
geomGeometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP
OBIS-SEAMAP ID2060
Seabirds0
Marine mammals662
Sea turtles1
Rays and sharks98
Other species58
Non spatial0
Non species0
Total819
Date, Begin2019-04-05
Date, End2019-05-12
Temporal prec.111111
Latitude39.40 - 44.95
Longitude-73.20 - -63.91
Coord. prec.6 decimal digits
PlatformPlane
Data typeAnimal sighting
EffortYES (ID: 2061)
Traveled (km)10,565
Effort hours55
Contr. through
Registered2020-04-08
Updated2020-04-10
StatusPublished
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