UNCW Aerial Surveys for monitoring of proposed Oslow Bay USWTR site - Right side -
University of North Carolina Wilmington

William A. McLellan, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Onslow Bay, off the coast of North Carolina, is currently the United States Navy's preferred site for an undersea warfare training range (USWTR). To determine the abundance and distribution of marine mammals and sea turtles within the USWTR, a monitoring program that includes aerial, vessel and passive acoustic survey techniques is currently being undertaken by Duke University, St. Andrews University and the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Surveys were flown in a Cessna 337, at 305 m altitude and 185 km/hr speed, with a pilot, co-pilot and two observers. The survey, consisting of ten 74 km long track-lines spaced 6.5 km apart, creating a 5 km boundary around the USWTR site, was flown 1 - 2 times a month.

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Overview

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Attributes in dataset provided

Attribute (table column)	Description
id
date	Date of observation
time	Time of observation
waypoint
latitude	Latitude of observation
longitude	Longitude of observation
event
heading
track_num
observer
altitude
vizability
bss
cloud
glare_l
glare_r
angle
deg_forwrd
cue
species	Species observed
common
tsn	Species ITIS TSN
scientific
group_
rank
reliability
count_min
count_max
obs_count	Number of animals observed
comments
oid	Unique ID number (generated by SEAMAP)