Seabird Observations, Storm Bay, Tasmania, Australia, 1991-1994

OBIS and OBIS Australia

Survey data from 9 trips on the 52 m industrial waste dumping vessel, the Anson, from May-Sept 1994. Jarosite, a zinc processing waste product was dumped off the continental shelf southeast of Tasmania. This dataset is of seabird sightings from the northern extant of Storm bay to the dump site. Other zinc dump trips in 1988 and 1991 are in SouthEast Seabird Survey. Data published in Coarse-scale relationships between seabirds and zooplankton off south-eastern Tasmania, Timothy A. Reid and Mark A. Hindell, Mar. Freshwater Res., 2000, 51, 789–98. Additional voyages conducted by Tim Reid from 1991 to 1993 are included in this dataset.

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This dataset was downloaded from OBIS (https://obis.org/). The records for only marine mammals, seabirds, sea turtles and rays and sharks were extracted. Records with no longitude/latitude or no date (eventDate) were excluded.
OBIS dataset page:
https://obis.org/dataset/00f3beba-a517-4cd5-ab24-575aa52779f9
Data Provider's dataset page:
http://ogc-act.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=seabirds_anson

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	Internal ID
id	Record ID
dataset_id	Dataset ID
scientificname	Scientific name
vernacularname	Vernacular name
aphiaid	Aphia ID
taxonrank	taxononic rank
individualcount	Group size / individual count
eventdate	Event date (precision varies)
eventtime	Event time
decimallatitude	Latitude in decimal degrees
decimallongitude	Longitude in decimal degrees
coordinateprecision	Coordinate precision
catalognumber	Catalog number
collectioncode	Collection code
occurrencestatus	Occurrence status
basisofrecord	Basis of record (HumanObservation / MachineObservation)
modified	Date/time the record was modified
node_id	Node ID
occurrenceid	Occurrence ID
occurrenceremarks	Occurrence remarks
eventid	Event ID
institutioncode	Institution code
lifestage	Life stage
sex	Gender of the animal if known
species	Species by provider
datasetid	Dataset ID by provider
country	Country
locality	Location of ocean
waterbody	Details of ocean
dropped	Flag indicating the record was dropped (always false)
absence	Flag indicating the record represents the absence of the species (always false)
marine	Flag indicating the record is for marine life (always true)