Virginia CZM Wind Energy Area Survey- Left side - November 2012 through April 2014
Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center
Dataset credit
Virginia Aquarium Foundation - Sarah D. Mallette, Gwen G. Lockhart, Susan G. Barco University of North Carolina Wilmington - William A. McLellan, Ryan J. McAlarney Erin W. Cummings and D. Ann Pabst
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Contacts
Role | Name | Organization | |
Primary contact |
Sue Barco |
Virginia Aquarium Stranding Response |
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Data entry |
Ei Fujioka |
Duke University |
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Citation
Barco, S. 2016. Virginia CZM Wind Energy Area Survey- Left side - November 2012 through April 2014. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1192) on yyyy-mm-dd. Halpin, P.N., A.J. Read, E. Fujioka, B.D. Best, B. Donnelly, L.J. Hazen, C. Kot, K. Urian, E. LaBrecque, A. Dimatteo, J. Cleary, C. Good, L.B. Crowder, and K.D. Hyrenbach. 2009. OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions. Oceanography. 22(2):104-115.
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Abstract
The data provided were collected as part of the Documenting Whale Migration off Virginia's Coast for Use in Marine Spatial Planning project - funded by the Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program Grant Section 309 Environmental Enhancement Program Strategy Project of Special Merit No. NA12NOS4190027. Aerial surveys were conducted under NOAA Scientific Permits No. 948-1692-00 and 16473, held by UNCW.
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Purpose
On November 1, 2013, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced Dominion Virginia Power was the provisional winner of the commercial lease area offshore of Virginia (VA WEA). Development of off shore wind energy poses potential threats to marine mammals, including direct effects (i.e. vessel interactions, collision and entanglement with structures, displacement, avoidance, or injury due to noise from construction or operations) and indirect threats (i.e. effects on prey species, increased risk of fishery and vessel interaction through displacement out of the WEA) (BOEM 2012). This information is important to mitigate the potentially harmful impacts from ocean development, shipping, and other anthropogenic activities. To address these existing data gaps, we have collected marine mammal sighting data from multiple platforms in addition to sea turtle sighting data off the coast of Virginia from 2012 to 2014.
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Supplemental information
[2015-02-25] Off-effort sightings were appended in response to provider's request. The original survey data are separated into two datasets, collected from left-side and right-side observers to address variance in environmental and sighting conditions. This dataset is from the left side sightings data. The right side sightings data are available on OBIS-SEAMAP in the Virginia CZM Wind Energy Area Survey- Right side - November 2012 through April 2014 dataset. The effort data layer, for this project is static transect lines. The plane track lines are available by request. Off-effort sightings were removed from this dataset.
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References
Sarah D. Mallette, Gwen G. Lockhart, Ryan J. McAlarney, Erin W. Cummings, William A. McLellan, D. Ann Pabst and Susan G. Barco. 2014. Documenting Whale Migration off Virginia’s Coast for Use in Marine Spatial Planning: Aerial and Vessel Surveys in the Proximity of the Virginia Wind Energy Area (VA WEA). VAQF Scientific Report 2014-08. pp. 89.
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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.
Only minimum required attributes are visible and downloadable online. Other attributes may be obtained upon provider's permission.
Attributes in dataset
Attribute (table column) | Description |
oid | Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP) |
row_id | Row ID (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP) |
obs_date | Observation date |
obs_time | Observation time in Eastern Standard Time |
waypoint | Waypoint number generated by GPS |
latitude | Latitude in decimal degrees |
longitude | Longitude in decimal degrees |
event | codes assigned to each waypoint; Event. 1.1 = On effort/on track; 1.2 = Off effort. Full codes are available upon request. |
heading | Heading |
track_num | Track number |
observer | Observer left or right |
visibility | Visibility code . Code descriptions available upon request. |
bss | Baufort sea state |
cloud | Cloud cover code. Code descriptions available upon request. |
glare_l | Glare Left code. Code descriptions available upon request. |
glare_r | Glare Right code. Code descriptions available upon request. |
vertical_angle | Vertical angle in decimal degrees |
horizontal_angle | Horizontal angle in decimal degrees |
sighting_cue | Sighting cue code. Code descriptions available upon request. |
sp_obs | Species name recorded |
sp_tsn | Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP |
reliability | Reliability |
min_count | Minimum number of animals |
max_count | Maximum number of animals |
obs_count | best estimate of number of animals |
comments | Comments |
datetime_ini | Internal use generated by OBIS-SEAMAP |
latitude_ini | Internal use generated by OBIS-SEAMAP |
longitude_ini | Internal use generated by OBIS-SEAMAP |
geom | Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP |
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OBIS-SEAMAP ID | 1192 |
Seabirds | 0 |
Marine mammals | 65 |
Sea turtles | 41 |
Rays and sharks | 3 |
Other species | 0 |
Non spatial | 0 |
Non species | 0 |
Total | 109 |
Date, Begin | 2012-11-26 |
Date, End | 2014-04-25 |
Temporal prec. | 111110 |
Latitude | 36.61 - 37.27 |
Longitude | -76.13 - -74.79 |
Coord. prec. | 6 decimal digits |
Platform | Plane |
Data type | Animal sighting |
Effort | N/A |
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Traveled (km) | 0 |
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Registered | 2014-07-29 |
Updated | 2016-05-04 |
Status | Published |
Sharing policy |
CC-BY-NC (Minimum) |
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