https://doi.org/10.82144/4c4c5277
https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1815
https://www.gbif.org/dataset/5c9816ec-249d-4b1e-8b59-4bfa794e7ab5
https://obis.org/dataset/3e846cfb-a53e-4ed8-a623-a207025b3e25
VACAPES PAX Vessel Opportunistic Sightings July 2015 - Nov 2017
Kristen
Ampela
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.
Primary contact
Kristen.Ampela@hdrinc.com
Cathy
Bacon
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.
Secondary contact
catherine.bacon@hdrinc.com
OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
Durham
NC
27708
US
seamap-contact@duke.edu
https://seamap.env.duke.edu
OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
Durham
NC
27708
US
seamap-contact@duke.edu
https://seamap.env.duke.edu
distributor
Kristen
Ampela
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.
Primary contact
Kristen.Ampela@hdrinc.com
owner
Cathy
Bacon
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.
Secondary contact
catherine.bacon@hdrinc.com
originator
2025-07-31
eng
Original provider:
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.
Dataset credits:
The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program
Abstract:
Features in this feature class represent opportunistic animal sighting locations that occurred during CPOD deployment and recover vessel trips beginning in July 2015 through November 2017 in Chesapeake Bay near Naval Air Station Patuxent River.
Fourteen vessel trips were completed between 07/10/2015 – 11/29/2017. Work was performed under HDR task order CTO 55 (IDIQ contract award N62470-10-D-3011, NAVFAC LANT).
Occurrence
GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml
Observation
GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml
Marine Biology
Visual sighting
VACAPES Vessel
Marine Animal Survey
Marine mammals
Visual Sighting
Vessel
N/A
Vessel effort and opportunistic sightings during CPOD deployments and recoveries between 7/10/2015 and 11/29/2017.
Opportunistic sightings data were entered and organized in this geodatabase by HDR. Source data was provided by HDR under the MSM IDIQ contract.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.
https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1815
Oceans,North Atlantic,Maryland,Chesapeake Bay,Naval Air Station Patuxent River,NAS PAX
-76.31665
-76.2001
38.32654
37.80283
2015-07-12
2016-07-26
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
species
Tursiops truncatus
Common bottlenose dolphin
notPlanned
Kristen
Ampela
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.
Primary contact
Kristen.Ampela@hdrinc.com
NA
NA
NA
The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program
Kristen
Ampela
owner
Cathy
Bacon
originator
The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program
zd_1815
2025-07-31T17:27:01-04:00
dataset
Ampela, K. and C. Bacon. 2018. VACAPES PAX Vessel Opportunistic Sightings July 2015 - Nov 2017. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/4c4c5277.
OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page
UTF-8
Interactive map
https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1815
FGDC Metadata
UTF-8
XML
https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1815/fgdc
EML Metadata
UTF-8
XML
https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1815/eml
OBIS-SEAMAP
zd_1815
zd_1815