SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, CalCurCEAS 2014, Cruise 1647

NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC)

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CalCurCEAS = California Current Cetacean and Ecosystem Assessment Survey.
Objective: estimate population size and describe distributions for cetaceans in the California Current.
Vessel: Ocean Starr (chartered vessel, formerly the NOAA Ship David Starr Jordan).
Study area: waters off contiguous U.S. West Coast

SWFSC MMTD Cruise Number: 1647
Perpendicular distance will be released upon permission by the contributor. Please contact the contributor if needed.

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	Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP)
event	S = marine mammal sighting; t = sea turtle sighting; p = pinniped sighting
datetime	Date and time of sighting (local time)
lat	Latitude (decimal degrees) of vessel when sighting was made
lon	Longitude (decimal degrees) of vessel when sighting was made
cruise	SWFSC Marine Mammal and Turtle Divison Cruise number
sightno	Sighting number (within Cruise)
nsp	Number of species observed in the sighting
mixed	TRUE for a multi-species sighting (nSp >= 2); FALSE otherwise (nSp = 1)
spcode	Species code (see SpCodes.dat text file for list of codes)
sp_tsn	Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
gsspbest	The mean of all observers
gssphigh	The mean of all observers
gssplow	The mean of all observers
perpdistkm	Perpendicular distance (km) to sighting from trackline; Available upon permission.
bft	Beaufort sea state, as assessed by looking upswell with the naked eye.
swellhght	Average swell height from trough to crest of typical swells (estimated in feet, by eye)
vis	A measure of air/atmospheric clarity
groupsize_sightno	Running count ID of all cetacean groups recorded (should be same as SightNo)
groupsize_count	Number of observers that provided a group size estimate (for calculating GsSpBest) for S events.
groupsize_count_obs	Number of unique observer codes per sighting for S events
geom	Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP