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Beacon Wind Digital Aerial Wildlife Surveys for BOEM Lease Area OCS-A 0520, Equinor Wind US LLC, December 2019 – November 2020
APEM Inc.
Dataset credit
APEM Inc. and Normandeau Associates Inc.
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Contacts
| Role | Name | Organization | |
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| Primary contact |
Matthew Arundale |
APEM Ltd |
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| Primary contact |
Michelle Fogarty |
Equinor |
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| Secondary contact |
James Neveu |
BP |
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| Data entry |
Ei Fujioka |
Duke University |
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Citation
Fair, D. and M. Fogarty. 2022. Beacon Wind Digital Aerial Wildlife Surveys for BOEM Lease Area OCS-A 0520, Equinor Wind US LLC, December 2019 \u2013 November 2020. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2192) 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
Equinor Wind US, LLC were committed to undertaking a Construction and
Operation Plan (COP) of Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)
Lease Area Outer Continental Shelf (OCS-A) 0520, now called Beacon Wind.
To facilitate this, 16 surveys were undertaken by APEM Inc. and
Normandeau Associates, Inc. (Normandeau-APEM Team) between
December 2019 and November 2020 to provide baseline information for
consideration in the assessment of potential impacts. Additional surveys
were collected between March 2021 and October 2021 and can be accessed
at https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2187.
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Purpose
N/A
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Supplemental information
[2022-07-25] The data type was changed from boat to plane.
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References
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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.
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 |
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| oid | Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP) |
| survey | Survey ID |
| easting | Easting |
| northing | Northing |
| longitude | Longitude in decimal degrees |
| latitude | Latitude in decimal degrees |
| behaviour | Behavior |
| bodylength | Body length (cm) |
| wingspan | Wingspan (cm) |
| carapac_cm | Carapace length (cm) |
| heading | Heading (degrees) |
| grouping | Species group |
| commonname | Species name recorded |
| sp_tsn | Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP |
| obs_count | Number of animals (always 1) added by OBIS-SEAMAP |
| source | Source image |
| uid | Unique identifier code |
| dateyyyymmdd | Sighting date (yyyy/mm/dd) |
| obs_date | Sighting date (mm/dd/yy) |
| obs_time | Sighting time at local time zone |
| age | Age |
| sex | Sex |
| geom | Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP |
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| OBIS-SEAMAP ID | 2192 |
| Seabirds | 3,566 |
| Marine mammals | 322 |
| Sea turtles | 2 |
| Rays and sharks | 169 |
| Other species | 3,549 |
| Non spatial | 0 |
| Non species | 9 |
| Total | 7,617 |
| Date, Begin | 2019-12-07 |
| Date, End | 2020-11-04 |
| Temporal prec. | 111111 |
| Latitude | 40.63 - 41.06 |
| Longitude | -70.74 - -70.25 |
| Coord. prec. | 4 decimal digits |
| Platform | Plane |
| Data type | Animal sighting |
| Effort | YES (ID: 2193) |
| Traveled (km) | 8,780 |
| Effort hours | 32 |
| Registered | 2022-06-07 |
| Updated | 2025-01-17 |
| Status | Published |
Sharing policy |
CC-BY (All) |
| Shared with |
GBIF
OBIS |
| See metadata in static HTML |
| See metadata in FGDC XML |
| See download history / statistics |
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