Empire Wind Digital Aerial Wildlife Surveys for BOEM Lease Area OCS-A 0512, Empire Offshore Wind LLC, July 2024 to May 2025

APEM Inc.

Empire Offshore Wind LLC were committed to undertaking Pre-Construction Monitoring of their lease area located in the New York Bight (OCS-A 0512), now called Empire Wind. To facilitate this, 12 surveys were undertaken between July 2024 and May 2025 by APEM Inc. to provide baseline information for consideration in the assessment of potential future impacts. Additional surveys were collected between February 2019 and December 2019 and can be accessed at https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2159. Additional surveys were also collected between November 2017 and October 2018 and can be accessed at https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2067.

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The dataset has been updated over time as outlined below. Each entry includes the version number, release date, type of change, and a short description.

Overview

This section explains attributes included in the original dataset. The availability of the attributes depends on the share policy. When "Minimum attributes" is selected, only date/time, lat/lon, species identification and group size are available. Should you need other attributes described here, you are encouraged to contact the data provider. When "All attributes" is selected, all attributes are available in download.

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)
row_id	Row ID
common_name	Common name
sp_tsn	Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
obs_count	Number of animal added by OBIS-SEAMAP (always 1)
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x
survey_id	Unique survey identifier following the format of ProjectNumber_SXX_mmm_yy
transect_id_of_associated_transect	ID of the transect line the captured observation belongs to
ground_spatial_resolution	cm
image_id	Filename of the image containing the target, of the format
observation_id	Unique ID of the target
gmt_observation_date	GMT date, YYYY-MM-DD
local_observation_date	Local date, YYYY-MM-DD
gmt_observation_time	GMT, HH:MM:SS
local_observation_time	Local, HH:MM:SS
latitude	decimal degreed to 5 decimal places (WGS 84)
longitude	decimal degreed to 5 decimal places (WGS 84)
object_type	bird, bat, marine mammal, sea turtle, fish, boat, other
four_letter_identification_code	species code from NW Atlantic Seabird Catalog which includes birds, marine mammals, and other animals. Where a species was not available within the catalog, a four letter code has been created and added.
latin_name__if_applicable	Latin name extracted from the NW Atlantic Seabird Catalog. This is substituted with the Latin name APEM have on file where a species is not already included in the catalog.
id_confidence_level	Definite (>95%), probable (50-95%), possible (<50%)
observation_count	Count number of the observation
behavior	e.g. flying or sitting
travel_direction	Orientation in degrees
flight_height	m, rounded to the nearest m
uncertainty_of_flight_height	standard deviation of flight height estimate
observation_comments	Observation comments
visibility_code	1-5 where 1 = >=10 km (excellent), 2 = 8-9 km (very good), 3 = 6-7 km (good), 4 = 4-5 km (fair/average), and 5 = 1.5-3 km (acceptable)
glare	Glare in %
sea_state	Beaufort scale
identifier	name of the identifier (initials)
qa_qc_d	yes or NA (image fully screened during QA)
qa_qcer	name (initials)
qa_qc_result	changed or not changed
bri_taxa	BRI taxa category
bri_subtaxa	BRI subtaxa category
apem_taxa	APEM taxa category
bri_species	BRI species category
geom	Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP