Hatteras Eddy Cruise 2004

Duke University Marine Laboratory

The Duke / University of North Carolina Oceanographic Consortium supported a four-day exploratory cruise off North Carolina in August 2004, to survey physical and biological properties in the vicinity of the cold-core eddies which form along the inner edge of the Gulf Stream. This cruise was the result of a collaborative proposal assembled by Richard Barber, Andy Read, Larry Crowder, David Johnston, Veronica Lance, and David Hyrenbach.

This cruise surveyed marine bird and mammal distributions in the vicinity on the shelf-slope off North Carolina, in an area influenced by the Gulf Stream and by cold-core eddies.



Marine bird and mammal sightings were recorded continuously, while the vessel sailed during daylight hours. The position of the vessel was also recorded every 10 seconds directly from a GPS using the Logger 2000 software, which is publicly available on the internet from the International Fund for Animal Welfare.

[2020-09-30] The following invalid species names were corrected according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Sooty Tern: Sterna fuscata (176894) => Onychoprion fuscatus (824105)

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Attributes in dataset

Attribute (table column)	Description
dataset
lineno
date	Date of observation
month	Month of observation
day	Day of observation
year	Year of observation
time	Time of observation
hour	Hour of observation
minute	Minute of observation
second	Second of observation
latitude	Latitude of observation
longitude	Longitude of observation
species	Species observed
common
taxa
scientific
tsn	Species ITIS TSN
number	Number of animals observed
excluded
oid	Unique ID number (generated by SEAMAP)