UNCW Aerial Surveys for monitoring of proposed Onslow Bay USWTR site - Left side -

University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Dataset credit

William A. McLellan, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Contacts

RoleNameOrganization 
Primary contact William McLellan University of North Carolina Wilmington
Data entry Ei Fujioka Duke University

Citation

McLellan, W. 2011. UNCW Aerial Surveys for monitoring of proposed Onslow Bay USWTR site - Left side -. Version 1.5.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/fb6ca5fb.
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.

Abstract

Onslow Bay, off the coast of North Carolina, is currently the United States Navy's preferred site for an undersea warfare training range (USWTR). To determine the abundance and distribution of marine mammals and sea turtles within the USWTR, a monitoring program that includes aerial, vessel and passive acoustic survey techniques is currently being undertaken by Duke University, St. Andrews University and the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Surveys were flown in a Cessna 337, at 305 m altitude and 185 km/hr speed, with a pilot, co-pilot and two observers. The survey, consisting of ten 74 km long track-lines spaced 6.5 km apart, creating a 5 km boundary around the USWTR site, was flown 1 - 2 times a month.

Purpose

N/A

Supplemental information

This dataset includes a subset of the data collection for the Onlsow Aerial surveys.
Other data of the collection are available in the following datasets:
USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Right side- 2010-2011
USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Left side- 2010-2011
USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Left side- 2008-2010
USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Right side- 2008-2010
UNCW Aerial Surveys for monitoring of proposed Onslow Bay USWTR site - Right side -

All the US Navy-funded survey datasets are found in the OBIS-SEAMAP US Navy page.

Change History

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.

- 1.5.0 (2021-04-24) - Update
  • Published after organisation is set and ready to be registered into GBIF.
- 1.4.0 (2017-08-03) - Update
  • IPT server updated to v2.3.4.
- 1.2.0 (2016-08-30) - Update
  • Data and metadata update.
- 1.0.1 (2015-03-24) - Update
  • A few records had a wrong animal count of zero. The value is replaced with a blank representing species presence only.
- 1.0.0 (2008-01-25) - Initial
  • Initial release

References

Attributes

Overview

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
Only minimum required attributes are visible and downloadable online. Other attributes may be obtained upon provider's permission.

Attributes in dataset

Attribute (table column)Description
iddefinition not provided
dateDate of observation
timeTime of observation
waypointdefinition not provided
latitudeLatitude of observation
longitudeLongitude of observation
eventdefinition not provided
headingdefinition not provided
track_numdefinition not provided
observerdefinition not provided
altitudedefinition not provided
vizabilitydefinition not provided
bssdefinition not provided
clouddefinition not provided
glare_ldefinition not provided
glare_rdefinition not provided
angledefinition not provided
deg_forwrddefinition not provided
cuedefinition not provided
speciesSpecies observed
commondefinition not provided
tsnITIS Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
scientificdefinition not provided
group_definition not provided
rankdefinition not provided
reliabilitydefinition not provided
count_mindefinition not provided
count_maxdefinition not provided
obs_countNumber of animals observed
commentsdefinition not provided
geomdefinition not provided
oidUnique ID number (generated by SEAMAP)
datetime_inidefinition not provided
latitude_inidefinition not provided
longitude_inidefinition not provided
OBIS-SEAMAP ID435
DOI10.82144/fb6ca5fb
Version1.5.0
Seabirds0
Marine mammals10
Sea turtles49
Rays and sharks7
Other species0
Non spatial0
Non species0
Total66
Date, Begin2007-06-26
Date, End2007-12-11
Temporal prec.111111
Latitude33.40 - 34.22
Longitude-77.08 - -76.12
Coord. prec.6 decimal digits
PlatformPlane
Data typeAnimal sighting
EffortYES (ID: 436)
Traveled (km)9,092
Effort hours73
Registered2008-01-25
Updated2011-11-11
StatusPublished
Sharing policy CC-BY-NC (Minimum)
Sub group(s)Navy
Shared with GBIF
OBIS
Metadata in static HTML / FGDC / EML
See download history / statistics