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MIRC Saipan Marine Species Monitoring Winter-Spring Surveys 2012
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.
Dataset credit
The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program
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Contacts
| Role | Name | Organization | |
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| Primary contact |
Dana Spontak |
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc. |
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| Secondary contact |
Todd Mcconchie |
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc. |
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| Data entry |
Ei Fujioka |
Duke University |
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Citation
Spontak, D. and T. Mcconchie. 2013. MIRC Saipan Marine Species Monitoring Winter-Spring Surveys 2012. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/919) 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
This dataset presents a Saipan subset of the results of the Guam and Saipan Marine Species Monitoring: Winter-Spring Survey conducted on the motor vessel (M/V) Sea Fantasy (Guam survey) and the M/V Super Emerald (Saipan survey) from 15 to 29 March 2012.
The objective of the 2012 survey effort was to conduct baseline surveys to further document marine mammal and sea turtle occurrence in nearshore waters around the island of Guam and Saipan. The approach primarily followed opportunistic survey protocols used in recent surveys around Guam (Ligon et al. 2011; HDR 2011), which remained within 10 kilometers (km) or 5.4 nautical miles (NM) of the coastline.
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Purpose
not provided
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Supplemental information
A Guam subset of the survey is found at |
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 | definition not provided |
| sighting_id | Sighting ID |
| obs_date | Date of the sighting (local time zone) |
| obs_time | Time of the sighting (local time zone) |
| sp_obs | Species name recorded |
| sp_tsn | Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP |
| latitude | Latitude in decimal degrees |
| longitude | Longitude in decimal degrees |
| obs_count | best estimate of number of animals |
| grp_high | High estimate of number of animals |
| grp_low | Low estimate of number of animals |
| calves | Number of calves |
| beaufort | Beaufort Sea State |
| vessel_heading | Vessel heading |
| distance | Distance from vessel (m) |
| bearing | Animal bearing |
| bottom_depth | Bottom Depth (m) |
| behavior | Behavioral summary |
| geom | definition not provided |
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| OBIS-SEAMAP ID | 919 |
| Seabirds | 0 |
| Marine mammals | 4 |
| Sea turtles | 4 |
| Rays and sharks | 0 |
| Other species | 0 |
| Non spatial | 0 |
| Non species | 0 |
| Total | 8 |
| Date, Begin | 2012-03-23 |
| Date, End | 2012-03-28 |
| Temporal prec. | 111110 |
| Latitude | 15.03 - 15.27 |
| Longitude | 145.65 - 145.84 |
| Coord. prec. | 5 decimal digits |
| Platform | Boat |
| Data type | Animal sighting |
| Effort | N/A |
| Traveled (km) | 0 |
| 0 |
| Contr. through | Navy |
| Registered | 2013-03-29 |
| Updated | 2013-04-11 |
| Status | Published |
Sharing policy |
CC-BY (All) |
| Shared with |
OBIS
GBIF (via DOI) |
| See metadata in static HTML |
| See metadata in FGDC XML |
| See download history / statistics |
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