MIRC KB08 Vessel Surveys Feb-Mar 2011

The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program

The objective of this current survey effort was to conduct baseline surveys to further document marine mammal and sea turtle occurrence in nearshore waters around the island of Guam. This report presents the results of the Guam Marine Species Monitoring Survey conducted on the MV Island Girl from February 17 to March 3, 2011. This survey covered an area of approximately 4,100 square kilometers (km2)(1,200 square nautical miles ([nm2]) to document marine mammal
and sea turtle distribution around the island of Guam. The approach primarily followed opportunistic survey protocols used in a recent survey around Guam (Ligon et al. 2011), which remained nearshore (within 5.6 kilometers [km] or 3 nautical miles [nm] of the coastline). ). The resulting sightings, therefore, consisted of spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris; 7 of 9 sightings) and a mixed group of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus). In addition, one species of sea turtle was observed (green
sea turtle, Chelonia mydas). Additional lines of effort following standard line-transect protocols were attempted (out to 10 nm from shore) when sea conditions permitted.

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The sighting of short-finned pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins on 02/22/11 was an aggregation of the two species and recorded as a single record. This sighting was split into each species in this dataset.

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

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)
altitudem	Altitude in meters (blank)
bearing	Bearing (°)
beaufortscale	Beaufort sea scale
beheventinitfld	(blank)
calvespercent	Flag indicating calf presence
contract	Contract name
countcalves	The number of calves (blank)
counttotbest	The best estimate of the group size
counttotmax	The maximum of the group size
counttotmin	The minimum of the group size
declangle	(blank)
effortobs	Indicate if the observe is on effort
groupid	Group ID (blank)
headinganimal	Heading of the animals in degrees (blank)
headingplatmagnetic	Heading magnetic angle (blank)
headingplattrue	Heading true angle
latanimal	Latitude of the animals in degrees
latplatform	Latitude of the platform in degrees (blank)
legnumber	Leg number (blank)
legtype	Leg type
longanimal	Longitude of the animals in degrees
longplatform	Longitude of the platform in degrees (blank)
observer	Observer ID
observerleft	Observer ID on the left side
observerright	Observer ID on the right side
ocean	Ocean (always Pacific)
percentcloudcover	Cloud cover in percentage (blank)
platformded	(blank)
platformtype	Platform type (always Vessel)
rangecomplex	Range complex (always MIRC)
reactioninit	Initial reaction (blank)
reactioninitcount	Reaction count (blank)
reticle	Reticle
sightability	(blank)
sightingdate	Date of the sighting
sightingnotes	Notes of the sighting
sightingnumber	Sighting number
sightingtime	Time of the sighting at local time zone
spcshauledout	Species hauled out (blank)
spcsnmcom	Species common name
spcsnmsci	Species scientific name
sp_tsn	ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
spcspossresight	(blank)
surveycat	(blank)
surveydates	(blank)
surveyid	Survey ID
surveylink	definition not provided
surveytype	(blank)
swell	swell height (values = 0 - 8)
aspect	Aspect (blank)
beaufortclass	Beaufort class (blank)
beheventinit	(blank)
beheventnumber	(blank)
binoculars	Indicate if binoculars were used
birds	Indicate if birds were obseved
countfemales	Count of females (blank)
countjuveniles	Count of juveniles (blank)
countmales	Count of males (blank)
countnewborns	Count of new borns (blank)
countvescargo	Count of cargos (blank)
countvesferries	Count of ferries (blank)
countvesfishing	Count of fishing vessels (blank)
countvesmilitary	Count of miliary vessels (blank)
countvesmotoryachts	Count of yachts (blank)
countvessailing	Count of sailing ships (blank)
cue	Cue of the sighting
depth	Botom depth in meters
dispcohesion	(blank)
dispmax	(blank)
dispmin	(blank)
distlateral	(blank)
distsight	(blank)
efforttransect	(blank)
flightofday	(blank)
glare	(blank)
glareleft	(blank)
glaremaxangle	(blank)
glareminangle	(blank)
glareright	(blank)
latplatformend	(blank)
longplatformend	(blank)
observeraft	(blank)
observerforward	(blank)
pctime	(blank)
photoframes	(blank)
photos	Indicate if a photo was taken
platformspeed	Platform speed
reactionlater	Reaction of the animals later (blank)
reactionlatercount	Later reaction count (blank)
recorder	Recorder ID
sightingmulti	(blank)
sightingmultispcs	(blank)
sightingmultispcscount	(blank)
sightingmultispcsprcnt	(blank)
sightingtimeend	(blank)
spcsbw	(blank)
spcscertaintyfinal	(blank)
spcscertaintyinit	(blank)
spcscode	(blank)
spcsconfidence	(blank)
spcsnmsciinit	Species code
subgroups	Group code
surveyarea	(blank)
surveyidreport	(blank)
surveynumber	(blank)
surveysegmentid	(blank)
surveytypeid	(blank)
video	(blank)
visibility	Visibility code
visibilityleft	(blank)
visibilityright	(blank)
waterseason	(blank)
weather	weather conditions
winddirection	Wind direction
windspeed	Wind speed
flagged	definition not provided
near_fid	definition not provided
near_dist	definition not provided
bathy_res	definition not provided
geom	Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP