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Cuvier's Beaked Whale and Fin Whale Surveys at the Southern California Offshore Anti-submarine Warfare Range (SOAR)

Dataset homepage

Citation

Rone B, OBIS-SEAMAP (2022). Cuvier's Beaked Whale and Fin Whale Surveys at the Southern California Offshore Anti-submarine Warfare Range (SOAR). OBIS-SEAMAP. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/dfa6kc accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-03-24.

Description

Original provider: Marine Ecology and Telemetry Research Dataset credits: Marine Ecology and Telemetry Research Abstract: The United States (US) Navy uses the Southern California (SOCAL) portion of the Hawaii-Southern California Training and Testing area, a collection of nearshore and offshore training areas that include much of the navigable water from Santa Barbara Island, California, to northern Baja California, Mexico, and extending several hundred miles to the west. It is among one of the most heavily used tactical training areas in the world, and is used for a variety of aerial, surface, and subsurface exercises. The Southern California Offshore Range (SCORE) is a subset of complexes within SOCAL centered on San Clemente Island and managed via the Range Operation Center (ROC) on North Island, Coronado. It includes the Southern California Anti-submarine Warfare Range (SOAR), a focal area for exercises involving mid-frequency active sonar (MFAS) systems within the San Nicolas Basin. Through its N45 Living Marine Resources (LMR) research programs, and more recently in support of Pacific Fleet Monitoring efforts, the US Navy has funded directed studies on cetacean occurrence on SOAR since 2006. The primary focus of these studies is to support long-term surveys of Cuvier’s beaked whales and fin whales using photo-identification (photo-ID) and genetics to elucidate population size, structure, and trends, which can in turn provide a particularly robust basis for assessing population-level impacts of Navy training. Data is collected on all species encountered in this region as part of the monitoring program. Purpose: Data from this project is collected to better understand the movement and habitat use of cetaceans within and around the Southern California Bight (SCB). The SCB is home to a diverse group of cetacean species, and is an area of significant human impacts, including commercial shipping, Navy training, and recreational boating. Supplemental information: These surveys were funded by Fleet for Southern California.

Purpose

Data from this project is collected to better understand the movement and habitat use of cetaceans within and around the Southern California Bight (SCB). The SCB is home to a diverse group of cetacean species, and is an area of significant human impacts, including commercial shipping, Navy training, and recreational boating.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

NA

Sampling

NA

Method steps

  1. NA

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
  1. Balaenoptera acutorostrata
    common name: Common Minke Whale rank: species
  2. Balaenoptera edeni
    common name: Eden's whale rank: species
  3. Balaenoptera
    common name: baleen whales rank: genus
  4. Balaenoptera musculus
    common name: Blue Whale rank: species
  5. Balaenoptera physalus
    common name: Fin Whale rank: species
  6. Berardius bairdii
    common name: Baird's Beaked Whale rank: species
  7. Delphinus capensis
    common name: Long-beaked Common Dolphin rank: species
  8. Delphinus delphis
    common name: Short-beaked Common Dolphin rank: species
  9. Delphinus
    common name: common dolphins rank: genus
  10. Dermochelys coriacea
    common name: Leatherback Sea Turtle rank: species
  11. Eschrichtius robustus
    common name: Gray Whale rank: species
  12. Globicephala macrorhynchus
    common name: Short-finned Pilot Whale rank: species
  13. Grampus griseus
    common name: Risso's Dolphin rank: species
  14. Lagenorhynchus obliquidens
    common name: Pacific White-sided Dolphin rank: species
  15. Lissodelphis borealis
    common name: Northern Right Whale Dolphin rank: species
  16. Megaptera novaeangliae
    common name: Humpback Whale rank: species
  17. Orcinus orca
    common name: Killer Whale rank: species
  18. Phoca vitulina
    common name: Harbor Seal rank: species
  19. Tursiops truncatus
    common name: Common Bottlenose Dolphin rank: species
  20. Cetacea
    common name: cetaceans rank: order
  21. Cetacea
    common name: cetaceans rank: order
  22. Ziphius cavirostris
    common name: Cuvier's Beaked Whale rank: species

Geographic Coverages

Southern California,Pacific

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Brenda Rone
originator
position: Primary contact
Marine Ecology and Telemetry Research
email: brenda.rone@marecotel.org
homepage: http://www.marecotel.org/staff.html
OBIS-SEAMAP
metadata author
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
Durham
27708
NC
US
email: seamap-contact@duke.edu
homepage: https://seamap.env.duke.edu
OBIS-SEAMAP
distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
Durham
27708
NC
US
email: seamap-contact@duke.edu
homepage: https://seamap.env.duke.edu
Brenda Rone
owner
position: Primary contact
Marine Ecology and Telemetry Research
email: brenda.rone@marecotel.org
homepage: http://www.marecotel.org/staff.html
Brenda Rone
administrative point of contact
position: Primary contact
Marine Ecology and Telemetry Research
email: brenda.rone@marecotel.org
homepage: http://www.marecotel.org/staff.html
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