AFAST Hatteras Aerial Survey -Right side- 2011-2012

William McLellan

doi:10.15468/4587sk

AFAST Hatteras Aerial Survey -Right side- 2011-2012

Citation

McLellan, W. 2014. AFAST Hatteras Aerial Survey -Right side- 2011-2012. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/855) on yyyy-mm-dd. https://doi.org/10.15468/4587sk accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-03.

Description

Original provider: University of North Carolina, Wilmington Dataset credits: William A. McLellan, University of North Carolina Wilmington Supplemental information: [2014-03-18] Sperm whale sightings were assigned an invalid scientific name (P. catodon). It is corrected to P. macrocephalus. The original survey data are separated into two datasets, from left-side and right-side observers upon provider's request. This dataset is from the left side sightings data. The right side sightings data are available on OBIS-SEAMAP in the USWTR Hatteras Aerial Survey -Left side- 2011-2012 dataset. This dataset includes a subset of the data collection for the Hatteras Aerial surveys. All the data of the collection are available in the following datasets including this dataset: UNCW Hatteras Aerial Survey -Left side- 2017 UNCW Hatteras Aerial Survey -Right side- 2017 UNCW Hatteras Aerial Survey - Left side - 2016 UNCW Hatteras Aerial Survey - Right side - 2016 UNCW Hatteras Aerial Survey - Left side - 2015 UNCW Hatteras Aerial Survey - Right side - 2015 AFTT Cape Hatteras Aerial Survey -Left side- 2014 AFTT Cape Hatteras Aerial Survey -Right side- 2014 AFTT Hatteras Aerial Survey -Left side- 2012-2013 AFTT Hatteras Aerial Survey -Right side- 2012-2013 AFAST Hatteras Aerial Survey -Left side- 2011-2012 AFAST Hatteras Aerial Survey -Right side- 2011-2012 All the US Navy-funded survey datasets are found in the OBIS-SEAMAP US Navy page.

Purpose

Not available

Sampling Description

Study Extent

NA

Sampling

NA

Method steps

NA

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Balaenoptera physalus
common name: Fin Whale rank: species
Caretta caretta
common name: Loggerhead Sea Turtle rank: species
Cetacea
common name: cetaceans rank: order
Chondrichthyes
common name: cartilaginous fishes rank: class
Dermochelys coriacea
common name: Leatherback Sea Turtle rank: species
Delphinus delphis
common name: Short-beaked Common Dolphin rank: species
Delphinidae
common name: dolphins rank: family
Globicephala macrorhynchus
common name: Short-finned Pilot Whale rank: species
Kogia
common name: pygmy sperm whales rank: genus
Manta birostris
common name: Atlantic manta rank: species
Mesoplodon
common name: beaked whales rank: genus
Mola mola
common name: ocean sunfish rank: species
Megaptera novaeangliae
common name: Humpback Whale rank: species
Physeter macrocephalus
common name: Sperm Whale rank: species
Stenella coeruleoalba
common name: Striped Dolphin rank: species
Stenella frontalis
common name: Atlantic Spotted Dolphin rank: species
Tursiops truncatus
common name: Common Bottlenose Dolphin rank: species
Cheloniidae
common name: Sea Turtles rank: family
Cheloniidae
common name: Sea Turtles rank: family

Geographic Coverages

North Atlantic,Cape Hatteras

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

William McLellan
originator
position: Primary contact
University of North Carolina Wilmington
email: mclellanw@uncw.edu

OBIS-SEAMAP
metadata author
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
Durham
27708
NC
US
email: seamap-contact@duke.edu
homepage: http://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: http://seamap.env.duke.edu

William McLellan
owner
position: Primary contact
University of North Carolina Wilmington
email: mclellanw@uncw.edu

William McLellan
administrative point of contact
position: Primary contact
University of North Carolina Wilmington
email: mclellanw@uncw.edu