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

William McLellan

doi:10.15468/8jwmh6

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

Citation

McLellan, W. 2011. UNCW Aerial Surveys for monitoring of proposed Onslow Bay USWTR site - Left side -. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/435) on yyyy-mm-dd. https://doi.org/10.15468/8jwmh6 accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-06-18.

Description

Original provider: University of North Carolina, Wilmington Dataset credits: William A. McLellan, University of North Carolina Wilmington 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. Supplemental information: [2015-03-24] A few records had a wrong animal count of zero. The value is replaced with a blank representing species presence only. 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.

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).

Caretta caretta
common name: Loggerhead Sea Turtle rank: species
Chondrichthyes
common name: cartilaginous fishes rank: class
Chondrichthyes
common name: cartilaginous fishes rank: class
Delphinidae
common name: dolphins rank: family
Manta birostris
common name: Atlantic manta rank: species
Myliobatis aquila
common name: spotted eagle ray 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
Delphinidae
common name: dolphins rank: family

Geographic Coverages

North Atlantic

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