USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Right side- 2008-2010

William McLellan

doi:10.15468/ucfenu

USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Right side- 2008-2010

Citation

McLellan, W. 2011. USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Right side- 2008-2010. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/588) on yyyy-mm-dd. https://doi.org/10.15468/ucfenu accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-01.

Description

Original provider: University of North Carolina, Wilmington Dataset credits: William A. McLellan, University of North Carolina Wilmington Abstract: The protected species monitoring program, initiated in response to Onslow Bay, North Carolina, United States being identified as a potential site for the United States Navy’s Undersea Warfare Training Range (USWTR), is now into its third year. To estimate marine mammal density, distribution, and seasonality, a multi-platform approach was implemented using traditional visual line transect survey methods from aerial and vessel platforms along with passive acoustic monitoring from vessels and moored instruments. This project represents a long term data set used to assess residency and abundance patterns of this offshore area in the waters off North Carolina. Purpose: To estimate marine mammal density, distribution, and seasonality, a multi-platform approach was implemented using traditional visual line transect survey methods from aerial and vessel platforms along with passive acoustic monitoring from vessels and moored instruments. Supplemental information: The original survey data are separated into two datasets, from left and right observers. This dataset is from the right side sightings data. The left side sightings data are available on OBIS-SEAMAP in the USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Left side- 2008-2010 dataset. 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 UNCW Aerial Surveys for monitoring of proposed Onslow Bay USWTR site - Left side - 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

To estimate marine mammal density, distribution, and seasonality, a multi-platform approach was implemented using traditional visual line transect survey methods from aerial and vessel platforms along with passive acoustic monitoring from vessels and moored instruments.

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
Cetorhinus maximus
common name: basking shark rank: species
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
Grampus griseus
common name: Risso's Dolphin rank: species
Globicephala macrorhynchus
common name: Short-finned Pilot Whale rank: species
Manta birostris
common name: Atlantic manta rank: species
Mola mola
common name: ocean sunfish rank: species
Steno bredanensis
common name: Rough-toothed 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

Geographic Coverages

North Atlantic,North Carolina,Onslow Bay,USTWR,NAVY

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