Marine surveys (at sea and 16 ports) of Atlantic seabirds, passerines and marine mammals during Semester at Sea cruise fall 2014

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Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Huettmann, F. and various survey helpers
Publication_Date: 20141208
Title:
Marine surveys (at sea and 16 ports) of Atlantic seabirds, passerines and marine mammals during Semester at Sea cruise fall 2014
Edition: 1
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: database
Series_Information:
Series_Name: 1
Issue_Identification: 1
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: EWHALE lab, Uni of Alaska Fairbanks
Publisher: Uni of Alaska Fairbanks
Other_Citation_Details: See Semester at Sea website
Online_Linkage: See Semester at Sea website
Description:
Abstract:
This data set was collected during the Fall 2014 cruise with Semester at Sea (SAS). It covers 2 MS Excel files of marine species surveys (three worksheets: opportunistic 5 minutes, and Distance Sampling 10 minutes, Individual Sightings) as well as harbour species surveys (one file with one worksheet). The SAS cruise of fall 2014 took place in the Atlantic, southern Baltic, the Mediterrean and Caribbean Seas and has the following bounding box coordinates (decimal degrees of latitude and longitude WGS 1984): Highest latitude 59.88929 North, lowest latitude -22.28687 South, most western longitude -81.80984, most eastern longitude -40.91894. The following 16 ports were covered: Southampton (UK), St. Petersburg (Russia), Gdansk (Poland), Rostock (Germany), Antwerp (Belgium), Le Havre (France), Dublin (Ireland), Lisbon (Portugal), Cadiz (Spain), Casablanca (Morocco), Citivecchia (Italy), Barcelona (Spain), Rio De Janeiro (Brazil), Salvador (Brazil), Bridgetown (Barbados), Havanna (Cuba) and Fort Lauderdale (Florida US). The starting date was August 21st and the ending date was Dec 7th 2014. The cruise included app. 632 students and 380 staff and crew (including professors). This dataset includes data from opportunistic 5 minute surveys ('presence only'), as well as 10minute long Distance Sampling surveys (abundances) done 2-3 times per day. All data are geo-referenced. In addition, many additional individual sigthings by the shipboard community and local excursion (terrestrial) data are also included, photos were collected whenever possible. Additional data like state of the ocean, plastic pollution, vessels in view, and weather were also collected. This data set can serve as a basic quantitative large-scale snapshot for the Atlantic region and its ecosystem in fall 2014. The 5 minute-long opportunistic at-sea surveys featured app 102 species; more species were detected in the other surveys. Most of these species are seabirds, with a few mamrine mammals, squid, fish sightings etc. Noteworthy are the high ocurrences of passerines at sea! This dataset has maximum 29 columns, and 314 rows (5 minute Opportunistic Survey), 146 rows (10min abundance surveys) and 271 rows (Individual Opportunistic Sightings); it is <1MB in size. A few photos exist and can be obtained upon request.
Purpose:
To provide a basic large-scale ship-based snapshot for the Atlantic region and its ecosystem in fall (Aug 21st til Dec 7th 2014).
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: Unknown
Ending_Date: Unknown
Currentness_Reference:
Status:
Progress:
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency:
Spatial_Domain:
Description_of_Geographic_Extent:
The Atlantic, Baltic, Mediterranean and Caribbean between Dublin, Italy ,Rio de Janeiro and Fort Lauderdale.
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -81.80984
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -40.91894
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 59.88929
South_Bounding_Coordinate: -22.28687
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword:
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: Atlantic,
Place_Keyword: Baltic Sea
Place_Keyword: Medterrean Sea,
Place_Keyword: Caribbean Sea,
Place_Keyword: Seabirds,
Place_Keyword: Marine Mammals,
Place_Keyword: Southampton (UK),
Place_Keyword: St. Petersburg (Russia),
Place_Keyword: Gdansk (Poland),
Place_Keyword: Rostock (Germany),
Place_Keyword: Anwerp (Belgium),
Place_Keyword: Le Havre (France),
Place_Keyword: Dublin (Ireland),
Place_Keyword: Lisbon (Portugal),
Place_Keyword: Cadiz (Spain),
Place_Keyword: Casablanca (Morocco), Citivecchia (Italy),
Place_Keyword: Barcelona (Spain),
Place_Keyword: Rio De Janeiro (Brazil),
Place_Keyword: Salvador (Brazil),
Place_Keyword: Bridgetown (Barbados), Havanna (Cuba),
Place_Keyword: Fort Lauderdale (Florida US)
Taxonomy:
Keywords/Taxon:
Taxonomic_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Taxonomic_Keywords: multiple species
Taxonomic_Keywords: single species
Taxonomic_Keywords: animals
Taxonomic_Keywords: invertebrates
Taxonomic_Keywords: Seabirds
Taxonomic_Keywords: Passerines (songbirds)
Taxonomic_Keywords: Marine Mammals
Taxonomic_Keywords: alcid
Taxonomic_Keywords: Bald Coot
Taxonomic_Keywords: Balearic Shearwater
Taxonomic_Keywords: Barn Swallow
Taxonomic_Keywords: black headed gull
Taxonomic_Keywords: Black Redstart
Taxonomic_Keywords: Blackbird
Taxonomic_Keywords: Blackcap
Taxonomic_Keywords: Black-headed Gull
Taxonomic_Keywords: Brown Booby
Taxonomic_Keywords: Buzzard
Taxonomic_Keywords: Carrion Crow (black morph)
Taxonomic_Keywords: Chaffinch
Taxonomic_Keywords: Chiffchaff
Taxonomic_Keywords: Citrine Wagtail
Taxonomic_Keywords: Common Gull
Taxonomic_Keywords: Common Buzzard
Taxonomic_Keywords: Common Crow
Taxonomic_Keywords: Common Gull
Taxonomic_Keywords: Common Tern
Taxonomic_Keywords: Cormorant
Taxonomic_Keywords: Cory Shearwater
Taxonomic_Keywords: Curlew
Taxonomic_Keywords: Dog domestic (farm)
Taxonomic_Keywords: Dolphins
Taxonomic_Keywords: Duck
Taxonomic_Keywords: Feral Pigeon
Taxonomic_Keywords: flycatcher
Taxonomic_Keywords: flying fish
Taxonomic_Keywords: Goldcrest
Taxonomic_Keywords: Golden Plover
Taxonomic_Keywords: Goldfinch
Taxonomic_Keywords: Great Blackbacked Gull
Taxonomic_Keywords: Great Skua
Taxonomic_Keywords: Greater Blackbacked Gull
Taxonomic_Keywords: Green-winged Teal
Taxonomic_Keywords: Grey Heron
Taxonomic_Keywords: Grey Wagtail
Taxonomic_Keywords: Grey-lag Goose
Taxonomic_Keywords: Gull
Taxonomic_Keywords: Herring Gull
Taxonomic_Keywords: House Sparrows
Taxonomic_Keywords: Humpback whale
Taxonomic_Keywords: insects
Taxonomic_Keywords: Jackdaw
Taxonomic_Keywords: jelly fish
Taxonomic_Keywords: Kestrel
Taxonomic_Keywords: Lapwing
Taxonomic_Keywords: Lesser Blackbacked Gull
Taxonomic_Keywords: Little Egret
Taxonomic_Keywords: little white tern
Taxonomic_Keywords: Magnificent Frigatebird
Taxonomic_Keywords: Magpie
Taxonomic_Keywords: Mallards
Taxonomic_Keywords: Manx Shearwater
Taxonomic_Keywords: Marsh Harrier
Taxonomic_Keywords: Masked Booby
Taxonomic_Keywords: Mediterrean Gull
Taxonomic_Keywords: Moorhen
Taxonomic_Keywords: Mute Swan
Taxonomic_Keywords: No Birds
Taxonomic_Keywords: Northern Fulmar
Taxonomic_Keywords: Northern Gannet
Taxonomic_Keywords: Oystercatcher
Taxonomic_Keywords: passerine
Taxonomic_Keywords: passerine small
Taxonomic_Keywords: Phylloscopus warbler
Taxonomic_Keywords: Pied wagtail
Taxonomic_Keywords: Pigeon
Taxonomic_Keywords: Pipit
Taxonomic_Keywords: poplar seed
Taxonomic_Keywords: Redfooted Booby
Taxonomic_Keywords: Redstart
Taxonomic_Keywords: Ringed Plover
Taxonomic_Keywords: Robin
Taxonomic_Keywords: Roster (farm)
Taxonomic_Keywords: salix seed
Taxonomic_Keywords: Seaeagle
Taxonomic_Keywords: Seal
Taxonomic_Keywords: Shearwater
Taxonomic_Keywords: Shearwater medium-sized
Taxonomic_Keywords: Shelduck
Taxonomic_Keywords: shorebirds
Taxonomic_Keywords: Skylark
Taxonomic_Keywords: Song thrush
Taxonomic_Keywords: Songbird
Taxonomic_Keywords: Songthrush
Taxonomic_Keywords: Spoonbill
Taxonomic_Keywords: Starling
Taxonomic_Keywords: Storm Petrel
Taxonomic_Keywords: Swallow
Taxonomic_Keywords: tern
Taxonomic_Keywords: thrush
Taxonomic_Keywords: wagtail
Taxonomic_Keywords: Warbler
Taxonomic_Keywords: Warbler little
Taxonomic_Keywords: Weatear
Taxonomic_Keywords: Whimbrel
Taxonomic_Keywords: Wigeon
Taxonomic_Keywords: Wood Pigeon
Taxonomic_Keywords: woodpecker
Taxonomic_Keywords: Yellow warbler
Taxonomic_Keywords: Yellowlegged Gull
Taxonomic_System:
Taxonomic_Procedures:
Field ID by the author and surveyors. several field guides were used.
Taxonomic_Completeness:
Data are as is; detection bias exists due surveys (subsamples) and ocean and weather conditions
Access_Constraints:
None; for correct interpretation of these data please contact author.
Use_Constraints:
None; for correct interpretation of these data please contact author.
Data_Set_Credit:
Falk Huettmann and colleagues. Semester at Sea (fall 2014) provided a research survey platform and such an environment.
Security_Information:
Security_Classification_System: None
Security_Classification: Unclassified
Security_Handling_Description: None
Native_Data_Set_Environment: Field notebook by the author
Analytical_Tool:
Analytical_Tool_Description:
none, Distance Sampling is needed to obtain the abundance estimates. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is suggested to look at the geo-referenced survey data.
Tool_Access_Information:
Tool_Access_Instructions:

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Indirect_Spatial_Reference:
Atlantic, from Dublin south the equator, as well as the southern Baltic and mediterrean sea.
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Point

Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Geographic:
Latitude_Resolution: 0.01
Longitude_Resolution: 0.01
Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees
Geodetic_Model:
Horizontal_Datum_Name: World Geodetic System of 1984
Ellipsoid_Name: World Geodetic System of 1984
Semi-major_Axis: 6378137
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.25722210088

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: marinespecies_FH3
Entity_Type_Definition:
Marine Species surveys: 5min opportunistics 10min Distance Sampling Individual Reported Sightings
Entity_Type_Definition_Source: by Falk Huettmann
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: portspecies_FH4
Entity_Type_Definition:
Port surveys, often repeated surveys, and done at 16 ports
Entity_Type_Definition_Source: by author Falk Huettmann

Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: see author
Contact_Address:
Address_Type:
City:
State_or_Province:
Postal_Code:
Contact_Voice_Telephone:
Distribution_Liability: None

Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20141201
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Falk Huettmann
Contact_Organization: -EWHALE lab- Uni of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775
Contact_Position: Surveyor, Associate Professor
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 419 Irving I
City: Fairbanks
State_or_Province: Alaska
Postal_Code: 99775
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 907 474 7882
Contact_TDD/TTY_Telephone: 907 474 7882
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: fhuettmann@alaska.edu
Hours_of_Service: working hours
Contact_Instructions: contact office in person or by phone, email as needed.
Metadata_Standard_Name:
FGDC Biological Data Profile of the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001.1-1999
Metadata_Access_Constraints: None
Metadata_Use_Constraints: None
Metadata_Security_Information:
Metadata_Security_Classification_System: NA
Metadata_Security_Classification: Unclassified
Metadata_Security_Handling_Description: NA

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