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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- Originator: Huettmann, F. and various survey helpers
- Publication_Date: 20141208
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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
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- Series_Name: 1
- Issue_Identification: 1
- Publication_Information:
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- 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:
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- Abstract:
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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.
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To provide a basic large-scale ship-based snapshot for the Atlantic region and its ecosystem in fall (Aug 21st til Dec 7th 2014).
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- Description_of_Geographic_Extent:
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The Atlantic, Baltic, Mediterranean and Caribbean between Dublin, Italy ,Rio de Janeiro and Fort Lauderdale.
- Bounding_Coordinates:
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- West_Bounding_Coordinate: -81.80984
- East_Bounding_Coordinate: -40.91894
- North_Bounding_Coordinate: 59.88929
- South_Bounding_Coordinate: -22.28687
- Keywords:
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- Theme:
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- Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
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- 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)
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- 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:
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- Taxonomic_Procedures:
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Field ID by the author and surveyors. several field guides were used.
- Taxonomic_Completeness:
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Data are as is; detection bias exists due surveys (subsamples)
and ocean and weather conditions
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None; for correct interpretation of these data please contact author.
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None; for correct interpretation of these data please contact author.
- Data_Set_Credit:
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Falk Huettmann and colleagues. Semester at Sea (fall 2014) provided a research survey platform and such an environment.
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- Security_Classification: Unclassified
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- Native_Data_Set_Environment: Field notebook by the author
- Analytical_Tool:
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- Analytical_Tool_Description:
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none, Distance Sampling is needed to obtain the abundance estimates. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is suggested to look at the geo-referenced survey data.
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- Indirect_Spatial_Reference:
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Atlantic, from Dublin south the equator, as well as the southern Baltic and mediterrean sea.
- Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Point
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- Latitude_Resolution: 0.01
- Longitude_Resolution: 0.01
- Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees
- Geodetic_Model:
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- 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
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- Detailed_Description:
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- Entity_Type_Label: marinespecies_FH3
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Marine Species surveys:
5min opportunistics
10min Distance Sampling
Individual Reported Sightings
- Entity_Type_Definition_Source: by Falk Huettmann
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- Entity_Type_Label: portspecies_FH4
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Port surveys, often repeated surveys,
and done at 16 ports
- Entity_Type_Definition_Source: by author Falk Huettmann
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- Contact_Person: see author
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- Metadata_Date: 20141201
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Person_Primary:
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- Contact_Person: Falk Huettmann
- Contact_Organization: -EWHALE lab- Uni of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775
- Contact_Position: Surveyor, Associate Professor
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- 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.
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FGDC Biological Data Profile of the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001.1-1999
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- Metadata_Security_Classification: Unclassified
- Metadata_Security_Handling_Description: NA
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