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Digital collection of photographic surveys of beach profiles and animals taken as part of the Beach Watch program at Half Moon Bay, Naples Beach (segment 4-03), California from 2000-03-30 to 2001-10-11 (NCEI Accession 0072789)

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NOAA's Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (GFNMS) Beach Watch Program, administered by the Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association (FMSA), is a long-term monitoring program operating within GFNMS and NOAA's Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary along the California coast. An objective of the program is to develop baseline information on the organisms inhabiting the sanctuaries and on the physical characteristics of the sanctuaries. To achieve this objective, Beach Watch volunteers have taken photographic slides of animals (both alive and dead) and beach profiles during surveys of over fifty sanctuary beaches every two to four weeks since 1993.

As part of a "data rescue" effort, GFNMS, FMSA, and NOAA's National Oceanographic Data Center and Climate Database Modernization Program have sponsored a project to scan Beach Watch's photographic slides and create high-resolution TIFF and Web-accessible JPEG images for the public. This collection is part of the project, which Jan Roletto of GFNMS coordinated for FMSA, and it contains images from surveys of Half Moon Bay, Naples Beach (segment 4-03), California from 2000-03-30 to 2001-10-11.
  • Cite as: Hall, Jamie; Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association (2011). Digital collection of photographic surveys of beach profiles and animals taken as part of the Beach Watch program at Half Moon Bay, Naples Beach (segment 4-03), California from 2000-03-30 to 2001-10-11 (NCEI Accession 0072789). https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0072789. In Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association. Photographic surveys of beach profiles and animals taken as part of the Beach Watch program from 1993-10-19 to 2008-03-01. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/GFNMS-SEAS-BeachWatch. Accessed [date].
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Time Period 2000-03-30 to 2001-10-11
Spatial Bounding Box Coordinates
West: -122.459916
East: -122.453729
South: 37.484663
North: 37.492533
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General Documentation
Associated Resources
Publication Dates
  • publication: 2011-05-13
Data Presentation Form Digital table - digital representation of facts or figures systematically displayed, especially in columns
Dataset Progress Status Complete - production of the data has been completed
Historical archive - data has been stored in an offline storage facility
Data Update Frequency As needed
Supplemental Information
HOV Services, Limited (ne LASON, Inc.) submitted this digital collection for the Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association on DVD #253, which they created on 2011-04-19.

Digital images of Beach Watch's photographic slide log sheets are under NCEI accession 0069357, and a Beach Watch database and other related documents are under NCEI accession 0069124.

In addition, one can find more digital collections of Beach Watch's photographic slides in the National Oceanographic Data Center's Ocean Archive by searching for the "contributing projects" key word "Beach Watch."
Purpose This dataset is available to the public for a wide variety of uses including scientific research and analysis.
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Dataset Citation
  • Cite as: Hall, Jamie; Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association (2011). Digital collection of photographic surveys of beach profiles and animals taken as part of the Beach Watch program at Half Moon Bay, Naples Beach (segment 4-03), California from 2000-03-30 to 2001-10-11 (NCEI Accession 0072789). https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0072789. In Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association. Photographic surveys of beach profiles and animals taken as part of the Beach Watch program from 1993-10-19 to 2008-03-01. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/GFNMS-SEAS-BeachWatch. Accessed [date].
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Theme keywords NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS NODC OBSERVATION TYPES THESAURUS WMO_CategoryCode
  • oceanography
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Instrument keywords NODC INSTRUMENT TYPES THESAURUS Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Instrument Keywords
Place keywords NODC SEA AREA NAMES THESAURUS Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
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  • Cite as: Hall, Jamie; Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association (2011). Digital collection of photographic surveys of beach profiles and animals taken as part of the Beach Watch program at Half Moon Bay, Naples Beach (segment 4-03), California from 2000-03-30 to 2001-10-11 (NCEI Accession 0072789). https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0072789. In Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association. Photographic surveys of beach profiles and animals taken as part of the Beach Watch program from 1993-10-19 to 2008-03-01. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/GFNMS-SEAS-BeachWatch. Accessed [date].
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  • Use liability: NOAA and NCEI cannot provide any warranty as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of furnished data. Users assume responsibility to determine the usability of these data. The user is responsible for the results of any application of this data for other than its intended purpose.
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Processing Steps
  • 2011-05-13T18:24:16Z - NCEI Accession 0072789 v1.1 was published.
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  • 2015-04-22T00:00:00 - NOAA created the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) by merging NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), and National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), including the National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC), per the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, Public Law 113-235. NCEI launched publicly on April 22, 2015.
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