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OAS accession Detail for 7700893, meta_version: 13. Current meta_version is: 14
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| Title: | Marine bird sightings from aircraft, temperature profiles from XBT casts, and other data from the YANKEE CLIPPER and other platforms as part of the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP) from 1969-12-02 to 1977-06-28 (NCEI Accession 7700893) |
| Abstract: | Marine bird sightings from aircraft, temperature profiles from XBT casts, and other data were collected from the YANKEE CLIPPER and other platforms from 02 December 1969 to 28 June 1977. Data were collected by the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the Hydrographic Office, Ministry of Defence, as part of the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP). Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard F033 Marine Bird Sighting, Ship/Aircraft Census and the Universal Bathythermograph Output formats. Full format descriptions are available from NODC at www.nodc.noaa.gov/. An analog file for this accession is available. The F033 format contains data from field observations of marine birds made along ship or aircraft survey tracks. These data are collected to provide information on population density and distribution. Start and end position, date and elapsed time, speed and course, platform type and observing techniques are reported for each survey. Environmental information may include meteorological and sea surface conditions, distances to the shoreline and shelf break, ice characteristics within and outside each transect and surface debris, including oil slicks. Species data may include age, sex, color, plumage, number of individuals, direction of flight, behavior and food source association. Any number of species may be reported within one observation time span. The UBT format contains temperature-depth profile data obtained using expendable bathythermograph (XBT) instruments. Cruise information, position, date and time were reported for each observation. The data record are comprised of pairs of temperature-depth values. The XBT data files contain temperature values at non-uniform depths. These depths were recorded at the minimum number of points ("inflection points") required to accurately define the temperature curve. Standard XBTs can obtain profiles to depths of either 450 or 760 m. |
| Date received: | 19780103 |
| Start date: | 19691202 |
| End date: | 19770628 |
| Seanames: | Gulf of Alaska |
| West boundary: | -153.883333 |
| East boundary: | -149.341667 |
| North boundary: | 60.120833 |
| South boundary: | 56.658333 |
| Observation types: | biological, physical, profile |
| Instrument types: | bathythermograph - BT, bathythermograph - XBT, visual analysis |
| Datatypes: | BIRDS, water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE |
| Submitter: | Lensink, Calvin J. |
| Submitting institution: | US DOI; Fish and Wildlife Service - Anchorage |
| Collecting institutions: | United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, US DOI; Fish and Wildlife Service - Anchorage |
| Contributing projects: | OCSEAP |
| Platforms: | CLYDE-OWS A (74DG), CLYDE-OWS I (74DP), CLYDE-OWS J (74DQ), DISCOVERY (74DI), ENDURANCE (74ED), ERNEST HOLT (74EH), FIXED STATIONS OF UNITED KINGDOM (74FS), Hecate (74HC), Hecla (74HA), Hydra (74HY), OWS A (74XA), OWS I (74XB), OWS J (74XC), UNKNOWN PLATFORMS OF UNITED KINGDOM (7499), YANKEE CLIPPER (32YA) |
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| Supplementary information: | Note: Metadata for this accession were extracted from a legacy database maintained by the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The design of the database did not exactly reflect the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM). Principal Investigator (PI) and organization contact information accurately represents all available information from the legacy database at the time that this description was created. However, proper attribution of a PI to a specific institution or the role (submitting or collecting) taken by an institution may not be correct due to inexact mapping between fields in the legacy database and the CSDGM. Due to this uncertainty, the contact information was initially recorded in the Supplemental Information element of the CSDGM description. To develop more accurate metadata, NCEI reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis. Points of contact for this dataset include: Contact info: Agency: US DOI; FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE - ANCHORAGE PI: Lensick, Calvin Address: address: NOT AVAILABLE city: AUKE BAY state: AK postal: 99821 country: UNITED STATES Contact info: Agency: BRITISH NAVY PI: 86 Address: address: NOT AVAILABLE city: TAUTON SOMERSET state: NOT AVAILABLE postal: NOT AVAILABLE country: UNITED KINGDOM |
| Availability date: | 19780103 |
| Metadata version: | 13 |
| Keydate: | 2003-10-24 17:26:36+00 |
| Editdate: | 2022-01-04 21:41:46+00 |