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OAS accession Detail for 7800158, meta_version: 2. Current meta_version is: 10
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Title: Marine bird sighting and other data from aircraft and other platforms as part of the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP) from 07 March 1977 to 19 September 1977 (NODC Accession No. 7800158)
Abstract: Marine bird sighting and other data were collected from aircraft and other platforms from 07 March 1977 to 19 September 1977. Data were collected by the Alaska State Department of Fish and Game 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 format. Full format description is available from NODC at www.nodc.noaa.gov/. An analog file for this accession is available from NODC user services.

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.
Date received: 19780307
Start date: 19770307
End date: 19770919
Seanames: Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean
West boundary: -169.4
East boundary: -139.9
North boundary: 60.2
South boundary: 54.4
Observation types: biological
Instrument types: visual analysis
Datatypes: BIRDS, TAXONOMIC CODE
Submitter:
Submitting institution: Alaska State Department of Fish and Game - Anchorage
Collecting institutions: Alaska State Department of Fish and Game - Anchorage
Contributing projects: OCSEAP
Platforms: AIRCRAFT (3191), Surveyor (31SU), YANKEE CLIPPER (32YA)
Number of observations:
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, the NODC reviews metadata for all
accessions on an ongoing basis.


Points of contact for this data set include:
Contact info:
Agency: ALASKA STATE DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME - ANCHORAGE
PI: N/A
Address:
address: 333 RASPERRY ROAD
city: ANCHORAGE
state: AK
postal: 99503
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19780307
Metadata version: 2
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:26:54+00
Editdate: 2007-01-18 12:23:21+00