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Title: Marine mammal specimen and other data from the SURVEYOR as part of the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP) from 10 February 1977 to 19 November 1977 (NODC Accession No. 7900320)
Abstract: Marine mammal specimen and other data were collected from the SURVEYOR and other platforms from 10 February 1977 to 19 November 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 F025 Marine Mammal Specimens format. Full format description ia available from the NODC homepage at www.nodc.noaa.gov/. An analog file for this accession is available from NODC user services.

The F025 format is designed to support studies of biological populations and ecosystems that are subject to impact from oil and gas development, marine pollution and other environmental disturbances. Information on marine animal populations, activities, migratory routes and breeding locales are obtained from either surface ship or aircraft surveys.

The F025 format contains data from examinations of marine mammal specimens. The data are collected to define behavior, population dynamics and trophic relationships of marine mammals. In addition to species, position, time and environmental conditions at the collection site, data for each specimen may include weight and body dimensions, sex and reproductive status, age, primary cause of death and analysis of stomach contents. The species of both the specimen and its ingested prey are encoded using the NODC Taxonomic Code. Comments may be reported in a free-text record.
Date received: 19791108
Start date: 19770210
End date: 19771119
Seanames: Gulf of Alaska
West boundary: -152.9
East boundary: -144.6
North boundary: 60.8
South boundary: 57.2
Observation types: biological
Instrument types: deprecated, photograph, visual analysis
Datatypes: AIR TEMPERATURE, ANIMALS - GROUP - BEHAVIOR, ANIMALS - GROUP - NUMBER IN GROUP, ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL, ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - AGE, ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - BEHAVIOR, ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - CAUSE OF DEATH, ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - COUNTS, ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - DIVE TIMES, ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - MARKS OR TAGS, ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS, ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - RELATIVE POSITION, ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - STOMACH CONTENTS, cloud amount/frequency, cloud types, DEBRIS, GLARE, GLARE - DIRECTION, GLARE - TYPE, HABITAT, HUMAN ACTIVITY, ICE, ICE - CHARACTERISTICS, ICE - COVERAGE, ICE - DEFORMATION, ICE - TYPE, SEA STATE, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - LIFE STAGE, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - SEX, TAXONOMIC CODE, TEMPERATURE - AIR, TEMPERATURE - SURFACE WATER, TIDE STAGE, VISIBILITY, WATER COLOR, water depth, WEATHER, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED
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: PANDALUS (328P), PLATFORM - DO NOT USE (32P8), RESOLUTION (32RS), 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: 19791108
Metadata version: 2
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:28:58+00
Editdate: 2007-01-18 16:00:41+00