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Title: Marine bird sighting and other data from the COMMANDO and other platforms as part of the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP) from 1978-05-16 to 1978-09-09 (NCEI Accession 8100584)
Abstract: Marine bird sighting and other data were collected from the COMMANDO and other platforms from 6 May 1978 to 09 September 1978. Data were collected by the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) 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. 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.
Date received: 19810721
Start date: 19760506
End date: 19780909
Seanames: Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, Gulf of Alaska
West boundary: -156.466667
East boundary: -131.183333
North boundary: 60.097222
South boundary: 54.5
Observation types: biological
Instrument types: visual analysis
Datatypes: BIRDS, TAXONOMIC CODE
Submitter: Lensink, Calvin J.
Submitting institution: US DOI; Fish and Wildlife Service - Anchorage
Collecting institutions: US DOI; Fish and Wildlife Service - Anchorage
Contributing projects: OCSEAP
Platforms: COMMANDO (31CU), Demersal (31D0), Miller Freeman (31FN), SHAG (31S0), Surveyor (31SU), UNKNOWN PLATFORMS OF UNITED STATES (3199)
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, 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
Availability date: 19810721
Metadata version: 9
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:31:38+00
Editdate: 2022-08-07 04:52:19+00