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OAS accession Detail for 8300129, meta_version: 2. Current meta_version is: 13
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| Title: | Marine mammal specimen and marine animal sighting data from the USCGC POLAR STAR and other platforms as part of the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP) from 25 February 1981 to 15 March 1981 (NODC Accession 8300129) |
| Abstract: | Marine mammal specimen and marine animal sighting data were collected from the USCGC POLAR STAR and other platforms from 25 February 1981 to 15 March 1981. Data were collected by the University of Alaska-Fairbanks; Institute of Marine Science (UAK/IMS) as part of the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP). Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard F025 Marine Mammal Specimens and the F127 Marine Animal Sightings and Census formats. Full format description is available from NODC at www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/f127.html. An analog file for this accession is available from NODC user services.
The F127 format is used for data from field observations of marine animals. Data may be reported either for individual, random sightings or for sightings made as part of systematic ship or aircraft surveys along specified tracks. These data provide information on animal population densities and distributions, activities, migratory routes and breeding locales. Cruise or survey information, start and end positions, start and end times, and platform speed, direction, and altitude are reported for each observation or series of observations. Position, date and time are reported for each sighting location, along with a code indicating presence or absence of animals and, if present, their distance to the observer, shoreline, and ice edge and heading direction. For each sighting location, animal sighting data are reported by species for all observed species. Species identification, total number of individuals, and counts by age group (adults, subadults, juveniles, unknown) may be reported in summary for all animals sighted or by subgroups distinguished by sex, behavior, markings, or other characteristics. A text record is available for comments. |
| Date received: | 19830718 |
| Start date: | 19810225 |
| End date: | 19810315 |
| Seanames: | Beaufort Sea, Bering Sea |
| West boundary: | -169.1 |
| East boundary: | -156.6 |
| North boundary: | 71.6 |
| South boundary: | 58.1 |
| Observation types: | biological |
| Instrument types: | deprecated, meteorological sensor, photograph, salinometer, thermometer, visual analysis, visual estimate, visual observation |
| 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 - SURFACE WATER, TIDE STAGE, VISIBILITY, WATER COLOR, water depth, WEATHER, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED |
| Submitter: | Fay, Francis H. |
| Submitting institution: | University of Alaska Fairbanks; Institute of Marine Science |
| Collecting institutions: | University of Alaska Fairbanks; Institute of Marine Science |
| Contributing projects: | OCSEAP |
| Platforms: | Polar Star (32PZ), UNKNOWN PLATFORMS OF UNITED STATES (3199), VARIOUS SMALL VESSELS (3292) |
| 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: UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA - FAIRBANKS; INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE PI: N/A Address: address: ROOM 111 O'NEAL BUILDING city: FAIRBANKS state: AK postal: 99701 country: UNITED STATES |
| Availability date: | 19830718 |
| Metadata version: | 2 |
| Keydate: | 2003-10-24 17:33:44+00 |
| Editdate: | 2008-07-29 16:43:36+00 |