Oil Industry Marine Mammal Ecology Data
255.045
The purpose of the marine mammal ecology survey is to increase current knowledge of the movements, distribution and abundance of marine mammals during the open water season within the study areas. Vessel-based marine mammal data are collected as part of a multi-disciplinary environmental program during the open water season from the end of July to early October in the northeastern Chukchi Sea. Biologist observers, assisted by observers from the native communities, record all marine mammals sighted during daylight hours along north-south oriented transect lines. Besides species information, observers record other environmental data such as behavior, distance and movement of the animal relative to the vessel. The information obtained on marine mammal presence and distribution through visual observations augments the data collected through acoustic call detections. Combining the marine mammal data with information on the physical oceanography and of potential food organisms (plankton, benthos, and fish) contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between marine mammals and their environment. This dataset is part of the Pacific Marine Arctic Regional Synthesis (PacMARS) Project. This dataset contains the original CSV files, metadata files, shapefiles, and geodatabase files in ZIP files.
dataset
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/255.045
protocol: https
name: Oil Industry Marine Mammal Ecology Data homepage
description: Dataset homepage
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/codiac/fgr_form/id=255.045
protocol: https
name: Oil Industry Marine Mammal Ecology Data Data Order Form
description: Dataset order request form. Data files are made available via FTP.
function: order
255.045
oceans
dataset
revision
2014-10-16
Ships
Abundance
Mammals
Arctic
Ship Based
Biology
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS > TOOTHED WHALES
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CARNIVORES > SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND DIRECTION
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS > BALEEN WHALES
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CARNIVORES > BEARS
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN PRESSURE > WATER PRESSURE
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AIR QUALITY > VISIBILITY
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED
revision
2018-02-27
-167.97465
-157.79164
72.00371
64.48332
2008-07-23T00:00:00Z
2011-10-14T23:59:59Z
publication
2013-05-31T20:27:14Z
none
none
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Boulder
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2025-01-03T22:15:33Z