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Indian Ocean Marine Bird and Mammal Survey, 2004

Entry ID: seamap227

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Summary

Abstract: In January 2004, investigators from CUNY-Staten Island (Richard Veit,
Marie Caroline Martin) and Duke Marine Lab (David Hyrenbach) embarked on a
research cruise spanning through the Madagascar Channel and across the Southern
Indian Ocean. The cruise departed from La Reunion Island, and visited
Madagascar, the French territories of Mayotte, Crozet, and Kerguelen, and
returned to La Reunion. During this cruise, we surveyed marine birds and
mammals across a large-scale gradient of ocean productivity and water mass
characteristics, spanning from tropical to Antarctic waters (from 12 to 60
degrees S).

Purpose: This cruise is part of an interdisciplinary project, in collaboration
with George Hunt (University of California at Irvine), Henri Weimerskirch
(CNRS-CEBC), and Nicolas Metzl (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace), to understand
the way oceanographic variability influences the dispersion and community
structure of upper-trophic marine predators in the Southern Indian Ocean.

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Caption: Marine Bird and Mammal Survey

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: -11.73

S: -60.09

E: 73.65

W: 39.49

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: National Science Foundation

Dataset Title: Indian Ocean Marine Bird and Mammal Survey, 2004

Dataset Series Name: OBIS-SEAMAP

Dataset Release Date: 2006-03-21 18:13:22-05

Dataset Release Place: http://seamap.env.duke.edu/

Dataset Publisher: OBIS-SEAMAP

Issue Identification: Unknown

Data Presentation Form: vector digital data

Online Resource: http://www.nsf.gov/home/polar/

Parent DIF

This data set description is a member of a collection. The collection is described in
OBIS-SEAMAP

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2004-01-05

Stop Date: 2004-02-09

Location Keywords

OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN

OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > LA REUNION ISLAND

Data Resolution

Latitude Resolution: 0.000167 Decimal degrees
Longitude Resolution: 0.000167 Decimal degrees
Horizontal Resolution Range: 1 meter - < 30 meters

Science Keywords

OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > CHLOROPHYLL

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA

OCEANS

Instrument

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Ancillary Keywords

marine

estuarine

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Data Center

Center For Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research, National Centers For Coastal Ocean Science, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department Of Commerce

Data Center URL: http://www.chbr.noaa.gov/

Data Center Personnel
Name: PASCAL BOTTEIN Phone: 843 762-8614 Email: Bottein at noaa.gov Contact Address: Center for Costal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research 219 Fort Johnson Road City: Charleston Province or State: SC Postal Code: 29412-9110 Country: USA