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BLM Cetacean and Turtle Assessment Program (CETAP) AIR Sightings

Entry ID: seamap283

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Summary

Abstract: The Cetacean and Turtle Assessment Program (CETAP) was sponsored by the Bureau of Land Management and conducted between October 1978 and January 1982 by the University of Rhode Island in outer continental shelf waters of the northeastern United States from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to the Gulf of Maine and from shore to 9.3 km (5 nautical miles) seaward of the 1829 m (1000 fathoms) isobath. Population surveys were conducted by CETAP to assess the distribution and abundance of whales, dolphins and sea turtles inhabiting the study area.

Purpose: Please contact the contact person for proper use of the dataset.

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: This dataset is a sub set of CETAP_AIR extracting animal sighting records with taxonomic information of species sighted added. The full dataset may be available upon request. Please cantact the contact person. Also note that the metadata is in edits. For further details of the dataset or questions, contact ...

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Link: GET DATA

Description: Data can be accessed through the OBIS and OBIS-SEAMAP web sites.

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

	N: -66.28	S: -66.28	E: 110.52	W: 110.52

Min Depth: 12 M Max Depth: 25 M

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Jonathan S Stark

Dataset Release Date: 2013-04-29

Parent DIF

This data set description is a member of a collection. The collection is described in
ASAC_2201_SRE4
SRE4_HydrocarbonChemistry

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2001-10-01

Stop Date: 2006-12-20

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

VERTICAL LOCATION > SEA FLOOR

Science Keywords

HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > CONTAMINANT LEVELS/SPILLS

HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > OIL SPILLS

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA

ENVIRONMENT

OCEANS

Access Constraints These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.

Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=SRE4_TPH when using these data.

Ancillary Keywords

SAB

field experiment

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Originating Center

Australian Antarctic Division

Data Center

Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia

Data Center URL: http://data.aad.gov.au

Data Center Personnel
Name: DATA OFFICER AADC Phone: +61 3 6232 3244 Fax: +61 3 6232 3351 Email: metadata at aad.gov.au Contact Address: Australian Antarctic Division 203 Channel Highway City: Kingston Province or State: Tasmania Postal Code: 7050 Country: Australia

Distribution

Distribution Media: HTTP

Distribution Size: 1 kb

Distribution Format: csv

Fees: Free

Personnel

JONATHAN SEAN STARK

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Role: DIF AUTHOR

Phone: +61 3 6232 3589

Fax: +61 3 6232 3158

Email: jonny.stark at aad.gov.au

Contact Address:

Australian Antarctic Division

203 Channel Highway

City: Kingston

Province or State: Tasmania

Postal Code: 7050

Country: Australia

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2006-06-27

Last DIF Revision Date: 2011-07-21

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