Periodic bowhead whale aerial surveys by the USDI/Minerals Management Service in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, April 1979 - October 2001 (NODC Accession 0001139)

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2013
• Subjects: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 0001139; 1139; MARINE MAMMALS; WEATHER; visual observation; survey; AIRCRAFT; US DOI; Minerals Management Service - Anchorage; BOWHEAD WHALE AERIAL SURVEY PROJECT (BWASP); Arctic Ocean; Beaufort Sea; Bering Sea; Chukchi Sea; Gulf of Alaska; Northwest Passage; oceanography; Arctic; Anchorage; Grumman; Havilland; Barrow; Beluga; Beluga*; bowhead whale; Bowhead Whale Aerial Survey Project (BWASP); Chukchi; Northwest passage; Alaska
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The Minerals Management Service (MMS), previously Bureau of Land Management, has funded fall bowhead whale aerial surveys in this area each year since 1978, using a repeatable protocol from 1982 to the present. Bowhead monitoring by MMS Environmental Studies Section, Alaska Outer Continental Shelf (...