Distribution and abundance of seabirds in the Southern Indian Ocean, 1978/1979+

• Other Authors: Australian Antarctic Division (isOwnedBy)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: data.gov.au
• Subjects: ALBATROSS; AMD; ANTABIF; CEOS; PETREL; SEABIRD; SHIPS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; VISUAL OBSERVATIONS; Antarctic; Austral; Heard Island; Indian; Prydz Bay; Southern Ocean; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/distribution-abundance-seabirds-ocean-19781979/1937355; http://data.gov.au/dataset/0bdf494e-2614-4f2d-9513-90280201db9b

This dataset comprises data on the distribution and abundance of seabirds in the Southern Indian Ocean.\n\nA database of seal, whale and bird observations made from ships since the 1978/1979 austral summer shipping season. Observations are typically made from the bridge out one side of the ship. Data held in this database greater than two years old are publicly available. This work forms part of ASAC project 1219 (ASAC_1219).\n\nInitial datasets were from the BIOMASS cruises (ADBEX1,ADBEX2,ADBEX3, SIBEX, FIBEX).\n\nThis work was completed as part of ASAC project 2208 (ASAC 2208).\n\nThis project also incorporates several other ASAC projects. These are:\n\nASAC_533 - The Distribution and Abundance of Seabirds at Sea in Prydz Bay in Relation to Physical and Biological Parameters\nASAC_657 - Prey Consumption by Seabirds around Heard Island in Relation to Physical and Biological Oceanographic Parameters\nASAC_725 - The role of the marginal ice zone in the consumption of marine resources by Antarctic seabirds in the Southern Indian Ocean\nASAC_1219 - Monitoring for long-term or cumulative impacts in Southern Ocean seabirds\n\nData from these projects were fed directly into project 2208.\n\nThe fields in the csv file are:\n\nwov_data_id (the internal identifier of the record)\nobservation_date (the date of observation, in ISO8601 format yyyy-mm-ddTHH:MM:SSZ. This information is also separated into the year, month, day, etc components)\nobservation_date_year (the year of the observation date)\nobservation_date_month (the month of the observation date)\nobservation_date_day (the day of the observation date)\nobservation_date_hour (the hour of the observation date)\nobservation_date_minute (the minute of the observation date)\nobservation_date_second (the second of the observation date)\nobservation_date_time_zone (the time zone of the observation date)\nlatitude (the latitude of the observation, in decimal degrees)\nlongitude (the longitude of the observation, in decimal degrees)\nship_speed (knots)\nship_course ...