NMML Harbor Porpoise Aerial Survey, Alaska Peninsula, Replicate 1, 1992 ...

• Main Authors: Goetz, Kimberly, Waite, Janice
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: OBIS-SEAMAP 2021
• Subjects: Occurrence,Aircraft,Sightings,harbor porpoise,Phocoena phocoena,abundance,aerial survey,marine mammal survey,survey,marine mammal,cetacean; Observation; Occurrence; Phocoena phocoena; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15468/jxbpgc; https://www.gbif.org/dataset/ff27fde3-c3cd-4c52-a67a-6c0a6d751c54

Original provider: National Marine Mammal Laboratory Dataset credits: National Marine Mammal Laboratory Abstract: On 6 July to 9 August 1992, as part of a larger study, Alaska harbor porpoise ( Phocoena phocoena ) abundance was investigated during an aerial survey off the south side of the Alaska Peninsula. Employing a Twin Otter as the survey platform, the first of two identical sawtooth tracklines was flown at an altitude of 152.2 m (500 ft) and at an airspeed of 185 km/h. Line-transect methodology was used, and only those observations made during optimal conditions were analyzed. Density of harbor porpoises was calculated using line transect estimates based on perpendicular distances of sightings to the cruise track of the airplane. On average, porpoise group size and density off the south side of the Alaska Peninsula was 1.1 (SE = 0.10) and 2.03 groups/100 km2 (SE = 1.65). Purpose: Although harbor porpoises, Phocoena phocoena , are known to occur throughout Alaska waters, few estimates of abundance ...