GOALS Vessel Surveys June - July 2013 ...

• Main Authors: Ampela, Kristen, Miller-Francisco, Grant
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: OBIS-SEAMAP 2021
• Subjects: Occurrence,Gulf of Alaska Temporary Maritime Activities Area,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Visual Sighting,Aircraft; Observation; Occurrence; Humpback Whale; Kodiak; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15468/vh5hxv; https://www.gbif.org/dataset/86214182-a35a-42a4-b810-6e8a45d3e2a0

Original provider: HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc. Dataset credits: The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program Abstract: Features in this feature class represent animal sightings that occurred during a line-transect vessel survey ("GOALSII") for marine mammals. Real-time acoustic monitoring and recording effort was also conducted using a towed-hydrophone array and sonobuoys around-the-clock to detect and localize vocally active cetaceans. The survey was conducted from 23 June to 18 July 2013 in the U.S. Navy's Temporary Maritime Activities Area in the central GoA, east of Kodiak Island. Work was performed under HDR task order TO 22 (IDIQ contract award N62470-10-D-3011, NAVFAC LANT). There are some discrepancies between the sighting totals in the GOALS II project report and this GIS dataset. For example, the report lists 91 humpback whale sightings (295 count) on-effort, and 15 sightings (36 count) off-effort, while this dataset contains 92 sightings (296 count) on-effort, and 19 ...