Aerial Surveys of Arctic Marine Mammals (ASAMM) collected by Marine Mammal Laboratory, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and other agencies in the Bering, Chukchi, Beaufort Seas, and Amundsen Gulf from 1979 to 2019 and North Slope Borough, Alaska from 2020 to 2021 (NCEI Accession 0039614) ...

• Main Authors: BOEM, Alaska Outer Continental Shelf OCS Region, NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, North Slope Borough
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information 2008
• Subjects: Arctic; Amundsen Gulf; Arctic marine mammals; bowhead whale; Bowhead Whale Aerial Survey Project (BWASP); Chukchi; north slope; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7289/v51v5bzm; https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0039614

This dataset contains aerial survey data from the surveys described below. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), formerly the Minerals Management Service (MMS), and its precursor, the Bureau of Land Management, funded aerial surveys in the Beaufort, Chukchi, and Bering seas from 1979 to 2019. In 2008, through an Interagency Agreement between MMS and the Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA]), the Marine Mammal Laboratory (MML, a division of AFSC), formerly the National Marine Mammal Laboratory, assumed co-management responsibilities for these surveys. Throughout the history of the surveys, they were referred to as the Bowhead Whale Aerial Survey Project (BWASP) and the Chukchi Offshore Monitoring in Drilling Area (COMIDA) marine mammal aerial surveys, both of which are described in more detail below. The surveys were conducted under the auspices of a single study, Aerial Surveys of Arctic Marine Mammals ...