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Title: Marine bird sighting and other data from NOAA Ship DISCOVERER and other platforms as part of the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP) from 1976-04-15 to 1976-08-19 (NCEI Accession 7601827)
Abstract: Marine bird sighting and other data were collected from NOAA Ship DISCOVERER and other platforms from 15 April 1976 to 19 August 1976. Data were collected by Oregon State University (OSU) as part of the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP). Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard F033 Marine Bird Sighting, Ship/Aircraft Census format. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard F033 Marine Bird Sighting, Ship/Aircraft Census format. An analog file for this accession is available.

The F033 format contains data from field observations of marine birds made along ship or aircraft survey tracks. These data are collected to provide information on population density and distribution. Start and end position, date and elapsed time, speed and course, platform type and observing techniques are reported for each survey. Environmental information may include meteorological and sea surface conditions, distances to the shoreline and shelf break, ice characteristics within and outside each transect and surface debris, including oil slicks. Species data may include age, sex, color, plumage, number of individuals, direction of flight, behavior and food source association. Any number of species may be reported within one observation time span.
Date received: 19761123
Start date: 19760415
End date: 19760819
Seanames: Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean
West boundary: -167.748333
East boundary: -137.083333
North boundary: 60.35
South boundary: 54.003333
Observation types: biological
Instrument types: visual analysis
Datatypes: BIRDS
Submitter:
Submitting institution: Oregon State University; College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
Collecting institutions: Oregon State University; College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
Contributing projects: OCSEAP
Platforms: Discoverer (31DS), Surveyor (31SU)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: Note: Metadata for this accession were extracted from a legacy database maintained by the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The design of the database did not exactly reflect the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM).

Principal Investigator (PI) and organization contact information accurately represents all available information from the legacy database at the time that this description was created. However, proper attribution of a PI to a specific institution or the role (submitting or collecting) taken by an institution may not be correct due to inexact mapping between fields in the legacy database and the CSDGM. Due to this uncertainty, the contact information was initially recorded in the Supplemental Information element of the CSDGM description.

To develop more accurate metadata, NCEI reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis.

Points of contact for this dataset include:
Contact info:
Agency: OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
PI: N/A
Address:
address: OCEAN ADMINISTRATION BUILDING 104
city: CORVALLIS
state: OR
postal: 97331-5503
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19761123
Metadata version: 9
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:24:54+00
Editdate: 2022-08-06 14:43:33+00