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Title: Marine bird sighting and other data as part of the Pribilof Islands Seabird Census for the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP) from 1976-05-06 to 1976-08-19 (NCEI Accession 7700132)
Abstract: Marine bird sighting and other data were collected in the Pribilof Islands from 06 May 1976 to 19 August 1976. Data were collected by the University of Wisconsin as part of the Seabird Census of the Pribilof Islands for the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP). Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard F034 Marine Bird Land format. An analog file for this accession is available from NODC.

The F034 format contains data from field observations of marine birds made along land survey tracks. These data are collected to provide information on population density and distribution and breeding locales. The contents and structure of data type file are similar to Marine Bird Sighting, Aircraft Census (F033), although the transect distance of land surveys will normally be shorter than that of ship and aircraft surveys. In this data type the investigator defines the lateral dimension of survey distance unit (a specified number of whole meters). Start and end position, date and elapsed time, and number of distance units are reported for each survey. Environmental information may include meteorological and adjacent sea surface conditions, distance to nearest shoreline, ice characteristics, and debris, including oil slicks. Species data may include age, sex, color, plumage, number of individuals, flight direction, behavior, and food source association. Any number of species may be reported within one observation time span.
Date received: 19770216
Start date: 19760506
End date: 19760819
Seanames: Bering Sea
West boundary: -169.667778
East boundary: -169.467222
North boundary: 56.606944
South boundary: 56
Observation types: biological
Instrument types: visual analysis
Datatypes: BIRDS
Submitter: Hastenrath, Stefan
Submitting institution: University of Wisconsin - Madison
Collecting institutions: University of Wisconsin - Madison
Contributing projects: OCSEAP
Platforms:
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 data set include:
Contact info:
Agency: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON
PI: Hastenrath, Stefan
Address:
address: 1225 WEST DAYTON STREET
city: MADISON
state: WI
postal: 53706
country: UNITED STATES

"AND THUS ENDETH ANOTHER PRIBILOF SUMMER".
Availability date: 19770216
Metadata version: 9
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:25:17+00
Editdate: 2022-03-05 14:48:48+00