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Title: Marine bird sighting and other data from platform in the Bering Sea as part of the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP) from 06 May 1976 to 15 August 1976 (NODC Accession No. - 7700132)
Abstract: Marine bird sighting and other data were collected from a platform in the Bering Sea from 06 May 1976 to 15 August 1976. Data were collected by the University of Wisconsin as part of the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP). Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard F034 Marine Bird Land format. Full format description is available from NODC at www.nodc.noaa.gov/. An analog file for this accession is available from NODC user services.

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: 19760815
Seanames:
West boundary: -170.4
East boundary: -169.4
North boundary: 57.2
South boundary: 56.5
Observation types:
Instrument types:
Datatypes:
Submitter: Hastenrath, Stefan
Submitting institution: University of Wisconsin - Madison
Collecting institutions:
Contributing projects:
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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, the NODC 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
Availability date: 19770216
Metadata version: 2
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:25:17+00
Editdate: 2007-01-17 12:49:14+00