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Title: Marine bird sighting, wind, and other data from NOAA Ship DISCOVERER and other platforms as part of the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP) from 1975-07-02 to 1978-09-01 (NCEI Accession 7800821)
Abstract: Marine bird sighting, wind, and other data were collected from NOAA Ship DISCOVERER and other platforms from 02 July 1975 to 01 September 1978. Data were collected by the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the University of Washington (UW) 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 and the F101 Ocean Wind Time Series from Buoys formats. 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.

The F101 format contains time series measurements of wind and other surface meteorological parameters taken at fixed locations. The instrument arrays may be deployed on automated buoys, ships, or towers. The data record includes values of east-west (u) and north-south (v) wind components at specified date and time. Wind values may have been averaged or filtered and are typically reported at time intervals of 10-15 minutes. Air temperature, atmospheric pressure, and dew point temperatures may also be reported.
Date received: 19781115
Start date: 19750702
End date: 19780901
Seanames: Arctic Ocean, Beaufort Sea, Bering Sea, Chukchi Sea, Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean
West boundary: -173.833333
East boundary: -118.283333
North boundary: 72.5
South boundary: 33.233333
Observation types: biological, meteorological, surface measurements, time series
Instrument types: buoy - moored buoy, meteorological sensor, visual analysis
Datatypes: AIR TEMPERATURE, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, BIRDS, DEWPOINT, WIND DIRECTION
Submitter:
Submitting institution: University of Washington
Collecting institutions: University of Washington, University of Washington; Applied Physics Laboratory; Polar Science Center, US DOI; Fish and Wildlife Service - Anchorage
Contributing projects: OCSEAP
Platforms: AIRCRAFT (3191), Burton Island (31BI), Discoverer (31DS), FIXED STATIONS OF UNITED STATES (32FS), Glacier (31GL), MOANA WAVE (32MW), 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: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON - SEATTLE
PI: N/A
Address:
address: MARINE SCIENCES BUILDING
city: SEATTLE
state: WA
postal: 98195
country: UNITED STATES
Contact info:
Agency: US DOI; FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE - ANCHORAGE
PI: 251
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: AUKE BAY
state: AK
postal: 99821
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19781115
Metadata version: 14
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:28:07+00
Editdate: 2022-09-07 17:52:00+00