Cetacean and sea turtle visual observations using line-transect survey methods from ships and aircraft during the Atlantic Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (AMAPPS) surveys from 2010 to 2023

Description

As part of the Atlantic Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (AMAPPS), the NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC), in collaboration with the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC), conducted seasonal shipboard surveys of the U.S. oceanic waters of the Western North Atlantic out to the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and aerial surveys of U.S. continental shelf waters (up to the 200-m isobath) from 2010 to 2023. During all cetacean and sea turtle surveys, a two-team independent visual observer approach with distance sampling was used to estimate the detection probabilities, abundance, and characterize spatial distribution of the species or groups of species. This collection of datasets includes cetacean, sea turtle, other visual observations data and effort points with surveying conditions that can be used in abundance and density modeling per visual line-transect survey protocols. These datasets may also include opportunistic data and photographs of cetaceans and other taxa. Raw and processed files from conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD) casts, expendable bathythermographs (XBT), and other environmental data collected during ship surveys may also be available for some surveys. This collection ranges the entirety of the AMAPPS program, which was divided into three main periods: AMAPPS I (Oct. 2010-Sept. 2014), AMAPPS II (Oct. 2014-Sept. 2019), and AMAPPS III (Oct. 2019-Sept. 2025). Datasets will be archived retroactively, starting from 2023. All data can be individually accessed through the Granule Search below.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 Institution web page https://www.sefsc.noaa.gov
0 Institution web page http://www.miami.edu/
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/AMAPPS
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Institution web page https://www.sefsc.noaa.gov
0 Institution web page https://www.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/woodshole
0 Institution web page https://www.sefsc.noaa.gov
0 Institution web page https://cimas.rsmas.miami.edu/
0 Institution web page http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/woodshole
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
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0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 As part of the Atlantic Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (AMAPPS), the Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) conducted shipboard surveys of the U.S. waters of the Western North Atlantic (WNA) from approximately the 200m isobath out to the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The survey was conducted between January 23 and April 28, 2023 onboard the NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter, for a total of 44 days at sea split into three survey legs. https://doi.org/10.25923/gtac-4j18
0 Collection of AMAPPS publications in the NOAA Institutional Repository https://repository.library.noaa.gov/gsearch?terms=amapps&collection
0 surface underway data https://doi.org/10.25921/1yem-b389
0 Institution web page https://cimas.earth.miami.edu/
0 Institution web page https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/
0 Scientific Computer System (SCS) Data https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0282737
0 Institution web page https://www.omao.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.omao.noaa.gov/
0 Scientific Computer System (SCS) Data https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0282738
0 Institution web page https://www.omao.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.omao.noaa.gov/
0 Search for data granules belonging to this collection (a granule is the smallest aggregation of data that can be independently described and retrieved). https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/granule/geoportal/?from=0&size=10&esdsl=%7B%22query%22%3A%7B%22bool%22%3A%7B%22must%22%3A%5B%7B%22query_string%22%3A%7B%22analyze_wildcard%22%3Atrue%2C%22query%22%3A%22fileid%3AAMAPPS.*%22%7D%7D%5D%7D%7D%7D#searchPanel
0 Institution web page https://www.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/woodshole
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 The Atlantic Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (AMAPPS) is a comprehensive multi-agency research program in the U.S. Atlantic Ocean, from Maine to the Florida Keys. Its aims are to assess the abundance, distribution, ecology, and behavior of marine mammals, sea turtles, and seabirds throughout the U.S. Atlantic and to place them in an ecosystem context. This information can then provide spatially explicit information in a format that can be used when making marine resource management decisions and will provide enhanced data to managers and other users by addressing data gaps that are needed to support conservation initiatives mandated under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act and Migratory Bird Treaty Act. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/resource/publication-database/atlantic-marine-assessment-program-protected-species-annual-reports
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/AMAPPS
0 Search for data granules belonging to this collection (a granule is the smallest aggregation of data that can be independently described and retrieved). https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/granule/geoportal/?from=0&size=10&esdsl=%7B%22query%22%3A%7B%22bool%22%3A%7B%22must%22%3A%5B%7B%22query_string%22%3A%7B%22analyze_wildcard%22%3Atrue%2C%22query%22%3A%22fileid%3AAMAPPS.*%22%7D%7D%5D%7D%7D%7D#searchPanel
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Institution web page https://www.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/woodshole
0 Institution web page https://www.sefsc.noaa.gov
0 Institution web page https://cimas.rsmas.miami.edu/
0 Institution web page http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/woodshole
0 Institution web page https://www.sefsc.noaa.gov
0 Institution web page http://www.miami.edu/
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 As part of the Atlantic Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (AMAPPS), the Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) conducted shipboard surveys of the U.S. waters of the Western North Atlantic (WNA) from approximately the 200m isobath out to the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The survey was conducted between January 23 and April 28, 2023 onboard the NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter, for a total of 44 days at sea split into three survey legs. https://doi.org/10.25923/gtac-4j18
0 Collection of AMAPPS publications in the NOAA Institutional Repository https://repository.library.noaa.gov/gsearch?terms=amapps&collection
0 surface underway data https://doi.org/10.25921/1yem-b389
0 Institution web page https://cimas.earth.miami.edu/
0 Institution web page https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/
0 Scientific Computer System (SCS) Data https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0282737
0 Institution web page https://www.omao.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.omao.noaa.gov/
0 Scientific Computer System (SCS) Data https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0282738
0 Institution web page https://www.omao.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.omao.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/woodshole
0 Institution web page https://www.sefsc.noaa.gov
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 The Atlantic Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (AMAPPS) is a comprehensive multi-agency research program in the U.S. Atlantic Ocean, from Maine to the Florida Keys. Its aims are to assess the abundance, distribution, ecology, and behavior of marine mammals, sea turtles, and seabirds throughout the U.S. Atlantic and to place them in an ecosystem context. This information can then provide spatially explicit information in a format that can be used when making marine resource management decisions and will provide enhanced data to managers and other users by addressing data gaps that are needed to support conservation initiatives mandated under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act and Migratory Bird Treaty Act. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/resource/publication-database/atlantic-marine-assessment-program-protected-species-annual-reports
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/AMAPPS
0 Search for data granules belonging to this collection (a granule is the smallest aggregation of data that can be independently described and retrieved). https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/granule/geoportal/?from=0&size=10&esdsl=%7B%22query%22%3A%7B%22bool%22%3A%7B%22must%22%3A%5B%7B%22query_string%22%3A%7B%22analyze_wildcard%22%3Atrue%2C%22query%22%3A%22fileid%3AAMAPPS.*%22%7D%7D%5D%7D%7D%7D#searchPanel
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Institution web page https://www.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/woodshole
0 Institution web page https://www.sefsc.noaa.gov
0 Institution web page https://www.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/woodshole
0 Institution web page https://www.sefsc.noaa.gov
0 Institution web page https://cimas.rsmas.miami.edu/
0 Institution web page http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/woodshole
0 Institution web page https://www.sefsc.noaa.gov
0 Institution web page http://www.miami.edu/
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 As part of the Atlantic Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (AMAPPS), the Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) conducted shipboard surveys of the U.S. waters of the Western North Atlantic (WNA) from approximately the 200m isobath out to the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The survey was conducted between January 23 and April 28, 2023 onboard the NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter, for a total of 44 days at sea split into three survey legs. https://doi.org/10.25923/gtac-4j18
0 The Atlantic Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (AMAPPS) is a comprehensive multi-agency research program in the U.S. Atlantic Ocean, from Maine to the Florida Keys. Its aims are to assess the abundance, distribution, ecology, and behavior of marine mammals, sea turtles, and seabirds throughout the U.S. Atlantic and to place them in an ecosystem context. This information can then provide spatially explicit information in a format that can be used when making marine resource management decisions and will provide enhanced data to managers and other users by addressing data gaps that are needed to support conservation initiatives mandated under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act and Migratory Bird Treaty Act. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/resource/publication-database/atlantic-marine-assessment-program-protected-species-annual-reports
0 Collection of AMAPPS publications in the NOAA Institutional Repository https://repository.library.noaa.gov/gsearch?terms=amapps&collection
0 surface underway data https://doi.org/10.25921/1yem-b389
0 Institution web page https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page https://cimas.earth.miami.edu/
0 Institution web page https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/
0 Scientific Computer System (SCS) Data https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0282737
0 Institution web page https://www.omao.noaa.gov/
0 Scientific Computer System (SCS) Data https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0282738
0 Institution web page https://www.omao.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.omao.noaa.gov/

Tags

  • ziphius cavirostris
  • balaenoptera musculus
  • sperm whale
  • university of miami’s cooperative institute for marine and atmospheric studies (cimas)
  • pygmy or dwarf sperm whale
  • dolphins of the genus stenella
  • mesoplodon europaeus
  • stenella
  • hammerhead sharks
  • melon-headed or pygmy killer or false killer whale
  • atlantic spotted dolphin
  • endangered species
  • rhincodon typus
  • clymene dolphin
  • common bottlenose dolphin
  • pilot whales
  • chelonia mydas
  • sphyrnidae
  • species distribution models
  • cetacean (large)
  • peponocephala electra or feresa attenuata or pseudorca crassidens
  • cetacean (small)
  • stenella coeruleoalba
  • green sea turtle
  • loggerhead sea turtle
  • grampus griseus
  • blue whale
  • caretta caretta
  • stenella attenuata
  • beaked whales
  • camera
  • false killer whale
  • whale shark
  • steno bredanensis
  • population abundance
  • baleen whales
  • ziphiidae
  • gervais' beaked whale
  • kogia
  • oceanography
  • stenella clymene
  • sei or fin or bryde’s or rice's whale
  • indicator species
  • delphinidae
  • tursiops truncatus or stenella frontalis
  • rorquals (except humpback whale)
  • pseudorca crassidens
  • wc6crt
  • species distribution
  • odontoceti
  • common dolphin
  • tursiops truncatus
  • basking shark
  • kogia sima
  • striped dolphin
  • shark
  • cheloniidae
  • risso's dolphin
  • common bottlenose or atlantic spotted dolphin
  • cuvier's beaked whale
  • sunfish
  • stenella frontalis
  • balaenoptera
  • pantropical spotted dolphin
  • atmospheric/ocean indicators
  • beaked whales of the genus mesoplodon
  • species abundance
  • physeter macrocephalus
  • cetorhinus maximus
  • rough-toothed dolphin
  • mesoplodon
  • photograph
  • lagenodelphis hosei
  • cetacea
  • pygmy sperm whale
  • globicephala
  • megaptera novaeangliae
  • dwarf sperm whale
  • fraser's dolphin
  • toothed whales
  • balaenoptera borealis or balaenoptera physalus or balaenoptera edeni or balaenoptera ricei
  • mola mola
  • species/population interactions
  • hardshell sea turtle
  • humpback whale
  • mysticeti
  • kogia breviceps
  • delphinus delphis
  • selachii

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