Cetacean visual observations, samples and environmental parameters collected onboard the NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter (GU) in the Gulf of America (formerly U.S. Gulf of Mexico) from 2009-06-13 to 2009-08-12 (survey GU0903) (NCEI Accession 0304467)

Description

The Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) conducted a shipboard survey in the Gulf of America (formerly U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico) from approximately the 200m isobath out to the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) from Key West, FL to the U.S.-Mexico border. The survey was conducted between June 10, 2009 and August 13, 2009 onboard the NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter. A visual line-transect and passive acoustic survey was conducted to estimate the abundance and spatial distribution of marine mammals in U.S. oceanic waters. A second objective of the survey was to conduct a pilot study to characterize sperm whale prey using fisheries acoustics equipment and a mid-water trawl. This dataset includes marine mammal visual observation data and effort points with surveying conditions that can be used in abundance and density modeling per visual line-transect survey protocols. This dataset also includes opportunistic marine mammal photographs and non-marine mammal sightings such as sea turtles. Trawl catch data and associated photographs are also provided. Environmental data collected via Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (CTD) sensor and expendable bathythermographs (XBT) are also included.

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0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://doi.org/10.25921/mr72-de05
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/oas/304467
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/download/304467
0 Users may contact NCEI for more information and to request access to the archived data. User requests must be approved by NCEI and are subject to order fulfillment constraints. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
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0 related journal article https://doi.org/10.25923/hxtw-wj12
0 related journal article https://doi.org/10.3334/cdiac/otg.coast_gu2009
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0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://doi.org/10.25921/mr72-de05
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/oas/304467
0 Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/download/304467
0 These data are available through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is no longer supported by most internet browsers. You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). ftp://ftp-oceans.ncei.noaa.gov/nodc/archive/arc0234/0304467/
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
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0 related journal article https://doi.org/10.25923/hxtw-wj12
0 related journal article https://doi.org/10.3334/cdiac/otg.coast_gu2009
0 Institution web page https://cimas.earth.miami.edu/
0 Institution web page https://cimas.earth.miami.edu/
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0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://doi.org/10.25921/mr72-de05
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/oas/304467
0 Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/download/304467
0 These data are available through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is no longer supported by most internet browsers. You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). ftp://ftp-oceans.ncei.noaa.gov/nodc/archive/arc0234/0304467/
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
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0 related journal article https://doi.org/10.25923/hxtw-wj12
0 related journal article https://doi.org/10.3334/cdiac/otg.coast_gu2009
0 Institution web page https://cimas.earth.miami.edu/
0 Institution web page https://cimas.earth.miami.edu/
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://doi.org/10.25921/mr72-de05
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/oas/304467
0 Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/download/304467
0 These data are available through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is no longer supported by most internet browsers. You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). ftp://ftp-oceans.ncei.noaa.gov/nodc/archive/arc0234/0304467/
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0 related journal article https://doi.org/10.25923/hxtw-wj12
0 related journal article https://doi.org/10.3334/cdiac/otg.coast_gu2009
0 Institution web page https://cimas.earth.miami.edu/
0 Institution web page https://cimas.earth.miami.edu/
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://doi.org/10.25921/mr72-de05
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/oas/304467
0 Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/download/304467
0 These data are available through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is no longer supported by most internet browsers. You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). ftp://ftp-oceans.ncei.noaa.gov/nodc/archive/arc0234/0304467/
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Institution web page http://www.miami.edu/
0 Institution web page http://www.miami.edu/
0 Institution web page http://www.mslabs.noaa.gov
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0 Institution web page http://www.miami.edu/
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0 related journal article https://doi.org/10.25923/hxtw-wj12
0 related journal article https://doi.org/10.3334/cdiac/otg.coast_gu2009
0 Institution web page https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page https://cimas.earth.miami.edu/
0 Institution web page https://cimas.earth.miami.edu/
0 Institution web page https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://doi.org/10.25921/mr72-de05
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/oas/304467
0 Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/download/304467
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Institution web page http://www.miami.edu/
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0 Institution web page http://www.mslabs.noaa.gov
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0 Institution web page http://www.miami.edu/
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0 related journal article https://doi.org/10.25923/hxtw-wj12
0 related journal article https://doi.org/10.3334/cdiac/otg.coast_gu2009
0 Institution web page https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page https://cimas.earth.miami.edu/
0 Institution web page https://cimas.earth.miami.edu/
0 Institution web page https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/
0 These data are available through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is no longer supported by most internet browsers. You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). ftp://ftp-oceans.ncei.noaa.gov/nodc/archive/arc0234/0304467/
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  • ships
  • united states of america
  • visual observation
  • sighting
  • endangered species
  • biopsy
  • species distribution models
  • xbt
  • camera
  • dolphins
  • marnine mammal
  • population abundance
  • baleen whales
  • oceanography
  • indicator species
  • doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc
  • atmospheric/ocean indicators
  • species abundance
  • cetacean
  • photograph
  • biological sampling
  • 7mln7a
  • distance sampling
  • big eye binoculars
  • toothed whales
  • ctd
  • species/population interactions
  • gulf of america
  • midwater trawls
  • line transect sampling

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