Walrus Haulout Photographs Near Pt. Lay Alaska, September 2014

Description

These data are three sets of aerial photos used to estimate the number of walruses at a haulout near Pt. Lay, Alaska in September 2014. They were collected during photographic aerial surveys of the only major haulout that occurred on the eastern shores of the Chukchi Sea after sea ice receded beyond the continental shelf on 25 and 27 September 2014.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.ASC257.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/F7B27SB2

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  • coastal-habitat
  • alaska
  • coastal-ecosystems
  • field-inventory-and-monitoring
  • biosphere
  • biota
  • aerial-photography
  • mammals
  • biological-classification
  • chukchi-sea
  • seals-sea-lions-walruses
  • aerial-surveys
  • animals-vertebrates
  • carnivores
  • marine-ecosystems
  • aquatic-ecosystems
  • wildlife-biology
  • point-lay
  • earth-science
  • usgs-asc257
  • marine-habitat

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