Cetacean visual observations and environmental parameters collected by CTD and other instruments onboard the NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter (GU) in the Gulf of America, for the Trophic Interactions and Habitat Requirements of Gulf of America Rice’s Whales project (RESTORE survey GU1806) from 2018-11-11 to 2018-12-03 (NCEI Accession 0301293)

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As part of a Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies (RESTORE) Science Program project, the Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC), in collaboration with Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) and Florida International University (FIU), conducted a shipboard survey in the northeastern Gulf of America from 2018-11-11 to 2018-12-03. Operations occurred in waters where Rice’s whales (Balaenoptera ricei) were previously sighted, between the 180 m and 400 m isobaths from the Florida panhandle to Tampa. The survey was designed with a focus on baleen whales, although sightings of other species were opportunistically recorded. A sighting constituted a single or group of marine mammals (whales and dolphins) seen at the same location and time. This dataset includes marine mammal visual observation data and effort points with surveying conditions, opportunistic marine mammal photographs, and non-marine mammal sightings (a.k.a. occurrences) such as sea turtles. Raw files from conductivity, temperature and depth (CTD) casts performed on a daily basis during the survey are also available.

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0301293 ANIMALS - GROUP - NUMBER IN GROUP biological data cetacean CONDUCTIVITY dolphins MARINE MAMMALS OXYGEN SALINITY SPECIES IDENTIFICATION SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - COUNT water depth WATER TEMPERATURE BIG EYE BINOCULARS CTD Distance Sampling line transect sampling photograph video camera visual estimate visual observation biological in situ marine mammal observation survey - biological visual estimate visual observation NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter SEFSC - Miami Lab SEFSC - Pascagoula/Stennis Lab SEFSC - Miami Lab Gulf of America Gulf of Mexico oceanography DOC/NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC > Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies (RESTORE) Science Program University of Miami’s Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MARINE MAMMALS EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MARINE MAMMALS > DOLPHINS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > OXYGEN EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > CONDUCTIVITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY Anatidae Atlantic spotted dolphin Balaenoptera Balaenoptera borealis or Balaenoptera ricei Balaenoptera borealis or Balaenoptera ricei or Balaenoptera physalus Balaenoptera ricei Chelonia mydas Chondrichthyes or Osteichthyes Common bottlenose dolphin Common bottlenose or Atlantic spotted dolphin Delphinidae Exocoetidae Ocean temperature Pantropical spotted dolphin Pelecanus occidentalis Rice's whale Rorquals (except Humpback whale) Sei or Rice's or Fin whale Sei or Rice's whale Selachii Spinner dolphin Stenella attenuata Stenella frontalis Stenella longirostris Sula dactylatra Sula leucogaster Thunnus Tursiops truncatus Tursiops truncatus or Stenella frontalis scientificName vernacularName visual observation BIG EYE BINOCULARS CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth Distance Sampling Line Transect Sampling VIDEO CAMERA > VIDEO CAMERA VISUAL OBSERVATIONS > VISUAL OBSERVATIONS Ships Ships GORDON GUNTER (call sign: WTEO, ICES code: 33GG, 1998-) OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO EGW4NJ

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describedByType	application/octet-steam
identifier	gov.noaa.nodc:0301293
issued	2025-03-25T00:00:00.000+00:00
landingPage	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
language	[]
references	[ "https://doi.org/10.25923/w61z-mk03", "https://restoreactscienceprogram.noaa.gov/projects/rices-whales", "https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/southeast/endangered-species-conservation/trophic-interactions-and-habitat-requirements-gulf-mexico" ]
rights	otherRestrictions
spatial	-84.65517,27.57117,-87.35783,29.80483
temporal	2018-11-11T00:00:00+00:00/2018-12-03T00:00:00+00:00