Dataset

VACAPES PAX Vessel Opportunistic Sightings July 2015 - Nov 2017

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Original provider: HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc. Dataset credits: The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program Abstract: Features in this feature class represent opportunistic animal sighting locations that occurred during CPOD deployment and recover vessel trips beginning in July 2015 through November 2017 in Chesapeake Bay near Naval Air Station Patuxent River. Fourteen vessel trips were completed between 07/10/2015 – 11/29/2017. Work was performed under HDR task order CTO 55 (IDIQ contract award N62470-10-D-3011, NAVFAC LANT).

Citation: Ampela, K. and C. Bacon. 2018. VACAPES PAX Vessel Opportunistic Sightings July 2015 - Nov 2017. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/4c4c5277.

Published: October 08, 2025 at 11:43

URL: http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1815

4
occurrence records
1
taxa
1
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 4
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 4
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 4
100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 4
100.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data