Dataset

Empire Wind Digital Aerial Wildlife Surveys for BOEM Lease Area OCS-A 0512, Equinor Wind US LLC, February - December 2019

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Original provider: APEM Limited Dataset credits: APEM Inc. and Normandeau Associates Inc. Abstract: Equinor Wind US, LLC were committed to undertaking a Construction and Operation Plan (COP) of their lease area located in the New York Bight (OCS-A 0512), now called Empire Wind. To facilitate this, 12 surveys were undertaken between February 2019 and December 2019 by APEM Inc. and Normandeau Associates, Inc. (Normandeau-APEM Team) to provide baseline information for consideration in the assessment of potential impacts. Additional surveys were collected between November 2017 and October 2018 and can be accessed https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2067.

Citation: Jervis, L., B. Goddard and M. Fogarty. 2022. Empire Wind Digital Aerial Wildlife Surveys for BOEM Lease Area OCS-A 0512, Equinor Wind US LLC, February - December 2019. Version 1.2.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/179b838e.

Published: October 08, 2025 at 13:17

URL: http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_2159

Michelle Fogarty
Equinor

Beth Goddard
APEM Limited

Laura Jervis
APEM Limited

3,912
occurrence records
65
taxa
42
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters 3,912
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 3,912
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 3,912
100.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data