Dataset

AMAPPS Northeast Aerial Cruise Spring 2012

OBIS-SEAMAP Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Original provider: NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) Dataset credits: NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) Purpose: The objectives of the NEFSC aerial survey were 1) to estimate abundance of cetaceans and turtles in waters north of New Jersey and shallower than 100 m depth and 2) to investigate how the animals' distribution and abundance relate to their physical and biological ecosystem.

Citation
Josephson, B. 2015. AMAPPS Northeast Aerial Cruise Spring 2012. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/5bd77b1d.
Published
October 08, 2025 at 01:58
License
To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Contacts

Beth Josephson
NOAA Fisheries

279
total submitted occurrences
279
accepted occurrences
25
taxa
18
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 279
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 279
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 279
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 279
100.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 1
0.4%

Measurement types

DNA derived data