Name: NEFSC Right Whale Aerial Survey
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)

Original provider: NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) Dataset credits: Whale Ecology Branch, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA/NMFS Abstract: The North Atlantic Right Whale Sighting Survey (NARWSS) is a NOAA Fisheries program which locates and records the seasonal distribution of right whales off the northeastern United States.

Citation

Cole, T., C. Khan and A. Ogilvie. 2025. NEFSC Right Whale Aerial Survey. Version 2.10.1. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/9f540955.

Published

October 07, 2025 at 22:50

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)

URL

http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_513

Archive

https://ipt.env.duke.edu/archive.do?r=zd_513

Contacts

Tim Cole
NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center

Christin Khan
NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center

Alison Ogilvie
NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

50,286

total submitted occurrences

50,286

accepted occurrences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters	50,286		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	50,286		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	50,286	100.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	275	0.5%
ON_LAND	12	0.0%

NEFSC Right Whale Aerial Survey

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data