Cetacean, sea turtle, and seabird visual observations using line-transect survey methods from ships and aircraft during the Gulf of Mexico Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (GOMMAPPS) surveys from 2017 to 2020

As part of the Gulf of Mexico Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (GOMMAPPS), the NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) conducted seasonal shipboard surveys of the U.S. oceanic waters of the Gulf of Mexico out to the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and aerial surveys of U.S. continental shelf waters (up to the 200-m isobath) from 2017 to 2020. During all cetacean and sea turtle surveys and for the seabird data collected from the plane, a two-team independent visual observer approach with distance sampling was used to estimate the detection probabilities, abundance, and characterize spatial distribution of the species or groups of species. For seabird data collected from the ship, a single team using standard, transect-based methodology was utilized. This collection of datasets includes cetacean, sea turtle, and seabird visual observation data and effort points with surveying conditions that can be used in abundance and density modeling per visual line-transect survey protocols. These datasets may also include opportunistic data and photographs of cetaceans and other taxa such as manatees, billfish, sharks, sea rays, sunfish, and other marine fishes, sargassum, and algal blooms. Raw and processed files from conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD) casts, and expendable bathythermographs (XBT), performed during ship surveys may also be available for some surveys. This collection (GOMMAPPS) includes a total of 6 SEFSC surveys, including 3 ship-based and 3 aerial surveys. FWS surveys onboard NOAA vessels of opportunity (14) and the (4) aerial surveys were combined and archived under 2 separate accession numbers. All data can be individually accessed through the Granule Search below.

Tags: 8ct13n, 9wk7gk, a679de, actitis macularius, aircraft, alpgmn, american coot, american kestrel, american redstart, american white pelican, anas acuta, anas clypeata, anas fulvigula, anas strepera, anous stolidus, antrostomus carolinensis, archilochus colubris, ardea herodias, arenaria interpres, arymdb, asio flammeus, atlantic spotted dolphin, audubon's shearwater, aythya affinis, aythya americana, aythya collaris, aythya marila, aythya valisineria, b. borealis/ricei, balaenoptera borealis/ricei/physalus, balaenoptera edeni, balaenoptera ricei, balaenoptera sp., baltimore oriole, band-rumped storm-petrel, bank swallow, barn swallow, beaked whales (ziphius and mesoplodon spp.), billfish sp., black scoter, black skimmer, black tern, black-bellied plover, black-bellied whisting-duck, black-billed cuckoo, black-capped petrel, black-crowned night-heron, black-throated blue warbler, black-throated green warbler, blackfish (orcinus orca, blackpoll warbler, blue-winged teal, blue-winged warbler, boat (fishing), bobolink, bonaparte's gull, bottlenose dolphin, bridled tern, brown booby, brown boody, brown noddy, brown pelican, brown-headed cowbird, bryde's whale, bucephala albeola, bufflehead, bulbulcus ibia, butorides virescens, calidris alba, calidris fuscicollis, calidris mauri, calidris minutilla, calidris pusilla, calomectris diomedea, canvasback, cape may warbler, cardellina pusilla, caretta caretta, caspian tern, cathartes aura, catharus fuscescens, cattle egret, chaetura pelagica, chelonia mydas, chimney swift, chipping sparrow, chlidonias niger, chordeiles minor, chroicocephalus philadelphia, chuck-will's-widow, cliff swallow, clymene dolphin, clymene dolphin (stenella clymene), coccyzus americanus, coccyzus erythropthalmus, columba livia, common bottlenose dolphin, common bottlenose or atlantic spotted dolphin, common loon, common nighthawk, common tern, common yellowthroat, contopus virens, cory's shearwater, coryphaena hippurus, cuvier's beaked whale, dabbling duck sp, dehavilland dhc-6 twin otter aircraft, delphinidae, dendrocygna autumnalis, dermochelys coriacea, dolichonyx oryzivorus, double-crested cormorant, duck sp, dumetella carolinensis, dwarf sperm whale, eastern kingbird, eastern wood-pewee, egretta alba, egretta caerulea, egretta thula, egretta tircolor, eretmochelys imbricata, eu7cxu, eudocimus albus, eurasian collared-dove, falco columbarius, falco peregrinus, falco sparverius, false killer whale, fea's petrel, feresa attenuata, feresa attenuata and pseudorca crassidens combined), fish, fish_rays, fish_sharks, flying fish, forage fish, forster's tern, fraser's dolphin, fregata magnificens, fulica americana, gadwall, gavia immer, gavia stellata, gelochelidon nilotica, geothlypis trichas, gervais' beaked whale, gl852k, globicephala macrorhynchus, globicephala sp., grampus griseus, gray catbird, great black-backed gull, great blue heron, great egret, great shearwater, greater scaup, grebe sp, green heron, green sea turtle, green sea turtle (chelonia mydas), green turtle, gulf of mexico marine assessment program for protected species (gommapps), gull sp, gull-billed tern, hammerhead shark, hardshell, hawksbill sea turtle, heron/egret sp, herring gull, hirundo rustica, hooded merganser, hooded warbler, hydroprogne caspia, icteria virens, icterus galbula, icterus spurius, indigo bunting, jaeger sp, kemp's ridley, kemp's ridley sea turtle, kemp's ridley sea turtle (lepidochelys kempii), kemp's ridley turtle, killer whale, kogia sima, kogia sp., lagenodelphis hosei, larus argentatus, larus delawarensis, larus fuscus, larus marinus, laughing gull, leach's storm-petrel, least sandpiper, least tern, leatherback, leatherback sea turtle, leatherback sea turtle (dermochelys coriacea), leatherback turtle, leiothlypis ruficapilla, lepidochelys kempii, lesser black-backed gull, lesser scaup, lesser yellowlegs, leucophaeus atricilla, little blue heron, loggerhead, loggerhead sea turtle, loggerhead sea turtle (caretta caretta), loggerhead turtle, long-tailed jaeger, longline fishing gear, loon sp, lophodytes cucullatus, louisiana waterthrush, m0476t, magnificent frigatebird, magnificient frigatebird, magnolia warbler, mahi mahi, manta ray, manta sp, manx shearwater, masked booby, melanitta americana, melanitta fusca, melanitta perspicillata, melon-headed or pygmy killer or false killer whale, melon-headed or pygmy killer whale, melon-headed whale, mergus serrator, merlin, mesoplodon europeaus, mesoplodon sp., mola mola, molothrus ater, morus bassanus, mottled duck, mourning dove, mycteria americana, nashville warbler, neotropic cormorant, northern gannet, northern pintail, northern rough-winged swallow, northern shoveler, northern waterthrush, numenius phaeopus, nyctanassa violacea, nycticorax nycticorax, oceanic atlantic spotted dolphin (stenella frontalis), oceanic common bottlenose dolphin (tursiops truncatus), oceanic front, oceanites oceanicus, oceanodroma castro, oceanodroma leucorboa, oceanography, odontoceti, oil slick, onchyoprion anaethetus, onchyoprion fuscatus, orchard oriole, orcinus orca, osprey, other, ovenbird, p. electra/f. attenuata, p. electra/f. attenuata/p. crassidens, palm warbler, pandion haliaetus, pantropical spotted dolphin, pantropical spotted dolphin (stenella attenuata), parasitic jaeger, parkesia motacilla, parkesia noveboracensis, passerina cyanea, patagioenas leucocephala, pech82, pelecanus erythrorhynchos, pelecanus occidentalis, peponocephala electra, peregrine falcon, petrel/shearwater sp, petrochelidon pyrrhonota, phaethon aethereus, phaethon lepturus, phalacrocorax auritus, phalacrocorax brasilianus, phalarope sp, phalaropus fulicarius, phalaropus lobatus, physeter macrocephalus, physeter microcephalus, pilot whales, pilot whales (globicephala sp.), piranga olivacea, platalea ajaja, pluvialis squatarola, pomarine jaeger, population abundance, progne subis, prothonotary warbler, protonotaria citrea, pseudorca crassidens, pterodrama hasitata, pterodroma feae, puffinus gravis, puffinus lherminieri, puffinus puffinus, purple martin, pygmy killer whale, pygmy or dwarf sperm whale, pygmy or dwarf sperm whales (kogia spp.), r/v gordon gunter, r/v oregon ii, r/v pisces, red phalarope, red tide - continuous, red tide - intermittent, red tide - sparse, red-billed tropicbird, red-breasted merganser, red-footed booby, red-necked phalarope, red-throated loon, redhead, rhincodon typus, rhyncops niger, rice's whale, riceâs whale (balaenoptera ricei), ring-billed gull, ring-necked duck, riparia riparia, risso's dolphin, rissoâs dolphin (grampus griseus), rock pigeon, roseate spoonbill, roseate tern, rough-toothed dolphin, royal tern, ruby-throated hummingbird, ruddy turnstone, sanderling, sandwich tern, sargassum, scarlet tanager, scaup sp, scoter sp, sea/diving duck sp, sei or rice's or fin whale, sei or rice's whale, seiurus aurocapilla, semipalmated sandpiper, setophaga caerulescens, setophaga citrina, setophaga coronata, setophaga magnolia, setophaga palmarum, setophaga petechia, setophaga ruticilla, setophaga striata, setophaga tigrina, setophaga virens, shelf atlantic spotted dolphin (stenella frontalis), shelf common bottlenose dolphin (tursiops truncatus), short-eared owl, short-finned pilot whale, snowy egret, sooty tern, sooty/bridled tern, sooty/bridled tern sp, south polar skua, spatula discors, species distribution, species distribution models, sperm whale, sperm whale (physeter macrocephalus), sphyrnidae sp, spinner dolphin, spinner dolphin (stenella longirostris), spizella passerina, spotted sandpiper, stelgidopteryx serripennis, stenella attenuata, stenella clymene, stenella coeruleoalba, stenella frontalis, stenella longirostris, stenella sp., stenellid dolphin, steno bredanensis, stercorarius longicaudus, stercorarius maccormicki, stercorarius parasiticus, stercorarius pomarinus, sterna dougallii, sterna forsteri, sterna hirundo, sternula antillarum, storm-petrel sp, streptopelia decaocto, striped dolphin, striped dolphin (stenella coeruleoalba), sula dactylatra, sula leucogaster, sula sula, sulid sp, sunfish (mola mola), surf scoter, swordfish, t. truncatus/s. frontalis, tachycineta bicolor, teal sp, tern sp, thalasseus maximus, thalasseus sandvicensis, thin line, tree swallow, trichechus manatus, trichodesmium, tricolored heron, tringa flavipes, tropical kingbird, tuna sp., turkey vulture, tursiops truncatus, turtles, tyrannus melancholicus, tyrannus tyrannus, unid. large fish, unid. ray, unid. shark, university of miamiâs cooperative institute for marine and atmospheric studies (cimas), usfws quest kodiak 100 amphibious aircraft, veery, vermivora cyanoptera, vulture sp, west indian manatee, western sandpiper, whale shark, whimbrel, white ibis, white-crowned pigeon, white-rumped sandpiper, white-tailed tropicbird, white-winged dove, white-winged scoter, wilson's storm-petrel, wilson's warbler, wood stork, xanthocephalus xanthocephalus, yellow warbler, yellow-billed cuckoo, yellow-breasted chat, yellow-crowned night-heron, yellow-headed blackbird, yellow-rumped warbler, zenaida asiatica, zenaida macroura, ziphiidae, ziphius cavirostris
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce