Shipboard sea bird and ancillary marine mammal sightings, April-Sept 2001 and 2002, Continental Margin Western Antarctic Peninsula, GLOBEC

Unknown Unknown Shipboard sea bird and ancillary marine mammal sightings, April-Sept 2001 and 2002, Continental Margin Western Antarctic Peninsula, GLOBEC Day and night shipboard sightings/counts of birds and ancillary mammals during 4 ship cruises to the Antarctic, April-September 2001 and 2002. General survey area includes the inshore water bodies of Marguerite Bay and Crystal Sound and the continental margin seaward to the ~3000 meter contour on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula. Birds and mammals identified to the species level. Behavior patterns recorded. Ships/cruises: RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer / NBP0103 RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer / NBP0104 RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer / NBP0202 RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer / NBP0204 Related data set: bird effort, found at the above referenced web site Related data set: alongtrack, found at the above referenced web site, positional and ships heading parameters Not Available Not Available 20010429 20010601 Unknown 20010727 20010824 Unknown 20020414 20020514 Unknown 20020805 20020909 Unknown Complete As needed -76.0 -64.0 -65.0 -71.0 GCMD ENTRY ID birds_observ_SO GCMD SCIENCE PARAMETERS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE BIOLOGY > MARINE BIRDS > MARINE BIRDS, COUNTS OF EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE BIOLOGY > MARINE MAMMALS > MARINE MAMMALS, COUNTS OF EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ANIMAL TAXONOMY > MAMMALS EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ANIMAL TAXONOMY > BIRDS GCMD PLATFORM SHIPS GCMD INSTRUMENT VISUAL OBSERVATIONS PROJECT GLOBEC > GLOBAL OCEAN ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS, IGBP IGBP > INTERNATIONAL GEOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE PROGRAMME U.S.GLOBEC-SO > U.S. GLOBAL OCEAN ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS, SOUTHERN OCEAN AUXILIARY KEYWORDS Bird Behavior Adelie Penguin Pygoscelis Adeliae Antarctic Petrel Thalassoica Antarctica Broadbilled (antarctic) Prion Pachyptila Vittata Antarctic Tern Sterna Vittata Black-browed Albatross Diomedea Melanophris Black-bellied Storm-petrel Fregetta Tropica Imperial Shag (blue-eyed Shag) Phalacrocorax Atriceps Blue Petrel Halobaena Caerulea Antarctic (brown) Skua Catharacta (skua) Lonnbergi Cape Petrel ('pintado Petrel') Daption Capense Chinstrap Penguin Pygoscelis Antarctica Crabeater Seal Lobodon Carcinophagus Elephant Seal Mirounga Leonina Emperor Penguin Aptenodytes Forsteri Antarctic Fur Seal Arctocephalus Gazella Grey-headed Albatross Diomedea Chrysostoma Humpback Whale Megaptera Novaeangliae Dominican Gull (kelp Gull) Larus Dominicanus Leopard Seal Hydrurga Leptonyx Minke Whale Balaenoptera Acutorostrata Ross Seal Ommatophoca Rossi Southern Giant Petrel Macronectes Giganteus Snow Petrel Pagodroma Nivea Southern Fulmar Fulmarus Glacialoides Sooty Shearwater Puffinus Griseus South Polar Skua Catharacta Maccormicki Weddell Seal Leptonychotes Weddellii Wilsons Storm-petrel Oceanites Oceanicus ISO TOPIC CATEGORY BIOTA OCEANS DATA SET LANGUAGE English GCMD SOUTHERN OCEAN > WESTERN ANTARCTIC PENINSULA CONTINENTAL MARGIN > MARGUERITE BAY > CRYSTAL SOUND ANTARCTICA Not Available Any person making substantial use of a data set must communicate with the investigators who acquired the data prior to publication and anticipate that the data collectors will be co-authors of published results. This extends to model results and to data organized for retrospective studies. The data available here are intended for scholarly use by the academic and scientific community, with the express understanding that any such use will properly acknowledge the originating investigator. Use or reproduction of any material herein for any commercial purpose is prohibited without prior written permission from the U.S. GLOBEC Data Management Office. Complete "use statement" can be found at: "http://globec.whoi.edu/globec-dir/data-acknowledgement-policy.html" ERIK W. CHAPMAN TECHNICAL CONTACT Mailing and Physical Address

c/o Christine Ribic

Dept. of Wildlife Ecology

Russell Laboratories 218

University of Wisconsin

Madison WI 53706 USA ewchapman@yahoo.com Not Available Not Available Not Available Not Available Unknown GLOBEC/US_GLOBEC > U.S. Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics Program ROBERT C. GROMAN DATA CENTER CONTACT Mailing and Physical Address

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Swift House MS#38

Woods Hole MA 02543-1127 USA 508-289-2409 508-457-2169 rgroman@whoi.edu Southern Ocean Not Available Not Available http://globec.whoi.edu/ DATA CENTER URL http://globec.whoi.edu/jg/dir/globec/soglobec/ U.S. GLOBEC Data System - Directory of Data; See data object(s): "bird_effort" and "bird_observ" (C. Ribic and E.Chapman, Investigators) Not Available 20030707 20051005 GEORGE F. HEIMERDINGER DIF AUTHOR Mailing and Physical Address

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Swift House MS#38

Woods Hole MA 02543 USA 508 289 3755 gheimerdinger@whoi.edu FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time