MIRC Guam Marine Species Monitoring Winter-Spring Surveys 2012

Original provider:
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.

Dataset credits:
The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program

Abstract:
This dataset presents a Guam subset of the results of the Guam and Saipan Marine Species Monitoring: Winter-Spring Survey conducted on the motor vessel (M/V) Sea Fantasy (Guam survey) and the M/V Super Emerald (Saipan survey) from 15 to 29 March 2012.<br/>
The objective of the 2012 survey effort was to conduct baseline surveys to further document marine mammal and sea turtle occurrence in nearshore waters around the island of Guam and Saipan. The approach primarily followed opportunistic survey protocols used in recent surveys around Guam (Ligon et al. 2011; HDR 2011), which remained within 10 kilometers (km) or 5.4 nautical miles (NM) of the coastline.

原始提供方：HDR环境、运营与建筑股份有限公司（HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.）
数据集致谢：美国海军海洋物种监测计划
摘要：
本数据集包含2012年3月15日至29日期间，分别以机动船（M/V）“海上幻想号”（Sea Fantasy，关岛调研航次）与“超级翡翠号”（Super Emerald，塞班岛调研航次）为作业平台开展的关岛与塞班岛海洋物种监测：冬春季调查的关岛区域结果子集。
本次2012年调研工作的核心目标为实施基线调查，进一步详实记录关岛与塞班岛近岸海域的海洋哺乳动物与海龟栖息分布情况。调研方法主要沿用了关岛周边近期同类调研所采用的机会性调查规程（Ligon等，2011；HDR，2011），调研范围限定在海岸线周边10千米（km）或5.4海里（NM）范围内。