ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - COUNTS, cetacean and SPECIES IDENTIFICATION marine mammal observation and visual observation data collected in the North Pacific Ocean on the NEW HORIZON cruises NH0005 and NH0007 as part of the NEP project from 2000-05-31 to 2000-08-12 (NODC Accession 0113948)

NODC Accession 0113948 includes marine mammal observation, visual observation and biological data collected aboard the NEW HORIZON during cruises NH0005 and NH0007 in the North Pacific Ocean from 2000-05-31 to 2000-08-12. These data include ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - COUNTS, cetacean and SPECIES IDENTIFICATION. The instruments used to collect these data include binocular. These data were collected by Cynthia Tynan of Northwest Fisheries Science Center - Seattle and David G. Ainley of H.T. Harvey & Associates as part of NEP. The Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) submitted these data to NODC on 2013-09-28.

The following is the text of the abstract provided by BCO-DMO:

GLOBEC NEP Northern California Current Cetacean Survey Data
R/V New Horizon cruises NH0005 and 0007

Line-transect surveys of cetaceans were conducted during two cruises of the GLOBEC Northeast Pacific Northern California Current (NCC) program in 2000: May 29 -June 13 and July 27 - August 12. Surveys were conducted across the shelf and slope off Oregon and northern California (41.9° - 44.65° N) from the coast to ~125.5°W.
For additional information please see the following publication:
Cynthia T. Tynan, David G. Ainley, John A. Barth, Timothy J. Cowles, Stephen D. Pierce and Larry B. Spear, 2005. Cetacean distributions relative to ocean processes in the northern California Current System Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, Volume 52, Issues 1-2, January 2005, Pages 145-167
Any questions, contact PIs:
Cynthia T. Tynan
David G. Ainley (H.T. Harvey & Associates)
updated 09/14/05, gfh