Darwin Core Archive: Santa Barbara Channel fish surveys at shallow regions of oil and gas platforms (SCUBA)

This dataset included fish counts that were surveyed in the shallow
sections (0 – 40 meters) of the oil and gas platforms using Scuba.
The oil and gas platforms are located in the Santa Barbara Channel,
California, USA. Each of the eleven platforms (GILDA, GINA, HOLLY,
IRENE, HERMOSA, HIDALGO, GAIL, GRACE, HARVEST, C, and HENRY) were
surveyed multiple times a year from 1995 to 2000. This scuba project was conducted and reported under a cooperative
agreement (Agreement 1445-CA09-95-0836) between the U. S. Geological
Survey (Biological Resources Division) and the University of
California, Santa Barbara. This dataset is formatted as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A,
occurrence core). This is a derived data product and see provenance
for the source data. Citation of report: Love, M. S., D. M. Schroeder, and M. M. Nishimoto. 2003. The
ecological role of oil and gas production platforms and natural
outcrops on fishes in southern and central California: a synthesis
of information. U. S. Department of the Interior, U. S. Geological
Survey, Biological Resources Division, Seattle, Washington, 98104,
OCS Study MMS 2003-032. http://www.lovelab.id.ucsb.edu/Report.pdf These fish surveys at platforms were conducted within a few days of
surveys at rock outcrops, which can be viewed at:
https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?scope=edi&identifier=112 The deeper sections of the oil platform were surveyed using the
research submarine Delta; the data can be viewed at: https://portal.
edirepository.edu/nis/mapbrowse?scope=edi&identifier=111