Digital collection of photographic surveys of beach profiles and animals taken as part of the Beach Watch program at Pillar Point/Maverick's (segment 3-35), California from 2006-01-21 to 2007-04-13 (NODC Accession 0037170)

NOAA's Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (GFNMS) Beach Watch Program, administered by the Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association (FMSA), is a long-term monitoring program operating within GFNMS and NOAA's Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary along the California coast. An objective of the program is to develop baseline information on the organisms inhabiting the sanctuaries and on the physical characteristics of the sanctuaries. To achieve this objective, Beach Watch volunteers have taken photographic slides of animals (both alive and dead) and beach profiles during surveys of over fifty sanctuary beaches every two to four weeks since 1993. As part of a "data rescue" effort, GFNMS, FMSA, and NOAA's National Oceanographic Data Center and Climate Database Modernization Program have sponsored a project to scan Beach Watch's photographic slides and create high-resolution TIFF and Web-accessible JPEG images for the public. This collection is part of the project, which Jan Roletto of GFNMS coordinated for FMSA, and it contains images from surveys of Pillar Point/Maverick's (segment 3-35), California from 2006-01-21 to 2007-04-13.美国国家海洋和大气管理局（National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration，NOAA）下属的法拉隆湾国家海洋保护区（Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary，GFNMS）海滩观察计划，由法拉隆海洋保护区协会（Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association，FMSA）负责运营管理，是一项长期监测项目，实施范围覆盖GFNMS以及NOAA位于加利福尼亚沿岸的蒙特雷湾国家海洋保护区。该计划的核心目标之一是构建保护区内栖息生物与保护区物理特征的基线数据集。为达成这一目标，自1993年起，海滩观察计划的志愿者每2至4周便会对50余处保护区海滩开展野外调查，期间采集了各类活体与死亡动物的摄影幻灯片以及海滩剖面影像资料。 作为“数据救援”工作的组成部分，GFNMS、FMSA以及NOAA国家海洋数据中心与气候数据库现代化项目联合资助了一项专项工程，对海滩观察计划留存的摄影幻灯片进行数字化扫描，并制作高分辨率标签图像文件格式（Tagged Image File Format，TIFF）与可供网络公开访问的联合图像专家小组格式（Joint Photographic Experts Group，JPEG）影像资源面向公众开放。本数据集即为该项目的组成部分，由GFNMS的简·罗莱托（Jan Roletto）为FMSA牵头协调，包含2006年1月21日至2007年4月13日期间，对加利福尼亚州皮勒角/马弗里克海滩（Pillar Point/Maverick's，区段3-35）开展调查所获取的全部影像资料。