Digital collection of photographic surveys of beach profiles and animals taken as part of the Beach Watch program at Pinnacle Gulch (segment 1-07), California from 2001-07-27 to 2002-11-30 (NCEI Accession 0071541)

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 Pinnacle Gulch (segment 1-07), California from 2001-07-27 to 2002-11-30.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）海滩观测计划（Beach Watch Program）由法拉隆海洋保护区协会（Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association, FMSA）运营管理，是一项长期监测项目，覆盖加州沿岸的GFNMS与NOAA的蒙特雷湾国家海洋保护区（Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary）范围。该计划的核心目标之一是建立保护区内栖息生物与物理特征的基线数据集。为达成这一目标，自1993年起，海滩观测计划的志愿者每2至4周便会对50余处保护区海滩开展调研，期间拍摄了活体与死亡动物的摄影幻灯片，并记录海滩剖面信息。作为“数据救援”工作的一部分，GFNMS、FMSA以及NOAA国家海洋数据中心与气候数据库现代化项目（Climate Database Modernization Program）共同资助了一项专项项目，用于扫描海滩观测计划的历史摄影幻灯片，并制作高分辨率TIFF图像与可供公众访问的JPEG格式网络影像。本次数据集属于该项目的组成部分，由GFNMS的简·罗莱托（Jan Roletto）为FMSA统筹协调，其中包含2001年7月27日至2002年11月30日期间，对加州平尼克沟（Pinnacle Gulch，区段1-07）开展调研所获取的全部影像资料。