Digital collection of photographic surveys of beach profiles and animals taken as part of the Beach Watch program at Doran Beach (segment 1-06), California from 1997-02-09 to 1997-09-22 (NODC Accession 0037172)

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 Doran Beach (segment 1-06), California from 1997-02-09 to 1997-09-22.

美国国家海洋和大气管理局（National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration，简称NOAA）下属法拉隆湾国家海洋保护区（Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary，缩写GFNMS）的海滩监测计划（Beach Watch Program），由法拉隆海洋保护区协会（Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association，缩写FMSA）负责运营管理，是一项长期监测项目，实施范围覆盖加利福尼亚沿岸的GFNMS与NOAA蒙特雷湾国家海洋保护区（Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary）。该计划的核心目标之一是建立保护区内栖息生物与保护区物理特征的基线信息。为达成这一目标，自1993年起，海滩监测计划的志愿者每2至4周便会对50余处保护区海滩开展野外调查，期间拍摄了活体与死亡动物的摄影幻灯片以及海滩剖面影像。
作为“数据救援”（data rescue）工作的组成部分，GFNMS、FMSA以及NOAA国家海洋数据中心（National Oceanographic Data Center）与气候数据库现代化计划（Climate Database Modernization Program）联合资助了一项专项项目，用于扫描海滩监测计划留存的摄影幻灯片，并制作高分辨率TIFF格式与可供网页访问的JPEG格式图像供公众共享使用。本数据集即属于该项目的产出内容，由GFNMS的简·罗莱托（Jan Roletto）为FMSA统筹协调，涵盖1997年2月9日至1997年9月22日期间，对加利福尼亚州多兰海滩（区段1-06）的全部调查影像。