Digital collection of aerial photographs from the Common Murre Restoration Project, 1997 (NODC Accession 0037159)

The Common Murre Restoration Project is a comprehensive seabird restoration effort aimed at enhancing depleted seabird populations in central California, specifically those of the common murre (Uria aalge). The main focus of the project is to reestablish a colony of murres on a small seastack called Devil's Slide Rock, located along the San Mateo coast near Pacifica. This breeding colony held close to 3,000 murres as recently as the early 1980s, but was wiped out as a result of human-caused mortality. (from Common Murre Restoration Project web page, http://www.fws.gov/sfbayrefuges/Murre, which was last updated September 17, 2008)

To provide a baseline and to determine the efficacy of the restoration project, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Complex has taken photographic slides during aerial surveys of bird colonies since the mid 1980s. As part of the NOAA Climate Database Modernization Program funded project entitled "California Coastal Marine Ecosystem Surveys - Slide Imaging and Archiving (task order L-24)," a contractor scanned 35mm color slides taken during 1997 and created master (archival TIFF) and web-access (JPEG) images. NODC Accession 0037159 contains these images along with supporting documentation.

普通海鸦修复项目（Common Murre Restoration Project）是一项综合性海鸟修复工程，旨在恢复加利福尼亚中部海域种群数量衰减的海鸟种群，其中尤以普通海鸦（Uria aalge）为核心修复目标。该项目的核心工作是在位于帕西菲卡附近圣马特奥海岸的小型海蚀柱“魔鬼滑岩（Devil's Slide Rock）”上重建海鸦繁殖种群。该繁殖种群在20世纪80年代初仍拥有近3000只海鸦，但因人为致死因素彻底消亡。（数据来源：普通海鸦修复项目官网，http://www.fws.gov/sfbayrefuges/Murre，最后更新于2008年9月17日）

为建立基线数据并评估该修复项目的实施成效，美国鱼类及野生动物管理局（U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service）旧金山湾国家野生动物保护区综合体（San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Complex）自20世纪80年代中期起，通过海鸟种群航空调查获取了摄影幻灯片资料。作为由美国国家海洋和大气管理局（National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA）气候数据库现代化项目资助的"加利福尼亚沿海海洋生态系统调查——幻灯片成像与归档（任务订单L-24）"项目的一部分，承包商对1997年拍摄的35mm彩色幻灯片进行了扫描，并生成了存档用主文件（TIFF格式）与网页访问用JPEG格式图像。国家海洋数据中心（National Oceanographic Data Center, NODC）存档编号0037159包含上述图像及配套文档资料。