Mapping the Distribution, Abundance and Risk Assessment of Marine Birds in the Northwest Atlantic

Creation

2017-08-18 10:41:55

Last Update

2017-08-18 10:41:55

Start Date

2012-05-01 04:00:00

End Date

2015-09-30 04:00:00

Beth Gardner(Principal Investigator), Atlantic Coast Joint Venture(Cooperator/Partner), Biodiversity Research Institute(Cooperator/Partner), Southwest Fisheries Science Center(Cooperator/Partner), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service(Cooperator/Partner), College of Staten Island City University of New York(Cooperator/Partner), Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife(Cooperator/Partner), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(Cooperator/Partner), Northeast Regional Ocean Council(Cooperator/Partner), Patuxent Wildlife Research Center(Cooperator/Partner), Mid-Atlantic Regional Ocean Council(Cooperator/Partner), 2017-08-18(creation), 2017-08-18(lastUpdate), 2012-05-01(Start), 2015-09-30(End), Mapping the Distribution, Abundance and Risk Assessment of Marine Birds in the Northwest Atlantic, https://www.fws.gov/science/catalog

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This project developed a series of maps depicting the distribution and probability of occurrence of marine birds in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean. The goal was to develop and demonstrate techniques to document and predict areas of frequent use and aggregations of birds and the relative risk to marine birds within these areas. The resulting map products are intended to help inform decisions about siting offshore facilities; marine spatial planning; and other uses requiring maps of seabird distributions. This North Atlantic LCC project supported several components of map and technique development by leveraging several large, ongoing projects funded by BOEM, DOE, USGS, and NOAA and involving research groups at the Biodiversity Research Institute, NC State University, CUNY-Staten Island, the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, and the NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science-Biogeography Branch. Prior to this project, information on the spatial and temporal movement and occupancy patterns of wildlife resources in offshore habitats was lacking for much of the North and Mid-Atlantic Planning Regions. This project integrated data from a number of ongoing marine bird survey efforts including but not limited to ships of opportunity surveys conducted by City University of New York, AMAPPS aerial and ship-based surveys, ongoing telemetry studies of individual marine birds (sea ducks and seabirds) by a number of entities, state-funded studies gathering baseline information, the USFWS sea duck surveys and data from Canadian surveys in the Gulf of Maine. This project also integrated with and informed work underway by NOAA’s Biogeography Division that is predicting seabird occurrences in the mid-Atlantic and New York Bight.

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• LC MAP - Landscape Conservation Management and Analysis Portal
• North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative