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Sea Otter Aerial Survey Data from Western Prince William Sound, Alaska, 2022

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2022-06-07
End Date
2022-06-10

Citation

Esslinger, G.G., Monson, D.H., and Robles, K.R., 2024, Sea otter aerial survey data from Western Prince William Sound, Alaska, 2022: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9PHJJE7.

Summary

This dataset consists of three tables related to abundance and distribution of northern sea otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) in western Prince William Sound, Alaska, based on data collected during a series of population-wide aerial surveys in June 2022. The dataset consists of: (1) sea otter counts along strip transects, (2) sea otter counts in Intensive Search Unit (ISU) within the transects, and (3) transect coordinates.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Alaska Science Center
Originator :
George G Esslinger, Daniel H Monson, Karen R Robles
Metadata Contact :
Alaska Science Center
Publisher :
Alaska Science Center
Distributor :
USGS ScienceBase Team
SDC Data Owner :
Alaska Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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seaOtter_aerialSurvey_WPWS_esslinger_2022_metadata.xml
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seaOtter_aerialSurveyISUCounts_WPWS_esslinger_2022.csv 6.48 KB text/csv
seaOtter_aerialSurveyTransectCoords_WPWS_esslinger_2022.csv 26.54 KB text/csv
seaOtter_aerialSurveyTransectCounts_WPWS_esslinger_2022.csv 28.2 KB text/csv
seaOtter_aerialSurvey_WPWS_esslinger_2022_metadata.html 86.93 KB text/html

Purpose

These data were collected as part of Gulf Watch Alaska (https://gulfwatchalaska.org) to assess changes in the abundance and distribution of sea otters in the waters throughout western Prince William Sound, Alaska in 2022.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9PHJJE7

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