23063 Seal Counts Data Set Published / External 23294 Survey Data Project Completed Database of seal counts from aerial photography. Counts by image, site, species, and date are stored in the database along with information on entanglements and other human interactions. Seal haulout sites are photographed and images archived and analyzed for information on abundance, pupping, human interaction and habitat use. Theme Halichoerus grypus Theme Phoca vitulina Theme abundance Theme aerial survey Theme distribution Theme gray seal Theme harbor seal Theme haulout Northeast Fisheries Science Center Woods Hole MA USA Data Set Oracle Database As Needed Table (digital) images primarily collected using Cannon 60D NOAA Twin Otter or Skymaster aircraft na 32524 HAULOUTS Published / External Completed List of haulout sites surveyed. Included site name, code, area, and position. Loaded by batch 8647, 04-21-2016 13:00 Data Table Yes SEALCOUNTS List of haulout sites surveyed. Included site name, code, area, and position. 1 HAULOUTSITE VARCHAR2 50 No No Active name of hauloutsite VARCHAR2 2 HAULOUTSITECODE NUMBER 22 No No Active code of individual site NUMBER 3 HAULOUTAREA VARCHAR2 20 No No Active larger geographical area grouping VARCHAR2 4 HAULOUTAREACODE VARCHAR2 20 No No Active code for larger geographical grouping VARCHAR2 5 LAT FLOAT 22 No No 126 Active latitude (decimal ) of hauloutsite FLOAT 6 LON FLOAT 22 No No 126 Active longitude (decimal) of hauloutsite FLOAT 32527 SEALCOUNTERS Published / External Completed Names of people who do the counting. Loaded by batch 8647, 04-21-2016 13:00 Data Table Yes SEALCOUNTS Names of people who do the counting. 1 INITS VARCHAR2 20 No No Active initials VARCHAR2 2 FULLNAME VARCHAR2 20 No No Active name of counter (redacted) VARCHAR2 3 AFFILIATION VARCHAR2 20 No No Active affiliation of counter VARCHAR2 33539 HGPUPCOUNTS Published / External Completed Count data from gray seal pupping season surveys Loaded by batch 9050, 07-27-2016 13:48 Data Table Yes SEALCOUNTS Count data from gray seal pupping season surveys 1 ID NUMBER 22 Yes No 38 Active unique sequence number NUMBER 2 SURVEYDATE DATE 7 Yes No Active date of survey DATE 3 HAULOUTSITE VARCHAR2 40 Yes No Active site surveyed; see HAULOUTS VARCHAR2 4 IMAGENUM NUMBER 22 Yes No 38 Active frame number of photo NUMBER 5 PVNONPUP NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of non-pup harbor seals NUMBER 6 PVPUP NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of harbor seal pups NUMBER 7 PVINH2O NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of harbor seals in the water NUMBER 8 HGNONPUP NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of non-pup gray seals NUMBER 9 HGPUPMIN NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active minimum gray seal pup count NUMBER 10 HGINH2O NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of gray seals in the water NUMBER 11 HGMALE NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of gray seal males NUMBER 12 HGORPVNONPUP NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of non-pup harbor or gray seals but couldn't tell which NUMBER 13 HGORPVPUP NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of harbor or gray seals pups but couldn't tell which NUMBER 14 HGORPVINH2O NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of non-pup harbor or gray seals in the water NUMBER 15 COUNTDATE DATE 7 No No Active date photo counted DATE 16 COUNTERS VARCHAR2 20 No No Active person doing count; see SEALCOUNTERS VARCHAR2 17 OTHEROBS VARCHAR2 120 No No Active comment field VARCHAR2 18 NOTES VARCHAR2 150 No No Active another comment field VARCHAR2 19 HI VARCHAR2 20 No No Active Human Interaction VARCHAR2 20 DEADHGPUP NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of deap gray seal pups NUMBER 21 MAYBESEAL NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of things that might be seals NUMBER 22 ISAREA VARCHAR2 20 No No Active where on haulout VARCHAR2 23 HGPUPMAX NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active maximum count of gray seal pups NUMBER 24 HGFEMALE NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of gray seal females NUMBER 33540 PVSURVEY2012 Published / External Completed Maine harbor seal survey. See Waring, G.T., R.A. DiGiovanni Jr, E. Josephson, S. Wood, and J.R. Gilbert. 2015a. 2012 population estimate for the harbor seal (Phoca vitulina concolor) in New England waters. NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS NE-235. 15 pp. Loaded by batch 9050, 07-27-2016 13:48 Data Table Yes SEALCOUNTS Maine harbor seal survey. See Waring, G.T., R.A. DiGiovanni Jr, E. Josephson, S. Wood, and J.R. Gilbert. 2015a. 2012 population estimate for the harbor seal (Phoca vitulina concolor) in New England waters. NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS NE-235. 15 pp. 1 ID VARCHAR2 20 No No Active unique sequence number VARCHAR2 2 SURVEYDATE DATE 7 No No Active date of survey DATE 3 HAULOUTSITE VARCHAR2 100 No No Active name of haulout VARCHAR2 4 IMAGENUM NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active frame number of photo NUMBER 5 PVNONPUP NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of non-pup harbor seals NUMBER 6 PVPUP NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of harbor seal pups NUMBER 7 PVNONPUPORPUP NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of harbor seals of unidentifiable age class NUMBER 8 PVINH2O NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of harbor seals in the water NUMBER 9 HGNONPUP NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of non-pup gray seals NUMBER 10 HGINH2O NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of gray seals in the water NUMBER 11 HGMALE NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of male gray seals NUMBER 12 HGORPVNONPUP NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of seals that are either harbor or gray seals NUMBER 13 HGORPVINH2O NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of unidentified seals in the water NUMBER 14 MAYBESEAL NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of things that could be seals (ie rocks) NUMBER 15 HI VARCHAR2 20 No No Active Human Interaction VARCHAR2 16 COUNTDATE DATE 7 No No Active date photo analyzed DATE 17 COUNTERS VARCHAR2 20 No No Active person counting photo; see SEALCOUNTERS table VARCHAR2 18 OTHEROBS VARCHAR2 180 No No Active a comment field VARCHAR2 19 NOTES VARCHAR2 100 No No Active another comment field VARCHAR2 20 BAYUNIT VARCHAR2 20 No No Active larger geographical area VARCHAR2 21 AIRCOUNT NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count estimated from plane observers/crew NUMBER 22 FLUSHED NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active number of seals scared into the water NUMBER 33541 SEALCOUNTS Published / External Completed Counts from analyzed photos Loaded by batch 9050, 07-27-2016 13:48 Data Table Yes SEALCOUNTS Counts from analyzed photos 1 ID NUMBER 22 Yes Yes 38 Active unique sequence number NUMBER 2 SURVEYDATE DATE 7 Yes No Active date of survey DATE 3 HAULOUTSITE VARCHAR2 40 Yes No Active codes in table HAULOUTS VARCHAR2 4 IMAGENUM NUMBER 22 Yes No 38 Active frame number of photograph NUMBER 5 PVNONPUP NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of non-pup harbor seals NUMBER 6 PVPUP NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of harbor seal pups NUMBER 7 PVINH2O NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of harbor seals in the water NUMBER 8 HGNONPUP NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of non-pup gray seals NUMBER 9 HGPUP NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of gray seal pups NUMBER 10 HGINH2O NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of gray seals in the water NUMBER 11 HGMALE NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of male gray seals NUMBER 12 HGORPVNONPUP NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of those seals that could be either harbor or gray seals NUMBER 13 HGORPVPUP NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of pups that could be harbor or gray seal pups NUMBER 14 HGORPVINH2O NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of seals that could be harbor or gray seals NUMBER 15 COUNTDATE DATE 7 No No Active date of count DATE 16 COUNTERS VARCHAR2 20 No No Active person or people counting seals in the phots VARCHAR2 17 REPLICATE VARCHAR2 100 No No Active Replicate count - do not include in sums VARCHAR2 18 NOTES VARCHAR2 80 No No Active comment field VARCHAR2 19 HI VARCHAR2 20 No No Active Human Interaction VARCHAR2 20 HARP NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of harp seals NUMBER 21 HOODED NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of hooded seals NUMBER 22 UNIDICESEAL NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of unidentified ice seals (harp/hooded) NUMBER 23 MAYBESEAL NUMBER 22 No No 38 Active count of things that could be a seal (or rock, etc) NUMBER 24 UE VARCHAR2 20 No No Active User of entry VARCHAR2 25 DE DATE 7 No No Active Date of entry DATE 26 REMOTE_USER VARCHAR2 20 No No Active Not used VARCHAR2 27 FISHLOGIN VARCHAR2 30 No No Active Not used VARCHAR2 Data Steward 2013 Person Josephson, Elizabeth elizabeth.josephson@noaa.gov 166 Water Street Woods Hole MA 02543-1026 USA 508-495-2362 elizabeth.josephson@noaa.gov Distributor 2014 Person Josephson, Elizabeth elizabeth.josephson@noaa.gov 166 Water Street Woods Hole MA 02543-1026 USA 508-495-2362 email Metadata Contact 2014 Person Josephson, Elizabeth elizabeth.josephson@noaa.gov 166 Water Street Woods Hole MA 02543-1026 USA 508-495-2362 email Point of Contact 2013 Person Josephson, Elizabeth elizabeth.josephson@noaa.gov 166 Water Street Woods Hole MA 02543-1026 USA 508-495-2362 elizabeth.josephson@noaa.gov Ground Condition -70.95 -66.7 44.8 41.248 Continuing 2005-02-06 Unclassified Available to qualified researchers Please contact data steward via email Data is stored on an internal NEFSC network, the requester may not have direct access to query the data unless they are also authorized for network access. User must read and fully comprehend the metadata prior to use. Applications or inferences derived from the data should be carefully considered for accuracy. Acknowledgement of NOAA/NMFS/NEFSC as the source from which these data were obtained in any publications and/or other representations of these data is suggested. https://storage.googleapis.com/nmfs_odp_nefsc/PARR/READ/PSB/23063/23063_SealCounts_Data.zip 23063_SealCounts_Data.zip Compressed Zipped Folder: 23063_SealCounts_Data (data is current as of 6/7/2017) A percentage of images are counted by at least two independent counters. Data visually inspected for outliers. Yes Unknown Yes No < 1 year No Archiving Intended < 1year Data are in Oracle on NEFSC servers and undergo regular backups Counts of seals in aerial imagery are entered directly into Oracle database or collected in excel spreadsheets and uploaded into database. 32524 Entity 33539 Entity 33540 Entity 32527 Entity 33541 Entity gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:23063 Elizabeth Josephson 2015-01-30T08:38:04 Elizabeth Josephson 2023-06-01T20:14:03 2016-07-27 Northeast Fisheries Science Center NEFSC 166 Water Street Woods Hole MA 02543-1026 USA (508)495-2000 https://www.nefsc.noaa.gov 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday - Friday 1001 Public No No 2016-07-27 1 Year 2017-07-27