Data Management Plan
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Data Management Plan
DMP Template v2.0.1 (2015-01-01)
Please provide the following information, and submit to the NOAA DM Plan Repository.Reference to Master DM Plan (if applicable)
As stated in Section IV, Requirement 1.3, DM Plans may be hierarchical. If this DM Plan inherits provisions from a higher-level DM Plan already submitted to the Repository, then this more-specific Plan only needs to provide information that differs from what was provided in the Master DM Plan.
1. General Description of Data to be Managed
This feature class resides within the BIOLOGY Feature Data Set of the Long Island Sound - 2016 ESI Geodatabase. It contains vector polygons representing sensitive biological resource data for marine mammal species in Long Island Sound, New York and Connecticut. The six species include two seals, two whales, one porpoise, and one dolphin. Vector polygons in this data set represent marine mammal distributions, concentration areas, haul out areas, etc.
Species-specific abundance, seasonality, status, life history, and source information are stored in associated data tables (described in Entity Attribute Overview below) designed to be used in conjunction with this spatial data layer. This data set is a portion of the ESI data for Long Island Sound.
As a whole, the ESI data characterize the marine and coastal environments and wildlife by their sensitivity to spilled oil, and include information for three main components: shoreline habitats, sensitive biological resources, and human-use resources.
Notes: Only a maximum of 4000 characters will be included.
Notes: Data collection is considered ongoing if a time frame of type "Continuous" exists.
Notes: All time frames from all extent groups are included.
This reflects the extent of all land and water features included in the overall Long Island Sound ESI study region. The bounding box for this particular feature class may vary depending on occurrences identified and mapped.
Notes: All geographic areas from all extent groups are included.
(e.g., digital numeric data, imagery, photographs, video, audio, database, tabular data, etc.)
(e.g., satellite, airplane, unmanned aerial system, radar, weather station, moored buoy, research vessel, autonomous underwater vehicle, animal tagging, manual surveys, enforcement activities, numerical model, etc.)
2. Point of Contact for this Data Management Plan (author or maintainer)
Notes: The name of the Person of the most recent Support Role of type "Metadata Contact" is used. The support role must be in effect.
Notes: The name of the Organization of the most recent Support Role of type "Metadata Contact" is used. This field is required if applicable.
3. Responsible Party for Data Management
Program Managers, or their designee, shall be responsible for assuring the proper management of the data produced by their Program. Please indicate the responsible party below.
Notes: The name of the Person of the most recent Support Role of type "Data Steward" is used. The support role must be in effect.
4. Resources
Programs must identify resources within their own budget for managing the data they produce.
5. Data Lineage and Quality
NOAA has issued Information Quality Guidelines for ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information which it disseminates.
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Process Steps:
- 2016-06-01 00:00:00 - Overview: Marine mammals depicted in this atlas include two species of seals, one dolphin, one porpoise, and two whales. Data sources include digital GIS data, published studies, and expert knowledge. Thirty two polygons were created to describe the distributions of six marine mammal species within the Long Island Sound study area.
- 2016-06-01 00:00:00 - Seals: The most common seal found in the atlas area is the harbor seal. Harbor seals have established several regular haul out sites in Long Island. Harbor seals generally start showing up in Long Island Sound around late August in small numbers and then in larger numbers later in the fall and will stay through the winter months and into March. By April most will have left the area but a few will still be present. The harbor seal population is noted to have been steadily increasing in recent years. In Long Island Sound, harbor seals typically haul out on the sheltered parts of offshore rocky ledges and boulders during low tide. Gray seals are also common but not nearly as abundant as the harbor seal, except on Little Gull Island where they have established a year round haul out. Gray seals may be expected to be sighted in low numbers wherever harbor seals haul out and may be present year round. Other seal species that may occasionally show up in Long Island but not mapped here are harp and hooded seals. When they are sighted, it is usually among the many harbor seals at seal haul out sites.
- 2016-06-01 00:00:00 - Dolphin and Porpoise: Small numbers of bottlenose dolphin sightings are possible throughout Long Island Sound from May through September. Large pods of dolphins (75 \x96 150 individuals) enter the sound on occasion, most likely attracted by large schools of bait fish. These larger occurrences are unpredictable and usually occur many years apart (2015 and 2009 most recently). Although harbor porpoises are known to frequent the waters of Long Island Sound, there are no existing surveys and very little is known about their actual numbers or distribution. The common dolphin, saddle-backed dolphin and Atlantic white sided dolphin are not considered common in Long Island Sound, although they may be occasionally sighted.
- 2016-06-01 00:00:00 - Whales: The only regular sightings of whales occur in the far eastern part of Long Island Sound, where humpback and right whales are known to occur with some frequency. For the most part whale occurrences are uncommon and unpredictable in rest of the sound. Humpback, beluga, minke, long finned pilot and finback whales all have been occasionally spotted, separated by many years at a time, and there is no predictability for when they might enter the sound.
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6. Data Documentation
The EDMC Data Documentation Procedural Directive requires that NOAA data be well documented, specifies the use of ISO 19115 and related standards for documentation of new data, and provides links to resources and tools for metadata creation and validation.
Missing/invalid information:
- 1.7. Data collection method(s)
- 4.1. Have resources for management of these data been identified?
- 4.2. Approximate percentage of the budget for these data devoted to data management
- 5.2. Quality control procedures employed
- 7.1. Do these data comply with the Data Access directive?
- 7.1.1. If data are not available or has limitations, has a Waiver been filed?
- 7.1.2. If there are limitations to data access, describe how data are protected
- 7.2. Name of organization of facility providing data access
- 7.2.1. If data hosting service is needed, please indicate
- 7.4. Approximate delay between data collection and dissemination
- 8.1. Actual or planned long-term data archive location
- 8.3. Approximate delay between data collection and submission to an archive facility
- 8.4. How will the data be protected from accidental or malicious modification or deletion prior to receipt by the archive?
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7. Data Access
NAO 212-15 states that access to environmental data may only be restricted when distribution is explicitly limited by law, regulation, policy (such as those applicable to personally identifiable information or protected critical infrastructure information or proprietary trade information) or by security requirements. The EDMC Data Access Procedural Directive contains specific guidance, recommends the use of open-standard, interoperable, non-proprietary web services, provides information about resources and tools to enable data access, and includes a Waiver to be submitted to justify any approach other than full, unrestricted public access.
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Notes: The name of the Organization of the most recent Support Role of type "Distributor" is used. The support role must be in effect. This information is not required if an approved access waiver exists for this data.
Notes: This field is required if a Distributor has not been specified.
Notes: All URLs listed in the Distribution Info section will be included. This field is required if applicable.
Data can be accessed by downloading the zipped ArcGIS geodatabase from the Download URL (see Distribution Information). Questions can be directed to the ESI Program Manager (Point Of Contact).
Notes: This field is required if applicable.
8. Data Preservation and Protection
The NOAA Procedure for Scientific Records Appraisal and Archive Approval describes how to identify, appraise and decide what scientific records are to be preserved in a NOAA archive.
(Specify NCEI-MD, NCEI-CO, NCEI-NC, NCEI-MS, World Data Center (WDC) facility, Other, To Be Determined, Unable to Archive, or No Archiving Intended)
Notes: This field is required if archive location is World Data Center or Other.
Notes: This field is required if archive location is To Be Determined, Unable to Archive, or No Archiving Intended.
Notes: Physical Location Organization, City and State are required, or a Location Description is required.
Discuss data back-up, disaster recovery/contingency planning, and off-site data storage relevant to the data collection
9. Additional Line Office or Staff Office Questions
Line and Staff Offices may extend this template by inserting additional questions in this section.