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Office of Response and Restoration, 2024: Region Wide Colonial Waterbird Monitoring (Project ID: 257), https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/70809.

Item Identification

Title: Region Wide Colonial Waterbird Monitoring (Project ID: 257)
Short Name: RW TIG - Colonial Waterbird Monitoring
Status: On Going
Creation Date: 2020
Abstract:

After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, federal and state agencies came together to form the Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustee Council. The Council studied the effects of the oil spill and continues to pursue projects intended to restore the Gulf of Mexico to the condition it would have been in if the spill had not happened. The Trustee Implementation Groups will develop restoration projects and plans to accomplish the significant work needed for the Gulf. Development of these projects is guided by the programmatic restoration plan finalized in 2016 as part of a legal settlement with BP for up to $8.8 billion.

Purpose:

Colonial waterbirds (CWB) are well known to respond to the dynamic and ever-shifting spatio-temporal distribution of breeding sites and foraging areas in the northern Gulf of Mexico (nGOM) both within and among seasons. As future CWB restoration projects will be implemented throughout the nGOM, a cumulative monitoring approach would be beneficial in quantifying effects (e.g., benefits) of restoration at the scale of the entire nGOM. Due to the large geographic scale of the restoration effort, the lengthy timeframe by which restoration funding is being allocated, and the capabilities of colonial waterbirds to move among different breeding localities (including across state and international lines), a Regionwide monitoring effort which emphasizes the use of comparable methods and protocols would document effects of restoration to some colonial waterbird populations.

This Monitoring and Adaptive Management (MAM) activity utilizes established methods and protocols which have been successfully implemented throughout a portion of the nGOM. These activities are one means by which Trustees will document and partially evaluate CWB breeding population performance at a Regionwide scale. It is envisioned that these efforts will be fully integrated with established, ongoing, smaller-scale monitoring programs thereby providing Trustees with a more comprehensive means to characterize benefits generated from Deepwater Horizon (DWH) bird restoration activities. Other potential benefits associated with this MAM activity include: (1) population trend data necessary to contextualize outcomes from restoration activities throughout the Gulf; (2) document outcomes of restoration projects that have already been implemented that lack a current bird monitoring component; and (3) partially inform future restoration decision-making by informing the cost-effectiveness and the local and regional context of proposed projects during restoration planning.

This activity will estimate select colonial waterbird data endpoints (relative abundance, distribution trends and breeding status) at a Regionwide scale. This activity involves:

(1) new aerial nest surveys and data comparison (2021)

(2) nest dotting analysis and data comparison of newly collected data (2021)

(3) nest dotting analysis of and data comparison of previously collected data (2015), and

(4) multi-year summaries (2010-13, 2015, 2018 and 2021) and reports including Trustee review of reports and analyses developed as a result of this activity.

Keywords

Theme Keywords

Thesaurus Keyword
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords
DOC/NOAA/NOS/ORR > Office of Response and Restoration, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > OIL SPILLS
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > HABITAT CONVERSION/FRAGMENTATION > RECLAMATION/REVEGETATION/RESTORATION
UNCONTROLLED
None BP
None British Petroleum
None Deepwater Horizon
None DWH
None Long Term Data Management
None LTDM
None MC252
None Natural Resource Damage Assessment
None NRDA

Spatial Keywords

Thesaurus Keyword
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > ALABAMA
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > FLORIDA
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > FLORIDA > FLORIDA KEYS
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > GEORGIA
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > LOUISIANA
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > MISSISSIPPI
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > TEXAS
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO

Data Set Information

Data Set Scope Code: Data Set
Data Set Type: Spreadsheet
Maintenance Frequency: As Needed
Data Presentation Form: Table (digital)
Distribution Liability:

While NOAA makes every effort to ensure that its databases are error-free, errors do occur. We ask that you notify us immediately of any errors that you discover in our data. We will make every effort to correct them. With respect to documents available from this server, neither the United States Government nor any of its employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, including the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose; nor assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed; nor represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights.

Support Roles

Data Steward

CC ID: 1271814
Date Effective From: 2020
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization): Office of Response and Restoration (ORR)
Address: 1305 East-West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
URL: ORR Home Page

Distributor

CC ID: 1271815
Date Effective From: 2020
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization): Office of Response and Restoration (ORR)
Address: 1305 East-West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
URL: ORR Home Page

Metadata Contact

CC ID: 1271816
Date Effective From: 2020
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization): Office of Response and Restoration (ORR)
Address: 1305 East-West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
URL: ORR Home Page

Extents

Currentness Reference: Ground Condition

Extent Group 1

Extent Group 1 / Geographic Area 1

CC ID: 1271827
W° Bound: -97.49295
E° Bound: -80.4555
N° Bound: 30.6686
S° Bound: 24.5328

Extent Group 1 / Time Frame 1

CC ID: 1271826
Time Frame Type: Continuing
Start: 2020

Access Information

Security Class: Unclassified
Data Access Constraints:

These data may be provisional and restricted to Trustees within a Natural Resource Damage Assessment.

Data Use Constraints:

The user is responsible for the results of any application of this data for other than its intended purpose.

Metadata Access Constraints:

These metadata may be provisional and restricted to Trustees within a Natural Resource Damage Assessment.

Metadata Use Constraints:

The user is responsible for the results of any application of this metadata for other than its intended purpose.

Distribution Information

Distribution 1

CC ID: 1271817
Start Date: 2020
End Date: Present
Download URL: https://www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/project?id=257
Distributor: Office of Response and Restoration (ORR) (2020 - Present)
File Name: Region Wide Colonial Waterbird Monitoring
File Type (Deprecated): Zip
Compression: Zip

URLs

URL 1

CC ID: 1271818
URL: https://www.habitat.noaa.gov/storymap/dwh/index.html
Name: Gulf Spill Restoration Projects
URL Type:
Online Resource
Description:

Online project inventory of all DWH Restoration Projects. Individual projects can be located under state and are sorted by ID.

URL 2

CC ID: 1271819
URL: https://www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/project?id=257
Name: Region Wide Colonial Waterbird Monitoring
URL Type:
Online Resource
Description:

Data repository with access to data and other relevant data/documents

Data Quality

Representativeness:

While NOAA makes every effort to ensure that its databases are error-free, errors do occur. Please refer to project's individual documents for more information on data sampling methods.

Data Management

Approximate Percentage of Budget for these Data Devoted to Data Management: Unknown
Do these Data Comply with the Data Access Directive?: No
Is Access to the Data Limited Based on an Approved Waiver?: No

Lineage

Lineage Statement:

The Spatial Data Branch publishes this data on behalf of the originator. Data are aimed to guide responders, decision makers, and users in making informed steps of analysis and action.

Sources

NOAA

CC ID: 1271823
Contact Role Type: Publisher
Contact Type: Organization
Contact Name: NOAA/NOS/ORR/ARD/SDB - Assessment and Restoration Division/Spatial Data Branch
Extent Type: Continuing
Extent Start Date/Time: 2020

Process Steps

Process Step 1

CC ID: 1271824
Description:

Data collected in support of the NRDA were collected and managed in DIVER, an environmental data warehouse, platforms developed and maintained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Response and Restoration (ORR) Assessment and Restoration Division (ARD).

Process Contact: Office of Response and Restoration (ORR)
Source: NOAA

Child Items

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Catalog Details

Catalog Item ID: 70809
GUID: gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:70809
Metadata Record Created By: Adam Rotert
Metadata Record Created: 2023-09-11 22:10+0000
Metadata Record Last Modified By: Adam Rotert
Metadata Record Last Modified: 2023-09-29 20:39+0000
Metadata Record Published: 2023-09-29
Owner Org: ORR
Metadata Publication Status: Published Externally
Do Not Publish?: N
Metadata Last Review Date: 2023-09-29
Metadata Review Frequency: 1 Year
Metadata Next Review Date: 2024-09-29