TWM quadrant sightings by month 1999-2022

West Coast Regional Office
Data Set (DS) | ID: 72522 | Published / External
Created: 2024-04-26   |   Last Modified: 2024-04-30

Parent: Southern Resident Killer Whale (SRKW) Sightings
Project (PRJ) | ID: 72521

ID: 72522
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* » Title TWM quadrant sightings by month 1999-2022
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• Publication Date 2024-01-03
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The primary goal of the Southern Resident Killer Whale (SRKW) Sightings Dashboard is to provide a resource for individuals and organizations to determine appropriate marine mammal protections for SRKWs when constructing projects throughout the Puget Sound. Specifically, in conjunction with the known action area of a project, it can help determine whether a marine mammal monitoring plan (MMMP) is needed that includes orcas. The National Marine Fisheries Service uses this tool to determine necessary MMMPs for Endangered Species Act consultations, including projects under the Salish Sea Nearshore Programmatic Biological Opinion.
* Purpose

The Southern Resident Killer Whale (SRKW) Sightings feature layer is the data source for the SRKW Sightings Map and Dashboard. All reported SRKW sightings are assigned to 1 of 445 quadrants and are summarized by quadrant as the total number of unique sighting days per month and during 1999-2022. The source of the database containing all orca sightings is The Whale Museum (TWM) Orca Sightings.
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ISO 19115 Topic Category biota
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ISO 19115 Topic Category oceans
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Data Set Credit The Whale Museum (TWM), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Protected Resources Division, NMFS Central Puget Sound

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* » Date Effective From 2023-09-06
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Person Rudh, Nissa
Address 1201 NE Lloyd Blvd
Portland, OR 97232
Email Address nissa.rudh@noaa.gov
Phone 360-701-9699
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Organization West Coast Regional Office (WCRO)
Address 501 West Ocean Blvd
Long Beach, CA 90802-4213
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Person Horsman, Jennifer
Email Address jennifer.horsman@noaa.gov
Phone 719-966-4477
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Address 1201 NE Lloyd Blvd
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Email Address nissa.rudh@noaa.gov
Phone 360-701-9699
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Puget Sound, Salish Sea, SRKW Sightings

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* » E° Bound -122.165596
* » N° Bound 49.471218
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* » Start 1999-01-01 00:00:00+0000
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» Download URL https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=8f779d13d31449adb963837511bd5b95
Distributor West Coast Regional Office (WCRO) (2024-01-03 - Present)
File Name TWM_SRKW_sightings
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Citation Title The Whale Museum Southern Resident Killer Whale Sightings
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The primary data source in the SRKW Sighting Compilation is The Whale Museum's (TWM) sighting archives (TWM-SA) of year-round public sightings reported to The Whale Hotline or directly provided to Museum staff through several different channels. These channels include sighting compilations from the following: affiliated naturalists, scientists, commercial whale watch vessels, Orca Network email postings (www.orcanetwork.org), hydrophone detections from listeners to the Salish Sea Hydrophone Network (http://seasound.org and http://www.orcasound.org), and reliable reports from independent investigators and whale watchers. Other more systematic data sources collected during the summer season include: Dr. Robert Otis' longitudinal dataset from Lime Kiln Point State Park, Soundwatch Boater Education and Monitoring Program's 30-minute samples during on-water vessel patrols; and information from SPOT (satellite personal GPS) systems used by various whale watch and research boats from 2008-2018. A final source includes SRKW sightings via collaboration with Ocean Wise's Coastal Ocean Research Institute's B.C. Cetaceans Sightings Network (BCCSN), a primarily opportunistic sightings database from 1975-2022.
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1. Take all sightings from the whale museum database for years 1999-2022

2. Of all sightings in those years, remove those specified as transients, “not orcas”, Northern residents

3. Only keep sightings where the best guess at pod/whales identity contains one of the following - J|K|L|SR|SRKW|SWKW (all potential entries that indicate Southern Residents) and keep sightings only specified to “orca” or “orcas”

4. Of these sightings, look at sightings without a whale museum specified quadrant but with other location identifier (lat/long specified or fish area) to see where they land. NOTE: the whale museum includes a “fisharea” for sightings which are recreational fishing areas; we want sightings in commercial fishing areas. So, “Fisharea” recorded by the whale museum are the US recreational areas not commercial so larger than the management areas we’re looking at. Also, if they have a fish area with a “C”, this is not US commercial fishing areas that have C (like 12C, 13C, etc), these are Canada areas 12, 13 with a “C” for Canada

5. Filter to get number of “unique sightings days” - in other words, for every 4 sightings that have the same day, month, year, quadrant, and marine area, keep only 1.

6. Count the number of unique sightings in each quadrant for each month over the entire range of years (1999-2022)
Process Date/Time 2024-01-03 00:00:00
Process Contact Rudh, Nissa
Phone (Voice) 360-701-9699
Email Address nissa.rudh@noaa.gov
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  Entity (ENT) TWM_quad_sightings_1999_2022
     
     
     

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Catalog Details

Catalog Item ID 72522
Metadata Record Created By Jennifer Horsman
Metadata Record Created 2024-04-26 17:56+0000
Metadata Record Last Modified By David Crouse
» Metadata Record Last Modified 2024-04-30 20:38+0000
Metadata Record Published 2024-04-30
Owner Org WCRO
Metadata Publication Status Published Externally
Do Not Publish? N
Metadata Workflow State Published / External
Metadata Last Review Date 2024-04-30
Metadata Review Frequency 1 Year
Metadata Next Review Date 2025-04-30
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