Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)

Data Sets

Services / Tools

Ancillary Descriptions

Are you using a browser that doesn't support JavaScript or have you disabled JavaScript?

If you have disabled JavaScript, you must re-enable JavaScript to use this page.
Or you can view this record using the Text Only Format.

Coastal Waterbird Program

Entry ID: gomc_164

[ Update this Record ]

Summary

Abstract: Mass Audubon's Coastal Waterbird Program (CWP) is one of the most
effective entities working to protect coastal birds and barrier beaches in New
England. The CWP was launched in 1987 in response to declining populations of
Piping Plovers and terns in Massachusetts, with the primary objective of
protecting these species' nesting areas throughout the state. This is
accomplished each year through cooperation with federal, state, and local
governing bodies, private and public landowners, Mass Audubon members, and the
public.

Type: Coastal

Purpose: Although the primary focus of the program is the protection of the
most threatened species of nesting birds, its mission is much broader. Today,
the program advocates for the protection of the entire coastal ecosystem in as
natural a state as possible. The program, therefore, works to protect the
natural quality of the state's coastal beaches, salt marshes, and tidelands,
which serves as habitats to 49 species of breeding birds and 112 species of
migratory or wintering birds. The populations of many of these once common
species, such as Sanderlings, have been declining dramatically in recent years
and must be included in these protection efforts.

Additional Information OR Comments: Contact Ellen Jedrey for data.

Related URL

Link: VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE

Description: Additional information about this monitoring program and data are available
from this web site.

Geographic Coverage

(Click for Interactive Map)

Spatial coordinates

N: 43.07

S: 41.06

E: -69.75

W: -73.68

Parent DIF

This data set description is a member of a collection. The collection is described in
DAVIS_STP

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2009-11-01

Stop Date: 2010-03-31

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > EASTERN HEMISPHERE

VERTICAL LOCATION > SEA FLOOR

Science Keywords

BIOSPHERE > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC HABITAT

BIOSPHERE > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > COASTAL HABITAT

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Platform

TERRA > Earth Observing System, TERRA (AM-1)

AQUA > Earth Observing System, AQUA

Instrument

MODIS > Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

Use Constraints Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Ancillary Keywords

Climate Diagnostics

NASA Code 610

Data Center

Scientific Visualization Studio, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

Data Center URL: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html

Data Center Personnel
Name: LORI PERKINS Email: lori.k.perkins at nasa.gov Contact Address: GSFC, Code 610.3 City: Greenbelt Province or State: MD Postal Code: 20771 Country: USA

Publications/References

Giglio, L., Loboda, T., Roy, D.P., Quayle, B., Justice, C.O. (2009), An active-fire based burned area mapping algorithm for the MODIS sensor, 113, 408-420, Remote Sensing of Environment, http://globalmonitoring.sdstate.edu/faculty/roy/giglio_etal_2009.pdf

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2011-11-10

Last DIF Revision Date: 2011-11-14

Reformat as FGDC document

View Text Only Format

[ Update this Record ]