PIROP Northwest Atlantic

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Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Canadian Wildlife Service

Publication_Date: 20060321 18:32:1505

Title: PIROP Northwest Atlantic

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Series_Name: OBIS-SEAMAP

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Publication_Place: http://seamap.env.duke.edu/

Publisher: OBIS-SEAMAP

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Online_Linkage: http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/index_e.cfm

Description:

Abstract:

The PIROP (Programme Intégré de recherches sur les oiseaux pélagiques) data set, Atlantic subset, consists of geo-referenced vessel-based surveys to monitor pelagic seabirds. Most surveys were carried out by R.G. B. Brown from 'vessels of opportunity' supplied by the Bedford Institute for Oceanography (BIO) in Dartmouth/Halifax, but many other platforms and observers were used, too. During these surveys observations other than seabirds were also recorded, e.g. Waterfowl, Waterbirds, Songbirds, Raptors, Owls, Sea Mammals, and other sightings of interest (weather, oceanography, vessel activities, bird behaviour, etc.). The data collection period covers all seasons of 1966-1992, with most surveys being conducted between (late) summers of 1975-1987. The survey protocol originally consisted of unlimited width 10min transects, but was changed appr. 1984 towards a Tasker et al. (1984) type of survey (fixed-width strip transect). However, data and results from the PIROP database need to be interpreted as relative, and not absolute, abundance. The PIROP data were collected for Canadian seabird monitoring purposes, focusing on the Canadian Atlantic, but also on other areas relevant to Canadian birds such as waters off Peru, off West Africa and off Europe. SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: Puffinus creatopus (Pink-footed Shearwater; ITIS: 174547) observed on 1982-08-16 12:00:00 at 53.9000:-55.5000 (id=151664) changed to Procellariidae (Shearwaters; ITIS: 174532) as P. creatopus does not occur in the Atlantic. The PIROP data set is a large pool of seabird data, which got extended and modified over the years, e.g. due to changes of objectives and staff. Appr. in 1998 the data were merged by CWS-Dartmouth office with the Manomet Bird Observatory Seabird database, which cover mostly the Gulf of Maine region. CURRENTNESS REFERENCE: ground condition SPATIAL DATA ORGANIZATION INFORMATION Indirect Spatial Reference: Ship logs, stored at Bedford Institute for Oceanography Direct Spatial Reference: Point SDTS Point and Vector Object Type: Entity point Point and Vector Object Count: 10 minute transects: 73,628; Sightings: 223,942 SPATIAL REFERENCE INFORMATION - GEODETIC MODEL Horizontal Datum Name: D_WGS_1984 Ellipsoid Name: WGS_1984 Semi-major Axis: 6378137.000000 Denominator of Flattening Ratio: 298.257224 NATIVE: IBM PC and MacIntosh, specifically designed PIROP database software and entry mask (Huettmann and Lock 1997); it is also possible to use PIROP data with FoxPro or dbASE.

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Supplemental_Information:

REFERENCE: The following references refer to the PIROP database and present an overview about the structure, application and value of the data: -Brown R.G.B. 1967. Sea Birds off Halifax. Canadian Field-Naturalist 81:276-8. -Brown R.G.B. 1970. Fulmar distribution: a Canadian perspective. Ibis 111:44-51. -Brown, R.G.B. 1971. PIROP Instruction Manual. Canadian Wildlife Service, Dartmouth. -Brown R.G.B. 1973. Transatlantic migration of Fulmars from the European Arctic. Canadian Field-Naturalist 87:312-3. -Brown R.G.B. 1977. Atlas of eastern Canadian seabirds Supplement 1 Halifax-Bermuda transects. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa. -Brown R.G.B. 1979. Seabirds of the Senegal upwelling and adjacent waters. Ibis 121:283-92. -Brown R.G.B. 1984. Seabirds in the Greenland, Barents and Norwegian Seas, February-April 1982. Polar Research 2:1-18. -Brown R.G.B. 1986. Revised Atlas of Eastern Canadian Seabirds. Bedford Institute of Oceanography: Candian Wildlife Service, Ottawa. -Brown R.G.B. 1988. The Wing-moult of Fulmars and Shearwaters (Procellariidae) in Canadian Atlantic Waters. Canadian Field-Naturalist 102:203-8. -Brown R.G.B. 1991.Marine birds and climatic warming in the northwest Atlantic. In: Montevecchi W.A, Gaston A.J., eds. Studies of high-latitude seabirds.1.Behavioural, energetic, and oceanographic aspects of seabird feeding ecology. Volume Occasional Paper Number 1968. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa. -Brown R.G.B and D.N. Nettleship 1983. Seabird distribution studies. (Bedford Institute of Oceanography BIO Review '83). Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa.. -Brown R.G.B., Nettleship D.N., Germain P, Tull C.E., and Davis T. 1975. Atlas of eastern Canadian seabirds. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa. -Diamond A.W. 1985. A computer model of the energy demands of the seabirds of eastern and arctic Canada. Volume Final Report. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa. -Diamond A.W., Gaston A.J., and Brown R.G.B. 1986. Converting PIROP counts of seabirds at sea to absolute densities. Progress Notes No 164 -Diamond A.W., Gaston A.J., and Brown R.G.B.. 1993 Studies of high-latitude seabirds. 3.A model of the energy demands of the seabirds of eastern Arctic CanadaMontevecchi WA, ed. Occasional Paper Number 77. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa -Germain P., Brown R.G.B., and Tull C.E. 1973. Autumn seabird distribution in Canadian Arctic and Greenland waters. Studies on Northern Seabirds. Manuscript Report (No. Huettmann, F. 1997. TraPirp2: SQL PIROP import codes from ASCII Text into dBASE format. ACWERN (Atlantic Cooperative Wildlife Ecology Research Network), Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada. -Huettmann, F. 1998. An Ecological GIS Research Application for the Northern Atlantic-The PIROP Database Software, Environmental Data Sets and the Role of the Internet/WWW. In: Riekert W.-F. and Tochtermann K. (Eds.) Hypermedia im Umweltschutz Proceedings of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) and Forschungsinstitut für anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung (FAW) Ulm. Umwelt-Informatik aktuell; Bd.17, Metropolis Verlag/Marburg. pp. 213-217. -Huettmann F. 2000a. Environmental Determination of Seabird Distribution in the Northwest Atlantic. Atlantic Cooperative Ecology Wildlife Research Network (ACWERN). University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B./Canada -Huettmann, F. 2000b. Making use of public large-scale environmental databases from the WWW and a GIS for georeferenced prediction modelling: A research application using Generalized Linear Models, Classification and Regression Trees and Neural Networks. In: Tochtermann, K. and Riekert W.-F. (Eds.) Hypermedia im Umweltschutz Proceedings of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) and Forschungsinstitut für anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung (FAW) Ulm. Umwelt- Informatik aktuell; Bd.24, Metropolis Verlag/Marburg. pp. 308-312. -Huettmann F. 2000. Seabird migration in the Canadian North Atlantic: moulting locations and movement patterns of immatures. Canadian Journal of Zoology 33:1-25. -Huettmann, F. and Lock, T. 1997. A new software system for the PIROP database: data flow and an approach for a seabird-depth analysis. ICES Journal of Marine Science 54:518-23. -Huettmann, F. and Diamond, A.W. 2001a. Using PCA Scores to classify species communities: an example using seabird classifications at sea. Journal for Applied Statistics 28:843-853. -Huettmann F. and Diamond A.W. 2001b. Seabird colony locations and environmental determination of seabird distribution: A spatially explicit seabird breeding model in the Northwest Atlantic. Ecological Modelling 141: 261-298. -King, W.B., Watson, G.E. and Gould, P.J. 1967. An application of automatic data processing to the study of the world ocean. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum. 123, No 3609. -Lock A.R., Brown R.G.B., Gerriets S.H. 1994. Gazetteer of Marine Birds in Atlantic Canada. Canadian Wildlife Service, Dartmouth NS Canada

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Ending_Date: 19920930

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Progress: Complete

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ATTRIBUTE ACCURACY REPORT: Sightings are referenced to the observer, the specific cruise and ship name, ship speed, time and date. Accuracy of bird ID and bird numbers are reported and presented in the database. For geo-referencing, normally there was no GPS available (but LORAN and ship navigation); few scientific names and classification has changed, e.g. subspecies. LOGICAL CONSISTENCY REPORT: Methods apparently changed after 1984 to follow closer Tasker et al. (1984) (from unlimited width transects to 300m wide strip-transects: 150m left and right). However, interpretation of data as index of relative abundance should not be affected for most species (e.g. as long as fully comparable conditions and species detectability is less than 150m). Potential biases could occur when birds flying by (snapshot counts' sensu' Tasker et al. 1984; see behaviour codes). Varying ship heights can affect how far seabird at sea can be detected. As described in the database, some transects are differing in length <> 10min and search effort (view angle <> 180 degrees forward). A minute transect consist of individual sightings; however, it needs to be assumed that some observers reported pooled sightings by species or transects. PIROP Database is split into two data sets, linked with a unique key field. PIROP dataset is divided into 4 octants (hemispheres). Time reference is made to Greenwich Time, not local or ship time. Ship speed is recorded to calculate seabirds per km transect. COMPLETENESS REPORT: Transects with confirmed absence are reported; however, absence need to be queried for 10minute transects where a specific species occurs but not another one (see Huettmann and Diamond 2001). High-turnover of observers might have included noise in the data. Some data and PIROP Notes were stored at BIO tapes, which were only in part recovered. Last data collected by R.G.B. Brown in the early 1990s were included into PIROP, also ferry and boat surveys off Grand Manan by F. Huettmann in the late 1990s (details Tony Lock). HORIZONTAL POSITIONAL ACCURACY REPORT: Latitude and Longitude (seconds). The 10 minute seabird transects were geo-referenced (latitude longitude, no seconds reported) at the beginning of each transect by the observer according to the ship log. If necessary, locations of specific observations within the 10 minute transect could be roughly obtained by extrapolating distance traveled using ship speed information. VERTICAL POSITIONAL ACCURACY REPORT: Ship cruise on water. Altitudinal variations are caused by tidal changes (irrelevant, occurs seldom), waves or ship height (both relevant e.g. view height of observer to detect seabirds). LINEAGE/PROCESS STEP: PROCESS DESCRIPTION: PIROP was set up by Paul Germaine and R.G.B. Brown, folowing closely King et al. (1967). Data were collected in the field on paper and notebooks, and in the office coded and transcribed, and then checked. Earlier database versions were used, some data were stored on BIO tapes; now all data were transformed to the Visual FoxPro software by Tony Lock (CWS-Dartmouth and a contractor). Analytical tools, e.g. bins, were produced appr. 1994 in EXCEL by Steven Gerriets and Tony Lock. PIROP data were analysed by A.W. Diamond and processed and queried by Eric Woodsworth at CWS in Ottawa. A PIROP software and data-entry mask was produced by Tony Lock and contractors in 1998; coding was unified. Additional old data were frequently added, e.g. by Falk Huettmann in 1997. A hardcopy of all PIROP data (state: 1997) was produced by Falk Huettmann and is located at ACWERN (Atlantic Cooperative Wildlife Ecology Research Network) at the University of New Brunswick (UNB, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management). In 1998 the Manomet Bird Observatory Seabird-database was implemented by Tony Lock. 1999 PIROP was transferred to CWS-Sackville, John Chardine. PROCESS DATE: Transcription and Checking: Throughout entire period

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http://seamap.env.duke.edu/

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Ocean Biogeographic Information System - Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations (OBIS-SEAMAP)

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://www.iobis.org/

Access_Instructions:

Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://www.nbii.gov/portal/community/Communities/T...

Access_Instructions:

Biological Data Profile

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html

Access_Instructions:

ESRI Metadata Profile

Fees: Free

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20051024

Metadata_Review_Date: 20121220

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: EI FUJIOKA

Contact_Position: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Contact_Position: DIF AUTHOR

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: LSRC A321

Address: Box 90328

City: Durham

State_or_Province: NC

Postal_Code: 27708

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 919-613-8021

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 919-684-8741

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: efujioka@duke.edu

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time