Sea Otter Spraint Data from Kachemak Bay, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Kenai Fjords National Park and Prince William Sound

Current Citation: U.S. Geological Survey - Alaska Science Center, National Park Service - Southwest Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network, University of Alaska Fairbanks - College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, 2022. Sea otter spraint data from Kachemak Bay, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Kenai Fjords National Park and Prince William Sound (ver 3.0, November 2023): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9EDM6NL
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Version 1.0 posted online July 14, 2022

Original citation: U.S. Geological Survey - Alaska Science Center, National Park Service - Southwest Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network, University of Alaska Fairbanks - College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, 2022. Sea otter spraint data from Kachemak Bay, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Kenai Fjords National Park and Prince William Sound: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9EDM6NL

Appended:
-Created a new data release for sea otter spraint; this data set has never been released.

Data:
One ZIP packages containing: sea otter spraint data (.csv, .xml, .html). 

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Version 2.0 posted online March 2023

Citation: U.S. Geological Survey - Alaska Science Center, National Park Service - Southwest Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network, University of Alaska Fairbanks - College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, 2022. Sea otter spraint data from Kachemak Bay, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Kenai Fjords National Park and Prince William Sound (ver 2.0, March 2023): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9EDM6NL

Overview:
Tables consisting of 1) invertebrate species presence in sea otter spraint and 2) project collaborators.

Appended: Added spraint data from 1997-2005 and 2022. 

Data:
KBAYKATMKEFJWPWS_1997-2022_Sea_Otter_Spraint.csv
KBAYKATMKEFJWPWS_1997-2022_Sea_Otter_Spraint_Contributors.csv

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Version 3.0 posted online November 2023

Appended: Incorporated spraint data collected during the 2023 field season.
	  Updated site names and haulout names to reduce confusion and eliminate null values for these columns.

Data:
KBAYKATMKEFJWPWS_1997-2023_Sea_Otter_Spraint.csv
KBAYKATMKEFJWPWS_1997-2023_Sea_Otter_Spraint_Contributors.csv