ASC Data Repository
The North Pacific Pelagic Seabird Database (NPPSD) is maintained by the USGS Alaska Science Center and includes survey transect data designed and conducted by numerous partners primarily to census seabirds at sea. The data provided here relate to observations of marine birds and mammals observed during at-sea surveys throughout the North Pacific including the Arctic Ocean, Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, and Barents Sea. This data release contains 5 tables including observation data, survey locations, taxonomic designations of observed birds and mammals, summary information about each dataset added to the database, and a table showing changes made to the database from version 4.0 to 4.1.
Version History:First release: August 2005Revised: August 2015 (ver. 2.0)Revised: February 2020 (ver. 3.0)Revised: January 2023 (ver. 4.0)Revised: May 2023 (ver. 4.1)
Drew, G. S. and J. F. Piatt. 2015. User's Guide to the North Pacific Pelagic Seabird Database 2.0. USGS Open-File Report 2015-1123, 52 p. doi:10.3133/ofr20151123
Arimitsu, M. L., J. F. Piatt, J. T. Thorson, K. J. Kuletz, G. S. Drew, S. K. Schoen, D. A. Cushing, C. Kroeger, and W. J. Sydeman. 2023. Joint spatiotemporal models to predict seabird densities at sea. Frontiers in Marine Science 10:1078042. doi:10.3389/fmars.2023.1078042
DataID: 1 | doi:10.5066/F7WQ01T3 | Date Posted Online: 2015-07-10 | Last Updated: 2023-05-08 13:25:26
