TY - RPRT
TI - Wildlife Densities and Habitat Use Across Temporal and Spatial Scales on the Mid-Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (2012-2014)
AU - Williams, K
AU - Connelly, E
AU - Johnson, S
AU - Stenhouse, J
AB - The Mid-Atlantic Baseline Studies Project was funded by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind and Water Power Technologies Office in 2011, with additional support from a wide range of partners. The study was intended to help address environmental barriers to offshore wind energy development in the mid-Atlantic region and promote the incorporation of environmental data into siting and permitting processes. The study goal was to provide regulators, developers, and other stakeholders with comprehensive baseline ecological data and analyses that could help address environmental permitting requirements for current and future projects, and would serve as a starting point for more site-specific studies. In particular, we produced information that could be used to identify: 1) important wildlife areas, 2) data gaps, and 3) approaches for collecting and incorporating natural resource data into decision making. To address this goal, project funders and collaborators from a range of academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, federal agencies, foundations, and private companies came together to study bird, sea turtle, and marine mammal distributions, densities, and movements on the mid-Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf between 2012 and 2014. The specific study area in the mid-Atlantic was chosen because it was viewed as a likely region for near-term wind energy development offshore of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, particularly within three federally designated Wind Energy Areas (WEAs).To access the full-color summary report including project goals, activities, and an overview of the results from the final technical report for the Mid-Atlantic Baseline Studies Project, click here: Mid-Atlantic Wildlife Studies: Distribution and Abundance of Wildlife along the Eastern Seaboard 2012-2014.Below are the individual sections of the final technical report:Table of Contents and Executive SummaryChapter 1: Ecosystem background and project activitiesChapter 2: Synthesis of project findingsIntroduction to Part II: Examining wildlife distributions and relative abundance from a digital video aerial survey platformChapter 3: High resolution digital video aerial survey methodsChapter 4: High resolution digital video aerial survey data protocolsChapter 5: Summary of high resolution digital video aerial survey dataChapter 6: Recommendations for high resolution digital video aerial surveys in the U.S.Introduction to Part III: Examining wildlife distributions and abundance using boat-based surveysChapter 7: Boat survey protocol for Mid-Atlantic Baseline StudiesChapter 8: Summary of boat survey dataChapter 9: Monitoring aquatic biomass via hydroacoustics: echo sounding data processing and summary of resultsChapter 10: Spatial association between seabirds and prey on the mid-Atlantic Outer Continental ShelfChapter 11: A community distance sampling model to investigate the abundance and distribution of seabirdsChapter 12: Predicting the offshore distribution and abundance of marine birds from shipboard surveys, using a hierarchical community distance sampling modelIntroduction to Part IV: Integrating data across survey platformsChapter 13: Integrating novel and historical survey methods: a comparison of standardized boat-based and digital video aerial surveys for marine wildlife in the United StatesChapter 14: Summary of boat and aerial datasets: comparison between survey methodsChapter 15: Density modeling for marine mammals and sea turtles with environmental covariatesChapter 16: Modeling species assignment in strip transect surveys with uncertain species identificationChapter 17: Integrating data across survey methods to identify spatial and temporal patterns in wildlife distributionsChapter 18: Comparison of boat and aerial models of seabird abundance with environmental covariatesChapter 19: Developing an integrated model of marine bird distributions with environmental covariates using boat and digital video aerial survey data *This chapter is in draft formIntroduction to Part V: Individual movements and habitat use for focal bird speciesChapter 20: Wintering movements and habitat use of Surf Scoter (Melanitta perspicillata) in the mid-Atlantic U.S.Chapter 21: Wintering movements and habitat use of Red-throated Loons (Gavia stellata) in the mid-Atlantic U.S.Chapter 22: Wintering movements and habitat use of Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) in the mid-Atlantic U.S.Chapter 23: Incorporating temporal variation in seabird telemetry data: time variant kernel density modelsChapter 24: Using state-space models to identify areas of persistent winter activity and their associated environmental covariates in Northern GannetsChapter 25: Offshore migration of Peregrine Falcons (Falco peregrinus) along the Atlantic FlywayIntroduction to Part VI: Nocturnal avian migration monitoringChapter 26: Passive acoustics pilot study: nocturnal avian migration in the mid-AtlanticChapter 27: Using WSR-88 weather radar to identify patterns of nocturnal avian migration in the offshore environment
DA - 2015/10//
PY - 2015
SP - 814
PB - Biodiversity Research Institute
SN - BRI2015-11
UR - https://briwildlife.org/mabs/reports/
LA - English
KW - Birds
KW - Seabirds
KW - Marine Mammals
KW - Reptiles
ER -