Description
This data set was collected by staff and students at Sea Education Association aboard the sailing/research vessel SSV Corwith Cramer as part of an undergraduate off-campus study program Sea Semester: Marine Biodiversity and Conservation. The cruise track was from St. Croix, USVI to New York, NY, with a stop in Bermuda. Most of the samples were collected using nets deployed along the cruise track on a daily basis.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 13 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is United States Geological Survey. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 689651c6-00ff-416a-b496-34d2630df7f9. United States Geological Survey publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation; Occurrence
Contacts
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
Geographic Coverage
Sargasso Sea transect from St. Croix USVI to New York City
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [18.172, -64.797], North East [28.38, -64.438] |
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Additional Metadata
marine, harvest by iOBIS
| Alternative Identifiers | 689651c6-00ff-416a-b496-34d2630df7f9 |
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| https://www1.usgs.gov/obis-usa/ipt/resource?r=sea_cruise_c247_2013 |