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Steller sea lion haulout and rookery locations in the United States for 2016-05-14 (NCEI Accession 0129877)

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Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) use terrestrial sites for reproduction, resting, molting, and other activities. Sites used during the breeding season (May-August) where pupping occurs are rookeries; haulouts are sites used outside of the breeding season, and by primarily non-breeding adults and other ages throughout the year. The NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center National Marine Mammal Laboratory (NMML) Alaska Ecosystem Program (AEP) maintains a list of known Steller sea lion terrestrial sites in the United States portion of the sea lion range. This dataset contains site names with corresponding geographic coordinates of 472 consistently-used and known Steller sea lion haul sites. The site names are consistent throughout NMML data products and can be used to provide geospatial referencing for other NMML dataset products and publications. For legal descriptions of sites listed as Critical Habitat under the Endangered Species Act, refer to 50 CFR 226.202.
Regions are commonly referred to in NMML dataproducts and manuscripts, and in NMFS policy and management documents. Metapopulation structure in Alaska is described by: York AE, Merrick RL, and Loughlin TR (1996). An analysis of the Steller sea lion metapopulation in Alaska. In: Metapopulations and Wildlife Conservation, Island Press, Washington DC 259-292.
  • Cite as: Fritz, Lowell; Sweeney, Kathryn; Towell, Rod; Gelatt, Tom (2015). Steller sea lion haulout and rookery locations in the United States for 2016-05-14 (NCEI Accession 0129877). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.7289/v58c9t7v. Accessed [date].
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Time Period 2015-05-14 to 2015-05-14
Spatial Bounding Box Coordinates
West: 172.465
East: -120.666
South: 34.899
North: 63.677
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General Documentation
Associated Resources
  • Steller sea lion locations and adult and pup counts collected during terrestrial, aerial, ship, and unoccupied aircraft surveys of rookeries and major haulouts in Alaska during the Steller sea lion aerial survey project from 1904 to 2019
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    • Parent ID (indicates this dataset is related to other data):
    • gov.noaa.nodc:AFSC-StellerSeaLion
Publication Dates
  • publication: 2015-07-13
  • revision: 2016-06-07
Data Presentation Form Digital table - digital representation of facts or figures systematically displayed, especially in columns
Dataset Progress Status Complete - production of the data has been completed
Historical archive - data has been stored in an offline storage facility
Data Update Frequency As needed
Supplemental Information
Submission Package ID: M1J8Y5
Purpose The main purpose of this dataset is to provide a consistent list of known Steller sea lion terrestrial sites for population surveys, other research, and management actions.
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Dataset Citation
  • Cite as: Fritz, Lowell; Sweeney, Kathryn; Towell, Rod; Gelatt, Tom (2015). Steller sea lion haulout and rookery locations in the United States for 2016-05-14 (NCEI Accession 0129877). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.7289/v58c9t7v. Accessed [date].
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Theme keywords NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS NODC OBSERVATION TYPES THESAURUS WMO_CategoryCode
  • oceanography
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords Originator Keywords
  • Eumetopias jubatus
  • Steller sea lion
  • haulout
  • otariid
  • pinniped
  • rookery
Data Center keywords NODC COLLECTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS NODC SUBMITTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords
Instrument keywords NODC INSTRUMENT TYPES THESAURUS Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Instrument Keywords
Place keywords NODC SEA AREA NAMES THESAURUS Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords Originator Place Names
  • Alaska
  • Aleutian Islands
  • Bering Sea
  • California
  • Gulf of Alaska
  • North Pacific
  • Oregon
  • Prince William Sound
  • Washington
Project keywords NODC PROJECT NAMES THESAURUS
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Use Constraints
  • Cite as: Fritz, Lowell; Sweeney, Kathryn; Towell, Rod; Gelatt, Tom (2015). Steller sea lion haulout and rookery locations in the United States for 2016-05-14 (NCEI Accession 0129877). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.7289/v58c9t7v. Accessed [date].
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Processing Steps
  • 2015-07-13T18:01:14Z - NCEI Accession 0129877 v1.1 was published.
  • 2015-07-29T18:05:12Z - NCEI Accession 0129877 was revised and v1.2 was published.
    Rationale: Additional metadata files were received or created for this dataset. These updates were copied into the about/ directory of this accession. These updates may provide additional files or replace obsolete files. This version contains the most complete and up-to-date representation of this archival information package. All of the files received prior to this update are available in the preceding version of this accession.
  • 2016-06-07T16:34:09Z - NCEI Accession 0129877 was revised and v2.3 was published.
    Rationale: Updates were received for this dataset. These updates were copied into the data/0-data/ directory of this accession. These updates may provide additional files or replace obsolete files. This version contains the most complete and up-to-date representation of this archival information package. All of the files received prior to this update are available in the preceding version of this accession.
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Processing Steps
  • 2015-04-22T00:00:00 - NOAA created the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) by merging NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), and National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), including the National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC), per the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, Public Law 113-235. NCEI launched publicly on April 22, 2015.
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  • GPS
  • visual observation
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