Digital collection of aerial photographs from the Common Murre Restoration Project, 1997 (NCEI Accession 0037159)
The Common Murre Restoration Project is a comprehensive seabird restoration effort aimed at enhancing depleted seabird populations in central California, specifically those of the common murre (Uria aalge). The main focus of the project is to reestablish a colony of murres on a small seastack called Devil's Slide Rock, located along the San Mateo coast near Pacifica. This breeding colony held close to 3,000 murres as recently as the early 1980s, but was wiped out as a result of human-caused mortality. (from Common Murre Restoration Project web page, http://www.fws.gov/sfbayrefuges/Murre, which was last updated September 17, 2008)
To provide a baseline and to determine the efficacy of the restoration project, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Complex has taken photographic slides during aerial surveys of bird colonies since the mid 1980s. As part of the NOAA Climate Database Modernization Program funded project entitled "California Coastal Marine Ecosystem Surveys - Slide Imaging and Archiving (task order L-24)," a contractor scanned 35mm color slides taken during 1997 and created master (archival TIFF) and web-access (JPEG) images. NODC Accession 0037159 contains these images along with supporting documentation.
To provide a baseline and to determine the efficacy of the restoration project, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Complex has taken photographic slides during aerial surveys of bird colonies since the mid 1980s. As part of the NOAA Climate Database Modernization Program funded project entitled "California Coastal Marine Ecosystem Surveys - Slide Imaging and Archiving (task order L-24)," a contractor scanned 35mm color slides taken during 1997 and created master (archival TIFF) and web-access (JPEG) images. NODC Accession 0037159 contains these images along with supporting documentation.
Dataset Citation
- Cite as: McChesney, Gerry; US DOI > Fish and Wildlife Service - San Francisco Bay (2007). Digital collection of aerial photographs from the Common Murre Restoration Project, 1997 (NCEI Accession 0037159). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0037159. Accessed [date].
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Time Period | 1997-05-08 to 1997-07-10 |
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Supplemental Information | NODC Accessions 0015544 and 0037160 contain images from slides taken in 1996 and 1998, respectively, during aerial surveys by the Common Murre Restoration Project. |
Purpose | In a cooperative data rescue effort, several collections of California coastal marine ecosystem surveys were scanned off photographic slides and indexed as part of the Climate Database Modernization Program (CDMP) of the National Climatic Data Center in 2005. The project supported three NOAA Climate Mission Goal performance objectives as stated in the NOAA FY2005-FY2010 Strategic Plan: (1) Understand and predict the consequences of climate variability and change on marine ecosystems; (2) Describe and understand the state of the climate system through integrated observations, analysis, and data stewardship; and (3) Increase number and use of climate products and services to enhance public and private sector decision making. These data slides of critical coastal habitats and documented restoration efforts were digitized in archival format to prevent critical data loss from original media damage and degradation, and to facilitate their distribution and use by researchers world-wide. |
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