mapping tools to support protected area management
DESCRIPTION
• Bathymetry• Biological and habitat information• Management zones• Oil and gas activities• Oceanographic data• Remotely-operated vehicle tracks• Underwater photographsTRANSCRIPT
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Mapping tools from:
Mapping Tools to Support Protected Area Management
Mapping tools from:
Flower Garden Banks NMSGeo-Platform
Stellwagen Bank NMS
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Flower Gardens Map Tool
• Bathymetry
• Biological and habitat information
• Management zones
• Oil and gas activities
• Oceanographic data
• Remotely-operated vehicle tracks
• Underwater photographs
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Underwater Image Functions
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www.geoplatform.gov
• Powered by Environmental Response Management Application® (ERMA)
• Web-based Geographic Information System (GIS) tool for emergency responders and resource managers emergency responders and resource managers
• Response operations for Deepwater Horizon spill
• Updated daily
• Partnership - NOAA and the University of New Hampshire's Coastal Response Research Center
• Designed by NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration, UNH, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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First Level Data Layers
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Weather Functions
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Spill Support Functions
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Spatial Resolution
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Here we are
StellwagenBank
Cape Ann
Atlantic
Stellwagen Bank
Bank NMS
2,188 square km
Boston
Cape Cod
AtlanticOcean
MASSACHUSETTS
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Ship Strikes
Distribution of Ship Strikes for SBNMS Ship Strikes for Baleen Whales
Locations inferred from Jensen & Silber 2003
SBNMS
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Why are Right Whales So Vulnerable to Ship Strikes?
• Slow• Coastal distribution• High % of time in upper 20 m
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Red = highest density Blue = lowest densityBaleen Whales Distribution: 1979 - 2004
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Shipping Lane/Traffic Separation Scheme
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Whale tagging team and equipment
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DTAG on humpback whale
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Side rolls
Fluking
DivingGliding
Surface Swimming
Side rolls on bottom
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Whale Tagging & Tracking
Gliding
Surface Swimming
Side rolls
Fluking
Diving
Rising
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GOALShift the TSS to an area where whale density is
historically lower.
Red = highest density Blue = lowest densityBaleen Whales Distribution: 1979 - 2004
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Sediment ClassificationOld TSS New TSS
36%48%16%
MudSandGravel
MudSandGravel
35%16%49%
Less Feeding Area traversed by New TSS
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Shipping lanes moved in 2007 to reduce the risk of ship strike to whalesstrike to whales
81% all whales
58% right whales
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Compliance
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http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov