Humpback Whale Core Habitat, 2015 Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan
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- Originator: Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management
- Publication_Date: 20150106
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Humpback Whale Core Habitat, 2015 Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan
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- Online_Linkage: <http://www.mass.gov/eea/mop>
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Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
- Publication_Date: 20150106
- Title: 2015 Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan
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These data represent the humpback whale core habitat special, sensitive, or unique (SSU) resource mapped in the 2015 Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan. Humpback whales are both a state and federally listed endangered species that regularly use Massachusetts waters for feeding. The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) obtained humpback whale sightings per unit effort (SPUE) data from 1998-2014. A start date of 1998 was chosen for the analysis because: 1) it was the beginning of regular, concentrated aerial surveys of Cape Cod Bay by the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies (PCCS), and 2) work by PCCS has shown a statistically significant increase in the use of Cape Cod Bay by the locally co-occurring North Atlantic right whale from 2002 to 2013. Bob Kenney created the SPUE data by analyzing effort and sightings data from the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium. He then provided CZM with humpback whale SPUE data in an area covering a similar region as the humpback whale data used for the 2009 ocean plan, with the exception of some additional data to the west of the study area in order to capture all of Massachusetts state waters and south in order to capture the Massachusetts Wind Energy Area. As in the 2009 ocean plan, the SPUE data were binned into 5 x 5 minute grid cells (roughly 7 x 9 km) with the sightings data assigned to the centroid of each cell. The gridded SPUE data were then interpolated using the Natural Neighbor tool in ArcGIS 10.2. The interpolated humpback whale SPUE data were then classified into five classes. The top two classes were chosen as the SSU resource area in order to be consistent with the 2009 protocol.
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These data were used in the development of the 2015 Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan.
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The Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan protects critical marine habitat and important water-dependent uses and sets standards for new ocean-based development. In response to the Oceans Act of 2008, the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) issued the original ocean plan in December 2009. The Oceans Act requires EEA to review and update the ocean plan at least once every five years. The 2015 Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan, released on January 6, 2015, is the first formal amendment to the 2009 ocean plan. These data were produced to support the development of the 2015 ocean plan.
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- Place_Keyword: Atlantic Ocean
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CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > MASSACHUSETTS
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None. These data are in the public domain. GIS files are freely available for download.
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Public domain data from the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM), an agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA), are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management as the source of these data. You are not permitted to use CZM's name or to suggest that CZM endorses your project or product, without its express written consent. While efforts have been made to ensure that these data are accurate and reliable within the state of the art, CZM cannot assume liability for any damages or misrepresentation caused by any inaccuracies in the data or as a result of changes to the data caused by system transfers. The user must be aware of data conditions and bear responsibility for the appropriate use of these data with respect to possible errors, original map scale, collection methodology, currency of data, and other conditions specific to these data. NOAA mandated language per federal Data Quality Act (DQA): These environmental data and related items of information have not been formally disseminated by NOAA and do not represent and should not be construed to represent any agency determination, view, or policy.
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- Address: 251 Causeway Street, Suite 800
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- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: czm@state.ma.us
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These spatial data were created by the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA).
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This dataset contains the entire spatial extent of the SSU resource in the planning area.
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- Originator: Robert D. Kenney
- Publication_Date: 20140710
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Humpback Whale Sightings per Unit Effort (SPUE) Data in and Adjacent to Massachusetts Waters 1998-2014
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Using data from the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium, Bob Kenney conducted a sightings per unit effort (SPUE) analysis for humpback whales on all appropriate aerial and vessel survey data from Massachusetts waters and nearby for the years 1998–2013. For this analysis, all of the individual effort segments within a 5x5-minute grid cell were summed for each year from 1998 to 2013 and for all years combined. The numbers of animals sighted per 5x5-minute grid cell were summed for each year from 1998 to 2013 and for all years combined. The number of animals sighted within each cell was divided by the corresponding effort value, then multiplied by 1,000 to avoid very small decimal values. The SPUE data were assigned to the centroid of each cell and provided to CZM as a table. Bob Kenney later provided a table of additional SPUE data from June 22, 2013 through February 28, 2014. These data were from surveys funded by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC). CZM merged the original SPUE data from Bob Kenney and the data from the MassCEC surveys for this analysis.
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1. Interpolated the SPUE data by running the Natural Neighbor tool with the output cell size set to 250 m and the snap raster environment set to the 250 x 250-m planning area grid.
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2. To more accurately classify the data, multiplied the interpolated SPUE data by 100 and converted to integers using the Raster Calculator tool. The following map algebra expression was used: Int(("raster" + 0.005) * 100.00)
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3. Reclassified the data into five classes using the quantile classification method.
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4. Selected and converted the top two classes to polygons using the Raster to Polygon tool.
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6. Clipped the data to the Massachusetts Ocean Management Planning Area using the Clip tool.
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Although every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of these data, errors and conditions originating from physical sources used to develop these data may be reflected in the data supplied. The client must be aware of data conditions and bear responsibility for the appropriate use of the information with respect to possible errors, original map scale, collection methodology, currency of data, and other conditions specific to certain data. In no event shall CZM be liable for any damages, whether general, special, incidental or consequential damages, arising out of your use of these data. Your sole remedy for damages is to stop using the data. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless CZM and its employees against any claim, loss, liability or expense, including attorneys' fees, resulting from loss of or damage to property or the injury to or death of any person arising out of the use of the data. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the CZM.
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