SCCWRP Bight'98 Survey
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Metadata:
- Identification_Information:
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- Citation:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: Southern California Coastal Water Resources Project
- Publication_Date: 2000
- Title: SCCWRP Bight'98 Survey
- Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Digital vector data
- Publication_Information:
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- Publication_Place: Westminster, CA
- Publisher: Southern California Coastal Water Resources Project
- Online_Linkage: <http://www.sccwrp.org>
- Description:
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- Abstract:
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See original metadata at <http://www.sccwrp.org/data/1998_bight_survey.html>
- Purpose:
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See original metadata at <http://www.sccwrp.org/data/1998_bight_survey.html>
- Time_Period_of_Content:
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- Time_Period_Information:
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- Single_Date/Time:
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- Calendar_Date: 1998
- Currentness_Reference: Publication date
- Status:
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- Progress: Complete
- Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
- Spatial_Domain:
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- Bounding_Coordinates:
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- West_Bounding_Coordinate: -120.49462
- East_Bounding_Coordinate: -116.63750
- North_Bounding_Coordinate: 34.45900
- South_Bounding_Coordinate: 31.75110
- Keywords:
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- Theme:
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- Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
- Theme_Keyword: Oceans and Estuaries
- Theme_Keyword: Location
- Theme_Keyword: GeoscientificInformation
- Theme:
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- Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus:
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NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keyword. Version 5.3.3
- Theme_Keyword: Marine Sediment
- Theme_Keyword: Sedimentary Textures
- Theme_Keyword: Sedimentary Composition
- Place:
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- Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Geographic Names Information System
- Place_Keyword: California
- Access_Constraints: None
- Use_Constraints: Cite SCCWRP as the originators of the data.
- Point_of_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Person_Primary:
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- Contact_Person: Larry Cooper
- Contact_Organization:
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Southern California Coastal Water Research
Project (SCCWRP)
- Contact_Position: Information Manager
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing address
- Address: 7171 Fenwick Lane
- City: Westminster
- State_or_Province: California
- Postal_Code: 92683
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: (714) 894-2222
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (714) 894-9699
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: larryc@sccwrp.org
- Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday Through Friday
- Contact_Instructions: E-mail preferred
- Browse_Graphic:
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- Browse_Graphic_File_Name: SCCWRP98
- Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Sample locations with land for reference
- Browse_Graphic_File_Type: .jpg
- Data_Set_Credit:
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For usSEABED, Jane Reid (USGS) concatenated the Station, Station Occupation, GrabEvent, and Grainsize datasets together based on sample name and location. Formatting corrections by Jane Reid (USGS) and Chris Jenkins (University of Colorado)
- Native_Data_Set_Environment:
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Tkme: Another editor for formal metadata by Peter N. Schweitzer (U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA 22092), version 2.9.13, Microsoft Windows Version 5.1; Microsoft Word 2000 9.0
- Data_Quality_Information:
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- Attribute_Accuracy:
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- Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
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See original metadata at <http://www.sccwrp.org/data/1998_bight_survey.html>
- Logical_Consistency_Report: The tables may be related by the StationID field
- Completeness_Report: Available chemical data not included in usSEABED.
- Positional_Accuracy:
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- Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
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- Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
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Navigation by handheld Magellan GPS, usually accurate within 100 feet. See original metadata.
- Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:
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- Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report: Accurate to 0.1 meters
- Lineage:
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- Process_Step:
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- Process_Description:
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For collection and analytical information, see original metadata provided at <http://www.sccwrp.org/data/1998_bight_survey.html>. For usSEABED, data provided by Larry Cooper, SCCWRP, were concatenated together based on sample name and location by K. Halimeda Kilbourne (USGS), formatted, and processed through the dbSEABED processing software.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: SCCWRP Bight98
- Process_Date: 1999
- Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: SCCWRP Bight98
- Process_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Person_Primary:
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- Contact_Person: Larry Cooper
- Contact_Organization: SCCWRP
- Contact_Position: Information Manager
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing address
- Address: 7171 Fenwick Lane
- City: Westminster
- State_or_Province: California
- Postal_Code: 92683
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: (714) 894-2222
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (714) 894-9699
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: larryc@sccwrp.org
- Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday Through Friday
- Contact_Instructions: E-mail preferred
- Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
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- Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
- Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
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- SDTS_Terms_Description:
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- SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Point
- Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 1674
- Spatial_Reference_Information:
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- Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
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- Geographic:
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- Latitude_Resolution: 0.00001
- Longitude_Resolution: 0.00001
- Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees
- Geodetic_Model:
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- Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983
- Ellipsoid_Name: Geodedic Reference System 80
- Semi-major_Axis: 6378137
- Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257
- Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
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- Overview_Description:
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- Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
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Those interested in these data should see the original metadata.
- Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: See <http://www.sccwrp.org/data/1998_bight_survey.html>
- Distribution_Information:
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- Distributor:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Person_Primary:
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- Contact_Person: Larry Cooper
- Contact_Organization: SCCWRP
- Contact_Position: Information manager
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing address
- Address: 7171 Fenwick Lane
- City: Westminster
- State_or_Province: California
- Postal_Code: 92683
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: (714) 894-2222
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (714) 894-9699
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: larryc@sccwrp.org
- Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday Through Friday
- Contact_Instructions: E-mail preferred
- Resource_Description:
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Bight'98 station nominal locations and statistical values, fish abundance and biomass, infaunal abundance, invertebrate abundance and biomass, and sediment chemistry.
- Distribution_Liability:
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Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at SCCWRP, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data. It is strongly recommended that these data are directly acquired from a SCCWRP server, and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. It is also strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data. SCCWRP shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein.
Although this dataset has been used by the USGS, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the USGS as to the accuracy of the data. Users of the data should be aware of limitations of the data due to possible imprecision due to navigational inaccuracies and limitations of the statistical data.
- Metadata_Reference_Information:
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- Metadata_Date: 2005
- Metadata_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Organization_Primary:
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- Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
- Contact_Person: Jane A. Reid
- Contact_Position: Geologist
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: Physical and mail
- Address: 400 Natural Bridges Drive
- City: Santa Cruz
- State_or_Province: CA
- Postal_Code: 95060
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 831-427-4727
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jareid@usgs.gov
- Contact_Instructions: email preferred
- Metadata_Standard_Name: CSDGM Version 2
- Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
- Metadata_Access_Constraints: None
- Metadata_Use_Constraints:
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Metadata was written by a user of the data. Any information contained in the physical report is authoritative and supersedes any information given here.
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