U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1351
USGS Cold-Water Coral Geographic Database—Gulf of Mexico and Western North Atlantic Ocean, Version 1.0
Figure 7C. These four screen shots show examples of typical search results obtained by using the CoWCoG database. A search for Lophelia pertusa, identified by Waller in the Gulf of Mexico, yields the one record, in the spreadsheet at the top (Figures 7A and 7B). Clicking on the record number brings up the Sample Data window. The user can toggle between a map of the selected record (Figure 7A) or a photograph of the actual specimen (Figure 7B) in the Sample Data window. Additional clicks of highlighted fields in the spreadsheet or the Sample Data window open windows with details about taxonomy (Figure 7B), citation (Figure 7A), cruise (Figure 7A), and reporter (Figure 7B). A new search for all records for corals in water depths greater than 2000 m returns 47 records, the partial list shown in Figure 7C. Clicking on the View Map button brings up the Search Results Map (Figure 7D), where the user can select a point on the map (yellow dot, Figure 7D) and bring up the Sample Data page with a closeup map showing only the selected point (foreground, Figure 7D). In this example, the locations of six entries were very close to the selected point. The Sample Data window automatically displays the message in red: “Sample 1 of 6 Selected” and a Next button appears so that the entries can be viewed in rapid succession.
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