biosearch_metadata_v2 eng; USA utf8 dataset John Starmer Coastal Resources Management Office 670-664-8300 670-664-8315 PO Box 10007 Saipan MP 96950 USA 7:30-16:30, GMT+10 pointOfContact 2020-03-29 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) BioSearch Marinelife Observer Program for the Northern Mariana Islands 2009-05-05 publication Coastal Resources Management Office originator tableDigital BioSearch is a volunteer monitoring program targeting recreational divers and boaters and designed to gather information about occurrences of large or rare vertebrates and unusual environmental events. To improve understanding of occurrences of rare species such as cetacean, sea turtles, sharks and rays in the waters of the CNMI. This work was funded in part by NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program. underDevelopment Coastal Resources Management Office 670-664-8303 670-664-8315 PO Box 10007 Saipan MP 96950 USA 7:30-16:30, GMT+10 pointOfContact monthly CoRIS_Metadata theme NCEI Geoportal Filter cetaceans bleaching sea turtles sharks bleaching Acanthaster divers theme None EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Vertebrates theme CoRIS Theme Thesaurus Numeric Data Sets > Biology theme CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus Saipan Rota Tinian place None COUNTRY/TERRITORY > Northern Mariana Islands > Saipan > Saipan Island (15N145E0002) OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Western Pacific Ocean > Saipan Island > Saipan Island (15N145E0002) OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Western Pacific Ocean > Rota Island > Rota Island ( Luta ) (14N145E0007) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > Northern Mariana Islands > Rota > Rota Island ( Luta ) (14N145E0007) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > Northern Mariana Islands > Tinian > Tinian Island (14N145E0005) OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Western Pacific Ocean > Tinian Island Reefs > Tinian Island (14N145E0005) place CoRIS Place Thesaurus CNMI place CoRIS Region Data set is not for us in litigation. While efforts have been made to ensure that these data are accurate and reliable within the state of the art, CRMO cannot assume liability for any damages or misrepresentations caused by any inaccuracies in the data, or as a result of the data to be used on a particular system. CRMO makes no warranty, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. otherRestrictions Use Constraints: Data set is not for us in litigation. While efforts have been made to ensure that these data are accurate and reliable within the state of the art, CRMO cannot assume liability for any damages or misrepresentations caused by any inaccuracies in the data, or as a result of the data to be used on a particular system. CRMO makes no warranty, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. otherRestrictions Access Constraints: None eng; USA biota 145.118153 145.854964 14.062272 15.309908 1995-02-23 Original program included focus on diver statistics, which has been dropped in the current program. The program includes observations collected by divers during dives and records from boat captains collected from diver descriptions or from surface based sightings. XLS (Microsoft Excel worksheet) Coastal Resources Management Office 670-664-8300 670-664-8315 PO Box 10007 Saipan MP 96950 USA 7:30-16:30, GMT+10 distributor None http://www.cnmicoralreef.net/rp/biosearch.xls information dataset Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report Geographical positions determined by site names Horizontal Positional Accuracy Estimated based on most dive sites having specific entry points and 300 m being a conservative estimate of divers' ranges. meters 300 Vertical Positional Accuracy Report Depths determined by Depth gauges Vertical Positional Accuracy Assumed accuracy of commercial depth gauges. meters 1 Not all fields are filled in by all observers. The quantity of data filled out by boat log sitings versus divelogs differs. The quantity of data filled out by boat log sitings versus divelogs differs. Volunteer observers provided filled out forms and submitted them to the program Data were entered into a spreadsheet and original entries were verified with observers in cases where observations were called into question by data managers. annually This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Biological Data Profile of the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard (version FGDC-STD-001.1-1999) using the 2016-01-11 version of the FGDC RSE to ISO 19115-2 transform. Translated from FGDC 2025-03-24T13:28:35.066Z Last Metadata Review Date: 2009-06-03 John Starmer Coastal Resources Management Office 670-664-8300 670-664-8315 PO Box 10007 Saipan MP 96950 USA 7:30-16:30, GMT+10 pointOfContact