Manatee Mortality GIS Data

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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Publication_Date: Unknown
Title: Manatee Mortality GIS Data
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Online_Linkage: <http://geodata.myfwc.com>
Description:
Abstract:
GIS shapefile of recovered manatee carcass locations within Florida from April 1974 through to the latest spatially verified data presently available. Locations are based both on coordinates provided by field staff (gathered either by GPS or by using navigation charts to ascertain latitudes and longitudes) and maps provided by the field staff. FWRI GIS staff in the Marine Mammal subsection verify that the provided coordinates match the intent of the plotted location. Points representing carcass locations were entered into a GIS using a digital shoreline basemap taken largely from NOAA navigation charts (1:40,000) and from USGS quadrangles (1:24,000). The scale is considered to be 1:40,000.
Purpose:
The primary use of this data set is to display reported manatee carcass recovery locations and associated attributes, such as cause of death.
Supplemental_Information:
Prior to July 1, 2004, the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) was known as the Florida Marine Research Institute (FMRI).
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 19740401
Ending_Date: Present
Currentness_Reference: 1974/04/01 - present
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Continually
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -91.320014
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -79.049122
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 31.035311
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 24.282956
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: FWRI Theme
Theme_Keyword: Endangered species
Theme_Keyword: GIS
Theme_Keyword: Mortality
Theme_Keyword: Manatees
Theme_Keyword: Biology
Theme_Keyword: Threatened and endangered (turtles, whales, manatees, sturgeon)
Theme_Keyword: Marine mammals
Theme_Keyword: Death
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: Operational Tiers
Theme_Keyword: Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Theme_Keyword: Wildlife Research
Theme_Keyword: Marine Mammal Research
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: FWRI Place
Place_Keyword: Florida
Place_Keyword: Atlantic Ocean
Place_Keyword: Gulf of Mexico
Access_Constraints:
All data must be verified by Principal Investigator or Group Database Analyst prior to release. It is strongly recommended that this data is directly acquired from FWC and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. FWC makes no claims as to the data's suitability for other purposes.
Use_Constraints:
Acknowledgment of the FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Fish and Wildlife Research Institute) as the data source would be appreciated in any products developed from these data, and such acknowledgment as is standard for citation and legal practices for data source is expected by users of this data. Please cite the original metadata when using portions of the record to create a similar record of slightly altered data, such as reprojection. If any data are modified or adjusted, please share the edited information with FWC. Users should be aware that mapping these data with data sources other than those that match the source and scale of our digital shoreline basemap may be inaccurate. FWC shall not be liable for improper or incorrect use of this data. These data are not legal documents and are not to be used as such.
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization:
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Address: Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Address: 100 8th Ave. SE
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: metadata@MyFWC.com
Browse_Graphic:
Browse_Graphic_File_Name:
https://mermaid.ncddc.noaa.gov/fwc/fwri/wr/mmr/Manatees/Manatee_20-020_MRGIS/idinfo/browse/counties_24k_poly_withH2O.jpg
Browse_Graphic_File_Description: image of study area
Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG
Data_Set_Credit: FWC-FWRI
Native_Data_Set_Environment: ESRI GIS shapefile

Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
Manatee carcass recovery locations are verified by field staff responsible for recovering carcasses and using necropsy reports prepared by the Marine Mammal Pathobiology Lab and through quality control using steps using ArcGIS.
Logical_Consistency_Report: Logically consistent.
Completeness_Report:
Data set is continually updated with the most recent manatee carcass recovery information gathered by the FWC throughout the state of Florida.
Lineage:
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
A shapefile is created in ArcGIS from select fields in the manatee mortality database with the specific location or locality description of where the manatee carcass was recovered from. Once verified, monthly mortality data are appended to the master file and renamed with the following format: manatee_mortality_YYMM.shp.
Process_Date: Not complete

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Indirect_Spatial_Reference:
Data retrieved from the geodata.myfwc.com are projected to Web Mercator. Data received directly from FWC staff remain in the custom PCS Albers projection (detailed in the Spatial Reference Information section).
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Point
Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
SDTS_Terms_Description:
SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Point

Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Planar:
Map_Projection:
Map_Projection_Name: Albers Conical Equal Area
Albers_Conical_Equal_Area:
Standard_Parallel: 24
Standard_Parallel: 31.5
Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -84
Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 24
False_Easting: 400000
False_Northing: 0
Planar_Coordinate_Information:
Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair
Coordinate_Representation:
Abscissa_Resolution: 0.002095
Ordinate_Resolution: 0.002095
Planar_Distance_Units: meters
Geodetic_Model:
Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major_Axis: 6378137
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: manatee_mortality_YYMM.shp
Entity_Type_Definition: shapefile
Entity_Type_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: FIELDID
Attribute_Definition:
Unique Field ID assigned to each manatee carcass recovered. This ID is used to identify the region of Florida, year and chronological order within that year for the region of Florida where the carcass was recovered. Exceptions include animals that were rescued, then died while in the care of an oceanaria facility, which include Sea World (SWFTm), Lowry Park Zoo (LPZ) and Miami Seaquarium (MSQ).
Attribute_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain:
Field IDs are assigned based on the recovery location and are numbered sequentially throughout the year.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: REPDATE
Attribute_Definition:
The date that the manatee carcass was originally reported (MM/DD/YYYY format).
Attribute_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 04/01/1974
Range_Domain_Maximum: present
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: REPYEAR
Attribute_Definition: Year that the manatee carcass was reported in.
Attribute_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 1974
Range_Domain_Maximum: Current year
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: REPMONTH
Attribute_Definition: Month that the manatee carcass was reported in.
Attribute_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 1
Range_Domain_Maximum: 12
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: REPDAY
Attribute_Definition: Day of the month that the manatee carcass was reported on.
Attribute_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 1
Range_Domain_Maximum: 31
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: SEX
Attribute_Definition: Sex of recovered manatee carcass.
Attribute_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: M
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Male
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Enumerated_Domain_Value: F
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Female
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Enumerated_Domain_Value: U
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Sex unknown
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: TLENGTH
Attribute_Definition:
Total length of the manatee carcass, measured from snout to fluke edge.
Attribute_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 450
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Centimeters
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: STATE
Attribute_Definition: State in which the manatee carcass was recovered.
Attribute_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: FL
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: State of Florida
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: COUNTY
Attribute_Definition:
County within Florida that the manatee carcass was recovered in.
Attribute_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Codeset_Domain:
Codeset_Name: Florida county list
Codeset_Source: State of Florida
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: LAT
Attribute_Definition: Latitude of manatee carcass recovery location.
Attribute_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 24.282956
Range_Domain_Maximum: 31.035311
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Decimal degree, in NAD27
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: LONG
Attribute_Definition: Longitude of manatee carcass recovery location.
Attribute_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: -91.320014
Range_Domain_Maximum: -79.049122
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Decimal degree, in NAD27
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: DCODE
Attribute_Definition: Cause of death represented by coded numeric values.
Attribute_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Human Related: Watercraft collison
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 2
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Human Related: Flood Gate/Canal Lock
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 3
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Human Related: Other
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 4
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Perinatal (<=150cm)
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 5
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Natural: Cold Stress (beginning as a separate category from "Natural" in 1986)
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 6
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Natural: Other (includes red tide)
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 7
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Verified: Not necropsied
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 8
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Undetermined: Too decomposed
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 9
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Undetermined: Other
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: MORTALITY
Attribute_Definition: Description of the DCODE field.
Attribute_Definition_Source: FWC-FWRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain:
A list of possible causes of mortality: (Human Related: Watercraft collision, Human Related: Flood Gate/Canal Lock, Human Related: Other, Perinatal (<=150 cm), Natural: Cold Stress (beginning in 1986), Natural: Other (includes red tide), Verified: Not necropsied, Undetermined: Too decomposed, Undetermined: Other)

Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization:
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Address: Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Address: 100 8th Ave. SE
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: metadata@MyFWC.com
Distribution_Liability:
This data set is in the public domain, and the recipient may not assert any proprietary rights thereto nor represent it to anyone as other than a FWC-FWRI produced data set; it is provided "as-is" without warranty of any kind, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The user assumes all responsibility for the accuracy and suitability of this data set for a specific application. In no event will the staff of FWRI be liable for any damages, including lost profits, lost savings, or other incidental or consequential damages arising from the use of or the inability to use this data set.
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Digital_Form:
Digital_Transfer_Information:
Format_Name: Shapefile
Digital_Transfer_Option:
Online_Option:
Computer_Contact_Information:
Network_Address:
Network_Resource_Name:
<http://ocean.floridamarine.org/mrgis/Description_Layers_Marine.htm#manatee>
Fees: None
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Turnaround:
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Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20080911
Metadata_Review_Date: 20200917
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Leslie Ward
Contact_Organization:
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Contact_Position: Research Administrator II
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Address: Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Address: 100 8th Ave. SE
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-896-8626
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Leslie.Ward@MyFWC.com
Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata_Access_Constraints: Available without restrictions.
Metadata_Use_Constraints:
All data must be credited to FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute)
Metadata_Extensions:
Online_Linkage:
<http://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/metadata-standards/documents/ncddcmdprofile_v2.pdf>
Profile_Name:
Content Specification for Metadata in the National Coastal Data Development Center's Data Catalog Version 2.0

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