NARWC ​DATA access requests

Data access requests received by the NARWC are listed by year and include the requester, institution, data of request, working title, and database requested. 
2016
Approved Requests for NARWC Data 2016
 
Management Requests
  • Whale, dolphin, and porpoise sightings for Sydney Basin and Orpheus Graben Offshore Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (B. Cameron - Amec Foster Wheeler, Sightings Database, February 2016)
  • Annual number of right whale births, deaths, animals known to be alive, and animals that become presumed dead (D. Laist – Marine Mammal Commission, Identification Database, March 2016)
  • Funder report on SEUS sightings (C. George, Georgian Department of Natural Resources, Identification Database, November 2016)
 Education Requests
  • Right whale identification education module for Girls STEM class (Amy Whitt – Azura Consulting, Identification Database, June 2016)
  • Development of right whale identification unit for 6th graders (P. Smukall – Miami University, Identification Database, August 2016)
  • Development of right whale identification unit for high school marine biology course (C. Jones – Whitman Hanson Regional High School, Identification Database, September 2016)
 Publication Requests
  • Right whale sighting and identification data 2007 through 2013 for MA Bay, Stellwagen Bank, and Cape Cod Bay (R. Charif – Cornell University, Identification Database, January 2016)
  • Right whale calving data 1990-current and body condition data for males and females 1990-current (S. Whitman, Tufts University, Health Assessment and Identification Databases, January 2016)
  • Individual right whale sighting data and associated effort data for Cape Cod Bay and area south of Nantucket for 2011-2015 (P. Corkeron – Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Sightings and Identification Databases, February 2016)
  • Updated sightings for SEUS and most recent sightings for individual whales to create minimum life span (T. Gowan – Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Identification Database, March 2016)
  • Occurrences of known right whale mortalities including age class, sex, whether or not the animal was nursing or pregnant, location of mortality, and cause of death (S. Parks – Syracuse University, Necropsy Database, March 2016)
  • Sightings of cetacean species in areas off Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador (E. Marotte – Canada DFO, Sightings Database, March 2016)
  • Calving history of acoustically sampled right whale mothers (D. Cusano – Syracuse University, Identification Database, May 2016)
  • Sightings and effort data for cetacean, bird, fish, turtle species from 1980-2016 in the Gulf of Maine (D. Pendleton – New England Aquarium, Sightings Database, May 2016)
  • Eg sightings in MIDA 1998-2015, including behavior, associations, and identifications. Also, sightings year prior and year after for Egs sighted in MIDA (A. Pabst – University of North Carolina Wilmington, Sightings and Identification Databases, June 2016)
  • Calf data including ID, maternal and paternal ID and life history, mortality information (J. Tennessen - Syracuse University, Identification database, Mortality database, June 2016)
  • Life history data for right whales sampled for fecal stress hormones and COD for dead sampled whales (R. Rolland - New England Aquarium, Identification and Mortality databases, July 2016)
  • Sighting, mortality, health and entanglement data to build a reproducible framework for the PCAD model that provides individual and population level estimates of right whale health (R. Schick – University of St. Andrews, Sightings, Identification, and Visual Health databases, September 2016)
  • Necropsy/mortality data for large whales on eastern US and Canadian coasts (M. Baumgartner – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Necropsy Database, October 2016)
  • Seasonal distribution, abundance, and movements of basking sharks, Cetorhinus maximus, in the western North Atlantic. Extension request for thesis work (T. Curtis – National Marine Fisheries Service, Sightings Database, October 2016)
2017
Approved Requests for NARWC Data 2017
 
Management Requests
  • Assessment of right whale seasonal distribution along the western shore of Mass Bay in order to assess the feasibility of using weak ropes during certain parts of the winter and spring (B. Wikgren, Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium, Sightings Database, January 2017)
  • Assessing entanglement cases seen in the absence of attached gear (L. Caron, South Shore Lobstermen’s Association, Injury Data, January 2017)
  • Marine Mammal mapping for assessment of offshore drilling site (M. Huskins-Shupe, Stantec, Sightings Database, January 2017)
  • Analytical support for development and implementation of the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan (B. Morrison, Industrial Economics, Inc, Sightings Database, April 2017)
  • Biophysical and Ecological Overview of the Cape Breton Trough Area of Interest (MH. Theriault, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, April 2017)
  • Movements and oceanographic association of whale sharks in the North Atlantic (C. Braun, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, July 2017, Sightings Database)
  • Status reports for Sei and Sowerby's beaked whales in the North Atlantic (S. Gowans, Eckerd College, July 2017, Sightings Database)
  • Timing, occurrence and distribution of sei whales (Balaenoptera borealis) in the western North Atlantic based on 4 years of acoustic and visual survey data (P. Duley, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Sightings Database, August, 2017)
  • Environmental Assessment for Statoil Canada Limited’s proposed Waverly 3D seismic survey (C. Jones, LGL Limited, Sightings Database, October 2017)
  • Examine the impacts of offshore drilling and seismic testing within and around the critical habitat and migratory corridor of the North Atlantic Right Whale population (K. Iddings, Southern Environmental Law Center, Sightings Database, October 2017)
  • Identification of right whales using SEUS 2011-2017 (C. George, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Identification Database, October 2017)
  • Impact statement for Atlantic Link Cable (B. Hodge, Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium, Sightings Database, November 2017)
 Education Requests
  • Right Whale Matching Game (S. Scharf, New England Aquarium, Identification Database, April 2017)
  • Right Whale matching and distribution study for high school class (A. Harris, ESRI Canada, October 2017, Identification Database)
 Publication Requests
  • Using hidden Markov models to estimate survival and movement probabilities from mark-recapture data of unknown subpopulations: an application to North Atlantic right whales (P. Conn, NMFS – AFSC, Sightings and Identification Databases, April 2017)
  • Combining genetic and photo-identification data to improve abundance estimates for the North Atlantic right whale (T. Frasier, St. Mary’s University, Sightings, Identification, and Genetics Databases, September 2017)
2018
Data access requests submitted to NARWC 2018
  
Other
  • MaryAnn Biehl, New York City College of Technology, CUNY, February 2018, April 2018, Right whale international signal flag project (images)
  • Lucija Prelovec, Ocean School, August 2018, Interactive online platform for studying right whale distribution in Canadian waters (Identification Database)
 Management
  • Zoe Bolling, US Coast Guard, March 2018, Geographic based risk assessment for North Atlantic Right Whale mortalities in traffic dense regions off the east coast of United States (Sightings Database)
  • Nicholas Farmer, NOAA Fisheries Service, SRO, March 2018, Distribution of the Giant Oceanic Manta Ray (Manta birostris) in the southeastern United States (Sightings Database)
  • Emma Marotte, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, DFO, March 2018, Cetacean presence in the Fundian Channel/Brown’s Bank area to inform protected area planning (Sightings Database)
  • Jon Lang, Rhode Island Marine Animal Support, April 2018, Block Island SMA Modification to Protect Right Whales in the Providence/Quonset Port Area (Sightings Database)
  • Max Strahan, Whale Safe USA, April 2018, Evaluation of right whale entanglements (Identification Database)
  • Matt Robertson, Vineyard Wind, May 2018, Incidental harassment authorization application for proposed offshore wind farm (Sightings Database)
  • Mindy Sweeny, Normandeau Associates, July 2018, Third party Biological Assessment and Environmental Impact Statement for Vineyard Wind offshore energy project (Sightings Database)
  • Mindy Sweeny, Normandeau Associates, August 2018, Amendment to previous request to add sea turtle SPUE data (Sightings Database)
  • Clay George, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, August 2018, Assessment of LIMPET tagged whales (Identification and Health Databases)
  • Austin Rizzo, US Fish and Wildlife Service, September 2018, Marine Monument Plan/EA for the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument (Sightings Database)
  • Margaret Miller, NMFS Office of Protected Resources, September 2018, Designation of Critical Habitat for the Giant Manta Ray – Biological Report (Sightings Database)
  • Nick Sisson, Office of Protected Resources, NOAA, October 2018, Evaluating the extent and magnitude of survey effort relative to right whale distribution and identifying areas of high and low survey and right whale co-occurrence (Sightings Database)
  • Heidi Henninger, Atlantic Offshore Lobstermen's Association, October 2018, Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Team’s review of proposed fishery management action in area (Sightings and Identification Databases)
  • Alison Johnson, Oceana, October 2018, Develop a campaign to address the key threats to their survival in Canada and the United States (Identification Database)
  • Colin Jones, LGL Limited, November 2018, Environmental Assessment for Multiklient Invest’s proposed multi-year seismic (2D/3D) project, offshore Nova Scotia (Sightings Database)
  • Erin Summers, Maine Department of Marine Resources, November 2018, Sightings per unit effort analysis of large whale species in the Gulf of Maine (Sightings Database)
  • Jon Lang, Rhode Island Marine Animal Patrol, November 2018, Block Island SMA Modification to Protect Right Whales in the Providence/Quonset Port Area V2 (Sightings Database)
 Publication
  • Anne-Sophie Ste-Marie, St. Lawrence Global Observatory, January 2018, Integration of Sightings database in SLGO’s web application Marine Conditions (Sightings Database) – request denied on basis of public distribution of raw data
  • Ester Quintana, Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium, February 2018, Create an inventory of cetacean species using the Northeast Canyons National Marine Monument waters and examine distribution and relative abundance (Sightings Database)
  • Brook Wikgren, Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium, February 2018, Increasing Northeast US Marine Aquaculture production by Pre-Permitting Federal Ocean Space (Sightings Database)
  • Kathleen Hunt, Northern Arizona University, March 2018, Investigating hormones in individual right whale baleen (Identification, Visual Health Assessment, Necropsy Databases)
  • Sarah Sharp International Fund for Animal Welfare, April 2018, Gross and histopathological findings from North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) mortalities between 2003 and 2017 (Identification and Necropsy) 
  • Sarah Fortune, University of British Columbia, April 2018, Growth of North Atlantic Right Whales (Eubalaena glacialis) revisited (Identification and Necropsy Databases)
  • Kimberely Davies, Dalhousie University, April 2018, North Atlantic right whale habitat use in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (Sightings and Identification Databases)
  • Meg Carr, Dalhousie University, May 2018, Vessel strike risk to North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and comparison of strike risk between right whale habitats of eastern Canada (Sightings and Necropsy Databases)
  • Christin Khan, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, NMFS, June 2018, Computer vision for conservation (Images and Identification Database)
  • Erin Meyer-Gutbrod, UC Santa Barbara, July 2018, Climate Change and the Conservation Oceanography of the North Atlantic Right Whale Population (Sightings and Identification Databases)
  • Dan Pendleton, Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium, July 2018, How and why is the timing and occurrence of seasonal migrants in the Gulf of Maine changing due to climate? (Sightings Database)
  • Fredrick Christiansen, Cetacean Research Unit/Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, August 2018, A bi-hemispheric comparison of right whale body condition reveals poor nutritional state of the North Atlantic right whale, (Identification and Necropsy Databases)
  • Bob Kenney, University of Rhode Island, August 2018, What if there were no fishing? North Atlantic right whale population trajectories without entanglement mortality (Identification Database)
  • Simone Cominelli, Memorial University of Newfoundland, August 2018, Temporal Trends in Vessel Traffic and Vessel-source Noise in the Cabot Strait (Sightings Database)
  • Sean Brillant, Canadian Wildlife Federation, September 2018, Modelling fishing effort displacement: an examination of the impacts to the Southern Gulf of St Lawrence snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) fishery and North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) entanglement risk (Sightings Database)
  • Doug Nowacek, Duke University, October 2018, Using Multispectral Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning to Automatically Detect Marine Mammals from Orbit (Sightings Database)
  • Julie Dombroski, Syracuse University, October 2018, Investigating whether calf presence and age affect the distribution of depths to where pregnant and nursing females dive (Identification Database)
  • Nathaniel Willse, University of Maine, November 2018, An assessment of Vertical Line Use in Gulf of Maine Region Fixed Gear Fisheries and Resulting Conservation Benefits for the Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale (Sightings Database)