EAC 10, Rockaway, January-March 1967

Abstract

This item consists of a folder of data collected at sea by Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program staff, on the Eastern Area Cruise 10, 1967, aboard the USCGC Rockaway. Materials include: bird observation sheets (At Sea Daily Log E), fix data sheets, and surface weather observations. Bird observation sheets include time, species, #, dir., hgt., and remarks. Remarks include physical descriptions of birds (colors, size, maturity), flock size, and behavior (sitting on water, feeding, calling, etc.). Fix data sheets include date, time and position data, distance data, time of fix, type of fix, longitude, latitude, wind dir., wind sp., wave dir., wave hgt. Surface weather observations include: vessel, station, date, time, station, dry bulb, wet bulb, rel. humidity, total sky cover, clouds and obscuring phenomena, total opaque sky cover, sea water, sea waves, and swell waves. Also includes photocopied preliminary report and a report of ocean station vessel patrol for the Eastern Topical Pacific Oceanographic Cruise No. 1.

Date Range

1967

Start Date

Jan 31, 1967

End Date

Mar 20, 1967

Access Information

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Topic

• Animals
• Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program
• Birds
• Ornithology

Place

North Pacific Ocean

Form/Genre

• Fieldbook record
• Field notes

Accession #

SIA RU000245

Collection name

National Museum of Natural History, Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program, records, circa 1961-1973, with data from 1923

Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Location

Smithsonian Institution Archives

Sublocation

Box 136 Folder 1