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Accession 13-027,  National Ecology Research Center (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service),  Field Research Records, 1963-1975, 1988-1989

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:National Ecology Research Center (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Title:Field Research Records
Dates:1963-1975, 1988-1989
Quantity:2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
Collection:Accession 13-027
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

This accession consists of field notes, research, and catalogue records created or maintained by Roger B. Clapp. Clapp worked in the Biological Survey Unit, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, United States Geological Survey from 1970 until his retirement in December of 2011. (In 1989, the Biological Survey Unit was called the Biological Survey Group, National Ecology Research Center, United States Fish and Wildlife Service.) His research interests included hole-nesting birds, birds of Virginia, and birds of the Pacific Ocean. The majority of these records relate to his earlier work with the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program (POBSP). These records consist of field notebooks created by Clapp and others conducting a biological survey of islands in the Pacific Ocean (see Record Unit 245). A small portion of this collection consists of catalogue records, manuscripts, and field notes of birds in Virginia and Florida. Materials include field notebooks and manuscripts.

Descriptive Entry

This accession consists of field notes, research, and catalogue records created or maintained by Roger B. Clapp. Clapp worked in the Biological Survey Unit, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, United States Geological Survey from 1970 until his retirement in December of 2011. (In 1989, the Biological Survey Unit was called the Biological Survey Group, National Ecology Research Center, United States Fish and Wildlife Service.) His research interests included hole-nesting birds, birds of Virginia, and birds of the Pacific Ocean.

The majority of these records relate to his earlier work with the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program (POBSP). These records consist of field notebooks created by Clapp and others conducting a biological survey of islands in the Pacific Ocean (see Record Unit 245). A small portion of this collection consists of catalogue records, manuscripts, and field notes of birds in Virginia and Florida. Materials include field notebooks and manuscripts.

This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.

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Subject

Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection

Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 13-027, National Ecology Research Center (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), Field Research Records

Container List

Box 1

Fleet Ocean Tug (ATF) Trip no. 2: Hawaii, 6/7/1963-6/25/1963; Phoenix Islands, 7/6/1963-7/16/1963

Box 1 of 2

ATF Trip no. 3: Phoenix Islands, 10/9/1963-11/20/1963

Box 1 of 2

Catalogue for Midway Atoll: Specimens, Banding, Daily Records, 12/1/1963-12/20/1963

Box 1 of 2

Operation Record for Kure Island (Book I), 12/9/1963-2/20/1965

Box 1 of 2

Banding and Recovery for Kure Island (Book II), 1/15/1964-6/28/1964

Box 1 of 2

ATF Trip no. 4: Phoenix Islands and Line Islands, 2/8/1964-4/3/1964

Box 1 of 2

Southern Island Cruise (SIC) ATF Trip no. 5: Phoenix Islands and Line Islands, 6/5/1964-7/22/1964

Box 1 of 2

SIC ATF Trip no. 5: Howland Island, 7/22/1964-7/25/1964

Box 1 of 2

SIC ATF Trip no. 6: Phoenix Islands and Line Islands, 10/7/1964-11/11/1964

Box 1 of 2

SIC ATF Trip no. 6: Phoenix Islands and Line Islands Band Book, 11/11/1964-11/28/1964; Jarvis Island Cats, 11/15/1964-11/18/1964

Box 1 of 2

SIC ATF Trip no. 7: Phoenix Islands, Line Islands, and Tokelau Islands Band Records, 2/1/1965-3/13/1965

Box 1 of 2

SIC ATF Trip no. 7: Line Islands Band Records, 3/14/1965-3/18/1965

Box 1 of 2

SIC Trip no. 8: Howland Island, Phoenix Islands, and Line Islands Returns and Recoveries, 5/14/1965-7/1/1965

Box 1 of 2

SIC Trip no. 9: Howland Island, Phoenix Islands, and Baker Island, 9/16/1965-10/30/1965

Box 1 of 2

SIC Trip no. 11: Baker Island, Howland Island, Phoenix Islands, and Line Islands Banding, Returns, and Recoveries, 2/5/1966-3/14/1966

Box 1 of 2

SIC Trip no. 12: Howland Island, Phoenix Islands, and Line Islands Banding, Returns, Recoveries, Nest Counts, and Shorebird Counts, 3/31/1966-5/16/1966

Box 1 of 2

Island Catalogue of Specimens, 6106-6200, 6401-6519, 6/1966

Box 1 of 2

SIC Trip no. 14: Baker Island, Phoenix Islands, Howland Island, and Line Islands, 7/12/1966-8/17/1966

Box 1 of 2

SIC Trip no. 15: Island Catalogue, 6692-6772, 9/10/1966-10/13/1966

Box 1 of 2

SIC Trip no. 19: Phoenix Islands, Line Islands, and Howland Island Banding Catalogue, 6/14/1968-7/17/1968

Box 1 of 2

Band Catalogue: Oahu and Kauai, 11/1963-4/1969

Box 1 of 2

District of Columbia (D.C.) Miscellaneous Catalogue, 10528-11381, 5/1962-3/1969

Box 1 of 2

Box 2

Washington Skin Catalogue: School Collection, 1964-1968

Box 2 of 2

Cross Reference Catalogue I: 0001-1900, 5000-6000, 10000-11000, 20000-21000, 25000-26000, 30000-31000, 40000-41000

Box 2 of 2

Cross Reference Catalogue II: 15000-15075, 110000-110519, 26000-26411, 197800-197820, 105000-105229, 140000-140700

Box 2 of 2

Cross Reference Catalogue III: 1900-2980, 6000-7200, 11000-11385, 50000-50240, 51980-52219, 53000-53073, 55055-55058

Box 2 of 2

Red-footed Booby Color Phases, 1964-1965

Box 2 of 2

Red-footed Booby Color Phases, 1966

Box 2 of 2

Fanning Island, 6/18/1968-6/22/1968

Box 2 of 2

Moku Manu Island, 4/11/1969-4/13/1969

Box 2 of 2

Great Falls, Virginia, 5/10/1969-5/30/1969; Canton Island, 4/11/1969-4/13/1969 (also includes a bird count at an unknown location, 8/23/1968, and an order list for birds of Necker Island) Canton Island, 4/14/1971-4/18/1971 (also includes notes on Enderbury Island and Hull Island)

Box 2 of 2

Enderbury Island, 4/18/1971-4/21/1971

Box 2 of 2

Enderbury Island, 4/22/1971-4/26/1971; Sydney Island, 4/23/1971; Birnie Island, 4/26(?)/1971; Hull Island, 4/26/1971; Canton Island, 4/26/1971-4/27/1971

Box 2 of 2

Canton Island, 5/28/1973-6/19/1973

Box 2 of 2

Birnie Island, 5/30/1973-6/18/1973 (also includes notes on Canton Island)

Box 2 of 2

Enderbury Island, 5/31/1973-6/1/1973 (also includes notes on Hull Island)

Box 2 of 2

Canton Island and Hull Island, 6/4/1973-6/6/1973

Box 2 of 2

Sydney Island, 6/7/1973-6/9/1973

Box 2 of 2

Enderbury Island, 6/11/1973-6/15/1973

Box 2 of 2

Canton Island, 3/19/1975-3/20/1975; Enderbury Island, 3/20/1975, 4/2/1975; Birnie Island, 3/20/1975-3/22/1975

Box 2 of 2

Canton Island, 3/23/1975-3/24/1975, 3/25/1975-3/27/1975; Hull Island, 3/24/1975-3/25/1975; Enderbury Island, 3/25/1975; Gardner Island, 3/27/1975-3/30/1975 (also includes rats recorded on Enderbury Island, 9/30/1974)

Box 2 of 2

Canton Island, 3/30/1975-3/31/1975; McKean Island, 3/31/1975-4/1/1975

Box 2 of 2

Canton Island, 4/11/1975; Data on Lost Data

Box 2 of 2

Daily Logbook, 12/15/1988-5/18/1989

Box 2 of 2

Daily Logbook, 5/20/1989-6/18/1989

Box 2 of 2

Daily Logbook, 6/18/1989-6/23/1989

Box 2 of 2

Daily Logbook (Banding Record), 7/8/1989-8/5/1989

Box 2 of 2

Daily Logbook, 6/25/1989-12/30/1989

Box 2 of 2

Florida, 10/19/1989-10/31/1989

Box 2 of 2