Leewards, Shearwater, March 1965

Related Titles

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

Series: Biodiversity Heritage Library Field Notes Project

Series: SIA RU000245

By

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1965

Notes

This item consists of a folder of data collected at sea by Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program staff, 1964, on the Leeward Survey (Leewards Islands, Hawaii). Materials include at sea daily observations summary, fix data sheets, bird observation data, and climatological data. Bird observations data sheets include entries for time, species, #, dir., hgt., and remarks. Remarks include phase (light or dark), physical observations (color, size, some sketches of bird wing markings), and behavior (feeding, flock, etc.). Fix data sheets include entries for date, time, sunset time, position sunset, time of fix, type of fix, longitude, and latitude. Additional data sheets recorded time, lat., long., pres wea, vis, slp, dry b, wet b, dew pt, hum%, tl sky, opa sky, waves, sea temp, wind s, wind d, course, speed.

Subjects

Field notes , Hawaii , Leeward Islands , North Pacific Ocean , Ornithology , Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program , Sketches , United States

BHL Collections

BHL Field Notes Project

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.141614