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    • Digital collection of aerial photographs from the Common Murre Restoration Project, 2005 (NCEI Accession 0057025)

    Metadata Updated: March 1, 2025

    The Common Murre Restoration Project is a comprehensive seabird restoration effort aimed at enhancing depleted seabird populations in central California, specifically those of the common murre (Uria aalge). The main focus of the project is to reestablish a colony of murres on a small seastack called Devil's Slide Rock, located along the San Mateo coast near Pacifica. This breeding colony held close to 3,000 murres as recently as the early 1980s, but was wiped out as a result of human-caused mortality. (from Common Murre Restoration Project web page, http://www.fws.gov/sfbayrefuges/Murre, which was last updated September 17, 2008)

    To provide a baseline and to determine the efficacy of the restoration project, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Complex has taken photographic slides during aerial surveys of bird colonies since the mid 1980s. As part of the NOAA Climate Database Modernization Program funded project entitled "California Coastal Marine Ecosystem Surveys - Slide Imaging and Archiving (task order L-24)," a contractor scanned 35mm color slides taken during 2005 and created master (archival TIFF) and web-access (JPEG) images. NODC Accession 0057025 contains these images along with supporting documentation.

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    Metadata Date 2024-08-22T14:27:54Z
    Metadata Created Date March 12, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date March 1, 2025
    Reference Date(s) April 20, 2019 (publication)
    Frequency Of Update asNeeded

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    Harvested from NOAA/NESDIS/ncei/accessions

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Date 2024-08-22T14:27:54Z
    Metadata Created Date March 12, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date March 1, 2025
    Reference Date(s) April 20, 2019 (publication)
    Responsible Party (Point of Contact)
    Contact Email
    Guid gov.noaa.nodc:0057025
    Access Constraints Cite as: McChesney, Gerry; US DOI > Fish and Wildlife Service - San Francisco Bay (2019). Digital collection of aerial photographs from the Common Murre Restoration Project, 2005 (NCEI Accession 0057025). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0057025. Accessed [date]., Use liability: NOAA and NCEI cannot provide any warranty as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of furnished data. Users assume responsibility to determine the usability of these data. The user is responsible for the results of any application of this data for other than its intended purpose.
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    Bbox North Lat 38
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    Bbox West Long -123.1
    Coupled Resource
    Frequency Of Update asNeeded
    Graphic Preview Description Preview graphic
    Graphic Preview File https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/metadata/landing-page/bin/gfx?id=gov.noaa.nodc:0057025
    Graphic Preview Type PNG
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    Harvest Source Id c084a438-6f6b-470d-93e0-16aeddb9f513
    Harvest Source Title NOAA/NESDIS/ncei/accessions
    Licence accessLevel: Public
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    Metadata Language eng
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-123.1, 36.36], [-121.8, 36.36], [-121.8, 38.0], [-123.1, 38.0], [-123.1, 36.36]]]}
    Progress completed
    Spatial Data Service Type
    Spatial Reference System
    Spatial Harvester True
    Temporal Extent Begin 2005-01-25
    Temporal Extent End 2005-06-15

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