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 1997 and created master (archival TIFF) and web-access (JPEG) images. NODC Accession 0037159 contains these images along with supporting documentation.
About this Dataset
| Title | Digital collection of aerial photographs from the Common Murre Restoration Project, 1997 (NCEI Accession 0037159) |
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| Description | 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 1997 and created master (archival TIFF) and web-access (JPEG) images. NODC Accession 0037159 contains these images along with supporting documentation. |
| Modified | 2025-11-19T15:23:49.214Z |
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| Contact | N/A |
| Keywords | 0037159 , images , camera , survey - biological , AIRCRAFT , US DOI/Fish and Wildlife Service - San Francisco Bay , US DOI/Fish and Wildlife Service - San Francisco Bay , Climate Database Modernization Program (CDMP) , Common Murre Restoration Project , Coastal Waters of California , North Pacific Ocean , oceanography , DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce , DOI/USFWS > U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior , EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS , EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > COASTAL , EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > OIL SPILLS , EARTH SCIENCE > Human Dimensions > Environmental Impacts > Conservation , EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Rocky Coasts , EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Shorelines , breeding colony , common murre , environmental degradation , environmental restoration , keystone species , seabird , seabird colony , seabird habitat , seabird nesting , species restoration , CAMERA > CAMERA , OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN , Big Sur coast , California coast , Devil's Slide Rock , Pacific coast , San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuges , San Mateo cost , environment , oceans |
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