TY - RPRT
TI - Atlantic Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species: FY15 – FY19
AU - Palka, D
AU - Aichinger Dias, L
AU - Broughton, E
AU - Chavez-Rosales, S
AU - Cholewiak, D
AU - Davis, G
AU - DeAngelis, A
AU - Garrison, L
AU - Haas, H
AU - Hatch, J
AU - Hyder, K
AU - Jech, M
AU - Josephson, E
AU - Mueller-Brennan, L
AU - Orphanides, C
AU - Pegg, N
AU - Sasso, C
AU - Sigourney, D
AU - Soldevilla, M
AU - Walsh, H
AB - The  Atlantic Marine Assessment  Program  for  Protected  Species  (AMAPPS)  is a comprehensive multiagency  research  program  on  the  U.S.  Atlantic outer  continental  shelf, from  Maine  to  the  Florida Keys, covering  waters  from  the  coast  to beyond the  U.S.  Exclusive  Economic  Zone  (EEZ).  The  overarching goal  of  AMAPPS is  to assess  the  abundance,  distribution,  ecology,  and behavior  of  marine  mammals,  sea turtles,  and  seabirds  throughout  the  U.S.  Atlantic  outer  continental shelf  and  to  evaluate these data within an  ecosystem  context  where the results are  accessible  to  managers,  scientists and  the public.  Because marine ecosystems are complex  and  involve dynamic assemblages of  many  coexisting  species,  to understand  these  marine ecosystem  processes and  achieve the AMAPPS  objectives,  our  research integrates  cross-taxonomic  groups  across multiple  trophic levels and  uses  a suite of  data collection  and analytical  techniques.  The  main agencies  involved are the  National  Marine Fisheries Service  (NMFS),  U.S.  Fish  and  Wildlife Service,  Bureau  of  Ocean  Energy  Management  (BOEM),  and the  U.S.  Navy.  We have also  built collaborations  with numerous  other  national  and international  organizations.  During  AMAPPS I  (1  October  2010  to  30  September  2014),  we  focused on conducting broad  scale  aerial and shipboard  surveys, developing  spatially  explicit  contemporaneous  density-habitat  models,  estimating abundance  and describing  distribution patterns  of  marine mammals,  sea  turtles and  seabirds  using  visual, acoustic and  telemetry  data.  We also  collected  ecosystem  habitat  and  animal  behavior  data (Palka et  al. 2017).  AMAPPS  I  was the initial  step  in  providing  us  with  the data needed  to  develop  a baseline that would  allow  us  to  evaluate  future  trends. 
CY - USA
DA - 2021/07//
PY - 2021
SP - 330
PB - US Department of the Interior (DOI)
SN - OCS Study BOEM 2021-051
UR - https://espis.boem.gov/Final%20reports/BOEM_2021-051.pdf
LA - English
KW - Habitat Change
KW - Noise
KW - Marine Mammals
KW - Cetaceans
KW - Human Dimensions
KW - Marine Spatial Planning
ER -