DockWatch Jellyfish Sightings (2001-2008)

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Volunteers along the coasts of Alabama and Mississippi collected environmental data and visual observations of jellyfish species and numbers between 2001 and 2008.

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Author Monty Graham
Maintainer data@disl.org
Last Updated July 22, 2022, 22:52 (UTC)
Created July 22, 2022, 22:52 (UTC)
Content Create Date 2015-08-11
ISO.pointOfContact DISL Data Management
ISO.principalInvestigator Monty Graham
ISO.resourceProvider Lei Hu <lhu@disl.org>
ISO.resourceProvider.1 Lei Hu <lhu@disl.org>
Place Keywords Dauphin Island Sea Lab, DISL, Alabama, Mobile Bay, Terrebone Bay, Indian River, Mississippi, northern Gulf of Mexico
Temporal Begin 2001-03-02
Temporal End 2008-10-22
Theme Keywords temperature, salinity, water clarity, water quality, jellyfish sightings, citizen science
Use Constraints Acknowledgment of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL), the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium (MASGC), and the U.S. EPA Gulf of Mexico Program is required in products developed from these data, and such acknowledgment as is standard for citation and legal practices for data source is expected by users of these data. Users should be aware that comparison with other data sets for the same area from other time periods may be inaccurate due to inconsistencies resulting from changes in mapping conventions, data collection, and computer processes over time. The distributor shall not be liable for improper or incorrect use of these data, based on the description of appropriate/inappropriate uses described in the metadata document. These data are not legal documents and are not to be used as such.
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