Costa Lab at UCSC.     Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.     Institute of Marine Sciences, Long Marine Lab, University of California, Santa Cruz

Tablename: locations

This is a utility table. It contains a list of geographic locations for animal sightings. One row per location.

Field nameField typeField lengthField description
location_id character varying 4 Unique 4-character code for the location, e.g. “ANNU” for Ano Nuevo, TEIS for Tern Island.
location_name character varying 50 Full name of the location.
country character varying 50 Country of the location.
state character varying 50 State/province/region of the location within the country.
time_zone smallint None Tome zone of the location as hour offset from GMT not during DST.
time_zone_dst smallint None Time zone of the location as hour offset from GMT during daylight savings time.
lat_dec double precision None Latitude (degrees with decimal fraction) of this location.
lon_dec double precision None Longitude (degrees with decimal fraction) of this location.