Description
Original provider: Coastal Research and Education Society of Long Island, Inc. Dataset credits: Coastal Research and Education Society of Long Island, Inc. Abstract: The sightings came originally from the Okeanos Ocean Research Foundation (Samuel S. Sadove, executive director; Okeanos is no longer in existence), and were recorded from commercial whale-watching vessels out of Montauk in late spring and summer of 1981–1994 (primarily the Finback I and Finback II). These sightings are heavily concentrated in the area between eastern Long Island and Block Island and during the whale-watching season, and therefore somewhat biased, but provide valuable information on several less-common species. Purpose: not provided Supplemental information: Data records that were missing time, animal count information, or located on land were excluded. One data record with two sighted species listed was also excluded.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1,716 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Kopelman, A. 2013. Opportunistic marine mammal sightings from commercial whale watching vessels, Montauk, New York 1981-1994. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1006) on yyyy-mm-dd.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 7f810496-749c-4f1e-87c5-6e41a5be394c. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence,Vessels,Sightings; Observation; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1006 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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FGDC Metadata | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1006/xml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
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- Point Of Contact
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Geographic Coverage
Oceans
Bounding Coordinates | South West [39.333, -72.883], North East [41.25, -70.5] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Order | Cetacea (cetaceans) |
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Genus | Balaenoptera (baleen whales) |
Species | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Minke Whale), Balaenoptera borealis (Sei Whale), Balaenoptera musculus (Blue Whale), Balaenoptera physalus (Fin Whale), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked Common Dolphin), Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback Sea Turtle), Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic Right Whale), Globicephala melas (Long-finned Pilot Whale), Lagenorhynchus acutus (Atlantic White-sided Dolphin), Lagenorhynchus albirostris (White-beaked Dolphin), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback Whale), Phocoena phocoena (Harbor Porpoise), Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm Whale), Pseudorca crassidens (False Killer Whale), Tursiops truncatus (Common Bottlenose Dolphin), Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier's Beaked Whale) |
Temporal Coverage
Start Date / End Date | 1981-05-02 / 1994-08-14 |
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Project Data
No Description available
Title | Opportunistic marine mammal sightings from commercial whale watching vessels, Montauk, New York 1981-1994 |
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Funding | NA |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Owner
Sampling Methods
NA
Study Extent | NA |
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Method step description:
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Collection Data
Collection Name | zd_1006 |
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Collection Identifier | zd_1006 |
Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
Purpose | not provided |
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Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1006 |