Description
Original provider:
Center for Coastal Studies
Dataset credits:
Data provider
Gulf of Maine humpback whales
Originating data center
Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)
Project partner
The project is being undertaken by multi-institutional team with expertise in whale behavior, ecology, anatomy, physiology, telemetry and wound healing processes. It includes collaborators from the following institutions:
Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) http://www.antarctica.gov.au/science
Cascadia Research Collective (CRC) . http://www.cascadiaresearch.org/
The Marine Mammal Center (MMC) .http://www.marinemammalcenter.org/
National Marine Mammal Laboratory (NMML)http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/nmml/
Research is being performed under NOAA scientific permit #14245.
Abstract:
Satellite-monitored radio tags have yielded important information for the conservation and management of large whales. Tags provide far greater detail on large whale movements and habitat use than more traditional studies, and past tagging projects have revealed the existence of entirely unknown whale habitats. However, it is not uncommon for tags to stop transmitting within days to months of deployment, and follow-up studies on the individuals have been limited. Further work is needed to improve the scientific and conservation value of this technology.
In this study, satellite tagging and its effects are being examined among Gulf of Maine humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). This is among the best studied humpback whale populations. Its strong fidelity to particular feeding sites, long feeding ground residency and strong overlap with observer effort that are expected to result in repeated sightings of tagged animals, and a maximized resighting potential in future years. The project will also produce new information on humpback whale movement and habitat use in relation to the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.
Supplemental information:
Visit STAT's project page for additional information.
This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.
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 31 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:
Robbins J. 2021. Gulf of Maine humpback whale satellite tagging project: 2015. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1302) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1118).
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: cb3519eb-a249-48e6-ae62-0633c24f0786. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1302 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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FGDC Metadata | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1302/xml UTF-8 XML |
STAT Project Page | http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1118 UTF-8 Original web site |
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Oceans
Bounding Coordinates | South West [-17.894, -78.896], North East [46.779, 58.213] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Species | Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback Whale) |
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Temporal Coverage
Start Date / End Date | 2015-07-21 / 2017-11-26 |
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Project Data
No Description available
Title | Gulf of Maine humpback whale satellite tagging project: 2015 (aggregated per 1-degree cell) |
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Funding | NA |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Owner
Sampling Methods
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Study Extent | NA |
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Method step description:
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Collection Data
Collection Name | zd_1302 |
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Collection Identifier | zd_1302 |
Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
Purpose | Not available |
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Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1302_1deg |