Mystic Aquarium's marine mammal and sea turtle stranding data 1976-2011

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Description

Original provider: Mystic Aquarium Dataset credits: Mystic Aquarium Abstract: Mystic Aquarium’s Animal Rescue Program supports animals in need, educates the public about the marine environment and its inhabitants, and promotes our mission to inspire people to care about and protect our ocean planet. Mystic Aquarium is a founding member of the Northeast Region Stranding Network. The network consists of independent organizations dedicated to caring for sick and injured marine animals and learning more about the reasons they come ashore. Only groups and facilities authorized by the National Marine Fisheries Service are permitted to handle these animals, which are protected under federal law.

The efforts of the Aquarium and its volunteer "first responder" network are centered on the coasts of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Fishers Island, New York, USA, but the Aquarium has also supported institutions from Maine to New Jersey, and even in Texas, when other institutions have needed support for their operations. To date the Aquarium has responded to more than 1100 stranded seals, whales, dolphins, porpoises and sea turtles. From 2007 to 2012, we have responded to 376 strandings and 426 sightings and accepted 113 seals from other facilities for rehabilitation. Purpose: Aquarium scientists maintain data on marine mammal and sea turtle strandings and sightings as a means of monitoring the behavior and health of these animals, always vigilant for changes in patterns that might signal an unusual event such as a viral outbreak or a toxic algal bloom. The condition of these animals reveals much about the health of our oceans. Supplemental information: [2020-09-30] The following invalid species names were corrected according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Turtles: Testudines (173749) => Testudines (948936) April 9, 2013: Time of stranding was not available, so 00:00:00 was used; two records did not have month or day available, so Jan 1 was used.

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 1,141 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:

Smith, A. 2014. Mystic Aquarium's marine mammal and sea turtle stranding data 1976-2011. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/945) 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: 3c420b0a-65de-4463-a0ad-c78cb099e510. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Keywords

Occurrence,Land-based,Sightings; Observation; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page	http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/945 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata	http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/945/xml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Ainsley Smith

Owner ●
Originator ●
Point Of Contact

Primary contact

Duke University

ainsley.smith@duke.edu

OBIS-SEAMAP

Metadata Provider ●
Distributor

Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

A328 LSRC building

27708 Durham

NC

US

seamap-contact@duke.edu

http://seamap.env.duke.edu

Geographic Coverage

Oceans

Bounding Coordinates	South West [40.999, -73.647], North East [41.862, -71.102]

Taxonomic Coverage

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Order	Cetacea (cetaceans), Testudines (Turtles)
Suborder	Mysticeti (baleen whales), Odontoceti (toothed whales), Caniformia (pinnipeds)
Species	Lagenorhynchus acutus (Atlantic White-sided Dolphin), Mesoplodon densirostris (Blainville's Beaked Whale), Balaenoptera musculus (Blue Whale), Tursiops truncatus (Common Bottlenose Dolphin), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked Common Dolphin), Kogia sima (Dwarf Sperm Whale), Balaenoptera physalus (Fin Whale), Chelonia mydas (Green Sea Turtle), Halichoerus grypus (Atlantic gray seal), Phocoena phocoena (Harbor Porpoise), Phoca vitulina (Harbor Seal), Pagophilus groenlandicus (Harp Seal), Cystophora cristata (Hooded Seal), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback Whale), Lepidochelys kempii (Kemp's Ridley), Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback Sea Turtle), Caretta caretta (Loggerhead Sea Turtle), Globicephala melas (Long-finned Pilot Whale), Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Minke Whale), Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic Right Whale), Kogia breviceps (Pygmy Sperm Whale), Grampus griseus (Risso's Dolphin), Globicephala macrorhynchus (Short-finned Pilot Whale), Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby's Beaked Whale), Stenella coeruleoalba (Striped Dolphin)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date	1976-03-18 / 2011-12-29

Project Data

No Description available

Title	Mystic Aquarium's marine mammal and sea turtle stranding data 1976-2011
Funding	NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Ainsley Smith

Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent	NA

Method step description:

NA

Collection Data

Collection Name	zd_945
Collection Identifier	zd_945
Parent Collection Identifier	OBIS-SEAMAP

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Purpose	Aquarium scientists maintain data on marine mammal and sea turtle strandings and sightings as a means of monitoring the behavior and health of these animals, always vigilant for changes in patterns that might signal an unusual event such as a viral outbreak or a toxic algal bloom. The condition of these animals reveals much about the health of our oceans.
Alternative Identifiers	http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_945