Visual contacts from research cruises in the Med sea, 1994-2001

Occurrence Observation
Latest version published by OBIS-SEAMAP on Oct 9, 2025 OBIS-SEAMAP
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https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1078
Publication date:
9 October 2025
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OBIS-SEAMAP
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CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Original provider: Claudio Fossati, University of Pavia Dataset credits: Claudio Fossati and Giulia Romè, CIBRA Center for Bioacoustics, University of Pavia Abstract: CIBRA Center for Bioacoustics, Univ. of Pavia, organizes research cruises in the Med sea since 1994. Visual and acoustic contacts (1994 - 2001) are available on OBIS-SEAMAP, while acoustic recordings are stored in our Sound library and available upon request.

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 90 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

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Fossati, C., G. Romè and G. Pavan. 2016. Visual contacts from research cruises in the Med sea, 1994-2001. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/86aaf0c5.

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 (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 7b27fa4d-fefe-45a0-a555-8a987f25fcb8.  OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation; Marine Biology; Visual sighting; Vessels; Sightings; Acoustics; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1078 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1078/fgdc UTF-8 XML
EML Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1078/eml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Claudio Fossati
  • Owner ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Primary contact
CIBRA Center for Bioacoustics, University of Pavia
Gianni Pavan
  • Originator
  • Secondary contact
CIBRA Center for Bioacoustics, University of Pavia
Giulia Romè
  • Originator
  • Secondary contact
CIBRA Center for Bioacoustics, University of Pavia
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
  • A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US
ACCOBAMS and WDCS
  • Originator
The Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS) and Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS)

Geographic Coverage

Oceans,Mediterranean sea

Bounding Coordinates South West [37.686, 7.237], North East [43.928, 18.307]

Taxonomic Coverage

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

Family Delphinidae (Dolphins)
Species Balaenoptera physalus (Fin whale), Grampus griseus (Risso's dolphin), Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm whale), Stenella coeruleoalba (Striped dolphin), Tursiops truncatus (Common bottlenose dolphin)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1994-06-17 / 2001-07-11

Project Data

No Description available

Title Visual contacts from research cruises in the Med sea, 1994-2001
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Claudio Fossati
  • Owner
Gianni Pavan
  • Originator
Giulia Romè
  • Originator

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_1078
Collection Identifier zd_1078
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS. Tracks of the cruises are coarse in June and Sept 1994, June 1995. From 1996 on, tracks are finer. Data from acoustic contacts are registered in a separate dataset "Acoustic detections from research cruises in the Med sea, 1994-2001".

Purpose

Data were collected during cetacean research campaigns, acoustic software and hardware development campaigns.
Alternative Identifiers https://doi.org/10.82144/86aaf0c5
https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1078
https://www.gbif.org/dataset/7b27fa4d-fefe-45a0-a555-8a987f25fcb8
https://obis.org/dataset/ef41a91a-b2fa-4319-81dc-6c0285583761
7b27fa4d-fefe-45a0-a555-8a987f25fcb8
https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1078