Description
Original provider: Happywhale Dataset credits: Happywhale and contributors Abstract: Happywhale.com is a resource to help you know whales as individuals, and to benefit conservation science with rich data about individual whales. Supplemental information: Sightings and images were submitted to Happywhale by contributors. A portion of the Happywhale data were transferred to OBIS-SEAMAP upon the agreement between Happywhale and OBIS-SEAMAP. There may be duplicate records among Happywhale datasets and other OBIS-SEAMAP datasets. The precision of date/time vary per record. Some records have date accuracy up to year only. This dataset includes sightings and photos from the following 74 contributors in alphabetic order: Alexa Kershaw; Allie Smith; Annette Bombosch; Anton Chaiko; Aurora Expeditions Sylvia Earle; bev dant; Bjarki; Bob Schafer; Caitlin Fitzmaurice; Caroline Lagier; Catherine MacRae; Cees Tineke; Christian Engelke; Claudia Wagner; Conor Ryan; Corinne Eichler; Dale Frink; Dan Harville; De Wulf Maurina (maluga); Dominique Gallo; Duncan; Edy Mercuriali; Em Dueck; Emma Fowler; Emma Lever; Espaço Talassa; Franck Hollander; Harold Moses; Heidi Krajewsky; Holly Morgan-Wynne; Jack Digman; Jamie Coleman; Jennifer Stoudt; John House; Joy van der Beek; Julie Fesquet; Kari Heistad; Kathie Rokita; Kerstin Langenberger; Lars Maltha Rasmussen; Lobosonda; Maddy Montgomery; Madelon Rosenplänter; Margot Sib; Marilia Olio; Matthias De Kimpe; Max Block; Melissa Martel ROMM; Mella Re; Michel Moisan; Mitch Doucet; MS Fridtjof Nansen; Nicolas PANIER; Norbert; Patrick Chauvet; Paul Spillmann; Per Nikolaj Bukh; Raimondeau; Rita Da Costa Leitão; Rory Jackson West Cork Ocean Tours; Samantha Coppola; Sandrine Papias; Sara Franson; Sarah Kather; Sea Fever Productions; Simon Gregory; Stephen Tattersall; steve; Ted Cheeseman; Theo Vickers; Tianshuo Wang; Tobias Brehm; Tyler Robbins; Warren Zimmer
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 236 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:
Happywhale. 2024. Happywhale - Fin whale in North Atlantic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1750) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com.
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: fe765c4b-eb8d-4b12-9e63-a9283c0249da. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence,PhotoID;Visual sighting; Observation; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1750 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1750/xml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
Geographic Coverage
Barentsz Sea;Bay of Biscay;Bay of Fundy;Beaufort Sea;Celtic Sea;Davis Strait;Gulf of St. Lawrence;Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland;Labrador Sea;Ligurian Sea;Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin;North Atlantic Ocean;Strait of Gibraltar;Tyrrhenian Sea
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [6.608, -149.177], North East [79.846, 33.541] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Species | Balaenoptera physalus (Fin whale) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2010-01-02 / 2024-07-09 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Happywhale - Fin whale in North Atlantic Ocean |
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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:
- NA
Collection Data
| Collection Name | zd_1750 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_1750 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Purpose | Not available |
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| Alternative Identifiers | fe765c4b-eb8d-4b12-9e63-a9283c0249da |
| https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1750 |