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 89 contributors in alphabetic order: Adam Goldwyn; Adelie Xiaohang Li; Aditi & Zeb; Adrian Boyle; Alex Cowan; Andrew Emmerson; Anita Rude; Ann; Annette Bombosch; Barbara Messner; Bart Van Gelder; Biørn Stasinski; Carina Gsottbauer; Cees Tineke; Chloe; Christian Engelke; Conor Ryan; David O'Connor; Dominique Vening; Doug Cheeseman - †; Doug Gould; Gisela Solà Boloix; Gizella Spencer; Greta Henderson; Hadleigh Measham; Hannah Brightley; Hans Verdaat; Heidi Krajewsky; Húsavík Whale Museum; Jamie Coleman; Janne Kangaspunta; Jeff Higgott; Jeff Reynolds; Jérôme JACOB; Jerry D Duncan; Jesper Nielsen; Joel Moore; Joy van der Beek; Julian Vrohlings; Katharina Stoll; Keely Crowder; Kelly zhang; Kenneth Tolopka; Kerstin Langenberger; Laura Monterde; Léa Zinsli; Loes de Heus; Lomvi; Marian Herz; Marijke Nita de Boer; Marilia Olio; Marion Lehmann; Marit Pedersen; Mary Want; Menno Schaefer; Milton Lum; MS Fram; MS Spitsbergen; MV Hondius; Nacho Oria; Nate Crosby; Nicolas PANIER; Nigel Puttick; Olivia Capeillere; Olivier Blaud; Paul Spillmann; Petra Glardon; Philip Stone; Philip van Dueren; Phil Schultz; Pippa Low; Rayann Elzein; Rémi Bigonneau; Rich Roberts; Robyn Carmel; ROSHINI JOHRI; Sara Jenner; Shawn Bradley; Sil Schuuring; Sophie Ballagh; Steffo Polar; steve; Steven van de Vijver; Suzanne Wafer; Tiffany Zamolsky; Tobias Brehm; Ton Knijnenburg; Ulf Velander; whitney van arsdale
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 200 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 - Blue whale in Arctic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1755) 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: 9e756986-cbdf-45a6-ba55-db12f0ba6a7a. 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/1755 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1755/xml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
Geographic Coverage
Arctic Ocean;Baffin Bay;Barentsz Sea;Greenland Sea
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [65.771, -51.575], North East [81.679, 28.564] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Species | Balaenoptera musculus (Blue whale) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2011-06-18 / 2024-08-11 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Happywhale - Blue whale in Arctic 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_1755 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_1755 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Purpose | Not available |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 9e756986-cbdf-45a6-ba55-db12f0ba6a7a |
| https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1755 |