Occurrence

Happywhale - Humpback whale in Arctic Ocean

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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 823 contributors in alphabetic order: Aart Monster; adam maire; Adelie Xiaohang Li; Adrian Boyle; Adrian Neubert; Adrian Parrott; Alan Manaton; Alan Stewart Holmes; Alby; Alessandro Ballabio; Alessandro Bocchetti; Alex+++; Alexander Mir Hashimi; Alexandra; Alexandra Blia; Alexandre Lhériau; Alexandre Spaeth; Alex Sinclair Lack; Alicia Jackson; Alicia Rodríguez Juncá; Allan Finney; Allied Whale North Atlantic Humpback Whale Catalog; Allison Chen; Alma Rocio Arechiga Munoz; Ana; Andrea Abategiovanni; Andreas Geislinger; Andreas mz; Andreas Zotz; Andrej Sesic; Andrew Clew; Andrew Newlun; Andrew Stewart; Andy Coleman; Andy Richardson; Andy Rose; Angela Bowler; Angela Christel Heidel; ANGEL SOLE; Anita Rude; Anja Robanke; Anke Kugelstadt; Anna Astafurova; Anna Cui; Anna Hebronovs; Anna Huber; Anna S; Anna Wienen; Anna Z; Anne Dawson; Anne Hobbs; Anne Neufang; Anne Sauve; Annette Bombosch; annieyu2304; AnninaS; Antoine Viot; Anton van den Eijnden; Arne Helmtag; Arthur Laux; Astrid Füllemann; audrey bullock; Audrey Stephens; Aurelie_Jambon; Austin Wyatt; Autumn Mueller; Avner Chen; B; Babsi Neubarth; Barbara Anne Brandon; Barbara Boden; Barbara Hess; Bartek; Bartosz Dziewit; Bassem Khalil; Beatriz Benares; Becker Juergen; Benedikt Dötter; Bengt Lanner; Ben Lewis; BENOIT ABRASSART; Benoit Nabholz; Bettina; Bim Team; Bjarne Jensen; BobH; Bob Ukiah; Boigné Baptiste; Bonnie Gretz; Borbala; Boyd Taylor; brad siviour; Brenda de Vries; Brennig Hughes; Britta Werner; Bruce Lukey; bsobor; Bubos Bubowitch; Calle Schönning; Camille Holmes; Camilo Rada; Carina Gsottbauer; Carlos Rincon; Caroline Hodgkiss; Caroline Kostyal; Cassandra Ruiz; Catalin Gheorghe; Catherine Fend; Catherine Harris; Cecilia Padilha; Cees Tineke; Chanda Eckman; Chaozhong; Charles Lavin; Charles Lyne; Charlotte Kirchner; Charlotte Taplin; Chelsea Lee; Cherese Taggart; Chiara Mazzu; Chris Croxson; Chris Kearns; Christian Aichmayr; Christian Engelke; Christian Thrane; Christina Eland; Christina Grieve; Christopher Pankhurst; Christoph Fritz; Chris Wallbank; Chrys Tremththanmor; Chuck Olson; Chuqiao Guo; Cindy Asselbergs; Cindy Pettway; CK; Clara Landler; Clara Pignataro; Clif; Colleen O; Conor Ryan; Corbin LeGrand; Cyril Souaid; Daan Viering; Daisy Yang; Danette Mohr; Dani Abras; Daniel; Daniela; Daniela Dolce; Daniel Crowder; Danielle VanPool; Daniel Müller; Daniel Stevens; Danilo Foresti; DarrenJew; Darren Wilson; Darryl Ryan; Dave Matlin; David Bradley; David German; David Johnson; Debra Hartsfield; Declan Troy; Deniz Günaydin; Dennis Boon; Derek Blyth; Devienne Gilles; diego; Dilan Patel; Dimitri Vitkin; Dirk-Jan Saaltink; Dirk van Zandwijk; Dmitrii Kiselev; Dochia stefan; Domenic Böck; Dominic Bohler; Dominic Gravina; Dominika Sz; Dominik Thamm; Domininc Barrington; Dominique Vening; Don Hutchinson; Don Lerner; Doug Gould; Dr. Sascia Hoffmann; Eckhard; Eden Zang; Edoardo Americano; Eivind Aksnes; Elaine Purnell; Elena Dogl; Elena Fernandez; Elena Portabales Meijide; Eleonora Pessina; Elia Vettorato; Elie Vannier; Eline De Raedt; Eliott Lehoux; Elísabet Ýr Guðjónsdóttir; Elizabeth Szekeres; Ella-Maria Nutti; Ellen Klein; Elma; Elodie; Elya Holmes; Emile de Boer; Emil Enchev; Emilia Mussoni; Emilio Alvarez Robles; emma; Emma Fillol; Emma House; Emma Luck; Emmanuelle Peyredieu; Emma Roschnik; Enaitz; Enrico Hoefer; Eric Clark; Eric ROURE; Erin Sneider; Eugene; Eva Gomez; Fabian Schmalzried; Fabio; Fabiola; Fanny; Federica Fantini; Federico Arribere; Fernando Herrero; Filippo Pulga; Fiona Gray; Florentine Guinot; Florian Orians; Fons Zijdenbos; françois; Frank J.; Františka Klepárníková; freddy karlsson; Fredrik Aurell; Fredrik Broms; Fred Zeytoonjian; freya lu; Gabriela Aranguren; Gabriel Lett Viviani; gaidet; Gail Cousins; Garðar Þröstur Einarsson; Garry Bray; Gary Nunn; Gasper Kreft; Geffen family; Geir Hareide Hansen; GERALDINE MINGUET; Gerold Studer; Ghada; Gisela Solà Boloix; Giulio Tiberio; Giuseppe Bagnara; Gizella Spencer; Glenn Phillips; GordieBryce; Gordon Riddell; Grant Hewitt; Gregory MELLARE; Gregory Roden; Greta Henderson; Guido Ciapetti; GunBritt Alneroth; Gwenn; Hang Yu; Hannah Gatenby; Hanna Michel; hannes heylen; Hans-Joachim Rudolph; Harold Moses; Hazel Pittwood; Heidi Coyle; Heidi Krajewsky; Heiko Teiken; Helena Connors; Helen Wing; Henk Kamstra; Henrik Hundahl; Henrik Thiel; Hermann Latzel; Herman Sips; Herve Sibert; Hilda Oostekamp; Hua Guo; Húsavík Whale Museum; Ian Gordon; ian roberts; Ilja; Irati Maruri; Irene Abad Gamero; Irene Steininger; Iris Goldbach; Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG); Isabella Clegg; Isak Lyberth; Ishani Sheth; Izzy Keeler; Jacob Panzner; Jacob Thys; Jacqueline Kroeger; Jakub Kacprzak; James Croan; James English; James Evans; James F C Hyde IV; James Mcnicol; Jamie Coleman; Jamie Lafferty; Jan Kajzar; Jan Kowalski; Jan Maasland; Jan Mašinda; Janne Kangaspunta; Jannick Petersen; Jan-Philip Sasse; Jan Smith; Javier Cotin; Javier Sevillano Monzó; Javier Solis; Jayne Beers; Jeff Litton; Jeff Reynolds; Jekaterina Kolesnikova; Jenifer; Jennifer Chillemi; Jens Kaireit; Jérôme JACOB; Jim Chiboucas; Jim Parks; Jim T; Jim Wilson; Jin Cao; Jinou Zhang; Jiří Wünsche; Joan Daunis; Joanna Clegg; Job Smit; Joe Arceneaux; Joel Moore; John Christopher Barton; John Dickens; John House; JOHN KNUTSSON; John Lloyd; John Mina; John Neukamm; John Z.; John Zisko; Jolisa Hollander; Jonas Astrup; Jonas Gothmann; Jonas Pröschel; Jonas Rombach; Jonathan Damick; Jonathan Falk; Jonathan Nicholls; Jonathan Rempel; joost vaeyens; Jorge Hera; Josef Wolf; Josephine Yip; Joy Martinello; Joy van der Beek; Juan Manuel García Cambeiro; Juan Pablo Protti; Judith Scott; Judit Roch; Jukka Mäkiaho; Julia; Julia Jayne; Juliane Schlei; Julian Vrohlings; Julia Yr Thorvaldsdottir; Julie Chadwick; Julie Cronin; Julie Skyte; Juliette Leclercq; Juliette Schmidt; Julie Winn; Jurjen; Jus Pa; Justin Wright; Kaitlin Kenny; karen McMullen; Karen Russell; Karina Vishnyakova; Karli Schwer; Kate Sauvain; Kate Twomey; Kate Weston; Katherine Brill; Kathryn Wright; Katrin Schmidt; KATSIKAS Ioannis; Kayla Spencer; Kefferstein Stéphane; Keith philpott; Kelly Magnuson; Kelly zhang; Ken Jensen; Kenneth Tolopka; Ken Norman; Ken Wells; Kerstin Langenberger; Kevin; Kevin Young; Kim Finn; Kirsten MacTaggart; Kirstina Dickerson; Kit Kovacs; Klara Mist Palsdottir; Klaus Beher; Konstantinos Kafritsas; Kristen Knudskov; Kristjan Vilosius; Kristy Schulze; Krystyna Zawierucha; Kurt Methfessel; Kyle Aitchison; Kyle Bibro; Kyle Shuman; Lacourbas cathy; LAMBIN Jean-Marc; Lars Maltha Rasmussen; Laura; Laura den Ouden; Laura Otýpková; Laura Whyte; Laurence Fischer; Laurens; Laurie Horsfall; Lawrence Piercy; Leendert; Lena Nicola; Lene Zachariassen; Leonhard Loimer; Leroy Hoftijzer; Lesley Pettigrew; Leslie Stueben-Trumphour; Lexa Yamre; Liga Strausa; Lilli van Wielink; Lily Mae Pinner; Linda Bonnevier; Lisa Canderhed; Lisa Gleason; Lisa Hildebrand; Lisa Zhang; Lise-Lotte Jongerius; LIU YING; Liv Weinert; Liz Stagg; Lizza Boitard-Thomas; Loes de Heus; Lomvi; Lori; Lotte; Louisa Scheiner; Louise Dominey; Luca Betti; Luca Hochreutener; Lucia K; Lukas Menzi; Lyuboslava Dimitrova; Macsens; Maëva Accart; Maggie Spikes; Maia Green; Malcolm Clark; Manfred Moormann; Manja Richter; Manuela Nemela; mara; Marc Gose; Marc Lauwers; Marco K; Marco Schütze; Marc petrini; Marc Schmitt; MARC SELLERS; Marcus Bergström; Margrét Ósk Elíasdóttir; Marian Herz; Marian Kuric; Maria Slavina; Maricela Alaniz; Marieke Brand-Heida; Marielle Janotta; Marijke Nita de Boer; Marika Marnela; Marilia Olio; Marina Demartini; Marin Mikulic; Marion Dopfer; Marion JONCHERES; Marion Poupard; Marjan Willemsen; Marjolein Meijdam; Mark Callahan; Mark Harris; mark thurston; Marley Watkins; Marta Morera; Martha Gray; Martina Häberle; Martina Mikušova; Martina Riccio; Martine; Martin Kemper; Martin Kleinsteuber; Martin Wellmann; Martyna Urbanczyk; Mary Keenan; Mary & Ken Campbell; Mary Willis; Marzena; Mathew Hembury; Mathilde Hoogerwerf; Matt Cox; Matteo Cattaneo; Matteo Foiadelli; Matthew Perilstein; Matthew Tranter; Matthias De Kimpe; Matt McDermit; Matts Ekman; Max b; Maximilian Rehn; Maximilian Werner; Max Poppe; Max Richter; Max Schweiger; Megan Carrow; Melody Dusastre; Menno Schaefer; Michael Ackermann; Michael Allred; Michael A Wood; Michael Mendelson; Michael Rosenberg; Michael Schnee; Michael Scott; Michael Smith; Michael Sterling; Michael van Santen; Michelle van Dijk; Michel Pierfitte; Mick Peerdeman; Mike Lawler; Mike Miller; Mike OConnor; Mike Smith; Miquel Garriga Carner; Miriam Heisler; Miriam van Hees; Mirko Reichert; Molly Robinson; Molly Shepard; Mona Beate Wendelborg; Mona Wong; Monica Kolb; Monika Trümper; Moritz Reisch; Mouser Williams; Mrs Jo Richardson; MS Fram; MS Fridtjof Nansen; MS Maud; MS Otto Sverdrup; MS Spitsbergen; Nacho Oria; Nadine Fabeck; Nadine Hunziker; Nana Socas; Natascha; Natascha Klein; Nate Crosby; Neil Michels; Neil Swanson; Nicholas Figueiredo; Nicola Crouch; Nikki; Niklas Astrom; Nils; Nils Kirsch; Nils Schönwald; Nina Ciemniak; NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory (NMML); Noam Jans; Ocean Missions; Ocean Wildlife Encounters; Olaf Pignataro; Olivia Capeillere; Olivier Blaud; orion agustus albrecht; Pascal Mauerhofer; Patrick Carl Smith; Patrick Ruf; Patrick Scherer; Patrick Trimpin; Pat Sanders; Paulina Kempa; Pauline van Monsjou; Paul Kenyon; Paul Soulby; Paul Wan; Per Nikolaj Bukh; Per Olsson; Peter Abt; Peter Carstens; Peter Clement; Peter eussen; Peter Gagarin; Peter Otto Zours; Petra Glardon; Petri Hakosalo; Petr Petrik; Philippe Jeanty - †; Philip Spriet; PHLin; photo contributor June 2022; Pim Wolf; Pius Hübl; Pupanoid; Qi Wan; Queloz; Rachael Barber; Rachael Talibart; Rachel Gershon; Rachel Rickett; Radovan Sutora; Rafael Martins; Ragna Ólöf Guðmundsdóttir; Raina Burke; Rand Rudland; Raphael Royer; Raquel Martínez; Ravi G; Rayann Elzein; Rebecca Bilbrey; Rebecca Malkewicz; Rebecca Niemiec; Régis PERDRIAT; René König; Rhonda Sprigg; Richard Allan; Richard Byam-Cook; Richard Lovelock; Richard Taylor; Richard van Gils; Richard Walker; Richard White; rick; Robert Foubister; Robert J Glowitz; Robert Wälter; Rob Gons; Robin Fox; Robyn Akre; Robyn Malcolm; Rod; Rodrigo A. Martinez Catalan; Rod White; Roger Lewin; Roger Puig i Jorba; Rolf Moeller; Romane R; Ron Gates; Rosa M. Coronas; Rowan; Roxanna Camfferman; Roxhens; Russian Cetacean Habitat Project; Ruth Caguicla; Ruud; Sabine; Sabine Griesser; Sais Céline; Sally Horowitz; Samantha Mundorff; Samantha Wormley; Sam Donck; Samuel Hall; Samuel Thorsteinsson; Sandra Schmidt-Bellinghoff; Sandra Zijlstra; Sanjay Patel; Sannah Gumbel; Sarah; Sarah Tranmer; SARANO francois; Sara Pasqualotto; Sara Vojvodic; Sascha. Lohaus; Scott Sleeper; Sea Fever Productions; Sebastian Lundsgaard Maclean; Sebastian Shaw; sewaris212@poverts.com; Shannon; Shantala Wentink; Sheila Miller; Siairra Tharp; Sigrún Helgudóttir; Simonasnasel; Simon Collett; Simon F; Simon Salter; Simon Smith; Simon Stachelscheid; Sina Grünenfelder; Slater T Moore; Sofie; Sophie Carr; Sophie Clements; Soyer; Spencer Lee; Spencer Weaver; Stacey Colebaugh; Stacey Matthews; Stefan Kaeser; Stefan Schnettler; Stefan Spalke; Steffen Biersack; Steffen G.; Steffen Oehme; Steffo Polar; Stephan Uhlemann; Stephen Graham; Stephen King; Stephen Martin; Steve Jones; Steven dos-Remedios; Steven Straubinger; Steve Willetts; Susan Smith; suse kuhn; Suzanne Wafer; Svenja Stoehr; Sven Rohtla; Taco; Tamina Schaner; Tanja; Tarrah; Ted Creek; Teresa Blase; Terry Slade; Teun Verhagen; Therese Horntrich; The travellers; Thomas Kraemer; Thomas Podesta; Thomas Whittell; Thom Held; Tiffany Fare; Tiffany Zamolsky; Tim Farrand; Tim Martin; Tim Shaw; Tim Wright; Tjomme Dooper; Tobias Brehm; Tobias Mallinger; Tobias Paul; Todd Wheeler; Tom odbert; Tom Wechsler; Tony Littler; Tressarieu; Trevor Blanning; Trine Rilorin; Troels Windfeldt; Tudor Morgan; Tyler Hall; Ursula Brändle; valentina; Valerie Cross; Valeriia Ulianina; Vanessa Jeannin; Vanessa Maier; Vera Mattner; Vicki Beaver; Victoria K; Viktoria Muehlbauer; Vincent N Visser; Virgil Reglioni; Virginia Bria; Vittoria Sesani; Vivario Manuela; Vladimir Burkanov; vro181; Walter Festaro; wang yanbei; W de Goede; Whale Watching Akureyri; Whale Wise; Wilfried Schnessl; Wills Wan; Wouter Verwee; Wout Schuttert; Y; Yannick Nagel; Yann Lemoine; Yaron Zalel; Years of the North Atlantic Humpback whale (YoNAH); Yenlin Yu; Yevhenii Bespoiasko; yinlvhan; Yorick Pieters; Yuan; Yuri Choufour; Yuval K; Yves Roumazeilles; Zac Brown; Zachary Smith; zhaosi; Zuzanna

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 6,946 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 - Humpback whale in Arctic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1762) 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: 0649104b-c7d5-4bfc-8804-5d7b8e25be37.  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/1762 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1762/xml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Ted Cheeseman
  • Owner
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Primary contact
Happywhale
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US

Geographic Coverage

Arctic Ocean;Chukchi Sea;Greenland Sea;Norwegian Sea;Sea of Okhotsk

Bounding Coordinates South West [44.254, -179.9], North East [80.263, 159.935]

Taxonomic Coverage

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

Species Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback whale)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1992-07-01 / 2024-07-12

Project Data

No Description available

Title Happywhale - Humpback whale in Arctic Ocean
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Ted Cheeseman
  • Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_1762
Collection Identifier zd_1762
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Purpose Not available
Alternative Identifiers 0649104b-c7d5-4bfc-8804-5d7b8e25be37
https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1762