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 7 contributors in alphabetic order: Caitlin Fitzmaurice; John House; MS Spitsbergen; Per Nikolaj Bukh; Sarah Robinson; Sigrún Helgudóttir; Theo Jones
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 14 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 - Harbor seal in North Atlantic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1942) 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: 192280f1-9ce4-4802-8344-eede4ff90ecc. 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/1942 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1942/xml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
Geographic Coverage
Gulf of St. Lawrence;Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland;Kattegat;North Atlantic Ocean;North Sea
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [42.693, -70.495], North East [64.802, 10.253] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Species | Phoca vitulina (Harbor seal) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2016-07-24 / 2024-06-22 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Happywhale - Harbor seal 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_1942 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_1942 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Purpose | Not available |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 192280f1-9ce4-4802-8344-eede4ff90ecc |
| https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1942 |