Occurrence

Happywhale - Sperm whale in Arctic Ocean

Latest version published by OBIS-SEAMAP on 18 November 2024 OBIS-SEAMAP
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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 26 contributors in alphabetic order: ANGEL SOLE; Babsi Neubarth; Carola Heiner-Braun; Chiari Massimiliano; Christian; Conor Ryan; Cuiziy_Z; Dave Teunissen; David Desaulnier; Eric Clark; Esther van der Stappen; Hannes Güdelhöfer; Jeremy Thomas; Joanna Clegg; Juan Manuel García Cambeiro; Lynn Murray; Machi Yoshida; Mark Veeken; Michel Lau; MV Hondius; Patricia Bally Triebold; Qianxin Deng; Sandra Schmidt-Bellinghoff; Simon Merz; Tammy Nicholas; Wendy Upton

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 9 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:

Happywhale. 2024. Happywhale - Sperm whale in Arctic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1944) 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: 4b1c895e-edef-482f-8f41-d6ad3c9335b9.  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/1944 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1944/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

Greenland Sea;Norwegian Sea;Sea of Okhotsk

Bounding Coordinates South West [44.006, -18.525], North East [78.75, 145.47]

Taxonomic Coverage

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

Species Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm whale)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2012-07-14 / 2024-06-09

Project Data

No Description available

Title Happywhale - Sperm 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_1944
Collection Identifier zd_1944
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Purpose Not available
Alternative Identifiers 4b1c895e-edef-482f-8f41-d6ad3c9335b9
https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1944