Description
Original provider: Cécile Vincent, Centre d’Études Biologiques de Chizé Dataset credits: Cecile Vincent, CEBC (CNRS/La Rochelle University) Abstract: Twelve grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) were captured in the Baie de Somme, Picardie (France) between May and September 2012 and fitted with Fastloc GPS/GSM tags (Sea Mammal Research Unit - SMRU, UK). The project was funded by the Région Poitou-Charentes. The study was conducted by Cecile Vincent at the University of La Rochelle (France) in collaboration with SMRU, the Parc naturel marin des estuaires picards et de la mer d’Opale, Picardie Nature, PELAGIS (CNRS/La Rochelle University) and the Office national de la chasse de la faune sauvage (ONCFS). Seals were caught under licenses delivered by the French ministry of the environment.
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 61,044 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:
Vincent, C. 2019. Grey seals GPS telemetry in Baie de Somme. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/fc45d6e3.
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: b6825775-b59a-4f8a-af17-a4ab5569c35f. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Marine Biology; Telemetry; Tagged animal; Marine Animal Survey; Marine mammals; Animal tagging; Radio transmitters; Fastloc GPS; Occurrence; Observation
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2026 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2026/fgdc UTF-8 XML |
| EML Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2026/eml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
- Owner ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Primary contact
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
- A328 LSRC building
Geographic Coverage
Oceans,Baie de Somme
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [49.249, -2.279], North East [55.951, 6.863] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Species | Halichoerus grypus (Atlantic gray seal) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2012-05-30 / 2013-01-30 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Grey seals GPS telemetry in Baie de Somme |
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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_2026 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_2026 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS.
| Purpose | Identification of individual movements and foraging areas of grey seals |
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| Alternative Identifiers | https://doi.org/10.82144/fc45d6e3 |
| https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2026 | |
| https://www.gbif.org/dataset/b6825775-b59a-4f8a-af17-a4ab5569c35f | |
| https://obis.org/dataset/78541fb8-936c-4fda-9b06-3831f61a2b43 | |
| b6825775-b59a-4f8a-af17-a4ab5569c35f | |
| https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_2026 |