Acoustic detections in Northeast and South Atlantic

Occurrence Observation
Latest version published by OBIS-SEAMAP on Oct 8, 2025 OBIS-SEAMAP

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Description

Original provider: Thomas Webber, University of St Andrews Dataset credits: Thomas Webber, University of St Andrews Abstract: Acoustic detcetions of odontocetes from over 30,000km of survey effort from the Arctic, Atlantic, Southern and Indian Oceans, using a streamlined workflow for increasing the speed of acoustic anakysis for large datasets utilizing existing modules within PAMGuard.

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Webber, T. 2025. Acoustic detections in Northeast and South Atlantic. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/bb6602ee.

Rights

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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: 24e553dc-33f9-419f-8f08-7230f696e3da.  OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Keywords

Marine Biology; Passive acoustic detection; Marine Animal Survey; Marine mammals; Acoustic precense/absence; Vessel; Occurrence; Observation

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2155 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2155/fgdc UTF-8 XML
EML Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2155/eml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Thomas Webber
  • Owner
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Primary contact
University of St Andrews
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
  • A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US

Geographic Coverage

Oceans,Atlantic,Arctic,Antarctic

Bounding Coordinates South West [-64.597, -67.01], North East [78.816, 20.035]

Taxonomic Coverage

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

Family Delphinidae (Dolphins), Hyperoodontidae (Beaked whales)
Genus Globicephala (Pilot whales)
Species Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked common dolphin), Feresa attenuata (Pygmy killer whale), Grampus griseus (Risso's dolphin), Lagenorhynchus acutus (Atlantic white-sided dolphin), Lagenorhynchus australis (Peale's dolphin), Orcinus orca (Killer whale), Phocoena phocoena (Harbor porpoise), Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm whale), Pseudorca crassidens (False killer whale), Stenella coeruleoalba (Striped dolphin), Stenella frontalis (Atlantic spotted dolphin), Stenella longirostris (Spinner dolphin), Tursiops truncatus (Common bottlenose dolphin)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2019-08-22 / 2020-09-29

Project Data

No Description available

Title Acoustic detections in Northeast and South Atlantic
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Thomas Webber
  • Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_2155
Collection Identifier zd_2155
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS. Each record represents species presence only. Records of "SONAR" were dropped. Survey trackline is provided as a static image online.