Description
Original provider: The Dolphin Project, Inc. Dataset credits: The Dolphin Project, Inc. Abstract: The Dolphin Project, Inc. conducts quarterly abundance surveys along Georgia estuarine waters to obtain the relative number of dolphins. Also, Photo ID surveys are conducted from January through November to track previously identified dolphin and catalog new individuals.. The dataset includes data of sightings of Atlantic bottlenose dolphin primarily in Georgia estuarine waters from 1992 to 2003. Purpose: The Dolphin Project seeks to contribute to the understanding of marine mammals, expand the public's knowledge and concern for our marine environment, and add to the knowledge base of bottlenose dolphins through the sharing of collected field data. Supplemental information: Survey effort data, which are points data not lines, are available. Please contact the data provider (contact person) about how to use the effort data. Upon permission from the data provider, OBIS-SEAMAP will release the effort data to the user.
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 5,665 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:
Lapolla, F. 2013. The Dolphin Project. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/304) on yyyy-mm-dd.
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: a3e4e91c-0848-4e20-99f2-a0f72abb646c. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence,Cetaceans,Dolphins,Marine mammals,Animals,Atlantic bottlenose dolphin,Ship Survey,Observations,biota,environment,geoscientificinformation,location,oceans,Biomass,Community Structure,Abundance,Population,Conservation,Environmental Assessments,Population Distribution,Population Size,Abundance,Spatial distribution; Observation; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/304 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/304/xml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
- Owner ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
Geographic Coverage
Atlantic,Atlantic Ocean,East coast,estuarine waters,USA,United States Of America,Georgia
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [30.713, -81.577], North East [32.328, -80.702] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Species | Tursiops truncatus (Common Bottlenose Dolphin) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1992-04-11 / 2003-07-20 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | The Dolphin Project |
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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_304 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_304 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Purpose | The Dolphin Project seeks to contribute to the understanding of marine mammals, expand the public's knowledge and concern for our marine environment, and add to the knowledge base of bottlenose dolphins through the sharing of collected field data. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_304 |