Cascadia Research Blue Whale Photo IDs for US West Coast, 1972-2004

Data as a DwC-A file	download 6,530 records in English (504 KB) - Update frequency: not planned
Metadata as an EML file	download in English (13 KB)
Metadata as an RTF file	download in English (11 KB)

Description

Original provider: Cascadia Research Collective Dataset credits: Cascadia Research Abstract: This dataset consists of 6,560 sighting records, including at least 1,803 uniquely identified blue whales. These were collected by Cascadia Research and collaborators from the eastern North Pacific from 1975 through 2004 (data collection is continuing). The primary extent of this dataset includes waters off California, Oregon, and Washington from 1986 to 2004, which accounts for over 6,000 of the records. Additional sighting records are from other regions of the North Pacific including the Eastern Tropical Pacific, British Columbia, and Alaska. These data represent the most extensive database of blue whale sightings available from the waters off the western United States and have provided the primary information available on movements and abundance of eastern North Pacific blue whales. Effort was not evenly distributed throughout the region so sighting locations are biased towards areas of highest effort. ID field links resightings of the same individual.

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 6,530 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:

Calambokidis, J. 2013. Cascadia Research Blue Whale Photo IDs for US West Coast, 1972-2004. Version 1.7.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/0cbd04d0.

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: f30db7c2-5f7b-449d-a508-34b701e95c43. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation; Marine Biology; Visual sighting; Vessels; Sightings; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page	https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/99 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata	https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/99/fgdc UTF-8 XML
EML Metadata	https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/99/eml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

John Calambokidis

Owner ●
Originator ●
Point Of Contact

Primary contact

John Calambokidis

Calambokidis@cascadiaresearch.org

OBIS-SEAMAP

Metadata Provider ●
Distributor

Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

A328 LSRC building

27708 Durham

seamap-contact@duke.edu

https://seamap.env.duke.edu

Geographic Coverage

Western Pacific sector

Bounding Coordinates	South West [-14.43, 168.94], North East [59.28, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

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

Species	Balaenoptera musculus (Blue whale)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date	1975-12-01 / 2004-11-02

Project Data

No Description available

Title	Cascadia Research Blue Whale Photo IDs for US West Coast, 1972-2004
Funding	NA

The personnel involved in the project:

John Calambokidis

Owner

Sampling Methods

Study Extent	NA

Method step description:

Collection Data

Collection Name	zd_99
Collection Identifier	zd_99
Parent Collection Identifier	OBIS-SEAMAP

Bibliographic Citations

Calambokidis, J. and J. Barlow. 2004. Abundance of blue and humpback whales in the eastern North Pacific estimated by capture-recapture and line-transect methods. Marine Mammal Science20(1):63-85. http://www.cascadiaresearch.org/reports/MMS-MnBm-04.pdf

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS. Updated on March 30, 2006, expanding the dataset up to 2004.

Purpose
Alternative Identifiers	https://doi.org/10.82144/0cbd04d0
	https://www.gbif.org/dataset/f30db7c2-5f7b-449d-a508-34b701e95c43
	https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/99
	https://obis.org/dataset/cec21074-052e-4e1c-99b1-e56ec8d5c0ae
	f30db7c2-5f7b-449d-a508-34b701e95c43
	https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_99