IMIS - Marine Research Groups

Happywhale - Harbor Seal in Arctic Ocean

Citation

Happywhale. 2022. Happywhale - Harbor Seal in Arctic Ocean. Data originated from Happywhale.com. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8318

Contact: Cheeseman, Ted ;

Access data

Archived data

Also accessible through:

https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2103

Availability:

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Description

Happywhale.com is a resource to help you know whales as individuals, and to benefit conservation science with rich data about individual whales.

Original provider: Happywhale

Dataset credits: Happywhale and contributors

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 1 contributors in alphabetic order: Marilia Olio

Lineage

Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output

Scope

Keywords:

Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Occurrence, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, ANE, Greenland Sea, Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 10,6558; MinLat: 69,3333 - MaxLong: 16,15; MaxLat: 79,4986 [WGS84]

ANE, Greenland Sea [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

6 July 2019 - 13 June 2022

Taxonomic coverage

Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]

Contributors

Happywhale, more, data creator, data owner, proposer

Cheeseman, Ted

Duke University; Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, more, dataset publisher