IMIS - Marine Research Groups

Happywhale - Killer Whale in North Atlantic Ocean

Citation

Happywhale. 2022. Happywhale - Killer Whale in North Atlantic Ocean. Data originated from Happywhale.com. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8320

Contact: Cheeseman, Ted ;

Access data

Archived data

Also accessible through:

https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1717

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 28 contributors in alphabetic order: Adrian Boyle; Amy Tudor; Andrew Peacock; Antoine Viot; Boo Borsberry-Woods; Christine Corke; Conor Ryan; De Wulf Maurina (maluga); Evelin Breuers; Hans Verdaat; Javier Cotin; Johnny Giese; Kimberly Nesbitt; Lucile Sachot; Marilia Olio; Michael Jackson; Mitch Doucet; MS Fridtjof Nansen; Paolo Bellezze; Philip Precey; Phil Sykes; Pia Lange; Raghavan Nair; S. Helgu; Steph & Oli Prince; Tara Byrne; Thomas Kohn; Tim Martin

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:

Marine/Coastal, 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, Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758)

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -67,8955; MinLat: 14,8789 - MaxLong: 25,4513; MaxLat: 71,1704 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage

19 June 2008 - 3 April 2024

Taxonomic coverage

Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]

Contributors

Happywhale, more, data creator, data owner, proposer

Cheeseman, Ted

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

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