Integrated Marine Information System

Happywhale - Bowhead in North Atlantic Ocean

Citation

Happywhale. 2022. Happywhale - Bowhead in North Atlantic Ocean. Data originated from Happywhale.com. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8306

Contact: Cheeseman, Ted ;

Access data

Archived data

Also accessible through:

https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1770

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 7 contributors in alphabetic order: adam maire; Annette Bombosch; Hans Meltofte; Lauren Farmer; Petra Glardon; Ted Cheeseman; Tobias Brehm

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 · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · 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 · Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -139,051; MinLat: 47,241 - MaxLong: 54,8101; MaxLat: 80,3115 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage

18 April 2005 - 1 September 2023 (EurOBIS harvested data)

13 August 2012 - 1 September 2023

Taxonomic coverage

Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]

Parameter

Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)

Contributors

Happywhale, more, data creator, data owner, proposer