Integrated Marine Information System

Happywhale - Common Bottlenose Dolphin in North Atlantic Ocean

Citation

Happywhale. 2023. Happywhale - Common bottlenose dolphin in North Atlantic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1947) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8307

Contact: Cheeseman, Ted ;

Access data

Archived data

Also accessible through:

https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1947

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 21 contributors in alphabetic order: Allie Smith; Charlotte Kirchner; Christian Wegener; Corinne Eichler; Cottele Benny; Era Horton; Eric Angel Ramos; Iuliia; Janiek Schrijer; Kimberly Nesbitt; Lara Eade; Marilia Olio; Matthew Gledhill; Per Nikolaj Bukh; Phillippa Tichotova; Ryan Donnelly; Sabine+Ulf; Sara Franson; steve; Ula; Whale Wonders BVI

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, Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -97,0611; MinLat: 10,3235 - MaxLong: 39,9487; MaxLat: 63,7532 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage

2 October 2008 - 8 June 2023

Taxonomic coverage

Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) [WoRMS]

Contributors

Happywhale, more, data creator, data owner, proposer

Cheeseman, Ted

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

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