Integrated Marine Information System

Happywhale - Northern bottlenose whale in Arctic Ocean

Citation

Happywhale. 2021. Happywhale - Northern bottlenose whale in Arctic Ocean. Data originated from Happywhale.com. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8323

Contact: Cheeseman, Ted ;

Access data

Archived data

Also accessible through:

https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1936

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 5 contributors in alphabetic order: Alex Cowan; Judit Roch; Karen Mulders; Michael Jackson; Nacho Oria

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 · Hyperoodon (Hyperoodon) ampullatus (Forster, 1770)

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -22,8752; MinLat: 63,1856 - MaxLong: -5,05; MaxLat: 75,2667 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage

26 June 2018 - 29 May 2023

Taxonomic coverage

Hyperoodon (Hyperoodon) ampullatus (Forster, 1770) [WoRMS]

Parameter

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

Contributors

Happywhale, more, data creator, data owner, proposer

Cheeseman, Ted