Integrated Marine Information System

Happywhale - Sei Whale in Arctic Ocean

Citation

Happywhale. 2022. Happywhale - Sei Whale in Arctic Ocean. Data originated from Happywhale.com. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8330

Contact: Cheeseman, Ted ;

Access data

Archived data

Also accessible through:

https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1929

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: 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 · ANE, Greenland Sea · 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 · Greenland Sea · Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 11,32; MinLat: 78,1793 - MaxLong: 13,7758; MaxLat: 79,014 [WGS84]

Greenland Sea [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

19 June 2015 - 12 July 2019

Taxonomic coverage

Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828 [WoRMS]

Parameter

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

Contributors

Happywhale, more, data creator, data owner, proposer