Integrated Marine Information System

Happywhale - Sowerby's Beaked Whale in North Atlantic Ocean

Citation

Happywhale. 2020. Happywhale - Sowerby''s Beaked Whale in North Atlantic Ocean. Data originated from Happywhale.com. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8333

Contact: Cheeseman, Ted ;

Access data

Archived data

Also accessible through:

https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2097

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 2 contributors in alphabetic order: Cottele Benny; Marilia Olio

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 · A, North Atlantic · 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 · North Atlantic Ocean · Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby, 1804)

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -28,6565; MinLat: 38,3484 - MaxLong: -28,2595; MaxLat: 38,4675 [WGS84]

North Atlantic Ocean [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

23 June 2015 - 8 July 2023

Taxonomic coverage

Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby, 1804) [WoRMS]

Parameter

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

Contributors

Happywhale, more, data creator, data owner, proposer