Whale-Watching cetacean occurrences by Futurismo Azores Adventures from 2008 to 2018 off São Miguel (Azores)
Citation
González García L, Barata C, Idárraga Garcés V (2025). Whale-Watching cetacean occurrences by Futurismo Azores Adventures from 2008 to 2018 off São Miguel (Azores). Futurismo Azores Adventures. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8804
Contact:
González García, Laura ;
Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Description
Whale-watching vessels have become valuable platforms for cetacean data collection worldwide. In the Azores, a cetacean hotspot in the Atlantic, Futurismo Azores Adventures, a family-owned tourism company with whale-watching as its core business, has been collecting data regularly since 2008. The current dataset compiles observations of 20 cetacean species and 19 other species of marine megafauna, recorded by Futurismo Azores Adventures off São Miguel Island (Azores, Portugal) from 2008 to 2018. Data was collected during 4219 whale-watching commercial trips conducted daily and year-round. This information has been prepared for publication within the framework of the DTO-BioFlow project, which aims to enable a data flow into the EU Digital Twin Ocean. 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 Themes: Biology > Mammals Keywords: Marine/Coastal · Azores · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · cetacean · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Regional · Sea regions · vessel of opportunity [EurOBIS harvested data] · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Animalia · Aves · Balaenopteridae Gray, 1864 · Beloniformes · Carcharhinidae Jordan & Evermann, 1896 · Carcharhiniformes · Carnivora · Cheloniidae Oppel, 1811 · Chordata · Delphinidae Gray, 1821 · Elasmobranchii · Exocoetidae Risso, 1827 · Hexanchiformes · Istiophoridae Rafinesque, 1815 · Mammalia · Mobulinae Gill, 1893 · Molidae Bonaparte, 1835 · Myliobatiformes · Orectolobiformes · Pelecaniformes · Phalacrocoracidae Reichenbach, 1850 · Phocidae Gray, 1821 · Physeteridae · Procellariidae Vigors, 1825 · Procellariiformes · Reptilia · Scombridae Rafinesque, 1815 · Sphyrnidae Bonaparte, 1840 · Teleostei · Testudines · Tetraodontiformes · Xiphiidae Rafinesque, 1815 · Ziphiidae Gray, 1850 Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: -26,6377; MinLat: 37,3469 - MaxLong: -25,0169; MaxLat: 38,0653 [WGS84] Azores [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
1 May 2008 - 31 December 2018 3 May 2008 - 26 December 2018 (EurOBIS harvested data) Taxonomic coverage
Animalia [WoRMS]
Aves [WoRMS]
Balaenopteridae Gray, 1864 [WoRMS]
Beloniformes [WoRMS]
Carcharhinidae Jordan & Evermann, 1896 [WoRMS]
Carcharhiniformes [WoRMS]
Carnivora [WoRMS]
Cheloniidae Oppel, 1811 [WoRMS]
Chordata [WoRMS]
Delphinidae Gray, 1821 [WoRMS]
Elasmobranchii [WoRMS]
Exocoetidae Risso, 1827 [WoRMS]
Hexanchiformes [WoRMS]
Istiophoridae Rafinesque, 1815 [WoRMS]
Mammalia [WoRMS]
Mobulinae Gill, 1893 [WoRMS]
Molidae Bonaparte, 1835 [WoRMS]
Myliobatiformes [WoRMS]
Orectolobiformes [WoRMS]
Pelecaniformes [WoRMS]
Phalacrocoracidae Reichenbach, 1850 [WoRMS]
Phocidae Gray, 1821 [WoRMS]
Physeteridae [WoRMS]
Procellariidae Vigors, 1825 [WoRMS]
Procellariiformes [WoRMS]
Reptilia [WoRMS]
Scombridae Rafinesque, 1815 [WoRMS]
Sphyrnidae Bonaparte, 1840 [WoRMS]
Teleostei [WoRMS]
Testudines [WoRMS]
Tetraodontiformes [WoRMS]
Xiphiidae Rafinesque, 1815 [WoRMS]
Ziphiidae Gray, 1850 [WoRMS]
Parameters
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Gender of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Horizontal visibility in the atmosphere by visual estimation [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Speed of wind {wind speed} in the atmosphere by visual estimation and conversion to Beaufort scale [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Contributors
Futurismo Azores Adventures, more, data creator, owner
Related datasets
Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more Project
DTO - BioFlow: Integration of biodiversity monitoring data into the Digital Twin Ocean, more
Funding Horizon Europe
Grant agreement ID 101112823
URLs
Dataset information: Other: Data type: Data
Release date: 2025-03-27
Metadatarecord created: 2025-04-03
Information last updated: 2026-01-26
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