IMIS

Happywhale - Beluga in Arctic Ocean

Citation

Happywhale. 2021. Happywhale - Beluga in Arctic Ocean. Data originated from Happywhale.com. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8302

Contact: Cheeseman, Ted ;

Access data

Archived data

Also accessible through:

https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1724

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 9 contributors in alphabetic order: Anna Astafurova; Conor Ryan; Johnny Giese; Kerstin Langenberger; Léa Zinsli; Marian Herz; Mick Peerdeman; Rémi Bigonneau; Victoria Stokes

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 · Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776)

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 11,42; MinLat: 53 - MaxLong: 144; MaxLat: 79,88 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage

6 June 2013 - 20 June 2023

6 June 2013 - 22 June 2024 (EurOBIS harvested data)

Taxonomic coverage

Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776) [WoRMS]

Parameter

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

Contributors

Happywhale, more, data creator, data owner, proposer