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Happywhale - Bowhead in Arctic Ocean
Citation
Happywhale. 2023. Happywhale - Bowhead in Arctic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1769) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8305
Contact: Cheeseman, Ted ;

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Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License 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. 

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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; Barnaby; D Cavagnac; Hans Verdaat; Hondius; Jamie Coleman; Joel Moore; Philip Stone; Pippa Low


Scope
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Occurrence, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -179,9; MinLat: 70 - MaxLong: 13,5782; MaxLat: 81,26 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
5 July 2017 - 10 June 2023

Taxonomic coverage
Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]

Contributors
Happywhaledata creatordata ownerproposer
Cheeseman, Ted
Duke University; Marine Geospatial Ecology Labdataset publisher

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System


Release date: 2023-03-17
Metadatarecord created: 2023-05-08
Information last updated: 2024-05-10
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