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Happywhale - Bowhead in North Atlantic Ocean
Citation
Happywhale. 2022. Happywhale - Bowhead in North Atlantic Ocean. Data originated from Happywhale.com. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8306
Contact: Cheeseman, Ted ;
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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 7 contributors in alphabetic order: adam maire; Annette Bombosch; Hans Meltofte; Lauren Farmer; Petra Glardon; Ted Cheeseman; Tobias Brehm

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: -139,051; MinLat: 47,241 - MaxLong: 54,8101; MaxLat: 80,3115 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
13 August 2012 - 1 September 2023
Taxonomic coverage
Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Contributors
Happywhale, data creator, data owner, proposer
Cheeseman, Ted
Duke University; Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, dataset publisher
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
URLs
Other:
https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1770/xml
Release date: 2023-03-17
Metadatarecord created: 2023-05-08
Information last updated: 2024-05-10
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