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Happywhale - Fin Whale in North Atlantic Ocean
Citation
Happywhale. 2022. Happywhale - Fin Whale in North Atlantic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1750) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8568
Contact: Cheeseman, Ted ;
Access data
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

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 36 contributors in alphabetic order: Alexa Kershaw; Annette Bombosch; Anton Chaiko; bev dant; Bjarki; Caitlin Fitzmaurice; Cees Tineke; Christian Engelke; Claudia Wagner; Conor Ryan; Dale Frink; Dan Harville; De Wulf Maurina (maluga); Dominique Gallo; Franck Hollander; Harold Moses; Joy van der Beek; Kathie Rokita; Kerstin Langenberger; Maddy Montgomery; Madelon Stuut; Margot Sib; Marilia Olio; Mark OBrien; Max Block; Mitch Doucet; Norbert; Per Nikolaj Bukh; Raimondeau; Rory Jackson West Cork Ocean Tours; Sara Franson; Sarah Kather; Sea Fever Productions; Ted Cheeseman; Theo Vickers; Tobias Brehm

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, 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, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -74,3; MinLat: 6,608 - MaxLong: 25,7459; MaxLat: 76,2491 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
2 January 2010 - 9 July 2024
Taxonomic coverage
Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Contributors
Happywhale, data creator, data owner
Cheeseman, Ted
Duke University; Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, dataset publisher
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
URLs
Dataset information:
https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/6d617269-6e65-696e-666f-000000008568
Other:
https://geo.vliz.be/geoserver/Dataportal/wfs?service=wfs&version=1.1.0&typeName=eurobis-obisenv_full&request=GetFeature&outputFormat=text%2Fcsv&viewParams=datasetid%3A8568
https://geo.vliz.be/geoserver/wms?service=WMS&request=getCapabilities&layer=Dataportal:eurobis_rasters-obisenv
https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1750/xml
Release date: 2024-04-16
Metadatarecord created: 2024-05-10
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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