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Happywhale - Fin Whale in Arctic Ocean
Citation
Happywhale. 2022. Happywhale - Fin Whale in Arctic Ocean. Data originated from Happywhale.com. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8315
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 14 contributors in alphabetic order: Adelie Xiaohang Li; Andrew Thompson; Annette Bombosch; Chris Lewis; Heidi Krajewsky; Hondius; Lauren Farmer; Marilia Olio; MS Otto Sverdrup; MS Spitsbergen; Nick Savic; Patrick Mitchell; Ronny Hogstrom; Tobias Brehm

Scope
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Occurrence, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -17,5; MinLat: 66,1 - MaxLong: 25,7459; MaxLat: 80,5542 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
14 July 2012 - 20 October 2023
Taxonomic coverage
Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Contributors
Happywhale, more, data creator, data owner, proposer
Cheeseman, Ted
Duke University; Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, more, dataset publisher
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
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Release date: 2023-03-17
Metadatarecord created: 2023-05-11
Information last updated: 2024-05-10
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