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Happywhale - Atlantic gray seal in North Atlantic Ocean
Citation
Happywhale. 2021. Happywhale - Atlantic gray seal in North Atlantic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1934) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8555
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
Original provider: Happywhale Dataset credits: Happywhale and contributors Abstract: Happywhale.com is a resource to help you know whales as individuals, and to benefit conservation science with rich data about individual whales. 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 3 contributors in alphabetic order: Caitlin Fitzmaurice; Drew Collins; Rémi Bigonneau

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, Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius, 1791)

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -70,6944; MinLat: 42,0799 - MaxLong: 10,8906; MaxLat: 53,9621 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
18 November 2018 - 10 June 2021

Taxonomic coverage
Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius, 1791) [WoRMS]

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

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


Release date: 2024-03-19
Metadatarecord created: 2024-05-03
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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