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Happywhale - Polar Bear in North Atlantic Ocean
Citation
Happywhale. 2022. Happywhale - Polar Bear in North Atlantic Ocean. Data originated from Happywhale.com. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8326
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 2 contributors in alphabetic order: Marilia Olio; Ted Cheeseman

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, Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -42,018; MinLat: 62,762 - MaxLong: 58,0806; MaxLat: 81,225 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
24 July 2019 - 25 May 2022
Taxonomic coverage
Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774 [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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Dataset information:
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Release date: 2022-11-15
Metadatarecord created: 2023-05-11
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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