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Happywhale - Harbor Seal in North Atlantic Ocean
Citation
Happywhale. 2022. Happywhale - Harbor Seal in North Atlantic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1942) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8569
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

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 4 contributors in alphabetic order: Caitlin Fitzmaurice; Per Nikolaj Bukh; Sarah Robinson; S. Helgu

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, Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -70,4953; MinLat: 42,693 - MaxLong: 10,2532; MaxLat: 64,8023 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
24 July 2016 - 22 June 2024
Taxonomic coverage
Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Contributors
Happywhale, more, data creator, owner
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: 2024-02-15
Metadatarecord created: 2024-05-10
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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