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Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Notes: Only data aggregated per 1-degree cell are available through OBIS. The non-aggregated data are available through the OBIS-SEAMAP Portal Description Dataset with telemetry and photoID information of sperm whales in the northern Gulf of Mexico. more Sperm Whale Seismic Study (SWSS) was a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary research project supported by the then Minerals Management Service (MMS; now Bureau of Ocean Energy Management - BOEM) under Cooperative Agreement 1435-01-02-CA-85186 for Cooperative Research on Sperm Whales and their Response to Seismic Exploration in the Gulf of Mexico through the Texas A&M Research Foundation. The objectives of SWSS were to
The base of this dataset is ARGOS telemetry location data that were deployed in S-Tag cruises in 2002-2005. The TagID (PTT#) and PhotoID, if available, were used to associate additional attributes such as biopsy and fin images with individual animals. These attributes will be released upon data provider's permission. Scope Themes: Biology > Mammals Keywords: Marine/Coastal, ASW, Mexico Gulf, Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 Geographical coverage ASW, Mexico Gulf [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage 24 June 2002 - 6 October 2006 Taxonomic coverage Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS] Contributors Related datasets Published in: OBIS-SEAMAP: Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations, more URL Dataset information: Dataset status: Completed Data type: Data Data origin: Research: field survey Metadatarecord created: 2012-11-12 Information last updated: 2013-04-25 | ||||
