IMIS

Happywhale - Atlantic Spotted Dolphin in North Atlantic Ocean

Citation

Happywhale. 2021. Happywhale - Atlantic Spotted Dolphin in North Atlantic Ocean. Data originated from Happywhale.com. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8295

Contact: Cheeseman, Ted ;

Access data

Archived data

Also accessible through:

https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1805

Availability:

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.

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 5 contributors in alphabetic order: Charlotte; Dale Frink; Marilia Olio; Sabine+Ulf; 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, Stenella frontalis (Cuvier, 1829)

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -91,6417; MinLat: 16,9929 - MaxLong: -16,9221; MaxLat: 38,6525 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage

15 March 2006 - 5 February 2023

Taxonomic coverage

Stenella frontalis (Cuvier, 1829) [WoRMS]

Contributors

Happywhale, more, data creator, data owner, proposer

Cheeseman, Ted

Duke University; Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, more, dataset publisher

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