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Happywhale - Killer Whale in North Atlantic Ocean
Citation
Happywhale. 2022. Happywhale - Killer Whale in North Atlantic Ocean. Data originated from Happywhale.com. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8320
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 28 contributors in alphabetic order: Adrian Boyle; Amy Tudor; Andrew Peacock; Antoine Viot; Boo Borsberry-Woods; Christine Corke; Conor Ryan; De Wulf Maurina (maluga); Evelin Breuers; Hans Verdaat; Javier Cotin; Johnny Giese; Kimberly Nesbitt; Lucile Sachot; Marilia Olio; Michael Jackson; Mitch Doucet; MS Fridtjof Nansen; Paolo Bellezze; Philip Precey; Phil Sykes; Pia Lange; Raghavan Nair; S. Helgu; Steph & Oli Prince; Tara Byrne; Thomas Kohn; Tim Martin

Scope
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Occurrence, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -75,1146; MinLat: 14,8789 - MaxLong: -1,2793; MaxLat: 71,7079 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
19 June 2008 - 3 April 2024
Taxonomic coverage
Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) [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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Release date: 2023-03-17
Metadatarecord created: 2023-05-11
Information last updated: 2024-05-10
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