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Happywhale - Common Bottlenose Dolphin in North Atlantic Ocean
Citation
Happywhale. 2023. Happywhale - Common bottlenose dolphin in North Atlantic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1947) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8307
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 21 contributors in alphabetic order: Allie Smith; Charlotte Kirchner; Christian Wegener; Corinne Eichler; Cottele Benny; Era Horton; Eric Angel Ramos; Iuliia; Janiek Schrijer; Kimberly Nesbitt; Lara Eade; Marilia Olio; Matthew Gledhill; Per Nikolaj Bukh; Phillippa Tichotova; Ryan Donnelly; Sabine+Ulf; Sara Franson; steve; Ula; Whale Wonders BVI

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 · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · 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 · Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -97,0611; MinLat: 10,3235 - MaxLong: 39,9487; MaxLat: 63,7532 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
2 October 2008 - 8 June 2023
Taxonomic coverage
Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) [WoRMS]
Contributors
Happywhale, data creator, data owner, proposer
Cheeseman, Ted
Duke University; Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, dataset publisher
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
URLs
Dataset information:
https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/6d617269-6e65-696e-666f-000000008307
Other:
https://geo.vliz.be/geoserver/Dataportal/wfs?service=wfs&version=1.1.0&typeName=eurobis-obisenv_full&request=GetFeature&outputFormat=text%2Fcsv&viewParams=datasetid%3A8307
https://geo.vliz.be/geoserver/wms?service=WMS&request=getCapabilities&layer=Dataportal:eurobis_rasters-obisenv
https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1947/xml
Release date: 2023-03-17
Metadatarecord created: 2023-05-08
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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