Dataset

Happywhale - Polar bear in Arctic Ocean

OBIS-SEAMAP Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Original provider: Happywhale Dataset credits: Happywhale and contributors Abstract: Happywhale.com is a resource to help you know whales as individuals, and to benefit conservation science with rich data about individual whales.

Citation
Happywhale. 2025. Happywhale - Polar bear in Arctic Ocean. Version 1.2.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP and originated from Happywhale.com. https://doi.org//10.82144/b16f9997.
Published
November 17, 2025 at 22:04
First registration
January 04, 2021 at 17:13
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License
URL
http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_2120
Archive
https://ipt.env.duke.edu/archive.do?r=zd_2120

Contacts

Ted Cheeseman
Happywhale.com

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

66
total submitted occurrences
66
accepted occurrences
1
taxa
1
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 13
19.7%
maximumDepthInMeters 66
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 66
100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 66
100.0%
ON_LAND 10
15.2%

Measurement types

DNA derived data