Name: Gomex Sperm Whale Survey 2000
License: To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Original provider: NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) Dataset credits: NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center Abstract: Gulf of Mexico Sperm Whale Survey was conducted by NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center in June-July 2000. The survey consisted of several techniques including acoustic recording tag, visual survey, photo-ID, DNA sampling, behavioral observation and fecal sampling. This data set is the result of the visual survey. In total, 30 sightings of sperm whale were recorded in a 30 day survey period.

Citation

Garrison, L. 2020. Gomex Sperm Whale Survey 2000. Version 1.8.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/a75a0355.

Published

October 07, 2025 at 18:29

License

To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

URL

http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_96

Archive

https://ipt.env.duke.edu/archive.do?r=zd_96

Contacts

Lance Garrison
NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

278

total submitted occurrences

278

accepted occurrences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters	278		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	278		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		278	100.0%

Gomex Sperm Whale Survey 2000

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data