Name: Cetacean Sightings Survey and Southern Ocean cetacean program
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

This dataset includes sightings, resightings and incidental sightings from Australian Antarctic Division voyages of whales in the Southern Ocean. These data will allow us to connect fine scale variability with regional and circum-Antarctic processes, and eventually to understand how the dynamics of the Antarctic ecosystem and environmental change might affect the recovery of whale populations.

Citation

See metadata record See Metadata record for details http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_915_2253

Published

May 13, 2021 at 05:46

First registration

June 24, 2020 at 14:57

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

URL

https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/resource?r=whale_survey

Archive

https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/archive.do?r=whale_survey

Contacts

Deborah Thiele
Australian National University

DATA OFFICER AADC
Australian Antarctic Division

1,208

total submitted occurrences

1,085

accepted occurrences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
decimalLatitude	123		10.2%
decimalLongitude	123		10.2%
occurrenceStatus		4	0.3%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_COORD		123	10.2%
ON_LAND		17	1.4%

Cetacean Sightings Survey and Southern Ocean cetacean program

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data