Dataset

Northern elephant seals post-breeding 2018 (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

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Original provider: Dan Costa Dataset credits: Data provider Costa Lab Mammals Originating data center Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT) Abstract: Satellite tracking of northern elephant seals from Ano Nuevo Reserve. We deploy a variety of instruments on seals to study their at-sea behavior and the oceanography of the northeast Pacific. This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.

Citation: Costa D. 2024. Northern elephant seals post-breeding 2018. 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP and originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1304). https://doi.org/10.82144/24dc8a76.

Published: October 08, 2025 at 11:41

URL: http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1793_1deg

Daniel Costa
Costa Lab Mammals

Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool
seaturtle.org

292
occurrence records
1
taxa
1
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters 292
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 292
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 292
100.0%
ON_LAND 2
0.7%

Measurement types

DNA derived data