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. 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 4 contributors in alphabetic order: Jamie Coleman; Jayne Ryan; Jim Spiegel; Ted Cheeseman
Citation: Happywhale. 2024. Happywhale - Sperm whale in Southern Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1729) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com.
Published: October 09, 2025 at 14:55
URL: http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1729
Ted Cheeseman
Happywhale
OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
| Field | Missing | Invalid | |
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| maximumDepthInMeters | 5 |
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| minimumDepthInMeters | 5 |
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The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.
| Flag | Dropped | Records | |
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| NO_DEPTH | 5 |
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