Bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) location data from a satellite telemetry tag (ptt id 67004) deployed in the Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, and the Chukchi Sea from 2012-07-04 to 2013-06-18, deployment id 57acc79f01fbb02a0b38d8a4

Sampling event
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Description

This is the OBIS extraction of Bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) location data from a satellite telemetry tag (ptt id 67004) deployed in the Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, and the Chukchi Sea from 2012-07-04 to 2013-06-18, deployment id 57acc79f01fbb02a0b38d8a4 from the U.S. Animal Telemetry Network (ATN). This extraction is a subset of detections intended to be useful for the OBIS network. The source dataset, containing the full set of detections, is available at NCEI: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0298430. The entire collection of satellite telemetry location and profile data collected from satellite-linked tags deployed on marine animals and contributed by organizations that are part of the U.S. Animal Telemetry Network (ATN) can be found at: https://doi.org/10.25921/wp4e-ph20

Data Records

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1 records.

2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Event (core)
1
Occurrence 
31
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
4

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Boveng, Peter; London, Josh; Cameron, Michael; Jansen, John; Whiting, Alex. (2024). Bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) location data from a satellite telemetry tag (ptt id 67004) deployed in the Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, and the Chukchi Sea from 2012-07-04 to 2013-06-18, deployment id 57acc79f01fbb02a0b38d8a4. [Dataset]. US Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Animal Telemetry Network (ATN). Accessed via the OBIS-USA IPT on INSERT DATE

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is NOAA Integrated Ocean Observing System. 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). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 62d1810f-4ad3-44e6-9cfd-cbf32c7066e8.  NOAA Integrated Ocean Observing System publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > ANIMAL SCIENCE > ANIMAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > MIGRATORY RATES/ROUTES; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS; EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > BIOSPHERIC INDICATORS > SPECIES MIGRATION; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS; PROVIDERS > GOVERNMENT AGENCIES-U.S. FEDERAL AGENCIES > DOC > NOAA > IOOS; PROVIDERS > COMMERCIAL > Axiom Data Science; ATN; Animal Telemetry Network; IOOS; Integrated Ocean Observing System; trajectory; satellite telemetry tag; Samplingevent

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

A Dataset from Bio-loggers Deployed on Adult Bearded Seals (Erignathus barbatus) in Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, USA, 2009-2012 https://portal.atn.ioos.us/#metadata/0ceb0cce-3602-4a4f-a5cc-b6dc365c2239/project ASCII HTM
Bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) location data from satellite telemetry tag ptt 67004 deployed in the Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, and Chukchi Sea by the NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center from 2012-07-04 to 2013-06-18 (NCEI Accession 0298430) https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0298430 ASCII HTM
U.S. Animal Telemetry Network (2023). Marine animal satellite telemetry location and profile data from the U.S. Animal Telemetry Network (ATN). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.25921/wp4e-ph20 ASCII HTM
Boveng, P., London, J., Cameron, M., Jansen, J., & Whiting, A. (2019). A Dataset from Bio-Loggers Deployed on Adult Bearded Seals (Erignathus barbatus) in Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, USA (2009-2012) (Version 1) [Data set]. Axiom Data Science. https://doi.org/10.24431/rw1k31x https://doi.org/10.24431/rw1k31x ASCII HTM

Contacts

Megan McKinzie
  • Originator
  • Data Manager
U.S. Animal Telemetry Network (ATN)
  • U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System
20910 Silver Spring
Maryland
US
Josh London
  • Originator
NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center
Michael Cameron
  • Author
  • Originator
NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center
John Jansen
  • Author
  • Originator
NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center
Alex Whiting
  • Author
  • Originator
Native Village of Kotzebue
Peter Boveng
  • Point Of Contact
  • principalInvestigator
NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center
Mathew Biddle
  • Distributor
  • Physical Scientist
United States Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (US MBON)
  • 1315 East-West Highway
20910 Silver Spring
MD
US

Geographic Coverage

Arctic Ocean,Bering Sea,Chukchi Sea

Bounding Coordinates South West [63.558, -167.431], North East [71.624, -156.526]

Taxonomic Coverage

Species included below are tagged by this project and have left any embargo. Other individuals or species may later be appended to this dataset.

Species Erignathus barbatus (bearded seal)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2012-08-01 / 2013-06-18

Project Data

Movements of marine animals are a fundamental element of ocean ecosystem dynamics. Telemetry, the use of electronic tag technology to study animal movement, is a critical tool for the biological monitoring of marine life. The multi-agency U.S. Animal Telemetry Network (ATN) has been established to provide unity, stability, and continuity to the national infrastructure that facilitates the collection, management, and availability of this marine animal telemetry data.

Title U.S. Animal Telemetry Network (ATN)
Identifier ATN

The personnel involved in the project:

Megan McKinzie
  • Data Manager

Sampling Methods

Wildlife Computers SPOT5 tag (ptt id 67004) deployed on a bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) by Peter Boveng in the Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, and the Chukchi Sea from 2012-07-04 to 2013-06-18

Study Extent A Dataset from Bio-loggers Deployed on Adult Bearded Seals (Erignathus barbatus) in Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, USA, 2009-2012
Quality Control NetCDF file created from position data obtained from Wildlife Computers API.

Method step description:

  1. This resource was created by the Animal Telemetry Network as a summarized representation of animal presence determined by satellite telemetry tagging efforts. Darwin Core (DwC) records were extracted from the ATN database and filtered and summarized according to international agreed-upon standards. The source dataset, containing the full set of detections, is available at NCEI: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0298430.
  2. Wildlife Computers SPOT5 tag (serial number: 10S0625) attached to bearded seal on flipper.

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Boveng, Peter; London, Josh; Cameron, Michael; Jansen, John; Whiting, Alex. (2024). Bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) location data from a satellite telemetry tag (ptt id 67004) deployed in the Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, and the Chukchi Sea from 2012-07-04 to 2013-06-18, deployment id 57acc79f01fbb02a0b38d8a4. [Dataset]. US Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Animal Telemetry Network (ATN).

Additional Metadata

Access Constraints: none Use Constraints: Acknowledge the use of specific records from contributing databases in the form appearing in the 'Citation' field thereof (if any); and acknowledge the use of the OBIS facility. For information purposes, email to info@obis.org the full citation of any publication made (printed or electronic) that cites OBIS or any constituent part. Recognize the limitations of data in OBIS. See https://manual.obis.org/policy.html#disclaimer for more details. These data may be used and redistributed for free, but are not intended for legal use, since they may contain inaccuracies. No person or group associated with these data makes any warranty, expressed or implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of this information. This disclaimer applies to both individual use of these data and aggregate use with other data. It is strongly recommended that users read and fully comprehend associated metadata prior to use. Please acknowledge the U.S. Animal Telemetry Network (ATN) or the specified citation as the source from which these data were obtained in any publications and/or representations of these data. Communication and collaboration with dataset authors are strongly encouraged.

Purpose

These data are for display on the OBIS portal and associated mapping programs and for download to personal computers for ad-hoc end-user analysis.

Alternative Identifiers https://doi.org/10.25921/wp4e-ph20
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0298430
https://doi.org/10.24431/rw1k31x
62d1810f-4ad3-44e6-9cfd-cbf32c7066e8
https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/resource?r=atn_67004_bearded-seal_trajectory_20120704-20130618