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Overview:
Season whale catches in the Southern Ocean compiled by the Austrailian Antarctic Data Center are available at OBIS. The OBIS compiled data includes species name, individual count, lat/lon, and some environmental correlates like depth and salinity.
Dataset Location: OBIS Southern Ocean Whale Catches
Direct Download: OBIS Southern Ocean Whale Catches
Site Location: Southern Ocean, Antarctic Coast
Site(s) Georeferenced: Yes
Timespan: 1932 - 1980
Sampling Frequency: annual
Data Collection Summary / Methods: Include details on sampling protocol, spatial scales, technologies used, etc.
Data collected: Data has been aggregated from the International Whaling Commission records into one degree cells centered on the reported position.
Five or six whale species are reported - Blue, Fin, Sei, Minke and Humpback. Maybe sperm? (http://gcmd.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/Metadata.do?Portal=GCMD&MetadataView=... or https://www1.data.antarctica.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/collection_taxa.cf...)
OBIS data schema: species name, individual count, date, location, temperature, depth, salinity, nitrogen, oxygen, silicate.
Known Issues: weaknesses, limitations, errors, caveats, etc.
Best Practices: tips for separating the wheat from the chaff
Conditions for use: 'freely available' and 'open-access' as per OBIS: http://iobis.org/about/vision
From the Austrailian Antarctic Data Center - "The scientific data on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License."
Citation/ Distributing Author: Watts, Dave John (2006, updated 2014) Whale catches in the Southern Ocean Australian Antarctic Data Centre - CAASM Metadata (https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/metadata_redirect.cfm?md=/AMD/AU/IWC_Whale_catch)
Supplemental resources: Austrailian Antarctic Data Center - https://www1.data.antarctica.gov.au/
Available via the EcoData Retriever: No