Metadata details
AAS_4102
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- Citation
- Double, M., Miller, B.S., Gales, N. and de la Mare, B. (2014) Population abundance, trend, structure and distribution of the endangered Antarctic blue whale, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/AAS_4102, Accessed: 2024-07-17
- Title
- Population abundance, trend, structure and distribution of the endangered Antarctic blue whale
- Data Centre
- Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
- Created Date
- 2014-08-14
- Revision Date
- 2023-09-14
- Parent record
- None
- Child record
- AAS_4102_2012_Blue_Whale_Voyages
AAS_4102_2013_Antarctic_Blue_Whale_Voyage
AAS_4102_2015_New_Zealand_Australia_Antarctic_Ecosystems_Voyage
AAS_4102_4104_4050_EchoviewR
AAS_4102_Audio2013
AAS_4102_longTermAcousticRecordings
AAS_4102_SonobuoyData2017
AAS_4102_Video_Tracking2013
Datasets and documents
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Description
This is a parent record for data collected from AAS project 4102. Project 4102 also follows on from ASAC project 2683, "Passive acoustic monitoring of antarctic marine mammals" (see the related metadata record at the provided URL).
Public Summary:
Half a century ago the Antarctic blue whale was perilously close to extinction. Over 350,000 were killed before the remaining few were fully protected. A decade ago this elusive and poorly understood species was estimated to be less than 5% of its pre-whaling abundance. This multi-national, circumpolar project will develop and apply powerful new techniques to survey these rare whales and gain an insight into their recovery and ecology. The project is the flagship of the Southern Ocean Research Partnership - an International Whaling Commission endorsed collaborative program.
Quality
See the child records for more information.
Access
See the child records for access to the data.
Temporal Coverages
- Start date: 2012-07-01 - Stop date: 2017-06-30
Spatial Coverages
Science Keywords
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS
Additional Keywords
- Blue Whales
Locations
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
Platforms
- SHIPS
Instruments
- VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
- ACOUSTIC RECEIVERS
Researchers
- double, mike (INVESTIGATOR)
- miller, brian (INVESTIGATOR)
- gales, nick (INVESTIGATOR)
- de la mare, bill (INVESTIGATOR)
- connell, dave (DIF AUTHOR)
Use Constraints
This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AAS_4102 when using these data.
