Collection Details
Cetacean Sightings Survey and Southern Ocean Cetacean Program - BROKE-WestView list of biodiversity data collections |
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Collection Details
- Custodian
- Deborah Thiele
- Collection Acronym
- SOCEP-BROKE-WEST
- Description
- The SOCEP research objective is to detect and document cetacean sightings and relevant environmental and other information throughout the voyage. The BROKE-West multidisciplinary voyage provides an opportunity to correlate sightings data with oceanographic and biology research conducted by other programs. Search effort is conducted over a broad range of weather conditions. The majority of Antarctic species are medium to large whales, with cues that can be detected in relatively high Beaufort sea states up to and including Beaufort Sea State 7.
- Domain
- Marine
- Taxa Groups
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Whales,
List 11 taxa from this collection - Collection Status
- Data collection complete
- DiGIR Details
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See International activities tab for details on publishing data to other repositories.
Resource Code: - whale_survey_broke_west Resource Name: - Cetacean Sightings Survey and Southern Ocean Cetacean Program - BROKE-West Keywords: - Whales, cetaceans, bearing, data logger, date, distance, group size, latitude, longitude, method, near ice, observer, reaction, species, swim direction, time, voyage Basis of Record: - Observation For list of all collections published via DiGIR, see AADC DiGIR collections and the DiGIR harvesting point if you wish to harvest records
Data Details
- Data links
- Search the 321 observations belonging to this collection.
- Map
- No map exists.
- Spatial Coverage
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60° 04' 54.5" S to 69° 08' 39.5" S | -60.0818° to -69.1443° 29° 57' 22.7" E to 81° 16' 06.2" E | 29.9563° to 81.2684° - Date Range of Collection
- 11-Jan to 4-Mar-2006
- Data collected from the following voyage(s)
Voyage Observation count Search 2005/06 V3 BROKE-West (details) 321 search 
- Metadata
- BROKE-West_Cetaceans - Cetacean Sightings Survey and Southern Ocean Cetacean Program - BROKE-West