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AAS_4088_Adelie_occupancy_Welch_2014

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Citation
Southwell, C. and Emmerson, L. (2022) Adélie penguin occupancy survey of Welch Island 2014, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.4225/15/58f96e0f06332, Accessed: 2026-06-04
Title
Adélie penguin occupancy survey of Welch Island 2014
Data Centre
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
DOI
doi:10.4225/15/58f96e0f06332
Created Date
2017-04-21
Revision Date
2025-11-06
Expected Date of Data Release
2022-10-12
Data Version
1
Parent record
AAS_4088_Adelie_breeding_colony_boundaries

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    Description

    Adélie colony boundaries at Welch Island were mapped on the 30 Nov 2014 to provide a boundary for the pole camera survey. Subcolonies were mapped by circumnavigating the perimeter on foot while carrying a Garmin GPS (Legend and Etrex30) to record the track. When mapping the perimeter of the subcolonies a buffer distance of approximately 2.5 meters was maintained between the mapper and the breeding birds.
    This buffer distance was reduced by .5m to between 2m in the final shapefiles.

    Please refer to the Seabird Conservation Team Data Sharing Policy for use, acknowledgement and availability of data prior to downloading data.

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    Access

    These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.

    Temporal Coverages

    Spatial Coverages

    Latitude

    Northernmost:
    -67.559
    Southernmost:
    -67.561

    Longitude

    Westernmost:
    62.927
    Easternmost:
    62.929

    Science Keywords

    Additional Keywords

    • SUBCOLONIES
    • 4088

    Locations

    • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
    • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
    • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN

    Platforms

    • FIELD SURVEYS
    • FIELD INVESTIGATION

    Instruments

    • GPS RECEIVERS

    Researchers

    • southwell, colin (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT,DIF AUTHOR)
    • emmerson, louise (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT)

    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_4088_Adelie_occupancy_Welch_2014 when using these data.

    Please refer to the Seabird Conservation Team Data Sharing Policy for use, acknowledgement and availability of data prior to downloading data.

    Project

      ISO Topic

      • OCEANS
      • BIOTA

      Dataset Language

      • English

      Orignating Centre

      • Australian Antarctic Division

      Dataset Progress

      • COMPLETE

      IDN Node

      • AMD/AU
      • AMD
      • CEOS

      Metadata Revision History

        2017-04-20 - record created by Colin Southwell. 2022-10-12 - record updated by Dave Connell to publicly release the data. 2025-11-06 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

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