Introduction to Mid-Atlantic Humpback Whale Catalog

Overview of the Project

The Mid-Atlantic Humpback Whale Catalog was designed to inform users of the identity, residency, site fidelity, and habitat use of humpback whales in the waters off the mid-Atlantic and southeastern United States. Organizations between New York and Florida can contribute sighting and photographic information for inclusion in the catalog.

Funding support is through United States Navy Fleet Forces Command under the U. S. Navy's Marine Species Monitoring Program. HDR, Inc. provides contractual support and technical expertise, as well as contributing data to the catalog.

Additional funding for development and primary project oversight from 2016 to 2020 was provided by the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center Veterinary Science and Research Department. Kim Urian at Duke Marine Lab and the Duke University Marine Geospatial Lab provided online catalog design and implementation expertise through the OBIS-SEAMAP web portal.

Overview of the PhotoID App

The online photo-identification matching application for MAHWC allows you to compare dorsal fin and fluke images across study sites and present potential matches to the relevant contributors for verification. The following presentations will guide you through the basic usage of the application. The online help below describes more details.

Overview Presentations

Highlights of the App

Curator and Contributors

Curator

Jessica M. Aschettino
Project Manager, HDR Inc.
jessica.aschettino@hdrinc.com
Jacqueline Bort Thornton
Marine Resources Specialist, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic
jacqueline.e.bort.civ@us.navy.mil

Data Contributors

Collaborators

Logging in to the application

The PhotoID App is available to the community members who can log in to the site with an account. A login name and initial password for the account will be given by the curator. There are two ways to log in.

  1. Visit the OBIS-SEAMAP front page and click "Log in" link at the upper right corner of the window.
  2. Directly go to the MAHWC PhotoID App and you will be forwarded to the login form.

Change password

1. Log in to the OBIS-SEAMAP front page at https://seamap.env.duke.edu.
2. Go to [My Data]. Note that [My Data] tab does not exist in the Photo ID application. Please go to the front page when you are on the Photo ID application.
3. In [OBIS-SEAMAP Account] section, enter a new password into [Password] box.
4. Click [Change password].

Terms of Use

Given the sensitive information included in the PhotoID Application for the Mid-Atlantic Humpback Whale Catalogs (MAHWC PhotoID App), this application is private to the contributors who are granted the access to the App by the Curator and issued an OBIS-SEAMAP account.

By accepting this document, the user agrees to the following when using MAHWC PhotoID App and going through matching workflow:


Citation for OBIS-SEAMAP:
Halpin, P.N., A.J. Read, E. Fujioka, B.D. Best, B. Donnelly, L.J. Hazen, C. Kot, K. Urian, E. LaBrecque, A. Dimatteo, J. Cleary, C. Good, L.B. Crowder, and K.D. Hyrenbach. 2009. OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions. Oceanography 22(2):104-115