seamap

OBIS-SEAMAP, Ocean Biogeographic Information System Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations, is a spatially referenced online database, aggregating marine mammal, seabird and sea turtle observation data from across the globe.

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SERDP SDSS Marine Animal Model Mapper funded by NASA and SERDP
SWOT The State of the World's Sea Turtles
MABDC Photo ID fin matching (Beta)
PIPIN Photo ID (coming soon)
CDOC California Dolphin Online Catalog (Beta)
WIDECAST Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Nesting Sites
MWBD Marine Wildlife Behavior Database

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NC Aquariums Cold Stunned Sea Turtle Monitoring
North Carolina Aquariums

Sunshine Coast Council Turtle Tracking
Dr Col Limpus

GREC Tursiops sightings in the Mediterranean 1988-2010
Groupe de Recherche sur les Cétacés

What's New?

SMM11 poster available online, 2011-11-23

Recommend Compatibility View with Internet Explorer 9, 2011-11-17

Explore movement/survey tracks with interactive graphs, 2011-11-11

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HowTos

Introduction to OBIS-SEAMAP (13MB; PDF)
Download shapefile
What protected species found in my study area (6 mins; Flash movie)
Explore oceanographic association with observations (coming soon)
How to watch an animal movement (coming soon)

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OBIS-SEAMAP is hosted at Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University.
The OBIS-SEAMAP project is one node of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) and MGEL plays a leading role of the development of the OBIS Portal web site.

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