https://doi.org/10.82144/742b5af8 https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1152 https://www.gbif.org/dataset/ee593a8a-d9a4-4600-80c3-78f3fe2b620f https://obis.org/dataset/55a44483-5a4b-4148-9336-da18c045d31c Claire Lacey Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St. Andrews Primary contact cl20@st-andrews.ac.uk http://biology.st-andrews.ac.uk/scans2/ OBIS-SEAMAP Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

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seamap-contact@duke.edu https://seamap.env.duke.edu distributor Claire Lacey Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St. Andrews Primary contact cl20@st-andrews.ac.uk http://biology.st-andrews.ac.uk/scans2/ owner 2025-07-31 eng Original provider: Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St. Andrews Dataset credits: Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St. Andrews Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml Observation GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml Marine Biology Visual sighting Marine Animal Survey Marine mammals Sea turtles Visual Sighting Vessel N/A Surveys from seven different vessels were merged. Each vessel contained two sightings platforms running concurrently – primary and tracker. This dataset includes sightings from the tracker platform. Sightings from the primary platform are registered in <a href='/dataset/1150' target='_blank'>SCANS II cetacean sightings on primary platform of vessel surveys 2005</a>. Effort or vessel tracks for these surveys are provided with the primary platform dataset. Survey conditions such as sea state, glare, swell, wind are found in the effort data. In the tracker platform, Big-eye binoculars were used. The trackers used to track groups of animals as they came passed the boat and record them accordingly. However, this dataset does not contain such duplicates. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1152 Oceans,North Atlantic Ocean,European Atlantic shelf waters -11.76 12.62 62.1 35.95 2005-06-29 2005-07-28 Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). species Balaenoptera acutorostrata Common minke whale species Balaenoptera physalus Fin whale suborder Caniformia Pinnipeds order Cetacea Cetaceans species Cetorhinus maximus Basking shark family Delphinidae Dolphins species Delphinus delphis Short-beaked common dolphin species Dermochelys coriacea Leatherback sea turtle subclass Elasmobranchii Cartilaginous fishes species Globicephala melas Long-finned pilot whale species Grampus griseus Risso's dolphin species Halichoerus grypus Atlantic gray seal genus Lagenorhynchus White-beaked dolphins species Lagenorhynchus acutus Atlantic white-sided dolphin species Lagenorhynchus albirostris White-beaked dolphin species Mola mola Ocean sunfish suborder Odontoceti Toothed whales species Orcinus orca Killer whale species Phoca vitulina Harbor seal species Phocoena phocoena Harbor porpoise species Stenella coeruleoalba Striped dolphin order Testudines Turtles species Tursiops truncatus Common bottlenose dolphin species Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier's beaked whale notPlanned Claire Lacey Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St. Andrews Primary contact cl20@st-andrews.ac.uk http://biology.st-andrews.ac.uk/scans2/ NA NA NA Claire Lacey owner NA zd_1152 2025-07-31T16:31:18-04:00 dataset Lacey, C. 2020. SCANS II cetacean sightings on tracker platform of vessel surveys 2005. Version 1.6.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/742b5af8. OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page UTF-8 Interactive map https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1152 FGDC Metadata UTF-8 XML https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1152/fgdc EML Metadata UTF-8 XML https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1152/eml OBIS-SEAMAP zd_1152 zd_1152 Hammond, P.S., Macleod, K., Berggren, P., Borchers, D.L., Burt, L., Cañadas, A., Desportes, G., Donovan, G.P., Gilles, A., Gillespie, D., et al. 2013. Cetacean abundance and distribution in European Atlantic shelf waters to inform conservation and management. Biological Conservation: 164, 107–122.