Northern elephant seals post-molting 2018

Costa Lab, UC Santa Cruz

Dataset credit

Data provider
Costa Lab Mammals
Originating data center
Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)

Contacts

RoleNameOrganization 
Primary contact Patrick Robinson Costa Lab Mammals
Data entry Michael Coyne seaturtle.org

Citation

Robinson P. 2025. Northern elephant seals post-molting 2018. Version 1.0.1. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP and originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1323). https://doi.org/10.82144/6c03e432.
Coyne, M. S., and B. J. Godley. 2005. OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions. Marine Ecology Progress Series. Vol. 301: 1-7.
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.

Abstract

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Purpose

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Supplemental information

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Change History

The dataset has been updated over time as outlined below. Each entry includes the version number, release date, type of change, and a short description.

- 1.0.1 (2025-09-25) - Corrective
  • geographicCoverage in EML and spatialCoverage in JSON-LD are updated to better represent the bounding box that crosses the anti-meridian.
- 1.0.0 (2018-10-09) - Initial
  • Initial release

References

Coyne, M. S., and B. J. Godley. 2005. OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions. Marine Ecology Progress Series. Vol. 301: 1-7.

Attributes

Overview

This section explains attributes included in the original dataset. OBIS-SEAMAP restricts the attributes available to the public to date/time, lat/lon and species names/counts only. Should you need other attributes described here, you are encouraged to contact the data provider.

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
Only minimum required attributes are visible and downloadable online. Other attributes may be obtained upon provider's permission.

Attributes in dataset

Attribute (table column)Description
OBIS-SEAMAP ID1915
DOI10.82144/6c03e432
Version1.0.1
Seabirds0
Marine mammals13,923
Sea turtles0
Rays and sharks0
Other species0
Non spatial0
Non species0
Total13,923
Date, Begin2018-06-04
Date, End2018-11-28
Temporal prec.111111
Latitude36.76 - 54.72
Longitude170.48 - 238.11
Coord. prec.3 decimal digits
PlatformTag
Data typeTelemetry location
TracklinesYES (ID: 1916)
Traveled (km)154,048
Travel hours55,711
Registered2018-10-09
Updated2025-09-25
StatusPublished
Sharing policy Permission required
Sub group(s)STAT
Shared with SWOT
GBIF*
OBIS*
* Aggregated summary
Metadata in static HTML / FGDC / EML
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