NOAA Atlantic bottlenose dolphin sightings in the coastal and estuarine waters near Charleston, SC - 1994-2011

NOAA, Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research

Dataset credit

NOAA, National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research

Contacts

Role	Name	Organization
Primary contact	Todd Speakman
Data entry	Connie Kot

Citation

Speakman, T. 2025. NOAA Atlantic bottlenose dolphin sightings in the coastal and estuarine waters near Charleston, SC - 1994-2011. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/57273bc7.

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

N/A

Supplemental information

Records without time information were filled with 00:00:00.

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.

- 1.0.0 (2011-04-26) - Initial

Initial release

References

Speakman, T., E. Zolman, J. Adams, R.H. Defran, D. Laska, L. Schwacke, J. Craigie, and P. Fair. 2006. Temporal and spatial aspects of bottlenose dolphin occurrence in coastal and estuarine waters near Charleston, South Carolina. NOAA TM. 37/243 pp.

Zolman, E. 2002. Residence patterns of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Stono River estuary, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA. Marine Mammal Science. 18(4): 879-892.

Speakman, T.R., S.M. Lane, L.H. Schwacke, P.A. Fair, and E.S. Zolman. 2010. Mark-recapture estimates of seasonal abundance and survivorship for bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) near Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management. 11(2): 153-162.

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
oid	Unique ID number (generated by SEAMAP)
surveynum	Survey number
sighting
obs_date	Observed date
obs_time	Observed time
latitude	Latitude of observation
longitude	Longitude of observation
sp_obs	Species observed
sp_tsn	ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
obs_count	Observed count
geom

OBIS-SEAMAP ID	737
DOI	10.82144/57273bc7
Version	1.0.0
Seabirds	0
Marine mammals	8,072
Sea turtles	0
Rays and sharks	0
Other species	0
Non spatial	82
Non species	0
Total	8,154
Date, Begin	1994-02-14
Date, End	2011-03-17
Temporal prec.	111111
Latitude	32.34 - 33.10
Longitude	-80.43 - -79.25
Coord. prec.	5 decimal digits
Platform	Boat
Data type	Animal sighting
Effort	N/A
Registered	2011-04-26
Updated	2025-04-17
Status	Published
Sharing policy	CC-BY-NC (Minimum)
Shared with	GBIF OBIS
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