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Aerial sightings of beluga in the Russian Arctic seas 2010
Institute of Ecology and Evolution of Russian Academy of Sciences
Dataset credit
Boris Solovyev, Institute of Ecology and Evolution of Russian Academy of Sciences
Marine Mammal Council
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Contacts
| Role | Name | Organization | |
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| Primary contact |
Boris Solovyev |
A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of Russian Academy of Sciences |
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| Data entry |
Ei Fujioka |
Duke University |
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Citation
Solovyev, B. 2012. Aerial sightings of beluga in the Russian Arctic seas 2010. Version 1.0.1. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/65f9e577. 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.
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Abstract
The data on observation of white whales (Delphinapterus leucas) during the planned sailing of the research scientific ship "Mikhail Somov" (Arkhangelsk–Wrangel Island–Arkhangelsk) from September 6 to December 6 2010 are presented. The results obtained confirm and correct the existing ideas of the distribution of white whales and directions of their migrations in seas of the Russian Arctic.
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Purpose
N/A
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Supplemental information
Aerial surveys were conducted on board a helicopter based at he Scientific-Expedition Ship Mikhail Somov. The tracks represent those of the helicopter.
Tracks were provided as summarized shapefiles and are not registered in the OBIS-SEAMAP database. Thus, spatial and temporal exploration of the tracks is not available online.
Among them, the tracks on 2010-10-08 are not shown due to the technical issue.
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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 (2012-05-16) - Initial
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References
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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.
All attributes are included in the downloadable file (CSV or ESRI File Geodatabase) for "Complete Set of Dataset".
Attributes in dataset
| Attribute (table column) | Description |
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| oid | |
| obs_date | Observation date |
| sp_obs | Species name |
| latitude | Latitude in decimal degrees |
| longitude | Longitude in decimal degrees |
| obs_count | Animal count |
| obs_time | observation time in UTC |
| sp_tsn | ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number assigned by OBIS-SEAMAP |
| geom | |
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| OBIS-SEAMAP ID | 845 |
| DOI | 10.82144/65f9e577 |
| Version | 1.0.1 |
| Seabirds | 0 |
| Marine mammals | 14 |
| Sea turtles | 0 |
| Rays and sharks | 0 |
| Other species | 0 |
| Non spatial | 0 |
| Non species | 0 |
| Total | 14 |
| Date, Begin | 2010-09-16 |
| Date, End | 2010-11-29 |
| Temporal prec. | 111111 |
| Latitude | 66.49 - 78.12 |
| Longitude | 41.02 - 181.55 |
| Coord. prec. | 5 decimal digits |
| Platform | Plane |
| Data type | Animal sighting |
| Effort | N/A |
| Registered | 2012-05-16 |
| Updated | 2025-09-25 |
| Status | Published |
Sharing policy |
CC-BY (All) |
| Sub group(s) | MMC |
| Shared with |
GBIF
OBIS |
| Metadata in static HTML / FGDC / EML |
| See download history / statistics |
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