Description
About this project We are looking for sightings of whales and marine debris in the Gulf of Maine, to expand our knowledge about species distribution and human impacts. https://www.blueoceansociety.org/ Project goal Study the distribution of whales in the Gulf of Maine and learn about human impacts. What participants do: Report sightings and photos of whales and marine debris in the Gulf of Maine Since the late 1990s, Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation has been studying whales and other marine life in the Gulf of Maine. We are looking for your help to provide more eyes on the water, so that we can better track the distribution and behavior of whales over time. We are also looking for information on litter spotted at sea so that we can work to prevent future pollution. Thank you for your help!
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 21 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Kennedy J, Schulte D, Downing N, Anecdata.org Contributors, Disney J, Bailey C, Taylor A, Garretson A (2023). Blue Ocean Society Spotters - Powered by Anecdata.org. Version 1.2. The Community Environmental Health Laboratory at MDI Biological Laboratory. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.gbif.us/resource?r=blue-ocean-1042&v=1.2
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is The Community Environmental Health Laboratory at MDI Biological Laboratory. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 25aaf4f6-dc54-4a9a-80df-92f29f872efb. The Community Environmental Health Laboratory at MDI Biological Laboratory publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation
Contacts
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Associate Professor of Environmental Health
https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4869-9802
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Systems Developer
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Community Manager
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- User ●
- Point Of Contact
- Community Environmental Health Laboratory Manager
- Point Of Contact
- Community Environmental Health Laboratory
Geographic Coverage
Maine, United States
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [44.285, -68.844], North East [44.955, -66.975] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2022-04-13 / 2022-11-15 |
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Project Data
Anecdata is a free online citizen science platform developed by the Community Lab at the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Anecdata is used by hundreds of individuals and organizations to gather and access citizen science observations and provides a platform to easily collect, manage, and share their citizen science data. How Anecdata works: Project managers create projects, creating datasheets that participants fill out to share their observations. Participants join projects and use the Anecdata website or mobile app to share their observations with the project. Project data is now available for anyone to view and download!
| Title | Anecdata.org |
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| Identifier | Anecdata.org |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Principal Investigator
- Curator
Sampling Methods
About this project We are looking for sightings of whales and marine debris in the Gulf of Maine, to expand our knowledge about species distribution and human impacts. https://www.blueoceansociety.org/ Project goal Study the distribution of whales in the Gulf of Maine and learn about human impacts.
| Study Extent | Since the late 1990s, Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation has been studying whales and other marine life in the Gulf of Maine. We are looking for your help to provide more eyes on the water, so that we can better track the distribution and behavior of whales over time. We are also looking for information on litter spotted at sea so that we can work to prevent future pollution. Thank you for your help! |
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Method step description:
- What participants do: Report sightings and photos of whales and marine debris in the Gulf of Maine
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://ipt.gbif.us/resource?r=blue-ocean-1042 |
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