Marine Mammal Watch 2016. Collaborative Research: The Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO)-A Change Detection Array in the Pacific Arctic Region

Marine mammal observations were recorded along-track from north of Dutch Harbor, Alaska in the Bering Sea (166.50 W, 53.90 N) northward to Barrow Canyon at the boundary of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas (157.42 W, 71.18 N) aboard R/V Sir Wilfrid Laurier, during a July, 2016 research cruise. Observati...

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Main Author: Sue Moore
Format: Dataset
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Published: Arctic Data Center 2016
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Online Access:https://search.dataone.org/view/urn:uuid:e84cd590-5d0a-4fe4-83c3-7d0272fc87f0
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Summary:Marine mammal observations were recorded along-track from north of Dutch Harbor, Alaska in the Bering Sea (166.50 W, 53.90 N) northward to Barrow Canyon at the boundary of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas (157.42 W, 71.18 N) aboard R/V Sir Wilfrid Laurier, during a July, 2016 research cruise. Observations include individual mammal species identification and counts, ice-cover percent, sea state, visibility and weather. Marine Mammal Watch observations were made as part of the Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO) to more systematically track the broad biological response to sea ice retreat and associated environmental change. The spatially-explicit DBO network, five regional biological "hotspot" locations along a latitudinal gradient, is organized through the Pacific Arctic Group (PAG), an international collaboration sanctioned by the International Arctic Science Committee.