Survey of Elephant Seals at Atlas Cove, Heard Island, December 2008

• Other Authors: AADC (originator), AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia (resourceProvider)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: biota; oceans; ISLANDS; EARTH SCIENCE; BIOSPHERE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; MAMMALS; CARNIVORES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; Heard Island; Stereographic Images; Atlas Cove; Elephant Seals; Aerial Photographs; Cameras; FIELD SURVEYS; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; FIELD INVESTIGATION; AMD/AU; CEOS; AMD; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; SOUTHERN OCEAN > HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS; Southern Ocean; Heard; McDonald Islands; Bali; aurora australis; Elephant Seal; walrus*
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/survey-elephant-seals-december-2008/685242; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/Heard_2008_Elephant_Seals_Survey; http://data.aad.gov.au/eds/2136/download; http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=Heard_2008_Elephant_Seals_Survey

General information about images: 16 Dec 2008 visit to Atlas Cove, Heard Island. Snowfall in morning affected image quality. Overcast conditions made for relatively dim and flat lighting conditions. 17 Dec 2008: revisited Atlas Cove and redid photography in good light. All images supplied in native camera format as well as .jpg. The types of cameras used by the photograpehrs were: Jodi Wruck - Canon Model EOS 5D Roselin Bali - Nikon Model D200 Stereoscopic images of elephant seals at Atlas Cove, taken at Heard Island on 16-17 December 2008. The Aurora Australis made a brief visit to Heard and McDonald Islands in mid-December 2008. The visit was opportunistic owing to an opening in the ship's schedule. During the visit a number of quick surveys were undertaken, primarily assisted by helicopters. This dataset consists of stereographic images taken by two photographers from ground level during a survey of Elephant Seal colonies at Atlas Cove. There are two folders of data, one for each photographer. Each folder contains a shot list of the photos (in an excel spreadsheet), plus the photos themselves.