Monitoring of Humpback Whales in the Pender Bay, Kimberley region, Western Australia - 2009 to 2012

• Other Authors: Dapson, Ian (pointOfContact), Murdoch University (hasAssociationWith)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: biota; oceans; Humpback whale; Whale behaviour; Citizen science; Whale counts; Abundance of biota; Bowles; Humpback Whale; Megaptera novaeangliae
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/monitoring-humpback-whales-2009-2012/755531

Statement: Whale counts were conducted over a 5 minute period and recounted every 10 minutes from 7 am to 12pm and 1pm to 5pm. This occurred 2009- 2012 (02/08/09 to 11/11/09, 10/06/10 to 15/11/10, 30/06/11 to 25/10/11 and 29/06/12 to 22/10/12). Methodology was described in the following publication Blake, S; Dapson, I; Auge, O; Bowles, A.J; Marohn, E; Malatzky, L and Granger, S.S, 2011; Monitoring of Humpback Whales in the Pender Bay, Kimberley region, Western Australia. In: Brocx, M and Meney, K (eds) Symposium on Kimberley and Coastal Science. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, vol.94, issue.2, pp.393-405 (http://www.rswa.org.au/publications/Journal/94(2)/Blakeetal.pp.393-405.pdf) Credit Steve Blake, Ian Dapson ([e-mail]), Andrew Bowles ([e-mail]), Olivier Auge ([e-mail]), Eike Marohn ([e-mail]), Chloe Robinson, Sophie Holles ([e-mail]), Sandra Saulnier, Aurelie Labbe ([e-mail]), Alexis Smith ([e-mail]), Lauren Smith ([e-mail]) Credit This data is licensed as Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en) Four years of independent and shore-based humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) surveys in the remote Kimberley region were collected. Systematic shore-based surveys were undertaken from 2009 to 2012 from the cliff top on the southern part of Pender Bay, Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley region, WA from the Two Moons Whale and Marine Research Base. The humpback whales use Pender Bay for a variety of purposes including calving, breeding, feeding (inferred), resting and staging. This work was undertaken to provide much needed data on the humpback whale populations and behaviours at Pender Bay and its importance as a humpback whale breeding and calving ground. To engage with traditional owners and local community members and promote the sharing of information and knowledge.