Marine Mammal Watch, Northern Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea, August-September, 2017

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, 73.46 N) aboard United States Coast Gaurd Cutter (USCGC) Healy (Hly17-02), during an Au...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moore, Sue
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: Arctic Data Center 2019
Subjects:
CETACEANS
PMEL
Arctic Ocean
Chukchi Sea
Beaufort Sea
Bering Sea
NOAA
DBO
Distributed Biological Observatory
Pacific Arctic Group
PAG
sea ice
marine mammals
Alaska
seals
walruses
porpoise
Arctic
Barrow Canyon
Pacific
Barrow
Chukchi
International Arctic Science Committee
Pacific Arctic
Sea ice
walrus*
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a25q4rm2m
https://arcticdata.io/catalog/#view/doi:10.18739/A25Q4RM2M
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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, 73.46 N) aboard United States Coast Gaurd Cutter (USCGC) Healy (Hly17-02), during an August-September, 2017 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 focuses multi-disciplinary sampling in regional biological "hotspot" locations and is organized through the Pacific Arctic Group (PAG), an international collaboration sanctioned by the International Arctic Science Committee.

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