Marine Mammal sighting data from cruises in the Pacific Arctic, 2018, from Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO) Regions

• Main Author: Stafford, Kathleen
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2019
• Subjects: Distributed Biological Observatory DBO; Marine mammal; Visual observations; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barrow Canyon; Bering Sea; Chukchi Sea; Lawrence Island; Pacific; Amundsen Gulf; Beaufort Sea; Chukchi; Pacific Arctic; Phytoplankton; Sea ice; St Lawrence Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a2ws8hm0g; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/#view/doi:10.18739/A2WS8HM0G

The Pacific Arctic region (PAR) extends from the northern Bering Sea to the Arctic Ocean Basin, and it is experiencing major reductions in seasonal sea ice and increases in sea surface temperatures. Within the PAR, the northern Bering and Chukchi Seas are among the most productive marine ecosystems...