HLY-06-01 Observations of Marine Mammals of Beringia. Version 1.0

This dataset contains marine mammal observations onboard the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy during the 2006 0601 cruise. The objective of this project has been to observe marine mammals in the context of their sea-ice "seascape" habitat. Emphasis has been placed on the winter-spring period du...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ray, G., Hufford, G., Krupnik, I., Labunski, E.
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory 2009
Subjects:
biota
oceans
Arctic
Oceanography
FOS Earth and related environmental sciences
Ships
In Situ Ocean-based Platforms > SHIPS > SHIPS > > 1bb21d0f-bf48-42b5-8e09-cc0d58407e4a
Camera
In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Photon/Optical Detectors > Cameras > > CAMERA > > 33de4965-928a-45d5-acfc-79e006842431
Visual Observations
In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Photon/Optical Detectors > > > VISUAL OBSERVATIONS > > 0982484f-4bb9-41dd-8841-931435cc138d
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > f6350232-b1c7-458c-bc43-bda357ebb6db
BEST
Bering Ecosystem Study
Bering Sea
Pacific
Sea ice
Beringia
walrus*
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5065/d6057cxz
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/102.082
Description
Summary:This dataset contains marine mammal observations onboard the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy during the 2006 0601 cruise. The objective of this project has been to observe marine mammals in the context of their sea-ice "seascape" habitat. Emphasis has been placed on the winter-spring period during which Pacific walruses and ribbon seals use sea ice for reproduction, molting, rest, and as a platform for feeding and migration. The thesis is that marine mammals partition sea-ice habitat according to their life-history requirements: for Pacific walruses, "broken pack" and for ribbon seals "loose pack" provide this habitat. The observations in this dataset were not conducted during a Bering Sea Ecosystem Study-Bering Sea Integrated Ecosystem Research Program (BEST-BSIERP) cruise, but are included here with the other observations during the BEST cruises for the continuous story. BEST-BSIERP together are the Bering Sea project. The data files are in Excel, csv and jpg format.

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