Whale sightings during POLARSTERN cruise PS96 (ANT-XXXI/2)

• Main Author: Burkhardt, Elke
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2020
• Subjects: ANT-XXXI/2 FROSN; Certainty of identification; Cetacean sightings; CT; DATE/TIME; Individuals; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; MAPS; Marine Mammal Perimeter Surveillance from RV Polarstern; Polarstern; PS96; PS96-track; Underway cruise track measurements; Visual observation; WALOG; Whale species; Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung; Reports on Polar and Marine Research
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.923113; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.923113

Data on whale distribution and abundance in the polar oceans is rather sparse, as implementing the standard surveying method, line-transect surveys, is challenging and costly. To overcome this problem, we initiated a program to electronically log all opportunistic cetacean sightings during all Polar...