HLY-06-01 Observations of Marine Mammals of Beringia [Ray, G.C.]

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 BEST cruise, but are included here with the other observations during the BEST cruises for the continuous story. The data files are in Excel, csv and jpg format.

Data access

ORDER data for delivery by FTP

Additional information

Related projects: BEST
Observational frequency: no set schedule
Spatial type: point
Categories: Oceanography
Platforms: Ship
Documentation: UCAR-Metadata.pdf [115 KB]
Restrictions: BEST_data_policy.html [4 KB]
Related links:

• companion: HLY-07-01 and HLY-07-02 Observations of Marine Mammals of Beringia [Ray, G.C.]
• companion: HLY-08-01 and HLY-08-02 Observations of Marine Mammals of Beringia [Ray, G.C.]
• homepage: BEST Data Archive Page

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime: 2006-05-08 00:00:00, End datetime: 2006-06-05 23:59:59

Spatial coverage

Minimum latitude: 59.000000, Minimum longitude: -180.000000
Maximum latitude: 66.000000, Maximum longitude: -160.000000

Point of contact

G. Carleton Ray
University of Virginia
E-Mail address: cr at virginia dot edu