Temperature and salinity CTD data from the Marine Mammals Exploring the Ocean Pole to Pole (MEOP) program. This dataset largely samples high northern and southern latitudes using instrumented (CTD) animals (elephant seals). There are several hundred thousand profiles in this data set which runs from 2004 to 2024. Data are in NetCDF. Downloaded from the MEOP database on 2024/08/12.

This dataset is a copy of MEOP-SMS Database (submesoscale sampling of the ocean). It contains Water temperature, salinity, pressure taken by CTD attached to marine mammals for the Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole (MEOP) project in the Indian, S. Atlantic, and S. Pacific Oceans. The MEOP-SMS database is a collection of CTD data gathered with CTD-SRDLs attached to elephant seals. The CTD-SRDLs were set in continuous recording mode, and could be retrieved, enabling retrieval of the entire CTD archive at the sampling frequency (0.5 Hz) for periods of several months. Instruments were deployed at the Kerguelen Islands and at Peninsula Valdes (Argentina) as part of the SO-MEMO program led by Christophe Guinet (CEBC/CNRS, France). Data are provided in the form of profiles (format ncARGO). A description of the dataset and the post-processing can be found in Siegelman et al., 2019 (see the Documentation).

This dataset contains temperature and light CTD data from the Marine Mammals Exploring the Ocean Pole to Pole (MEOP) program taken TDR (time-depth recorder) deployed on elephant seals in Kerguelen Island area from 2008-10-17 to 2016-01-17. The Oceanographic data collected by Antarctic seals (Southern Elephant and Weddell seals mainly) are collected as part of the SO-MEMO (Observing System - Mammals as samplers of the Ocean Environment, PI. C. Guinet, CEBC-CNRS-ULR). Data were collected in combination with geo-positioning measurements. The loggers, either TDR-MK9 or TDR10, are manufactured by Wildlife Computers and are able to measure continuously pressure, temperature and light along the seal foraging trip. The resolution and precision of temperature data is rather low, of order 0.5C, however the spatial resolution is unusually high with more than 60 profiles every day. Data are in NetCDF.

This dataset contains data from 84 high resolution CTD stations, collected 26 Dec 1999 to 8 Feb 2000 by R/V Nathaniel B Palmer. These data support the Antarctic Pack Ice Seals (APIS) project, funded by the US National Science Foundation grant #OPP9816086. Data were acquired using a SeaBird 911plus CTD and processed by the data originator with SeaBird data processing software. File format information, contact information for the Principal Investigators, and other important metadata are available in the file data/1-data/Readme.

All marine mammals and sea turtles that were visually observed during a marine geophysical survey were recorded to: 1) determine whether a mitigation measure needed to be implemented during the survey; 2) determine the potential number of animals exposed to seismic sounds. During periods when no marine mammals were observed, the vessel location and the environmental conditions were also recorded approximately every 30 minutes whenever a Protected Species Observer was on watch (during daylight hours).

The Ocean Serial data in this accession was collected from "Station 27" between 1946-1994. Oceanographic Station Data contain physical and chemical oceanographic data recorded at discrete depth levels. The Oceanographic Station Data observations were made using multi-bottle Nansen casts or other types of water samplers. The data containing 12,647 records was submitted to NODC by Charles Fitzpatrick at NW Atlantic Fisheries Center, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada. The data was collected between June 23, 1946 and June 23, 1994 using multiple ships from multiple countries.

Records of marine mammal sightings (N = 4,572) collected by ASOs and submitted to Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) regions between 1990-2022, across three DFO regions: the Arctic, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Maritimes. Methods for compilation and summary statistics are provided in the associated technical report "Marine mammal records collected by the at-sea observer (ASO) program in Arctic, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Maritimes regions: a summary of challenges and opportunities for future research." Cite this data as: Feyrer, L.J., Babin, A., Moors-Murphy, H.B., Corbett, S., Touchie, E., Croft, G., Lawson, J., Peters, C.A., Inkpen, T., Treble, M., Ferguson, S. Data of: Marine mammal records collected by the At-Sea Observer program in Arctic, Newfoundland and Labrador and Maritimes regions. Published: February 2024. Ocean Ecosystems Science Division, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth, N.S. https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/faba93b8-b9d4-4181-94cd-44c33a0388e2

Depth, pressure, salinity, temperature, and other data were collected using meteorological sensors and CTD casts in the Arctic Ocean, Greenland Sea, and North Pacific Ocean. Data were collected from NOAA Ship KA'IMIMOANA, fishing vessel Sea Watch, and USCG Healy from May 11 to November 28, 2001. Data were submitted by Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) as part of the Atlantic Layer Tracking Experiment (ALTEX) project.

This dataset contains marine mammal observation data conducted during shipboard transects in the Chukchi Sea during the 9 August - 3 September 2015 Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (AMBON) research cruise. The dataset is three comma-separated values (csv) files exported from the marine bird and mammal observation software WinCruz from the entire survey. Two data files contain the dates, times, latitude, longitude, species and best-high-low estimates of numbers for each cetacean (whales) and pinniped (seals, seal lions, and walrus) sightings. A third data file contains the track of the ship (as geographic coordinates) and the Beaufort sea state at two minute intervals as a measurement of effort. This dataset was transformed from the native format into a table structure using Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A, occurrence core) term names as column names.