Visual observations recorded during the New Zealand Australian Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015

The ‘Logger’ data entry system was developed by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and is a flexible system to record information during a voyage. All events occurring during daylight operations such as sightings, biopsy attempts and sonobuoy deployments were recorded in a customized data entry program Logger along with weather and effort data.

The logger access database contains all data collected throughout theNZ/Aus Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015 related to:

Biopsy events (date/time in UTC, success, sample number, reaction, attempts, dart recovery, notes)

Comments - time stamped (UTC) with GPS index providing additional detail

Observer effort (effort status, event, number of observers and locations, ship guide and data logger)

Environmental observations (sightability, sea state, swell, weather, cloud cover, visibility, intensity, glare, ice, sea surface temperature)

GPS data - time indexed NMEA feed, also containing heading and ship speed

Lookup - table containing topic codes describing the codes that appear in all other tables

Cetacean sightings and resightings (date/time in UTC), sighting number, sighting platform, estimate distance, binocular reticles, angle, species, sighting cue, heading, estimate of number of individuals, observer of sighting, behaviour, pod compaction, comments)

Sonobuoy deployments (date/time in UTC, sonobuoy number, notes)

Identification info

Alternate title: Visual observations recorded during the New Zealand Australian Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015

Date (Publication): 2017-09-14

Edition: 1

Citation identifier

Dataset DOI

Title: Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system

Date (Publication): 2012-04-23

Citation identifier: ISO 26324:2012

Citation identifier: doi:10.4225/15/59b9fe0ea0dcd

Originator

7050

Australia

+61 3 6232 3153

Name: CAASM Metadata

Website: https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4102_Visobs2015

Purpose: Systematic sightings data including quantified effort, environmental co-variates that may affect detection probability and initial locations relative to the vessel of all sightings were collected whenever possible. These data have the potential to contribute to analyses of the following: (i) Distribution patterns and localised density of other baleen whale species (humpback, fin and minke whales) with respect to aggregations of blue whales and other co-variates such as distance from ice edge; (ii) Blue whales that were seen but not heard provide data on acoustic detection probability; (iii) Spatial scale and density of blue whales within aggregations including comparisons with acoustic data and average group size; and (iv) Comparisons of observed locations of fin and humpback whales with bearings of vocalisations heard on sonobuoys to enable better descriptions of the acoustic repertoire of these species in the Southern Ocean.

Status: Completed

Custodian

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)

Australian Antarctic Division

203 Channel Highway

Kingston

Tasmania

7050

Australia

+61 3 6232 3244

+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)

Topic category

Biota
Oceans

Extent

Description: Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod: 2015-01-29 2015-03-11

Title: Cruise report on blue whale research from the NZ/Aus Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015 of the Southern Ocean Research Partnership.

Date (Publication): 2015

Citation identifier: SC/66a/SH7

Author

Double, M.C., Miller, B.S., Leaper, R., Olson, P., Cox, M.J., Miller, E., Calderan, S., Collins, K., Donnelly, D., Ensor, P. and Goetz, K.

Publisher

International Whaling Commission

Title: Cruise report of the 2013 Antarctic blue whale voyage of the Southern Ocean Research Partnership.

Date (Publication): 2013

Citation identifier: SC/65a/SH21

Author

Double, MC, Barlow, J, Miller, BS, Olson, P, Andrews-Goff, V, Leaper, R, Ensor, P, Kelly, N, Lindsay, M, Peel, D, Calderan, S, Collins, K, Davidson, M, Deacon, C, Donnelly, D, Olavarria, C, Owen, K, Rekdahl, M, Schmitt, N, Wadley, V and Gales, N

Other citation details: Paper submitted for consideration by the IWC Scientific Committee.

Title: Long-range acoustic tracking of Antarctic blue whales.

Date (Publication): 2013

Citation identifier: SC/65a/SH1

Author

Miller, BS, Barlow, J, Calderan, S, Collins, K, Leaper, R, Kelly, N, Peel, D, Olson, P, Ensor, P and Double, MC

Other citation details: Paper submitted for consideration by the IWC Scientific Committee.

Title: Voyage Report TAN1502 New Zealand-Australia Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage.

Date (Publication): 2015

Citation identifier: WLG2015-21

Author

O'Driscoll, R and Double, MC

Other citation details: Prepared for Antarctica New Zealand, Ministry for Primary Industries, Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Title: Validating the reliability of passive acoustic localisation: a novel method for encountering rare and remote Antarctic blue whales.

Date (Publication): 2015

Citation identifier: 26

Author

Miller, B, Barlow, J, Calderan, S, Collin, sK, Leaper, R, Olson, P, Ensor, P, Peel, D, Donnelly, D, Andrews-Goff, V, Olavarria, C, Owen, K, Rekdahl, M, Schmitt, N, Wadley, V, Gedamke, J, Gales, N and Double, M

Name: Endangered Species Research

Page: 257-269

Title: Software for the localisation of baleen whale calls using DIFAR sonobuoys: PAMGuard DIFAR

Date (Publication): 2014

Citation identifier: SC/65b/SH7

Author

Miller, BS, Gillespie, D, Weatherup, G, Calderan, S and Double, MC

Other citation details: Paper submitted for consideration by the IWC Scientific Committee

Title: Photo-identification of Antarctic blue whales during the SORP Antarctic Blue Whale Voyage 2013.

Date (Publication): 2013

Citation identifier: SC/65a/SH

Author

Olson, PA, Ensor, P, Schmitt, N, Olavarria, C and Double, MC

Other citation details: Paper submitted for consideration by the IWC Scientific Committee.

Title: Photo-identification of Antarctic blue whales during the NZ-Australia Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015.

Date (Publication): 2015

Citation identifier: SC/65a/SH

Author

Olson, PA, Schmitt, N, Ensor, P, Collins, K, Donnelly, D, Leaper, R, Calderan, S, Miller, BS, Goetz, K and Double, MC

Other citation details: Paper submitted for consideration by the IWC Scientific Committee.