Elephant Seal Sightings, Heard Island (1949 to 1960)

At Heard Island, Southern Indian Ocean, seals were branded between 1949-1953. Seal length was measured in feet and inches. Recaptures of seals were made up until 1955, and growth and age-specific survival was calculated.

Identification info

Alternate title: Elephant Seal Sightings, Heard Island (1949 to 1960)

Date (Publication): 2018-06-29

Edition: 2

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:10.4225/15/5b35cea358e76

Originator

Burton, H. and Watts, D.J.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

BURTON, HARRY

Australian Antarctic Division

203 Channel Highway

Kingston

Tasmania

7050

Australia

Collaborator

WATTS, DAVE JOHN

CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

Castray Esplanade

Hobart

Tasmania

7000

Australia

+61 3 6232 5062

Name: CAASM Metadata

Website: https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/Tags_heard_1949

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

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Extent

Description: Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod: 1949-09-05 1960-11-05

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CARNIVORES > SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > SPECIES LIFE HISTORY
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > POPULATION DYNAMICS
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY STRUCTURE

Keywords

ELEPHANT SEALS
LENGTH ESTIMATES
RESIGHTS
TAGGING

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

VISUAL OBSERVATIONS

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

FIELD SURVEYS

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

OBIS > OCEAN BIOGEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM
IPY > INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR
SCAR-MARBIN > SCAR Marine Biodiversity Information Network
CAML > CENSUS OF ANTARCTIC MARINE LIFE
COML > CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE
EBA > Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

AMD/AU
CEOS
AMD
OBIS/AADC
ANTABIF

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS

Resource constraints

Use limitation: This metadata record is publicly available.

Resource constraints

Access constraints: licence

Other constraints: These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL and from the SCAR-MarBIN, OBIS and GBIF websites.

Resource constraints

File type: Portable Network Graphic

Linkage: Creative Commons by Attribution logo

Title: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Website: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
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Use constraints: licence

Other constraints: This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=Tags_heard_1949 when using these data.

Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

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)

Distributor

Fees: Free

Planned available datetime: 2018-06-29T00:00:00

Units of distribution: MB

Transfer size: 1

Distribution format

Access

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Resource lineage

Statement: Data were transcribed from paper cards into a database long after field data were collected. Data are therefore of unknown quality.

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Maintenance note: 2008-03-03 Dave Wats - added projects. 2009-02-26 - record modified by Dave Connell to remove IPY fields. 2018-06-29 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

Metadata

Metadata identifier: string/Tags_heard_1949

Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Author

WATTS, DAVE JOHN

CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

Castray Esplanade

Hobart

Tasmania

7000

Australia

+61 3 6232 5062

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC

Title: Parent Metadata Record

Citation identifier: TAGS

Type of resource

Resource scope: Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title: gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd

Citation identifier: e13f51d9-6af8-4aa3-83b7-485e9ecc6014

Alternative metadata reference

Title: gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd

Date (Last Revision): 2015-11-30T03:40:19

Identifier

Description: metadata.extraction_date

Alternative metadata reference

Title: gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd

Citation identifier: 8.6

Metadata linkage: http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/Tags_heard_1949
Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation): 2006-01-30T00:00:00

Date info (Last Update): 2018-06-29

Metadata standard

Title: ISO 19115-3

Edition: 2014

Other citation details: Version 1

Title: DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile

Overviews

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