Adelie Penguin Telemetry Data
The dataset contains geographic location estimates of Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) tracked via Argos satellite telemetry in the Southern Ocean for the U.S. Antarctic Marine Living Resources project from 1996-10-29 to 2013-02-19. Birds were instrumented with back-mounted Argos satellite transmitters at the Copacabana Colony (62.21S, 58.42W) on King George Island during the austral summer breeding seasons (October - February) from 1996 to 2013. Typical deployments during the breeding season lasted 5 to 8 days, while some winter deployments lasted several months. The data set identifies the sex of the bird tracked (male, female, or unknown) and the age of the bird (adult). The data also identify the breeding stage of the bird during the summer tracking period (incubation, brood/guard, or creche) or is noted as 'winter' if tracked outside the summer breeding season. The data include the date (DD/MM/YYYY) and time (GMT) of the location estimate. Finally, a categorical estimate of uncertainty in the location estimate is provided by Argos quality codes (3,2,1,0,A,B).
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copa_adpe_ncei.csv
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http://seabirdtracking.org/mapper/?dataset_id=910
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NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP)
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GCMD Keyword Forum Page
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Full Metadata Record
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|---|---|
| accessLevel | non-public |
| contactPoint |
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| describedByType | application/octet-steam |
| description | The dataset contains geographic location estimates of Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) tracked via Argos satellite telemetry in the Southern Ocean for the U.S. Antarctic Marine Living Resources project from 1996-10-29 to 2013-02-19. Birds were instrumented with back-mounted Argos satellite transmitters at the Copacabana Colony (62.21S, 58.42W) on King George Island during the austral summer breeding seasons (October - February) from 1996 to 2013. Typical deployments during the breeding season lasted 5 to 8 days, while some winter deployments lasted several months. The data set identifies the sex of the bird tracked (male, female, or unknown) and the age of the bird (adult). The data also identify the breeding stage of the bird during the summer tracking period (incubation, brood/guard, or creche) or is noted as 'winter' if tracked outside the summer breeding season. The data include the date (DD/MM/YYYY) and time (GMT) of the location estimate. Finally, a categorical estimate of uncertainty in the location estimate is provided by Argos quality codes (3,2,1,0,A,B). |
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| identifier | https://data.noaa.gov/waf/NOAA/nmfs/swfsc/iso/xml/66613.xml |
| issued | 2022-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| keyword |
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"AMLR",
"Pygoscelis",
"adelie",
"archival tag",
"brood",
"ecosystem",
"egg-laying",
"environmental",
"fledgling",
"gentoo",
"mark-recapture",
"penguins",
"Admiralty Bay",
"Antarctica",
"Bransfield Strait",
"Copacabana",
"East Antarctica",
"King George Island",
"South Orkneys",
"DOC/NOAA/NMFS/SWFSC > Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA. U.S. Department of Commerce",
"AMLR Predator Data"
]
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| landingPage | https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/66613 |
| language |
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|
| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2022-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| publisher |
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"name": "Southwest Fisheries Science Center",
"@type": "org:Organization"
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|
| references |
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|
| rights | otherRestrictions, unclassified |
| spatial | -43.0,-65.0,-64.0,-58.0 |
| temporal | 1996-01-01T00:00:00+00:00/2013-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| title | Adelie Penguin Telemetry Data |
