Occurrence dataset Registered June 28, 2023
IMOS - AATAMS Facility Satellite Relay Tagging Program - Satellite tracking of pinnipeds - Delayed mode data, 2007-2017
Description
The Australian Animal Tracking And Monitoring System (AATAMS) is a coordinated marine animal tagging project.
Satellite Relay Data Loggers (SRDL) (most with CTDs, and some also with fluorometers) are used to explore how marine mammal behaviour relates to their oceanic environment. Loggers developed at the University of St Andrews Sea Mammal Research Unit transmit data in near real time via the Argo satellite system.
The Satellite Relay Data Loggers are deployed on marine mammals, including Elephant Seals, Weddell Seals, Australian Fur Seals, Australian Sea Lions, New Zealand Fur Seals. Data parameters measured by the instruments include time, conductivity (salinity), temperature, speed, fluorescence (available in the future) and depth.
Data is being collected in the Southern Ocean, the Great Australian Bight, and off the South-East Coast of Australia.
This dataset has excluded the data from Antarctic waters as it is expected that data would be published via the OBIS Antarctic node AntBIF.
Each species has been linked to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS https://www.marinespecies.org).
Geographic scope
- Description
Great Australia Bight, south coast of Western Australia and waters off New South Wales, Australia.
- Latitude
- From -40.602 to -32.8
- Longitude
- From 118.1 to 159.6
Temporal scope
- range
- March 26, 2007 - November 01, 2014
Taxonomic scope
- Coverage
- OtariidaeSeals
Methodology
- Sampling
Satellite Relay Data Loggers (SRDL) (most with CTDs, and some also with fluorometers) are used to explore how marine mammal behaviour relates to their oceanic environment.
- Study extent
Data is being collected in the Southern Ocean, the Great Australian Bight, and off the South-East Coast of Australia.
- Quality control
AATAMS make all satellite logger data available in near real time, with no Quality Control applied to the data before release. Data available in near real time is a subset of the full dataset collected by the satellite loggers.
- Method steps
Loggers developed at the University of St Andrews Sea Mammal Research Unit transmit data in near real time via the Argo satellite system.
Metrics
Additional info
Contacts
- Organization
- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
- Position
- AATAMS Project Leader
- Roles
- Originator
Administrative point of contact - Phone
- Organization
- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
- Position
- OBIS Australia Data manager
- Address
- GPO Box 1538
- Roles
- Metadata author
- Phone
- Organization
- CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre
- Position
- OBIS Australia Data Manager
- Address
- GPO Box 1538
- Roles
- Publisher
- Phone
GBIF registration
- Registration date
- June 28, 2023
- Metadata last modified
- August 11, 2023
- Publication date
- August 11, 2023
- Hosted by
- CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC)
- Installation
- CSIRO NCMI IDC / OBIS Australia
- Endpoints
- Darwin Core Archive
- EML
- Preferred identifier
- 10.15468/96scmz
- Alternative identifiers