Marine Mammal Baseline Monitoring, Orange River Basin, Namibia, Block 2913B, Block 2912 - Namibia - 2023 – TotalEnergies E&P Namibia B.V.

Data Records

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Bordage V, TotalEnergies Namibia (2023). Marine Mammal Baseline Monitoring, Orange River Basin, Namibia, Block 2913B, Block 2912 - Namibia - 2023 – TotalEnergies E&P Namibia B.V.. Version 1.5. TotalEnergies. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.gbif.fr/resource?r=capmarine_nara_venus&v=1.5

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is TotalEnergies. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: a5204501-174a-4c45-9001-1b5304e39c59.  TotalEnergies publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF France.

Keywords

Cetaceans; whales; seals; Southern Namibia; Africa; marine mammals; offshore

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

East: 013°12.9998 (VENUS 1A); 12°9933 (NARA 1X) South: 29°22.4641 (VENUS 1A); 29°3056 (NARA 1X)

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Temporal Coverage

Sampling Methods

Visual observer stationed on an offshore drilling rig. Lookout duties with binoculars, scanning the water surface for any signs of marine mammals. Only sightings which were positively identified to species level is logged here (i.e. unidentified whale encounters were not included in this dataform)

Method step description:

1. Continous observation during daylight hours (avg. 8 hours per day)

Additional Metadata