2005-present Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) Shorewatch Programme records

• Published by: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
• Last updated: 01 February 2023
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• Licence: Other Licence ; View licence information

Summary

The Shorewatch Programme trains volunteers to conduct land-based watches for cetaceans in coastal waters around northern Scotland. Shorewatch data is effort-based and collected from specific sites using consistent methodology. The complete Shorewatch data set contains effort and sightings from 2005 - 2009 (Spey Bay only) and from 2010 through the most recent completed calendar year from all Shorewatch sites. Longstanding sites can be found in Aberdeen, along the south coast of the Moray Firth, Inverness area, the North coast, the West coast, and the outer Hebrides. Pilot sites exist in some of the other Hebridean islands and on Orkney.

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2016-12-02
• Access contraints: The sightings data is visible on the NBN gateway / Atlas of Living Scotland but the full effort-based data set must be requested from WDC Shorewatch.
• Harvest GUID: e697c37e-d571-41b4-a3c4-ebfac84ef7a6
• Extent: Latitude: 59.6695° to 56.8028°
• Extent: Longitude: -8.8537° to -1.2951°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
• Dataset reference date: 2016-11-30 (publication)
• Dataset reference date: 2005-01-01 (creation)
• Frequency of update: continual
• Responsible party: Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) (originator, custodian)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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Data is freely available for use in teaching and conservation but permission must be sought for use if the data will be reproduced in full or part or if used in any analyses. Upon request data can be made available for research or commercial use providing that the originators are acknowledged in any publications produced.