Historic Vessel Strikes with Whales in Australian Waters
Records of collisions between vessels and whales in Australian waters between 1872 and 2015 as described in the paper Peel, D., Smith, J. N., & Childerhouse, S. (2018). Vessel Strike of Whales in Australia: The Challenges of Analysis of Historical Incident Data. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5, 69.
This record has been created to facilitate access to the original data collection at https://doi.org/10.25919/5be5086a6fda1
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2017-03-02
Principal investigator
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) - Peel, David
GPO Box 1538
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
Principal investigator
- Credit
- Blue Planet Marine NZ (New Zealand), CSIRO (Australia), Murdoch University (Australia)
- Credit
- This work was undertaken for the Marine Biodiversity Hub, a collaborative partnership supported through funding from the Australian Government's National Environmental Science Program (NESP). Also this work depended on the national library TROVE system which provided easy access to a large database of historical Australian newspapers
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) - Peel, David
GPO Box 1538
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
- Topic category
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- Biota
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1872-12-15 2015-12-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
Resource format
- Title
- CSV
- Date
- Edition
- -
- Keywords (Taxon)
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- Megaptera novaeangliae
- Balaenoptera physalus
- Physeter macrocephalus
- Balaenoptera musculus
- Eubalaena australis
- Keywords (Theme)
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- vessel strike
- Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0
- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
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- Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
- Keywords (dataSource)
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- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub, Department of the Environment (DoE)
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The data described in this record are the intellectual property of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png
License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Other constraints
- Cite data as: Peel, David; Smith, Joshua; Childerhouse, Simon (2018): Historic Vessel Strikes with Whales in Australian Waters. v1. CSIRO. Data Collection. https://doi.org/10.25919/5be5086a6fda1
- Other constraints
- This data is hosted by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, on behalf of CSIRO.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Supplemental Information
- Peel, D., Smith, J. N., & Childerhouse, S. (2018). Vessel Strike of Whales in Australia: The Challenges of Analysis of Historical Incident Data. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5, 69. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2018.00069/full
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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CSV
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CSV
- OnLine resource
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DATA ACCESS - Australian vessel strike data [.csv]
- OnLine resource
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ASSOCIATED PUBLICATION - Vessel Strike of Whales in Australia: The Challenges of Analysis of Historical Incident Data
- OnLine resource
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View data in CSIRO Data Access Portal (DAP)
- OnLine resource
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NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project C5 webpage
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Data collated from searches of online newspaper archives and other online sources. See Peel, D., Smith, J. N., & Childerhouse, S. (2018). Vessel Strike of Whales in Australia: The Challenges of Analysis of Historical Incident Data. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5, 69.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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78cfb62c-e8ec-4437-9113-1e1fdc523f95
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
- Parent metadata
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/78cfb62c-e8ec-4437-9113-1e1fdc523f95
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2018-12-14T15:02:26
- Date info (Revision)
- 2018-12-14T15:02:26
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
Overviews
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