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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

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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

Murdoch University - Smith, Joshua
90 South Street
Murdoch
Western Australia
6150
Australia
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
  • Biota

Extent

N
S
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W


Temporal extent

Time period
1872-12-15 2015-12-31
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Resource format

Title
CSV
Date
Edition
-
Keywords (Taxon)
  • Megaptera novaeangliae
  • Balaenoptera physalus
  • Physeter macrocephalus
  • Balaenoptera musculus
  • Eubalaena australis
Keywords (Theme)
  • vessel strike
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0
  • EARTH SCIENCE | BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION | ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES | MAMMALS | CETACEANS | BALEEN WHALES
  • EARTH SCIENCE | BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION | ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES | MAMMALS | CETACEANS | TOOTHED WHALES
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
  • Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
Keywords (dataSource)
  • 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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License Graphic

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License


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Website
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
  • CSV

OnLine resource
DATA ACCESS - Australian vessel strike data [.csv]

OnLine resource
ASSOCIATED PUBLICATION - Historical Data on Australian Whale Vessel Strikes

OnLine resource
ASSOCIATED PUBLICATION - Vessel Strike of Whales in Australia: The Challenges of Analysis of Historical Incident Data

OnLine resource
View data in CSIRO Data Access Portal (DAP)

OnLine resource
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
78cfb62c-e8ec-4437-9113-1e1fdc523f95

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - Emma Flukes (NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Data Manager)
Parent metadata
  • NESP MB Project C5 – Quantification of risk from shipping to large marine fauna across Australia

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
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

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords

vessel strike
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0
EARTH SCIENCE | BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION | ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES | MAMMALS | CETACEANS | BALEEN WHALES EARTH SCIENCE | BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION | ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES | MAMMALS | CETACEANS | TOOTHED WHALES

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