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  "dataset_key": "sio_cetacean-sightings",
  "provider": {
    "key": "sio",
    "short": "SIO",
    "name": "Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego",
    "url": "https://scripps.ucsd.edu",
    "registered": true
  },
  "dataset": "cetacean-sightings",
  "dataset_name": "Index of visual monitoring, location, species behavior, and identification of cetaceans from CalCOFI cruises in the California Current System, 2005-2015 (ongoing)",
  "dataset_name_short": null,
  "category": {
    "name": "Seabirds & Marine Mammals",
    "realm": "bio",
    "icon": "cat-birds-mammals",
    "order": 12,
    "registered": true
  },
  "visibility": "public",
  "description_md": "CalCOFI Underway Marine Mammal Sighting Surveys contains visual sighting records of cetaceans (whales and dolphins) collected during California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) cruises, run by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), to understand cetacean ecology and habitat use. The dataset covers the CalCOFI station grid off Southern and Central California, recorded while the ship transits between stations, and spans 2004 to 2015, with cruises conducted quarterly. Trained observers watch for cetaceans during daylight hours using standard line-transect distance-sampling methods (Burnham et al. 1980; Buckland et al. 1993; Barlow 1995), recording each sighting's location and distance from the ship's track. Surveys are conducted during favorable weather, with calm seas (Beaufort state 5 or below) and visibility beyond 1 nautical mile. This dataset supports study of cetacean distribution and habitat use relative to oceanographic conditions, for researchers studying marine mammal ecology in the California Current.",
  "keywords": [
    "\"Marine Turtles",
    "Birds",
    "and Mammals\""
  ],
  "attribution": {
    "citation_main": null,
    "citation_others": [],
    "doi": "10.6073/pasta/9ee6ca9b4a316708ca3d17ddc92debfb",
    "license": null,
    "license_name": null,
    "license_url": null,
    "acknowledgement": null,
    "contact": "jahildebrand@ucsd.edu",
    "pi_names": [],
    "creators": [
      {
        "name": "John Hildebrand & Simone Baumann Pickering",
        "organization": "UCSD SIO",
        "orcid": null,
        "email": "jahildebrand@ucsd.edu",
        "role": "lead"
      }
    ],
    "funding": null,
    "source_accessed": null
  },
  "links": {
    "calcofi_org": null,
    "data_source": "https://oceaninformatics.ucsd.edu/datazoo/catalogs/ccelter/datasets/284",
    "page": "https://calcofi.io/datasets/sio_cetacean-sightings/"
  },
  "distributions": [
    {
      "kind": "source",
      "url": "https://oceaninformatics.ucsd.edu/datazoo/catalogs/ccelter/datasets/284",
      "portal": "datazoo",
      "title": "source",
      "status": "external"
    }
  ],
  "status": {
    "stage": "external",
    "priority": null,
    "owner": null,
    "next_step": "confirm dataset scope, license and DOI with the provider; no ingest planned yet. EDI 262 (Hildebrand cetacean visual monitoring) is NOT farallon_bird-mammal's EDI 255 (Sydeman bird/mammal census) -- a different package/PI",
    "module": "CalCOFI Underway Marine Mammal Sighting Surveys - SIO, UCSD",
    "priority_caloos": "EDI",
    "gh_issue": null
  }
}