Ringed seal (Pusa hispida) location data from the Beaufort Sea to the Chukchi Sea, July 2011-February 2019

This data is part of the satellite telemetry data collected by the North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management Shell Baseline Studies Program. Ringed seals were tagged with SPLASH Wildlife Computers ARGOS satellite telemetry transmitters (or "tags"). The tags transmitted locations of the seals, with AROGS measurement error. The data consists of one comma separated file (.csv) that was processed in R 4.1.2 (R Core Team 2021) to correct for ARGOS measurement error and to estimate 'true' locations of the seals. Prior to processing, the first week of data for each seal was removed to avoid impacts on behaviour that may be present from capture and tagging. The R package foieGras (Jonsen & Patterson 2020) was used to estimate the true locations by applying a continuous time state-space model with a maximum velocity of 3.0 m/sec and a 4 hour time step. The data includes seal id, date of location, latitude and longitude of estimated location, and the spatial geometry. The data is projected to Alaska Albers (crs: 3467). The data extends from the Beaufort Sea to the Chukchi Sea, from July 2011 to February 2019, and includes data from 25 ringed seals. Ringed seals are an ice-obligate species that is both abundant and widely distributed throughout the Arctic. They are the primary prey resource for polar bears (Ursus maritimus) and hold significant cultural and subsistence value for Indigenous communities.