Cetacean Sightings Survey and Southern Ocean cetacean program

Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 915 and 2253
See the link below for public details on these projects.

Our cetacean research is conducted on multidisciplinary cruises aimed at investigating environmental change and ecosystem effects. Our research approach now integrates broad scale acoustic monitoring with fine scale ecology experiments during annual surveys with AMLR. These data will allow us to connect fine scale variability with regional and circum-Antarctic processes, and eventually to understand how the dynamics of the Antarctic ecosystem and environmental change might affect the recovery of whale populations. The BROKE WEST multidisciplinary survey to be held in the 2005/2006 season will provide a large-scale simultaneously collected dataset within which to analyse the cetacean distribution, ecological and acoustic data.

These sightings were made on Australian Antarctic Division voyages. For further information about these voyages, see the URL given below. Codes provided in the download file for voyage come in two formats:

V70102 - Voyage 7 of the 2001/2002 season
KK0102 - Use of the Kapitan Khlebnikov by the Australian Antarctic Division in the 2001/2002 season.

The download file will include an excel spreadsheet of sightings, resightings and incidental sightings, as well as an explanatory word document. For further details on methods used, and an explanation of the types of data collected, see the above mentioned word document.

These data were collected as part of ASAC projects 915 and 2253 (ASAC_915 and ASAC_2253).

The fields in this dataset are:

Voyage
Data Logger (Logger/Wincruz)
Date
Time
Observer
Method
Bearing
Distance (nautical miles)
Swim Direction
Near Ice
Species
Reaction
Group Size
Latitude
Longitude

本元数据记录对应ASAC（Antarctic Science Advisory Committee）项目915与2253所产出的数据集，相关项目的公开详情可参阅下方链接。

我们的鲸类研究依托多学科科考航次开展，旨在探究环境变化及其对生态系统的影响。当前研究方案在依托AMLR（Antarctic Marine Living Resources）开展的年度调查中，融合了大尺度声学监测与精细尺度生态实验。本数据集将助力我们将精细尺度的生态变异与区域及环南极过程建立关联，并最终厘清南极生态系统动态与环境变化可能如何影响鲸类种群的恢复进程。

计划于2005/2006航季实施的BROKE WEST多学科科考航次，将提供一套同步采集的大尺度数据集，可用于鲸类分布、生态与声学数据的分析研究。

本次目击记录采集自澳大利亚南极署（Australian Antarctic Division）的科考航次。如需了解这些航次的更多详情，请参阅下方提供的URL链接。下载文件中的航次编码采用两种格式：
V70102：2001/2002航季第7次科考航次
KK0102：澳大利亚南极署于2001/2002航季租用“卡皮坦·赫列布尼科夫”号（Kapitan Khlebnikov）执行科考任务。

下载文件将包含涵盖目击、重目击及偶发目击记录的Excel电子表格，以及一份说明性Word文档。如需了解所用研究方法的更多细节，以及采集数据类型的详细说明，请参阅上述说明文档。

本数据集为ASAC项目915与2253（ASAC_915及ASAC_2253）的研究成果之一。

本数据集包含以下字段：
航次
数据记录仪（Logger/Wincruz）
日期
时间
观测员
观测方法
方位
距离（海里）
游动方向
近冰状况
物种
反应
种群规模
纬度
经度