Long Term Monitoring of Elephant Seals on the West Beach of Hopkins Marine Station
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
NOTE: an updated dataset including elephant seal counts has been posted at https://doi.org/10.25740/gk364tm7562.
Beginning in the early 1990’s individual elephant seals have been observed occasionally hauling out at the West Beach at Hopkins Marine Station. Since September 2003, John Pearse (University of California, Santa Cruz, Emeritus Professor) has been counting the number of elephant seals he observes on Hopkins Marine Station's West Beach. Initially the counts were made from the window of the Pearse residence positioned directly across the street from the beach which meant some of the beach was not visible. On July 27, 2008 John walked across the street to the fence along the recreational trail where the entire beach can be viewed. He did this sporadically until August 13, 2008 after which all the counts were made from the fence where the whole beach could be seen. Time is presented using a 24-hour clock. Time of day for the count is haphazardly chosen. Counts extend from September 2003 through July 2009.
Description
Type of resource | Dataset, text |
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Date created | September 7, 2003 - July 31, 2009 |
Date modified | March 23, 2022; September 15, 2022 |
Publication date | May 10, 2016 |
Creators/Contributors
Research team head | Pearse, John S. |
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Subjects
Subject | elephant seals |
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Subject | Mirounga angustirostris |
Subject | Hopkins Marine Station |
Genre | Data |
Genre | Tabular data |
Genre | Data sets |
Genre | Dataset |
Genre | Tables (data) |
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- Pearse, J. (2022). Long Term Monitoring of Elephant Seals on the West Beach of Hopkins Marine Station. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/tt999fm2734
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