PV2006_0281

Harbor seal

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Harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) is the marine animal followed in the study “Harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) location data from a satellite telemetry tag (ptt id 64719) deployed in the Gulf of Alaska from 2006-04-29 to 2008-02-13, deployment id 564b9c58e36c4fcd7beb8ca0”. Positions come from a satellite tag. The newest published position was recorded 15 Feb 2008, 9:13 am. Released by IOOS Animal Telemetry Network (ERDDAP). The study is finished, so this is an archive, not a live location.

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Satellite photograph centred on the latest published position of this Harbor seal. — Satellite photograph of the latest published position. Imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community.

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Harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) location data from a satellite telemetry tag (ptt id 64719) deployed in the Gulf of Alaska from 2006-04-29 to 2008-02-13, deployment id 564b9c58e36c4fcd7beb8ca0: 99 historical reports newly added to this application.

Movement summary

Window 15 June 2006, 9:05 am → 15 Feb 2008, 9:13 am · 99 accepted reports · algorithm movement-summary/1.0.0

Reported-position distance: 1,432 km
Segments / gaps: 9 / 8
Longest gap: 174 days
Median interval: 1.7 h
Fastest segment: 427.5 km/h between reports

Flagged for review · 130 flags

source qc · 99 flags across 99 reports
Source QC flags: type:Argos, qartod_time:1, qartod_speed:2, qartod_location:1, qartod_rollup:1.
implausible displacement rate · 17 flags across 32 reports
Displacement of 41 km in 1.6 h exceeds the review threshold; may reflect positioning uncertainty, assignment problems or an outlier.
application qc · 14 flags across 14 reports
Application QC flags: source_qc_fail, exclude_from_trail.

8 gap(s) longer than the 72 h gap rule; the route during each gap is unknown.

Deployments

Tag	Technology	Started	Ended	Status	Reports
satellite argos (Wildlife)	satellite_argos · NetCDF file created from position data obtained from Wildlife Computers API.	30 Apr 2006, 6:03 am	13 Feb 2008, 4:00 pm	Ended (per provider)	99

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Journey available

Harbor seal in the Gulf of Alaska, 2006–2008

99 older reports from this track are now in the archive. They were added here; they are not a fresh movement.

Published 27 Oct 2026, 7:59 am · evidence checked 27 Oct 2026, 7:59 am

Journey available

Harbor seal in the Gulf of Alaska, 2006–2008

99 older reports from this track are now in the archive. They were added here; they are not a fresh movement.

Published 27 Oct 2026, 7:29 am · evidence checked 27 Oct 2026, 7:29 am

Journey available

Harbor seal in the Gulf of Alaska, 2006–2008

99 older reports from this track are now in the archive. They were added here; they are not a fresh movement.

Published 27 Oct 2026, 7:29 am · evidence checked 27 Oct 2026, 7:29 am

References

Citation recorded from dataset metadata at metadata check.

Generated 27 Oct 2026, 9:08 am under publication policy policy:atn-erddap:default@1,policy:crossref:metadata@1,policy:gbif:default@1,policy:motus@1,policy:obis:default@1,policy:ocearch:default@1,policy:otn-geoserver:default@1,policy:stc:default@1.