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EB2011_3002

Bearded seal

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Bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) is the marine animal followed in the study “Bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) location data from a satellite telemetry tag (ptt id 66983) deployed in the Bering Sea, Chukchi Sea, and the Sea Okhotsk from 2011-06-18 to 2014-06-26, deployment id 57acc69001fbb02a667bb222”. Positions come from a satellite tag. The newest published position was recorded 24 May 2014, 1:18 pm. Released by IOOS Animal Telemetry Network (ERDDAP). The study is finished, so this is an archive, not a live location.

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Bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) location data from a satellite telemetry tag (ptt id 66983) deployed in the Bering Sea, Chukchi Sea, and the Sea Okhotsk from 2011-06-18 to 2014-06-26, deployment id 57acc69001fbb02a667bb222: 145 historical reports newly added to this application.

Movement summary

Window 15 Nov 2011, 1:08 pm → 24 May 2014, 1:18 pm · 145 accepted reports · algorithm movement-summary/1.0.0

Reported-position distance
2,801 km
Segments / gaps
27 / 25
Longest gap
250 days
Median interval
17 min
Fastest segment
8,069.5 km/h between reports
Flagged for review · 201 flags
  • source qc · 145 flags across 145 reports
    Source QC flags: type:Argos, qartod_time:1, qartod_speed:2, qartod_location:1, qartod_rollup:1.
  • application qc · 33 flags across 33 reports
    Application QC flags: source_qc_fail, exclude_from_trail.
  • implausible displacement rate · 23 flags across 44 reports
    Displacement of 1 km in 0.0 h exceeds the review threshold; may reflect positioning uncertainty, assignment problems or an outlier.

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

Deployments

TagTechnologyStartedEndedStatusReports
satellite argos (Wildlife)satellite_argos · NetCDF file created from position data obtained from Wildlife Computers API.18 June 2011, 1:07 pm26 June 2014, 12:37 pmEnded (per provider)145

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References

  1. 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.

Bearded seal · EB2011_3002 · Earth Water and Sky