UAM Mammal Observations (Arctos)

Occurrence
Latest version published by University of Alaska Museum of the North on Jun 29, 2024 University of Alaska Museum of the North

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Description

The University of Alaska Museum (UAM) occasionally records non-vouchered mammal observations in Arctos, particularly of marine mammals from Alaska. Some of these are accompanied by photographs linked to the observational record.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 231 records.

2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Occurrence (core)
231
Multimedia 
277
ResourceRelationship 
231

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

University of Alaska (UAM), Fairbanks

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Alaska Museum of the North. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 81a3887e-76be-4f98-b65c-41a43db33951.  University of Alaska Museum of the North publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation; Occurrence

Contacts

Link Olson
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Curator of Mammals
University of Alaska Museum
907 Yukon Drive
99775-6960 Fairbanks
AK
US
(907) 474-5998
Laura Russell
  • Programmer
VertNet Programmer
David Bloom
  • Programmer
VertNet Coordinator
John Wieczorek
  • Programmer
Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley
Dusty McDonald
  • Point Of Contact
Arctos Database Programmer
University of Alaska Museum
Aren Gunderson
  • Point Of Contact
Mammals Collection Manager
University of Alaska Museum
907 Yukon Drive
99775-6960 Fairbanks
AK
US
(907) 474-6947
Kyndall Hildebrandt
  • Point Of Contact
Genomic Resources Collection Manager
University of Alaska Museum
907 Yukon Drive
99775-6960 Fairbanks
AK
US
(907) 474-6914

Geographic Coverage

Alaska

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

Cetacea, Carnivora, Rodentia, Artiodactyla

Class Mammalia

Temporal Coverage

Living Time Period 1957 to present

Additional Metadata

http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html

Alternative Identifiers 81a3887e-76be-4f98-b65c-41a43db33951
https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=uamobs_mamm