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Strandings of Marine Mammals in Alabama from 16 Dec 1978 - 31 Dec 2015 (NCEI Accession 0117461)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: October 13, 2025 | Last Modified: 2014-04-11T00:00:00.000+00:00

This dataset contains information about marine mammal strandings documented in Alabama waters between 1978 and 2015. Data include identity, size, condition, sex, and location where the animal was found.

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0117461 ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS biological data cetacean HUMAN ACTIVITY MARINE MAMMALS SPECIES IDENTIFICATION SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - SEX TAXONOMIC CODE visual analysis visual observation biological marine mammal observation visual observation Dauphin Island Sea Lab SEFSC - Pascagoula/Stennis Lab Dauphin Island Sea Lab Alabama Marine Mammal Stranding Network (ALMMSN) Coastal Waters of Alabama Coastal Waters of Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Mexico North Atlantic Ocean oceanography DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC > Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MARINE MAMMALS EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS > VISUAL OBSERVATIONS OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO

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describedByType	application/octet-steam
identifier	gov.noaa.nodc:0117461
issued	2014-04-11T00:00:00.000+00:00
landingPage	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
language	[]
rights	otherRestrictions
spatial	-87.0,29.35,-88.35,33.3667
temporal	1978-12-16T00:00:00+00:00/2015-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

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