Tracking Data for Spectacled Eiders (Somateria fischeri)

Current Citation:
Petersen, M.R., Sexson, M.G., Douglas, D.C., 2020, Tracking data for Spectacled Eiders (Somateria fischeri) (ver 1.1, September 2021): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9B091HG

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Version 1.0 posted online July 2020

Original Citation:
Petersen, M.R., Sexson, M.G., Douglas, D.C., 2020, Tracking data for Spectacled Eiders (Somateria fischeri) (ver 1.0, July 2020): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9B091HG

Inital data release:

Overview:
Two data packages (rawData & processedData) containing all data collected by the Argos System from 217 satellite transmitters attached to Spectacled Eiders.

Release details:
This is the first USGS Alaska Science Center (ASC) release of these tracking data. It includes all satellite tracking data from Spectacled Eiders collected by the ASC, as of July 2020. The ASC is the authoritative source and distributor of these data.

Some of the processed data from PTTs deployed 1993-1996 have been previously released on MoveBank and remain publicly available at https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.kq7t609j

Those data are included in this package, in two tables: (1) spectacledEider_USGS_ASC_argos_diag_filteredLocations.csv (2) spectacledEider_USGS_ASC_argos_decodedSensor.csv. The tables include an attribute that denotes whether the data in the record have been previously released. Details are provided in the metadata records.

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Version 1.1 posted online September 2021

Overview:
Appended: newly discovered archived body mass data from 2008-2011 appended to the "Animal_Mass" attribute of the "_deploymentAttribute" files in "rawData" and "processedData" folders.

Updated: metadata with new version citation information