Time-lapse imagery of Adelie penguins, as part of a camera network from Signy Island, 2011-2022

This dataset contains the imagery for two time-lapse cameras installed at two Adelie penguin colonies, Pygoscelid adeliae, around Signy Island. The camera imagery are used to monitor nest attendance of Adelie penguins at Signy. These cameras passively record colony attendance by taking automatic images each day, at a minimum of twice daily throughout each year. This dataset includes imagery for the years 2011-2022.

This dataset is part of a larger network of time-lapse cameras monitoring seabirds on Signy Island.

This monitoring contributes to the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Program (CEMP) and is part of the annual seabird Long Term Monitoring Science carried out by the British Antarctic Survey at Signy Island.

This work was funded by Natural Environment Research Council (UK) core funding to the British Antarctic Survey.

Alternate title: Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01692

Date (Publication): 2025-02-28

Citation identifier: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01692

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Antarctic Survey		pdc@bas.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre	Dunn, M.J., Adlard, S., Fox, D., Jobson, M., & Morley, T.	pdc@bas.ac.uk	Originator

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Keywords

NDGO0001

NERC OAI Harvesting

NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Population Dynamics
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Survival

BAS Free-text keywords

Adelie penguin
Pygoscelid adeliae
Signy Island
South Orkney Islands
nest attendance
time-lapse camera

Use limitation: This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

Language: English

Topic category

Biota

Begin date: 2011-03-27

End date: 2022-03-09

Reference system identifier: OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

Distribution format

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey		pdc@bas.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
http	http://ramadda.data.bas.ac.uk/repository/entry/show?entryid=fc0b10b9-6348-49e6-9e3a-71e76a4026e4	GET DATA

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification: INSPIRE / Conformity_001

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Data Specification on unknown theme Guidelines

Date

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Statement: Each image includes a time-stamp and the temperature at the time when the photo was taken.

Imagery is not always continuous throughout the year and there may be gaps between photo timestamps.

Photos where fog, ice, or darkness obscures the colony are included in the dataset, and may need to be filtered out depending on the required use. Images that are completely blurry or dark have been removed.

The camera at A1 is a replacement for the camera at A25 as there are no more penguins using this colony.