TDR tracks gentoo penguins at Signy Island, South Orkneys Islands, 2011-2016

This dataset comprises Time-Depth Recorder (TDR) tracks for gentoo penguins, Pygoscelid papua, at Signy Island, South Orkneys Islands, from December 2011 to January 2016 (austral summer). Gentoo penguins were fitted with TDR tags at Signy Island to better understand their movement for seabird conservation and management. The data includes temperature and pressure at specified intervals for deployed tags, with additional metadata on the morphology of the birds, their deployment, and breeding.

Work was carried out by personnel at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and was funded by Natural Environment Research Council (UK) core funding to BAS.

Alternate title: Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/02024

Date (Publication): 2025-03-11

Citation identifier: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/02024

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	Ratcliffe, N., Manco, F., & Manthorpe, S.J.	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
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Diurnal Movements
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Feeding Habitat
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Food-web Dynamics
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Indicator Species
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Population Dynamics
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Range Changes
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Trophic Dynamics
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology

BAS Free-text keywords

Gentoo penguin
Pygoscelid papua
Signy Island
TDR
Temperature-depth recorder
Tracking

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: 2012-12-21

End date: 2016-01-25

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=ff0cbcb7-bdad-4d03-bdf2-a54c54d67d9f	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: Files were consolidated to include only the timestamp, pressure in dBars, and temperature in degrees Celsius. When known, the temperature was recorded as internal, external or both. If not known, the temperature is recorded as ''Temperature''. Internal temperature relates to the sensor inside of the instrument, whereas the external temperature means the sensor was on the outside of the instrument.

Where the sex of the bird was not known, ''U'' was used in the metadata file.