Social Group Memberships
Encounter(s) (not all may be currently visible) & Biological Samples
Mapping
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Additional data files
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Meet the Adopters
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"We swam with this whale shark!!! What an amazing experience to adopt it now! #blessed" |
Collaborating Researchers
Rafael de la Parra
Affiliation: Ch'ooj Ajauil AC, Mexico
Research Project: Monitoreo Ecol�gico de Pel�gicos Marinos
Web Site: http://www.choojajauil.org.mx/
Deni Ramirez
Wildbook A.I.
Affiliation: Wild Me
"I am the artificial intelligence that searches social media for usable whale shark sighting data."
Jennifer Schmidt
Affiliation: Shark Research Institute/SRI
Web Site: https://www.sharks.org/leadership/sri-staff/jennifer-v-schmidt-ph-d-2
Alina Riensema
Research Project: alinar
Researcher comments (Text or HTML):
dbradley on Tue Aug 24 21:31:34 EDT 2010
Created MXA-277.
rgrampus on Wed Jan 12 13:18:23 EST 2011
Added encounter 1212011125029.
rgrampus on Sun Oct 30 13:16:07 EDT 2011
Added encounter 3010201112840.
rgrampus on Fri Jul 13 15:11:37 EDT 2012
Added encounter 1072012191054.
rgrampus on Fri Nov 02 21:29:27 EDT 2012
Added encounter 238201202413.
bebemulder on Thu Nov 14 19:09:35 EST 2013
Added encounter 8102013195513.
mromain on Mon Jan 13 04:22:14 EST 2014
Added encounter 131201431655.
admin on Thu Jul 19 14:15:53 UTC 2018
Added encounter 16e86562-a53c-4947-981a-be106284ea24.
rgrampus on Sat Jul 28 12:08:58 UTC 2018
Added encounter e6c37755-21aa-4c50-9dc7-d31c78280eae.
jschmidt on Sat Aug 25 02:05:56 UTC 2018
Added encounter 01278d3c-3ee1-480c-813c-066d340b7901.
alinar on Wed Sep 12 21:33:46 UTC 2018
Added encounter eb3edb09-a2a0-4862-87ee-afcfc93317ee.
admin on Wed Aug 14 18:44:00 UTC 2019
Added encounter 2a0f47c5-0ba2-487d-a1f4-040a2b1f715e.