Thank you for all the information, Anastasia!
So it sounds like we should treat each of our two-hour observations as a “sighting” in Wildbook. I think this should work fine for our purposes, but I have a couple follow-up questions to make sure that is true.
One, is there a quick way to know the number of sightings a marked individual has been spotted during? As I said in my original post one of our main goals is to be able to see how many days/observations/sightings in the past our marked seals were spotted. On the “My individuals” page of Wildbook it says the total number of encounters, but I do not see anywhere that says the total number of sightings. Is that information elsewhere?
Two, if we were to use Enounter.occurenceID in our bulk import is there a way we can use Wildbook’s automatically created unique sighting IDs? It sounds like this will happen if you leave the field blank (says so in the list of bulk import fields and their descriptions). My worry with leaving the field blank is that Wildbook may treat each row/encounter as a unique sighting even if they should not be since I am not manually differentiating between sightings.