AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Water temperature data from reef sites off the upper Florida Keys from 2003-09-18 to 2024-12-31 (NCEI Accession 0126994)

Temperature loggers were deployed at various monitoring sites off the upper Florida Keys where other ecological studies were underway, most focused on aspects of Acropora spp. status or ecology. Hobo TidbitÃÂÃÂ® or PendantÃÂÃÂ® loggers were secured to the substrate at a site and were programmed to record temperature every thirty minutes. In most cases loggers were exchanged every 3-4 months. Gaps in the data exist where loggers failed or were lost. Data collection began in 2003 and is ongoing at certain sites.  The time ranges vary at each site. Sites include reef tract and patch reef sites from as far north as Turtle Rocks to as far south as Little Conch Reef.

Tags: 0126994, 1091, 126994, 2003-2024, acropora demographic monitoring, atlantic ocean, bathymetry/seafloor topography, carysfort reef (25n080w0013), coastal waters of florida, conch reef (24n080w0011), continent, coral reef conservation program (crcp), coral reef studies, country/territory, doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei, doc/noaa/nesdis/nodc, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, earth science, elbow reef (25n080w0020), evaluation of esa listed acropora spp. status and recovery actions, fl laboratory, florida, florida keys, florida keys national marine sanctuary, florida reef tract, french reef (25n080w0022), grecian rocks (25n080w0019), key largo (25n080w0010), key largo dry rocks (25n080w0039), miami, molasses reef (25n080w0003), monroe county, national centers for environmental information, national marine fisheries service, national oceanographic data center, nesdis, nmfs, noaa, north america, north atlantic ocean, numeric data sets, ocean basin, ocean temperature, oceanography, oceans, pickles reef (24n080w0015), sand island (25n080w0036), southeast fisheries science center, tavernier (24n080w0006), temperature sensors, u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, upper florida keys, us doc, water depth, water temperature, white bank dry rocks (25n080w0021)
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Use of coral reefs by hawksbill turtles in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

Ongoing mark-recapture and satellite tagging are being conducted to understand how public use of reefs impacts hawksbill turtle habitat use and relative abundance

Tags: 2008-present, abundance, coral reefs, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, florida keys national marine sanctuary, habitat use, hawksbill turtles, miami turtles projects, national marine fisheries service, noaa, southeast fisheries science center, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
USVI Commercial Fishermen Census (2011):  This dataset contains demographic, fishing practices and fishing boat and gear data about the population of licensed commercial fishermen in the USVI in 2011 (CRCP)

Data contains information on demographics, fishing practices and vessel  gear characteristics of USVI commercial fishermen

Tags: doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, fishery-dependent, national marine fisheries service, noaa, southeast fisheries science center, u.s. department of commerce, us caribbean commercial fishermen censuses
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Survey of Participants in the Gulf of Mexico Grouper-Tilefish Individual Fishing Quota Program

Data includes qualitative responses regarding participant satisfaction with the IFQ, changes in fishing operations due to IFQ, hiring crew, and availability of shares and allocation. Quantitative information includes changes in capital due to the IFQ, changes in pay to labor and fair IFQ share/allocation prices. Social well-being and demographic information as well as attitudes toward program performance are also collected.

Tags: 2014-present, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, economic data, fishery-dependent, grouper tilefish ifq participant survey, gulf of mexico, national marine fisheries service, noaa, southeast fisheries science center, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Corpus Christi-East Matagorda Bay 1986

Patterns of habitat utilization were compared among transplanted and natural Spartina alterniflora marshes in the Halls Lake area of Chocolate Bay in the Galveston Bay estuary, and East Matagorda and Corpus Christi Bay systems along the lower Texas coast to test the null hypothesis that transplanted marshes along the Texas coast were equivalent to natural marshes.

Tags: 1986, abundance, atlantic ocean, chocolate bay, corpus christi bay, decapod crustaceans, distribution, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, east matagorda bay, fish, galveston fisheries ecology projects, gulf of america, gulf of mexico, national marine fisheries service, noaa, north atlantic ocean, ocean, salt marshes, southeast fisheries science center, texas, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Caribbean Sustainable Fisheries Communities Initiative (St. Croix): (CRCP)

This dataset contains demographic, fishing practices, crew information  about  Crucian fishermen as well as their perceptions about the performance of local MPAs and seasonal closures.

Tags: 2005, buck island reef national monument, caribbean, caribbean sustainable fishing communities initiative, commercial data, cost, demographic data, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, economic data, epinephelus guttatus, fishery-dependent, mpa, national marine fisheries service, noaa, puerto rico, recreational data, revenue, sociology data, southeast fisheries science center, u.s. department of commerce, virgin islands
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Marine Fisheries Initiative Program (MARFIN) Exploratory surveys for red snapper juveniles off Florida South Atlantic coast from 2012-07-31 to 2012-09-08 (NCEI Accession 0156976)

The data set contains information on locations sampled, gears used, and whether red snapper were observed.  If a red snapper was caught its total length was recorded.

Tags: 0156976, 156976, 2012, agricultural aquatic sciences, agriculture, atlantic ocean, beaufort, biological classification, biological data, coastal waters of florida, contracted commercial fishing vessels, doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei, doc/noaa/nesdis/nodc, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, earth science, finest kind, fish examination - length, fish examination individual, fisheries, fisheries biology and ecology, fishery survey - catch measurements - general, fishery survey - gear type - general individual, gear, national centers for environmental information, national marine fisheries service, national oceanographic data center, nc laboratory, nesdis, nmfs, noaa, north atlantic ocean, ocean, red snapper, reel deal, sea lover, southeast fisheries science center, trap, traps, u.s. department of commerce, us doc
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Captive sea turtle rearing inventory, feeding, and water chemistry in Galveston Lab rearing tanks

The database contains daily records of sea turtle inventories by species feeding rates type of food fed sick sea turtles sea turtles that have died log of tanks cleaned and any comments on sea turtles being watched for feeding abnormalities, bloating, or other behavioral issues.

Tags: 0156869, 156869, 1995-2015, ammonia, ammonium (nh4), animals/vertebrates, atlantic ocean, biological classification, caretta caretta, coastal waters of texas, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, earth science, feeding, galveston historical turtle projects, gulf of america, gulf of mexico, kemp's ridley, laboratory analysis, lepidochelys kempii, loggerhead, national marine fisheries service, nitrate, nitrite, noaa, north atlantic ocean, ocean, ocean chemistry, ocean salinity, ocean temperature, oceans, ph, reptiles, salinity, salinity/density, salinometer, sea turtle, sea turtles, southeast fisheries science center, temperature probes, turtles, u.s. department of commerce, water chemistry, water chemistry kit, water temperature
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Stomach content analysis of the Atlantic Sharpnose Shark from the Northeast Gulf of Mexico from 2000 to 2003 (NCEI Accession 0164788)

Atlantic sharpnose shark Rhizoprionodon terraenovae diet is described from Crooked Island Sound, an embayment of the northeast Gulf of Mexico.  Diet was assessed by life-stage and quantified using six indices: percent by number, percent by weight, frequency of occurrence, the index of relative importance (IRI), IRI expressed on a percent basis (IRI), and IRI based on prey category (IRIPC).  Young-of-the-year sharks (n56) fed on a mix of teleosts (mostly clupeids, 44.6 IRIPC) and invertebrates (combined, 25.1 IRIPC), juveniles (n185) on sciaenids (40.7 IRIPC) and clupeids (37.8 IRIPC), and adults (n105) on sciaenids (71.4 IRIPC).  Differences in diet by site and ontogeny were tested by comparing diet from Crooked Island Sound with published information from St. Vincent Island in Apalachicola Bay, an adjacent estuary.  Stomach contents were also used to expand on published prey size-predator size information.

Tags: 0164788, 164788, 2001-2003, animals - individual - stomach contents, atlantic ocean, atlantic sharpnose shark, biological, biological data, coastal waters of florida, coastal waters of gulf of mexico, crooked island sound, diet, doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei, doc/noaa/nesdis/nodc, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, elasmobranch, fish examination, fisheries, fishery-dependent, fl laboratory, gulf of america, gulf of mexico, in situ, laboratory analyses, measuring tape, national centers for environmental information, national marine fisheries service, national oceanographic data center, nesdis, nmfs, noaa, north atlantic ocean, ocean, oceanography, panama city, panlab metadata portfolio, predator size, prey size, rhizoprionodon terraenovae, scale, shark, sharks, southeast fisheries science center, st. vincent island, stomach contents - content weight, stomach contents - digestion, stomach contents - fullness, stomach contents - prey count, stomach contents - prey taxonomy, u.s. department of commerce, us doc
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Reef Visual Census (RVC) data.

Provide data on frequency of occurrence , density abundance, and length frequency of reef fish throughout Florida reef tract from 1978 forward.

Tags: 1978-present, abundance, benthic data, coastal waters of florida, distribution, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, environmental data, fisheries biology and ecology, fisheries-independent data, florida keys national marine sanctuary, gulf of mexico, habitats, national marine fisheries service, noaa, queryable data, reef fish, reefs, southeast fisheries science center, survey data, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Hydrocarbon Study 1995-1996

During September 1995 and May 1996, a total of 100 drop samples were taken in Upper Galveston Bay to assess potential oil spill damage to salt marsh habitats and fishery resources.  Few statistically significant negative relationships were found between animal density and hydrocarbon concentration.

Tags: 1.14 m diameter cylindrical drop sampler, 1995, 1996, abundance, atkinson island, benthic core, biomass sampling, brown shrimp, cedar bayou, cedar point, crabs, distribution, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, environmental data, estuarine dependent, farfantepenaeus aztecus, farfantepenaeus duorarum, fish, galveston bay, galveston fisheries ecology projects, goose creek, gulf of mexico, habitat characteristics, habitat recovery data, hog island, houston point, invertebrates, land/ocean exchanges, litopenaeus setiferus, macrofauna, national marine fisheries service, noaa, prey, salt marsh, shrimp, southeast fisheries science center, submerged aquatic vegetation, tabbs bay, texas, u.s. department of commerce, white shrimp
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
GSS Gulf of Mexico Data Atlas Brown Shrimp Datafile

Summarized data set of brown shrimp catch by grouped subarea and grouped depth from 2002 to 2011.

Tags: alabama, brown shrimp, catch, data atlas, depth, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, farfantepenaeus aztecus, fathom contours, fishdep, fisheries, fishery-dependent, florida, gss gulf of mexico data atlas datafiles, gulf of mexico, louisiana, mississippi, national marine fisheries service, noaa, pounds, southeast fisheries science center, species, stat area, texas, u.s. department of commerce, us eez, year
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Tuna Genetics Mapping

These samples are collected in order to gain a better understanding of the biological and ecological aspects of this group of fish in this area.  It will be used to compare with similar species in other areas of the world.

Tags: blackfin, date, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, fishery-dependent, fork length, muscle, national marine fisheries service, noaa, sex, skipjack, southeast fisheries science center, tuna, tuna genetics mapping, u.s. department of commerce, wahoo, weight, yellowfin
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
CRCP-Acropora palmata fragment outplants: evaluating the performance in the Upper Florida Keys from 2014 to 2016

Much progress has been made in the last decade in the propagation of Acropora spp. corals for restoration.  Since 2008, much effort in Florida and US Caribbean territories has focused on field nursery propagation of staghorn coral (A. cervicornis) and developing science and policy to advance the use of this material in restoring reef populations.  Much less culture and virtually no planning/outplanting effort has so far been directed toward elkhorn coral (A. palmata ), though its habitat distribution, growth form, and genetic structure are markedly distinct from its congener Two separate experiments conducted in collaboration with Coral Restoration Foundation (non-governmental organization) to test aspects of performance for nursery-cultured, outplanted fragments of elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata.  The first experiment tests for differences in performance between two sizes of outplant fragments, controlling for a single genet and across three fore-reef sites.  The second, two-factor experiment compares the performance of four separate genets in two habitat types (fore-reef versus nearshore patch reefs).  Data includes repeated surveys of fragment size (for growth) and condition (e.g., snail predation, bleaching, partial mortality) over a couple of years

Tags: 0161630, 1091, 161630, acropora demographic monitoring, acropora palmata, atlantic ocean, biosphere, bleaching, coastal processes, coastal waters of florida, coral bleaching, coral diseases, coral genotyping, coral reef conservation program (crcp), coral reef ecology, coral reef studies, coral reefs, corals, country/territory, disease earth science, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, earth science, esa, florida, florida reef tract, genetic data sets, genotyping, geographic information, molecular genetic analysis, monroe county (24n081w0020), national marine fisheries service, nmfs, noaa, north atlantic ocean, ocean, ocean basin, oceans, recovery, reef monitoring and assessment, restocking, restoration, southeast fisheries science center, title: evaluation of esa listed acropora spp. status and recovery actions, u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, upper florida keys, upper florida keys (24n080w0018), us doc, visual observation, visual observations, zoology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Summary of seawater chemistry taken from the beach pump intakes

The NOAA Galveston Laboratory operates an offshore sewater line which extends into the Gulf of Mexico.  The seawater intake lines are composed of perforated well screen material which is buried in the sandbars offshore.  Natural seawater is drawn through the sandbars, then through the well screen material and deposited on land and held in large fiberglass reinforced plastic storage tanks until it is needed.  The process of drawing the seawater through the sandbars results in varying quality of seawater depending on from which sediments the seawater is drawn through.  Short [300-400'] shallow seawater lines tend to be located in active surf areas where the sand bars are dynamic, and result in good seawater from aerobic sediments.  However, the longer [900'] deeper seawater intake lines are outside the surf zone and are drawing seawater through stagnant, oxygen depleted anoxic sediments.  In order to develop methods for treating and eventually utilizing the seawater from the deeper longer lines, a long-term water quality monitoring program was initiated to compare the seawater in the short shallow seawater line and the deeper, longer, sea water lines."


The database contains recorded parameters of seawater quality from samples taken in sea turtle rearing tanks and also a daily sample of the incoming seawater from the Gulf of Mexico.

Tags: 0157625, 157625, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, atlantic ocean, coastal waters of texas, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, earth science, galveston historical turtle projects, gulf of america, gulf of mexico, national marine fisheries service, nitrate, noaa, north atlantic ocean, ocean, ocean chemistry, oceans, ph, salinity/density, southeast fisheries science center, u.s. department of commerce, water chemistry, ysi - handheld multi-parameter instrument
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
AFSC/RACE/GAP/McConnaughey: Fishpac Projects-2009-Video

The broad scope of the Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) mandate requires an efficient process for describing and mapping the habitat needs of federally managed species.  For example, research indicates surficial sediments affect the distribution and abundance of many groundfish species, yet traditional sampling with grabs and cores is impractical over areas as large as the Bering Sea shelf.  Acoustic tools are suitable for large-scale surveying and show great promise as a substitute for direct-sampling methods, but they have not been proven useful for EFH purposes.

Tags: acoustic sediment classification, afsc/race/gap/mcconnaughey: fishpac projects-2009, alaska fisheries science center, bering sea, doc/noaa/nmfs/afsc, grain size analysis, habitat mapping, multibeam echosounder, national marine fisheries service, noaa, side scan sonar, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
NPRB 1117 Cooperative research to develop new trawl footrope designs to reduce mortality of southern Tanner and snow crabs (Chionoecetes bairdi and C. opilio) incidental to Bering Sea bottom trawl fisheries

Alaskaâs Bering Sea is home to some of the worldâs most productive groundfish and crab stocks and the fisheries that depend on them. Their spatial overlap creates problems when bottom trawls affect crabs in their paths, either through capture and discard or damage to crabs that remain on the seafloor. We worked with Bering Sea bottom trawlers to develop and test changes to trawl footropes to minimize crab mortality, by reducing damage to crabs that are not caught, and maintaining low crab capture rates. A previous NPRB project (0711) showed that crab mortality from herding cables ahead of trawls could be greatly reduced with simple modifications to raise them above the seafloor. This project did the same for trawl footropes, the part of the trawl located between the leading edge of the trawl net and the seafloor.  Such gear changes allow crab mortality to be reduced without restricting trawling to the few areas of the Bering Sea without crabs.

Tags: afsc/race/mace: reducing trawl impacts to benthic habitat and invertebrates, alaska fisheries science center, doc/noaa/nmfs/afsc, mortality, national marine fisheries service, noaa, snow crab, tanner crab, trawl, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
AFSC/NMML/CCEP: Hookworm Intensity of Infection in California sea lion and Northern Fur Seal Pups in California, 1996 through 2008

There are various causes of mortality for California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) and northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) pups. This dataset contains information pertaining to pup mortality caused by hookworm disease. Data are counts of hookworms by sex in intestines of dead California sea lion and northern fur seal pups collected at haulouts/rookeries in California.

Tags: alaska fisheries science center, california, california current ecosystems program, california sea lion, disease, doc/noaa/nmfs/afsc, hookworms, infection intensity, infection prevalence, national marine fisheries service, noaa, northern fur seal, san miguel island, u.s. department of commerce, uncineria spp.
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Alaska Steller Sea Lion Pup Count Database

This database contains counts of Steller sea lion pups on rookeries in Alaska made between 1961 and 2019.  Pup counts are conducted in June-July.  Pups are counted from the ground (by walking along the rookery), from cliff-side overlooks, and from aerial images (vertical orientation).  Pup counts conducted in late June-mid July are considered to represent a complete census of pups produced at each site during the year.

Tags: alaska, alaska ecosystems program, alaska fisheries science center, aleutian islands, bering sea, doc/noaa/nmfs/afsc, eumetopias jubatus, gulf of alaska, national marine fisheries service, noaa, north pacific ocean, ocean, otariid, pacific ocean, pinniped, population, steller sea lion, summer, survey, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
AFSC/ABL: Southeast and Prince William Sound, Alaska Herring Microsatellite data, 2007-2008

Herring is one of the most energy-rich fish in the Alaskan ecosystem, and when populations struggle over time, such as the Lynn Canal population, there is management concern.  Prior to 1983, Lynn Canal herring supported a productive sac roe fishery, a bait fishery, and a winter food and bait fishery.  All commercial fisheries were closed in 1983 and remain so today.  The purpose of this study was to examine the genetic structure of Lynn Canal herring and determine if it was discrete from other collections in southeast Alaska.  We used microsatellite DNA to examine both spawning and non-spawning aggregates (collected in two consecutive years) in Lynn Canal, and compared them to two Southeast Alaska populations:  Prince of Wales Island (southernmost waters) and Sitka Sound on Baranof Island (outer-coast).  In addition we examined two collections from Prince William Sound (approx. 850 km NW) as a means to compare extent of divergence over large tracts of unsuitable spawning habitat.  Because the geographic location of Lynn Canal is somewhat isolated and schools are known to over-winter in the area, we hypothesized that Lynn Canal herring experience reduced gene flow.  The results of our study showed allele frequencies from 16 loci were highly similar across all collections, including the distant Prince William Sound.  This investigation concurs with previous studies that there is a large amount of movement among herring in the Gulf of Alaska.  We conclude that Lynn Canal herring are part of a meta-population that is possibly Gulf  wide or larger.

Tags: alaska, alaska fisheries science center, auke bay laboratories, doc/noaa/nmfs/afsc, national marine fisheries service, noaa, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce