AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Benthic Complexity and Urchin Abundance at Climate Stations of the Mariana Archipelago since 2014

The benthic complexity and urchin abundance monitoring effort provides baselines for tracking these variables at NCRMP climate stations. Climate stations are 3-4 sites per island that were selected in a stratified random fashion to be roughly equally spaced around the island, along the 15 m contour, on hard bottom, and at least 1 km away from a river mouth or embayment. Once selected we assess multiple features of the coral reef environment including in-situ temperature (STR), seawater carbonate, net carbonate accretion (CAU), bioerosion (BMU), and cryptobiota diversity (ARMS).

Structural complexity is known to be an important component in coral reef ecosystems. Ecosystem relationships that correlate with structural complexity include reef fish density and biomass, live and branching coral cover, urchin abundance and algal cover (Graham and Nash 2013). In many cases, the benthic complexity is an important indicator of benthic and fish communities.

The data were collected around the Mariana archipelago as part of the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) led missions since 2014. These data can be accessed online via the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Ocean Archive.

Tags: 743, aquatic habitat, asuncion island, asuncion island (19n145e0001), benthic, biosphere, cnmi, coastal processes, commonwealth of the northern mariana islands, coral reef conservation program, coral reef ecology, coral reef ecosystem division, coral reef ecosystem program, coral reef studies, coral reefs, corals, country/territory, cred, crep, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, earth science, ecosystem sciences division, guam, guam (13n144e0000), hi'ialakai, macroinvertebrates, mariana archipelago, marianas, marianas archipelago, marianas trench marine national monument, marine biology, marine invertebrates, maug, maug island, maug island (20n145e0001), national coral reef monitoring program, national marine fisheries service, nmfs, noaa, northern mariana islands, northern mariana islands ( cnmi ) (18n146e0000), numeric data sets, nw pacific (limit-180), ocean basin, oceans, pacific islands fisheries science center, pacific ocean, pagan, pagan island, pagan island (18n145e0001), pifsc, reef habitat, reef monitoring and assessment, rota, rota island, rota island ( luta ) (14n145e0007), rugosity, saipan, saipan island, saipan island (15n145e0002), survey, survey - biological, survey - swimmer/diver, tinian, tinian island (14n145e0005), tinian island reefs, triennial, u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, us doc, visual estimate, western pacific ocean, zoology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Nearshore Benthic Habitats of Timor-Leste Derived from WorldView-2 Satellite Imagery

Benthic habitat classes were derived for nearshore waters (< 20 m depths) around Timor-Leste from DigitalGlobe WorldView-2 satellite imagery, acquired from February 9, 2010 to December 14, 2013, by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP). Habitat classes include soft (sand or mud) and hard (rubble, boulders, etc.) substrates by depth (shallow, mid and deep); seagrass, mangrove, and macroalgae dominated areas; intertidal zones; lagoons;  and emergent rocks. Supervised classifications were performed using several different methods (maximum likelihood, and minimum distance) with imagery at several different stages of processing (deglinted, radiance, reflectance and deglinted, depth invariant, sieve, and clump), with final classification based on the classification method and imagery variant that provided the  best overall results for each WorldView-2 image.

Tags: aquatic habitat, atauro, base map, bathymetry/seafloor topography, baucau, benthic, benthic habitat, biosphere, bobonaro, coastal habitat, coastal processes, coral reef ecology, coral reef ecosystem division, coral reef ecosystem program, coral reef studies, coral reefs, coral triangle initiative, corals, country/territory, cred, crep, democratic republic of timor-leste (east timor) (09s126e0001), derived products, dili, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, earth science, ecosystem sciences division, fleshy macroalgae, geographic information, geomorphology mapping, gis, gis product, habitat - benthic, habitat mapping, habitats, hard seafloor substrate, indian ocean, jaco, lagoons, lautem, liquica, manatuto, mangroves, manufahi, mapping, marine algae, marine biology, marine plants, national marine fisheries service, nmfs, noaa, ocean basin, oceans, oecusse, pacific islands fisheries science center, pifsc, reef habitat, reef monitoring and assessment, remote sensing, satellite (digital scans), seagrass, soft seafloor substrate, substrate, substrate description, timor, timor leste, timor sea, timor-leste, u.s. department of commerce, united states agency for international development, us doc, usaid, vegetation, vila mpa, worldview-2, zoology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
OW QuikSCAT Wind Speed, Stress and Stress Curl

The dataset contains satellite-derived ocean wind speed, stress and stress curl measurements collected by means of the NASA/JPL SeaWinds Scatterometer sensor. The data is collected daily, and is available at 3-day, weekly and monthly intervals at a spatial resolution of approximately 0.5 degrees. The geographic coverage extends globally, and the temporal coverage ranges from 1999-2009.

Tags: curl, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, global, monthly, national marine fisheries service, noaa, ocean wind, ow, pacific islands fisheries science center, pifsc, pifsc oceanwatch (ow) metadata portfolio, quikscat, remote sensing, satellite, seawinds, speed, stress, u.s. department of commerce, weekly
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
PARR LEGACY - SOD SeaBed AUV

Accurate and precise stock assessments are predicated on accurate and precise estimates of life history parameters, abundance, and catch across the range of the stock. NOAA Fisheries is increasingly looking to advanced fishery-independent survey methods to estimate stock abundance and many authors have highlighted the continued need for development of non-intrusive methods that can be used in areas both open and closed to fishing, as well as for stocks where extractive sampling may remove a significant portion of the yearly quota. While it is commonly agreed that a combination of survey methods is preferable to any single method, in order to be used effectively and efficiently, such methods must be quantitatively evaluated and compared. The development of adequate calibration factors allows pooling of data from disparate methods to generate robust metrics of abundance. In this study, we quantitatively compare a suite of autonomous optical, acoustic, and cooperative research fishery-independent sampling methods for estimating species-specific size-structured abundance for six snapper species and one grouper species, which comprise the major insular commercial fishery in the Main Hawaiian Islands  (known as the Deep 7 bottomfish complex). This comparison serves as the basis for an operational, fishery-independent survey for stock assessment in the Main Hawaiian Islands.

Tags: advanced technology, auv, deep-7 bottomfish, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, fishery-independent, kahoolawe, lanai, legacy data set, main hawaiian islands, maui, national marine fisheries service, noaa, pacific islands fisheries science center, pifsc, pifsc science operations (sci ops) division metadata portfolio, seabed auv, sod, stereo-video, stock assessment, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Cost Earnings Survey of NWHI Bottomfish Fleets (2003)

During May-August 2004, face-to-face interviews with owners and/or captains of all NWHI bottomfish vessels were conducted to collect primary information on costs of fishing operations in 2003.  Information on physical characteristics of the vessels, motivation of fishermen, and other topics was also collected.  Follow-up interviews were conducted in September 2004 and March-April 2005 to collect data missed during the first interviews.  M. Pan and A. Griesemer conducted the project.

Tags: 2003, annual, bottomfish fishery, cost earnings nwhi bottomfish surveys, cost-earnings, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, economics, hawaii, hawaiian archipelago, legacy data set, national marine fisheries service, noaa, northwestern hawaiian islands, pacific islands fisheries science center, pacific ocean, pifsc, socioeconomics, trip, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Cost Earnings Data 2000 - Hawaii Longline

Between March 2001 and January 2002, available Hawaii pelagic longline vessel owners and/or operators were interviewed at Kewalo Basin and Honolulu Harbor to obtain cost and revenue information to support a cost-earnings analysis of this fleet. Any permitted Hawaii longline vessel that fished in 2000 and was in port during the interview period was approached. Survey questions focused on variable costs (costs incurred when the vessel actively fished) and fixed costs (costs incurred regardless of the number of trips the vessel took) as well as vessel characteristics, demographics, fishermen's comments, and the economic effects of recent management changes because of protected species issues. Operational and vessel costs were collected by personal interview with vessel owners, captains and crew. Revenue information was obtained from the Hawaii Department of Aquatic Resources commercial catch reports. In additon, commercial fishing industry members were also interviewed and provided pertinent ancillary information on the longline fleet. J. M. O'Malley and S.G. Pooley conducted this data collection.

Tags: 2000, annual, cost earnings data - longline (american samoa and hawaii), cost-earnings, distant waters (outside eez), doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, economics, eez, hawaii, hawaii longline fishery, hawaiian archipelago, legacy data set, national marine fisheries service, noaa, oceanic, pacific islands fisheries science center, pacific ocean, pifsc, socioeconomics, swordfish fishery, trip, tuna fishery, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
OW NASA Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity

The dataset contains satellite-derived sea-surface salinity measurements collected by means of the Aquarius sensor onboard the NASA/CONAE SAC-D satellite. The data is available at weekly and monthly intervals at a spatial resolution of 1 degrees. The geographic coverage extends globally, and the temporal coverage ranges from 2011-2015.

Tags: aquarius, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, global, monthly, nasa, national marine fisheries service, noaa, ow, pacific islands fisheries science center, pifsc, pifsc oceanwatch (ow) metadata portfolio, remote sensing, salinity, satellite, u.s. department of commerce, weekly
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Bottomfish Fishery-Independent Survey in Hawaii (BFISH) - Experimental Camera Surveys (2011-2015)

Accurate and precise stock assessments are predicated on accurate and precise estimates of life history parameters, abundance, and catch across the range of the stock. In its continued efforts to improve the data used in stock assessments, the NOAA Pacific islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) implemented a Bottomfish Fishery-Independent Survey in Hawaii (BFISH) in 2016. The BFISH survey utilizes two gear types, Cooperative Research hook-and-line fishing operations (CRF) and the Modular Optical Underwater Survey System (MOUSS). Survey sampling is conducted annually, typically in the fall, surrounding the Main Hawaiian Islands (MHI), in accordance with a stratified-random sampling design. Under this design, the waters surrounding the MHI are gridded at 500 meter resolution. Each grid is given attributes of depth, slope, and seafloor hardness. Depth categories are Shallow (75-200 meters), Medium (200-300 meters) and Deep (300-400 meters). Slope categories are Low slope (0-10 degrees) and High (10-90 degrees). Seafloor categories are Hardbottom and Softbottom. Annual survey data are processed to produce relative and absolute abundance and biomass estimates for the Stock Assessment for the Main Hawaiian Islands Deep 7 Bottomfish Complex.

This dataset contains information from BotCam deployments conducted during the 2011-2015 methods comparison study, which led to the operation BFISH survey.

Tags: advanced technology, bottomfish, bottomfish fishery-independent survey in hawaii (bfish) - experimental surveys (2011-2015), deep7, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, fisheries, fishery-independent, kahoolawe, lanai, main hawaiian islands, maui, molokai, national marine fisheries service, noaa, oahu, pacific islands fisheries science center, stereo-video, stock assessment, survey, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Shallow Water Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) Profiles along a water quality gradient in Aua, American Samoa from 2022-09-13 to 2022-09-23

This metadata record describes the data collected from near-shore shallow water Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) casts conducted in Aua Reef, American Samoa, by scientists of the Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) of the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) from September 13 - 23, 2022. For this fly-in mission (MP2206), the NOAA Fisheries, Ecosystem Sciences Division established 18 survey sites along the water quality gradient near land-based source pollution. This is part of a larger collection of datasets collected as part of the CRCP-funded project 'Linking watershed management activities to reef health in American Samoa' (Project #31303).

The CTD casts provide vertical profiles (5-m max depth, downcast only) of water column conductivity, temperature, and pressure (Sea-Bird Electronics, SBE19-plus), with calculated depth, salinity, and water density.

The CTD cast was conducted by snorkel. The CTD soaked at the surface for 1 minute to cycle water through the instrument and tubing. Afterward, data were collected by lowering the CTD in profiling mode at an even pace (descent rate ~0.5 to 0.75 meters per second) to a maximum depth of 5 m.

Tags: 31303, american samoa, american samoa (14s170w0000), amsm, aquatic habitat, biosphere, central pacific ocean, chartered vessel, climate change, coastal processes, conductivity, conductivity profiles, coral reef, coral reef conservation program, coral reef ecosystem division, coral reef ecosystem program, coral reef studies, coral reefs, corals, country/territory, cred, crep, ctd, density, depth, depth - sensor, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc/esd, earth science, ecosystem sciences division, ecosystems, esd, in situ, in situ physical, land-based source pollution, lbsp, linking watershed management activities to reef health in american samoa, marine ecosystems, national marine fisheries service, nmfs, noaa, numeric data sets, ocean, ocean basin, ocean pressure, ocean salinity, ocean salinity profiles, ocean temperature, oceanography, oceans, pacific islands fisheries science center, pacific ocean, physical, pifsc, pressure - water [hydrostatic pressure], profile, reef, reef habitat, reef monitoring and assessment, salinity, salinity/density, sea level pressure, sigma-t, south pacific ocean, temperature, tutuila island (14s170w0016), u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, us doc, water temperature, zoology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
OW NOAA GOES Sea-Surface Temperature

The dataset contains satellite-derived sea-surface temperature measurements collected by means of the Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellite. The data is collected daily, and is available at 2-day intervals at a spatial resolution of 0.05 degrees. The geographic coverage extends for the Pacific region,and the temporal coverage ranges from 2001-present.

Tags: 2-day, daily, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, goes, monthly, national marine fisheries service, noaa, ow, pacific basin, pacific islands fisheries science center, pifsc, pifsc oceanwatch (ow) metadata portfolio, remote sensing, satellite, sea surface temperature, sst, u.s. department of commerce, weekly
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Longnose Lancetfish Data Set

The data described here include prey item identifications and specifications from dissected stomachs of longnose lancetfish, as part of NOAA's ongoing Lancetfish diet study. These data were gathered around the North Pacific from 2014 through 2025. These data are part of NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD), Pelagic Research Program (PRP). These lancetfish stomachs were collected from Pacific Islands Regional Office (PIRO) observers aboard longline vessels and prey data were recorded by employees in the labs at PIFSC.

Tags: alepisaurus ferox, biosphere, central pacific ocean, continent, date, digestion state, discrete sample, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, earth science, ecological dynamics, ecosystems, fish, fish species, fullness coefficient, hawaii, hawaiian islands, laboratory analysis, long-term assessment of nekton composition and ecotrophic flow in a subtropical habitat, marine biology, marine ecosystems, national marine fisheries service, noaa, north america, north pacific ocean, ocean, oceanic zone, oceans, pacific islands fisheries science center, pacific ocean, pelagic, physical, prey count, prey identification, prey weight, profile, sample identification, species identification- organism length, trip and set identifier, u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, visual observation
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Including Human Well-Being in Resource Management with Cultural Ecosystem Services

This dataset includes qualitative interview data aggregated and entered into an excel csv file. We conducted 31 semi-structured interviews with West HawaiÊ»i community members involved in coastal and marine conservation, in a paid or unpaid manner. Interviews were conducted between April 2018 and March 2019. We used a mixture of key informant, purposive, and snowball sampling. A total of 10 interviewees were currently in or retired from a state or federal resource management position. A total of 7 interviewees worked for non-governmental resource management organizations. A total of 9 interviewees worked for a private sector company that has a large focus on ocean conservation. A total of 12 interviewees are a member of an organization/network focused on place-based marine conservation in West Hawaiâi. Interviews asked questions about human well-being, cultural ecosystem services, changes to the marine environment, and how these changes impact them. Interviews were coded into a coding structure that has 30 level one codes, 47 level two codes, 100 level three codes, 44 level four codes, and 1 level five code. One of the 30 level one codes included, âwell-being,â under which the domains of human well-being listed in previous literature [Leong et al. (2019)] became sub-codes. âWell-beingâ also included the sub-code âCES,â which included all CES and their associated sub-codes.

Tags: community-based research, cultural ecosystem services, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, human dimensions, human well-being, indicators, integrated ecosystem assessment, national marine fisheries service, noaa, pacific islands fisheries science center, pifsc socioeconomics program: human dimensions research metadata portfolio, place-based research, qualitative methods, socioeconomics, u.s. department of commerce, west hawaii
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Cryptobiota metabarcoding using Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure (ARMS) Deployed at Coral Reef Sites across Timor Leste from 2012 to 2014

The data described here includes cytochrome oxidase I (COI) DNA metabarcoding data collected from Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS). ARMS were deployed by the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), Ecosystem Sciences Division (formerly the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division) in Timor Leste under USAID Timor Leste. Developed in collaboration with the Census of Marine Life (CoML) Census of Coral Reef Ecosystems (CReefs), ARMS were designed to mimic the structural complexity of a reef and attract/collect colonizing marine invertebrates. The key innovation of the ARMS method is that biodiversity is sampled over precisely the same surface area in the exact same manner.

These data were gathered at specific reef sites across Timor-Leste.  ARMS units were set-up, deployed and recovered as described in the ARMS record in the related items section below. After ARMS were disassembled, different size fractions of samples and plate scrapings were preserved in ethanol for metabarcoding.

Tags: aquatic habitat, arms, atauro, autonomous reef monitoring structure, autonomous reef monitoring structure (arms), autonomous reef monitoring structures, baseline studies, baucau, biodiversity, biological, biosphere, bobonaro, census, census of marine life, coastal processes, coral reef ecology, coral reef ecosystem division, coral reef ecosystem program, coral reef studies, coral reefs, coral triangle initiative, corals, country/territory, cred, creef, crep, cryptobiota, cytochrome oxidase i, democratic republic of timor-leste (east timor) (09s126e0001), dili, dna/rna sequencing, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, earth science, ecosystem sciences division, environmental dna, imagery, images, in situ biological, indian ocean, laboratory analysis, lautem, macroinvertebrates, manatuto, marine biology, marine invertebrates, metabarcoding, ministry of agriculture and fisheries of timor-leste, national marine fisheries service, nmfs, noaa, ocean basin, oceans, pacific islands fisheries science center, pifsc, reef habitat, reef monitoring and assessment, species identification, species identification - count, timor sea, timor-leste, u.s. department of commerce, united states agency for international development, us doc, usaid, vila mpa, zoology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
HMSRP Hawaiian Monk Seal Microsatellite Genotypes

Currently ~2,400 Hawaiian monk seal specimens have been analyzed genetically, providing genotypes at 18 microsatellite loci. These data are organized by individual, identified by the Seal ID number. An additional dataset is being generated that will expand these genotypes by another 30 loci.

Tags: dna, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, hawaiian islands, hawaiian monk seal, health and disease program, hmsrp hawaiian monk seal health and disease metadata portfolio, microsatellite, msrp, national marine fisheries service, noaa, pacific islands fisheries science center, pifsc, protected species, psd, seal id, specimen number, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
OW NASA SeaWIFS Ocean Color

The dataset contains satellite-derived sea-surface ocean color (chlorophyll-a) measurements collected by means of the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) onboard the NASA SeaStar satellite. The data is available at weekly and monthly intervals at a spatial resolution of 0.1 degrees. The geographic coverage extends globally, and the temporal coverage ranges from 1997-present.

Tags: chlorophyll, doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc, global, monthly, nasa, national marine fisheries service, noaa, ocean color, ow, pacific islands fisheries science center, pifsc, pifsc oceanwatch (ow) metadata portfolio, remote sensing, satellite, seawifs, u.s. department of commerce, weekly
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce