AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Groundfish Survey Invertebrate Data

The Irish Groundfish Surveys is part of an annual International Bottom Trawl Survey (IBTS) programme co-ordinated by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES).  The survey is carried out over 47 days between October-December each year by the Marine Institute and collects demersal trawl and ancillary data in Irish waters to produce relative abundance indices for fisheries management in the Northwest Atlantic Shelf waters.     In addition to the commercially exploited fish, elasmobranch, cephalopod and crustacean species, and an amount of macroinvertebrate species are also caught. These are sampled in a similar way to the groundfish, identified by species (or higher taxa where not practical to ID at sea), and total weight as well as counts are recorded where possible. An internal review of this data was undertaken in 2019 to check for spatial and temporal consistency in abundance and taxonomy with the standardised data set being made available here.

Tags: environment
Organization: Marine Institute
CE18018 - Irish Groundfish Survey (IGFS) 2018 Leg II_IV - pCO2 data

pCO2 is the partial pressure of CO2 in a liquid or gas. In oceanography, it is used to investigate carbon dioxide (CO2) dissolved in the surface layers of the ocean in order to better understand changes in ocean carbon chemistry and ocean acidification due to enhanced atmospheric CO2.    The RV Celtic Explorer has a pCO2 Underway System. pCO2 data was collected during the CE18018 (Irish Groundfish Survey legs 2 to 4) survey on board the RV Celtic Explorer in November-December 2018 by the Marine Institute (MI) in the North East Atlantic Ocean.

Tags: environment
Organization: Marine Institute
CE18017 - Irish Groundfish Survey - pCO2 data

pCO2 is the partial pressure of CO2 in a liquid or gas. In oceanography, it is used to investigate carbon dioxide (CO2) dissolved in the surface layers of the ocean in order to better understand changes in ocean carbon chemistry and ocean acidification due to enhanced atmospheric CO2.    The RV Celtic Explorer has a pCO2 Underway System. pCO2 data was collected during the CE18017  (Irish Groundfish Survey) survey on board the RV Celtic Explorer in October/November 2018 by the Marine Institute (MI) in the North East Atlantic Ocean.

Tags: environment
Organization: Marine Institute
CE19005 - Blue whiting acoustic survey - pCO2 data

pCO2 is the partial pressure of CO2 in a liquid or gas. In oceanography, it is used to investigate carbon dioxide (CO2) dissolved in the surface layers of the ocean in order to better understand changes in ocean carbon chemistry and ocean acidification due to enhanced atmospheric CO2.    The RV Celtic Explorer has a pCO2 Underway System. pCO2 data was collected during the 2019 CE19005 Blue whiting acoustic survey  on board the RV Celtic Explorer in March/April 2019 by the Marine Institute (MI) in the North East Atlantic Ocean.

Tags: environment
Organization: Marine Institute
Groundfish Surveys

The Irish Groundfish Survey forms part of the International Bottom Trawl Survey (IBTS) programme, an international survey effort coordinated by ICES (the International Council of the Exploration of the Sea). Over 42 days in the Autumn/Winter each year the survey collects demersal trawl and ancillary data in Irish waters to produce relative abundance indices for fisheries management.     The Irish Groundfish Survey (IGFS) in its current form commenced in 2003 on the 65m research vessel, the R.V. Celtic Explorer. In Irish waters currently, France and Ireland cover the Celtic Sea area, Ireland covers the shelf West of Ireland, Ireland and the UK Scotland cover the north coast of Ireland and the UK Northern Ireland covers the Irish Sea.

Tags: environment
Organization: Marine Institute
CoClime - Abundance of phytoplankton (Alexandrium species), Southwest Ireland - future prediction (2017 - 2035)

This is the output of GBM (Gradient Boosting Model) analyses of Alexandrium abundance data done by MI OCIS and CoCliME project. This output dataset shows abundance of Alexandrium in the future (2017 - 2035) in SW Ireland. The analyses was performed in R 3.6.3, with the packages tidyverse 1.3.0  for data handling and visualisation, and xgboost 1.2.0.1 for boosted regression analyses. The dataset used for analyses is available on MI data catalogue (http://data.marine.ie/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/ie.marine.data:dataset.4445) and the dataset used for prediction is requested to be included in MI data catalogue ([20]. CDF-t Climate run (Climate_run_corr.rds)  in CoCliME model SOP). This dataset is used to visualise the prediction on R Shiny application for present period (https://marine-institute-ireland.shinyapps.io/Alexandrium_abundance/).   

Suggested Citation: Yamanaka, Tsuyuko; Cusack, Caroline; Nolan, Glenn; Clarke, Dave. (2022) CoClime - Abundance of phytoplankton (Alexandrium species), Southwest Ireland - future prediction (2017 - 2035). Marine Institute, Ireland. doi:10/hvtb.

Tags: environment
Organization: Marine Institute
CE17008 - Exploiting and Conserving Deep-Sea Genetic Resources: SFI cruise I - pCO2 data

pCO2 is the partial pressure of CO2 in a liquid or gas. In oceanography, it is used to investigate carbon dioxide (CO2) dissolved in the surface layers of the ocean in order to better understand changes in ocean carbon chemistry and ocean acidification due to enhanced atmospheric CO2.    The RV Celtic Explorer has a pCO2 Underway System. pCO2 data was collected as part of the CE18012 exploiting and conserving deep-sea genetic resources survey on board the RV Celtic Explorer in May/June 2017.

Tags: environment
Organization: Marine Institute
Benthic Broad Habitat Type

Multibeam echosounder data and seabed sampling data acquired during the INFOMAR and INSS national seabed mapping programmes are the primary sources of data used in the generation of this collated seabed classification/marine habitats layer. Areas where there is no multibeam data have either been filled by EUSeaMap (predictive broadscale habitat map) or have been left as unclassified. The original classes assigned to the data were translated to a modified Folk class to facilitate reclassification of the data to both EUNIS and MSFD Benthic Broad Habitat Type classification systems. Additional information on biological zones from the EMODnet Seabed Habitats project were used to translate the data to EUNIS. Quantifying MSFD Habitats types in Irish Waters specifically for MSFD Descriptor 6 Assessments of seafloor integrity.

Tags: environment
Organization: Marine Institute
Atlas of Commercial Fisheries around Ireland, third edition

# SUPERSEDED - The version has been superseded. And a new edition is now available under the Atlas of Commercial Fisheries around Ireland, fourth edition, 2024.
This atlas provides a series of detailed maps of commercial fishing activity around Ireland with the aim of providing insights into fishing activities and fisheries resources. The atlas contains maps of:
 Fishing effort by vessels of all nationalities by gear type inside the Irish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ);
 Fishing effort by Irish vessels gear type in all areas where it takes place for each;
 Landings taken by Irish vessels for the main commercially exploited species.
The atlas is the third of its kind and is based on data from fishing vessels of =12m in length over the period 2014-2018.
The vessel monitoring and logbook data that form the basis of the maps were collected under Council Regulation (EC) No. 1224/2009 and were aggregated and processed by the Marine Institute.

   

Suggested Citation: Gerritsen, Hans; Kelly, Eoghan. (2019) Atlas of Commercial Fisheries around Ireland, third edition. Marine Institute, Ireland. doi:10/dhz3.

Tags: environment
Organization: Marine Institute
Biological, behavioural and genetic data of brown trout (Salmo trutta) in lacustrine, lake-inflow and lake-outflow habitats

This dataset includes data files and script files for analysing population genetic structure, gene flow, lake growth rates and putative reproductive migratory behaviour of brown trout between lake habitat and both inflowing and outflowing spawning streams. The lake in question is Bunaveela Lough in the North of the Burrishoole catchment. The inflowing stream is the Fiddaunveela and the outflowing stream is the Goulaun. Genetic data generally include 14 microsatellite loci. Temperature data are in C. Fish lengths are in mm and distances are in m.   

Suggested Citation: Finlay, Ross; McGinnity, Philip; Coughlan, Jamie; Kaufmann, Joshka; de Eyto, Elvira; Dillane, Mary; Poole, Russell; Rogan, Ger. (2019) Biological, behavioural and genetic data of brown trout (Salmo trutta) in lacustrine, lake-inflow and lake-outflow habitats. Marine Institute, Ireland. doi:10/df6b.

Tags: environment
Organization: University College Cork
Offshore Fishery Effort by Gear Type

This dataset shows the distribution of fishing effort by fishing vessels according to the gear type used.  Fishing effort is defined as the time spent engaged in fishing operations or time spent at sea, this time may be multiplied by a measure of fishing capacity, e.g. engine power.  In this dataset fishing effort is measured as average hours spent actively fishing per kilometre square, per year. Data from years 2014 to 2018 was used to produce this data product for the Marine Institute publication the “Atlas of Commercial Fisheries around Ireland, third edition“ (https://oar.marine.ie/handle/10793/1432).    Effort for offshore fisheries is based on the following 2 primary data types - data on vessel positioning and data on gear types used:  Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS) supplied by the Irish Naval Service provide geographical position and speed of vessel at intervals of two hours or less (Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2244/2003). The data are available for all EU vessels of 12m and larger, operating inside the Irish EEZ; outside this zone only Irish VMS data are routinely available. VMS do not record whether a vessel is fishing, steaming or inactive.    Logbooks collected by the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority and supplied by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine were the primary data source for information on landings and gear types used by Irish vessels. EU Fleet Register obtained from the EU fleet register (http://ec.europa.eu/fisheries/fleet/index.cfm) provides information for non-Irish vessels and for Irish vessels for which the gear was not known from the logbooks. Note that if vessels use more than one gear, it is possible that the gear type assigned to them was not the one that was actually used. The fishing gear data was classified into eight main groups: demersal otter trawls; beam trawls; demersal seines; gill and trammel nets; longlines; dredges; pots and pelagic trawls.     The VMS data was analysed using the approach described by Gerritsen and Lordan (IJMS 68(1)). This approach assigns effort to each of the VMS data points. The effort of a VMS data point is defined as the time interval since the previous data point. Next the data are filtered for fishing activity using speed criteria, vessels were assumed to be actively fishing if their speed fell within a certain range (depending on the fishing gear used).  The points that remain are then aggregated into a spatial grid to produce a raster dataset showing fishing effort (in hours) per kilometre square per year for each gear type group. The data is available for all countries combined and for Irish vessels only.

Tags: environment
Organization: Marine Institute
Offshore Wind Farm Applications in Irish Waters (2021)

This dataset shows the location or potential locations of marine renewable energy sites (wind farm authorisations) in Irish waters. This is based upon formal applications submitted to the foreshore licence application office.  The sites are catagorised depending on the stage of development which ranges from preliminary site investigations, through to fully commissioned.


The dataset was deveoped as part of work undertaken in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (DHLGH) for use in Ireland's National Marine Planning Framework (NMPF) in 2021.

Tags: environment
Organization: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Irish National Marine Planning Framework (NMPF) Area

The National Marine Planning Framework (NMPF) Area is the geographic area management and reporting unit for Ireland's NMPF reporting. The NMPF sits at the top of the hierarchy of plans and sectoral policies for the marine area of Ireland. Marine planning brings together multiple users of the ocean to make informed and coordinated decisions on the sustainable use of marine resources. EU Directive 2014/89/EU, establishing a framework for maritime spatial planning, was adopted in July 2014. The European Union (Framework for Maritime Spatial Planning) Regulations 2016 were signed into law on 29th June 2016. The NMPF is managed by the Department of Housing Planning and Local Government (DHPLG) with monitoring support provided by the Marine Institute.    The area applies from the High Water Mark in Ireland’s coastal waters, territorial seas, exclusive economic zone and in designated parts of the continental shelf.  Ireland’s marine area totals over 488,000 Km2.

Tags: environment
Organization: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Shapefile showing location of ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) Holland underwater video transects collected during CE14011 (SORBEH) survey onboard RV Celtic Explorer.

This dataset represents a shapefile showing location of underwater video transects collected with ROV Holland onboard RV Celtic Explorer during CE14011 (SORBEH) research cruise between 14-27 July 2014. This survey aimed to address the following objectives: lithological characterisation of the Eastern Rockall Bank by sampling areas in and around the Rockall Bank Slide Complex; habitat investigation of steep escarpments and seabed pinnacles using the ROV Holland. The attribute table of this shapefile contains links to video footage for each of the ROV dives. Link to cruise report (RESEARCH SURVEY REPORT. Slope Collapses on Rockall Bank and Escarpment Habitats. RV Celtic Explorer, Cruise No. CE14011. Authors: Aggeliki Georgiopoulou, University College Dublin): http://data.marine.ie/data/IrelandsSeabedCatalogue/CE14011/Publications_based_on_CE14011.pdf

Tags: environment
Organization: Marine Institute
Shapefile showing location of ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) Holland underwater video transects collected during CE15011 survey onboard RV Celtic Explorer.

This dataset represents a shapefile showing location of underwater video transects collected with ROV Holland onboard RV Celtic Explorer during CE15011 research cruise between 15-26 July 2015. The attribute table of this shapefile contains links to video footage for each of the ROV dives. Link to cruise report (EUROFLEETS2 Cruise Summary Report. MAPPING THE DEEP: THE APPLICATION OF PREDICTIVELY MODELLED MAPS TO EUROPEAN SPATIAL PLANNING.RV Celtic Explorer, Cruise No. CE15011. Authors: KERRY HOWELL, ANTHONY GREHAN, NILS PIECHAUD, REBECCA ROSS, ALLAN GRASSIE, GRACE ENGLISH, MUIREANN MACCARTHY AND ROSS BRERETON): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lxxkJcUQCTvN2DLWo6ClHQCwkoqaVTtp/view?usp=share_link.

Tags: environment
Organization: Marine Institute
Shapefile showing location of underwater video transects collected during CE0915 survey onboard RV Celtic Explorer.

This dataset represents a shapefile showing location of underwater video transects collected  onboard RV Celtic Explorer with ROV Holland during CE0915 research cruise between 1-21 September 2009. The attribute table of this shapefile contains links to video footage for each of the transects. In total, 4 video transects have been recorded: 2 in Whittard Canyon and 2 on the Northwest Porcupine Bank. Link to cruise report (Guinan, J. and Leahy, Y. (2010) Habitat Mapping of Geogenic Reef Offshore Ireland. Report prepared by the Marine Institute, Galway, Ireland and Geological Survey of Ireland to the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government s National Parks and Wildlife Service.): http://data.marine.ie/data/IrelandsSeabedCatalogue/CE2009/NPWS Offshore SAC Project March 2010.pdf

Tags: environment
Organization: Marine Institute
CoClime - Probability of phytoplankton (Alexandrium species) presence, Southwest Ireland - present time prediction (1997 - 2016)

This is the output of GBM (Gradient Boosting Model) analyses of Alexandrium spp. presence and absnece data done by MI OCIS and CoCliME project. This output dataset shows prediction of probability of Alexandrium spp. presence in present time (1997 - 2016) in SW Ireland. The analyses was performed in R 3.6.3, with the packages tidyverse 1.3.0  for data handling and visualisation, and xgboost 1.2.0.1 for boosted regression analyses. The dataset used for analyses is available on MI data catalogue (http://data.marine.ie/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/ie.marine.data:dataset.4445) and the dataset used for prediction is requested to be included in MI data catalogue ([20]. CDF-t Climate run (Climate_run_corr.rds)  in CoCliME model SOP). This dataset is used to visualise the prediction on R Shiny application for present period (https://marine-institute-ireland.shinyapps.io/Alexandrium_probability/ ).   

Suggested Citation: Yamanaka, Tsuyuko; Cusack, Caroline; Nolan, Glenn; Clarke, Dave. (2022) CoClime - Probability of phytoplankton (Alexandrium species) presence, Southwest Ireland - present time prediction (1997 - 2016). Marine Institute, Ireland. doi:10/hvsw.

Tags: environment
Organization: Marine Institute
Shapefile showing location of Water Framework Directive Benthos Monitoring (Marine Institute) Seabed Sediment Samples collected between 2014-2020.

This shapefile is based on a seabed sediment sample database of samples collected as part of Water Framework Directive Benthos Monitoring (Marine Institute) between 2014-2020. All coordinates have been converted to decimal degrees. Original coordinates were in different projections (most likely randomly ranging between IRENET 95 Irish Transverse Mercator and TM65_Irish _Grid). Prior to conversion they have been standardised using GIS. All PSA (particle size analysis) data have been merged into three classes (MUD, SAND, GRAVEL) and checked if they add to 100%. Samples which did not pass this QC (quality control) were removed from the database. Where available this shapefile also includes the Loss on Ignition organic carbon % results. This shapefile is showing location of 2068 samples and Folk sediment type classification for samples with available PSA (particle size analysis) data. These samples have been collected onboard different vessels including RV Celtic Voyager.

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Organization: Marine Institute
Deployment of Argo Float ARVOR 6901937 September 2020

The Argo Float 6901937 was deployed on 05/09/2020 at 75.0006 N, -11.1117 W. The most current measurement was taken on 25/06/2026. The autonomous floats drift on the ocean currents for 10 days at 1000 m before diving to its profiling depth of 2000 m, taking ocean property measurements of temperature and salinity on its ascent to the surface. These two essential climate variables describe the oceans' physical and thermodynamic state. Once surfaced the data are transmitted via satellite. Marine Institute floats used ARGOS communications until 2017, and moved to Iridium communications in 2018 allowing for more information transmitted at faster rates with a two-way communication to the float. The Iridium communication means the float surface times are between 15-30 minutes instead of hours using ARGOS communication. The data are accessible online at Erddap (https://erddap.marine.ie/erddap/tabledap/argoFloats.html) and https://argo.ucsd.edu/data/. The Marine Research Infrastructures team operate and manage Ireland's contribution to Argo -  a global array of autonomous floats or profilers, deployed across the world's oceans, reporting subsurface ocean water properties to a wide range of users via satellite transmission links to data centers. The Argo array is an indispensable component of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) required to understand and monitor the role of the ocean in the climate system, in particular the heat and water balance.  The International Argo programme currently has a network of approximately 4,000 Argo floats taking measurements in the oceans and is integrated into the Copernicus programme and the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). The Euro-Argo European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), which Ireland is a member of, aims to sustain 25% of Argo International's global fleet autonomous floats.

Tags: environment
Organization: Marine Institute
Deployment of Argo Float ARVOR 6901938 March 2021

The Argo Float 6901938 was deployed on 09/03/2021 at 53.2603 N, -15.668 W. The most current measurement was taken on 28/06/2026. The autonomous floats drift on the ocean currents for 10 days at 1000 m before diving to its profiling depth of 2000 m, taking ocean property measurements of temperature and salinity on its ascent to the surface. These two essential climate variables describe the oceans' physical and thermodynamic state. Once surfaced the data are transmitted via satellite. Marine Institute floats used ARGOS communications until 2017, and moved to Iridium communications in 2018 allowing for more information transmitted at faster rates with a two-way communication to the float. The Iridium communication means the float surface times are between 15-30 minutes instead of hours using ARGOS communication. The data are accessible online at Erddap (https://erddap.marine.ie/erddap/tabledap/argoFloats.html) and https://argo.ucsd.edu/data/. The Marine Research Infrastructures team operate and manage Ireland's contribution to Argo -  a global array of autonomous floats or profilers, deployed across the world's oceans, reporting subsurface ocean water properties to a wide range of users via satellite transmission links to data centers. The Argo array is an indispensable component of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) required to understand and monitor the role of the ocean in the climate system, in particular the heat and water balance.  The International Argo programme currently has a network of approximately 4,000 Argo floats taking measurements in the oceans and is integrated into the Copernicus programme and the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). The Euro-Argo European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), which Ireland is a member of, aims to sustain 25% of Argo International's global fleet autonomous floats.

Tags: environment
Organization: Marine Institute
CoClime - Probability of phytoplankton (Dinophysis acuta) presence, Southwest Ireland - present time prediction (1997 - 2016)

This is the output of GBM (Gradient Boosting Model) analyses of D. acuta presence and absnece data done by MI OCIS and CoCliME project. This output dataset shows prediction of probability of D. acuta presence in present time (1997 - 2016) in SW Ireland. The analyses was performed in R 3.6.3, with the packages tidyverse 1.3.0  for data handling and visualisation, and xgboost 1.2.0.1 for boosted regression analyses. The dataset used for analyses is available on MI data catalogue (http://data.marine.ie/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/ie.marine.data:dataset.4445) and the dataset used for prediction is requested to be included in MI data catalogue ([20]. CDF-t Climate run (Climate_run_corr.rds)  in CoCliME model SOP). This dataset is used to visualise the prediction on R Shiny application for present period (https://marine-institute-ireland.shinyapps.io/D_acuata_probability/).   

Suggested Citation: Yamanaka, Tsuyuko; Cusack, Caroline; Nolan, Glenn; Clarke, Dave. (2022) CoClime - Probability of phytoplankton (Dinophysis acuta) presence, Southwest Ireland - present time prediction (1997 - 2016). Marine Institute, Ireland. doi:10/hvsr.

Tags: environment
Organization: Marine Institute