AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
The Plymouth Marine Laboratory Bristol Channel Project - Zooplankton and fish taxonomy and abundance

The dataset comprises plankton and fish abundance data, as well as fish length data. The data were collected from the Bristol Channel, Severn Estuary, Celtic Sea and Plymouth Sound between 1971 and 1978. Measurements were taken over a series of 50 cruises. The most intensive sampling took place before 1975. The original data were collated and stored at Institute for Marine Environmental Research (IMER), which became Plymouth Marine Laboratory in 1988. As this is a large and important data set, which was previously held in an inaccessible format, it was selected for long-term archival at BODC as part of the NERC SEEDCORN programme.
Atlantic Meridional Transect cruise AMT15 Coccolithophore composition - light microscopy (CTD bottles)

This dataset contains coccolithophore abundance data from CTD bottle samples collected during the AMT15 cruise in the Atlantic between the United Kingdom and Cape Town, South Africa in September-October 2004. Bottle samples were collected from 6 light depths from the pre-dawn (between approximately 03:00 - 04:30 local time) and noon CTD casts. Microscope enumeration of coccolithophores and coccoliths was performed by filtering a 100 - 500 millilitre water sample through a Millipore HA filter, which was then rinsed with borate buffer, and frozen in a petri dish until counted. The filter was placed on a glass microscope slide, and a 60 degrees Celsius Canada Balsam was placed on top of the filter, followed by a cover slip. The clarified filter was examined for birefringent and plated coccolithophore counts, with an Olympus BH2 microscope equipped with polarisation optics. For statistical reasons, 200 coccoliths or cells were counted from each sample, when available. These data were collected for the Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) project by scientists from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
North Atlantic and Arctic Amphipoda sampled during the IceAGE project

This Amphipoda dataset contains three parts: 1. Distribution records collected from literature; 2. Distribution records of specimens collected by the BioICE project (Benthic Invertebrates of Icelandic waters 1992-2004); 3. Distribution records of specimens collected by the IceAGE project (Icelandic marine animals: Genetics and Ecology, since 2011). The IceAGE data are outcome of two Amphipoda identification workshops held in Wilhelmshaven, Germany (2016) and Spala, Polen (2017).
Die Ostsee-Expedition 1901 des deutschen Seefischereivereins

Historical benthic samples from the Baltic Sea
Historical benthic samples from the Baltic Sea. The dataset was digitised at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences; Marine Ecology Division; Benthos Ecology section. 

Presence data were recovered from the following literature source: 

Heidrich et al., 1902: Die Ostsee-Expedition 191 des deutschen Seefischereivereins
Historical quantitative benthos grab samples from the Southern Baltic Sea - Polish data

Historical quantitative benthos grab samples from the Southern Baltic Sea, collected by Polish researchers. The dataset was digitised at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences; Marine Ecology Division; Benthos Ecology section.
The Polish data have been reconstructed from several sources:

Demel/Mankowski 1951
Demel/Mulicki 1954: Quantitative investigations on the biological bottom productivity of the South Baltic
Mulicki/Demel 1951-1955
Mulicki/Zmudzinski 1956-1957
Okolotowicz 1983: Assessment of pollution in the Bay of Gdansk from macrozoobenthos
Ostrowski 1968-1969
Ostrowski 1972
Ostrowski 1973
Ostrowski 1974
Ostrowski 1976
Thulin 1922: Bottenboniteringar i södra östersjön i samband med fisktralninger
Tulkki 1965
Zmudzinski 1971
Zmudzinski 1972
Zmudzinski 1973
Zmudzinski 1974
Zmudzinski/Ostrowski 1975.
Benthic Communities and Environmental Parameters in Three Mediterranean Ports (Sardinia, Crete, Tunisia)

Three seasonal sampling campaigns (winter, summer before touristic period, summer after touristic period) were implemented during 2012 in three Mediterranean touristic ports: Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy), Heraklion (Crete, Greece) and El Kantaoui (Tunisia). Three to five stations were sampled per port, which were part of different port sectors (leisure, fishing, passenger, cargo, shipyard). Three water and three sediment replicate samples were collected per station for analysis of nutrients, pigments and hydrocarbons. One replicate was analysed for physical parameters, heavy metals and granulometry. Five sediment replicates were collected for analysis of benthic biodiversity. Benthic organisms were sorted to the main taxonomic groups (e.g. .Annelida, Mollusca, Arthropoda, Echinodermata) and identified to species level.
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections

NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Collections records, 8784 Bryozoa, 68401 Coelenterates, 220965 Crustacea, 75012 Echinoderms, 196851 Mollusks, 28853 Porifera, 16466 Tunicates, 171401 Worms, 93268 General; Total number of 884216 records currently represent approximately 33% of actual specimen holdings, as of 10 May 2007.
Bivalves surveys for the Monitoring and Evaluation Programme of the North Sea OWEZ wind park in 2007

Field survey on juvenile bivalve densities; date: 8-11 October 2007; vessel: RV POSEIDON (operated by IFM Geomar, Germany); sampling stations: 20 stations in OWEZ and 10 stations in each of the 5 reference areas R2, R3, R4, R5, RL
Sampling design: 1 boxcore per station; sampling gear: NIOZ boxcorer, sampling depth 20 cm, sampling diameter 30 cm; sample surface juvenile bivalves: 0.024 m2 (i.e. 3 sub-cores each with diameter 10 cm2 per boxcore); sample depth juvenile bivalves: 5 cm; sorting procedure lab: stacked sieves 1.0, 0.5 and 0.2 mm; following worksheets describes: *number of identified juvenile bivalve species (> 0.5 mm) found per boxcore (0.024m2) and per m2, Station, Date time, species, n bivalves > 0.5 mm per 0.024m2, n bivalves > 0.5 mm per m2.
Epifauna of Haifa Bay, Mediterranean Israeli Shelf-Moshe Tom's collection

The records in this dataset were derived from an MSc thesis (in Hebraw) cited: Tom M 1976. the Benthic associations of Haifa Bay, submitted to the University of Tel Aviv, 117 pp., available from the University libraray and described also in: Tom M and Galil BS 1991. The faunal associations of Haifa Bay, Mediterranean coast of Israel. P.S.Z.N.I. Mar Ecol 12: 75-86, https://doi.org/10.11111/j.1439-0485.1991.tb00085.x
2012-2013 University of Plymouth Falmouth maerl bed infauna and sediment survey using diver cores

Survey to establish the infaunal species composition and sediment properties of maerl bed habitats in Falmouth Harbour, from SCUBA diver collected core samples. Surveys were conducted in response to proposed dredging activities to deepen the shipping channel. Core samples collected by divers September - November 2012 and July - August 2013 were used to assess habitat quality and species distribution by quantifying the abundance of infauna and analysing organic content, particle size and maerl structure. There were 6 sites divided into three 5m2 plots. SCUBA divers collected 8 maerl core samples per plot: 5 cores for faunal analysis and 3 cores for sediment and organic content analysis.
This data set was assigned the DASSH code of DASSHDT00000467, and it part of the series/project with DASSH series code DASSHSE00000058 titled '2011-2013 University of Plymouth Falmouth towed underwater video maerl and associated epifauna survey'.
F.M.Ghazzawi (1939) Plankton of the Egyptian waters. A study of the Suez Canal Plankton. Notes and Memories of the Hydrobiology and Fisheries Directorate of Egypt, No 24. (A) The Phytoplankton. Preliminary Report

A study of the plankton in the Suez Canal could throw some light from the explanatory point of view, on the distribution of the planktonic forms of the two different water bodies of the Mediterranean and Red Sea. From the fisheries point of view, the plankton study is indispensable to seek out the relation between the abundance and movement of fishes and the fluctuations in the plankton; both in quantity and quality at different times, places and depths.
Zooplankton abundance for six 24hrs sampling series across Port Reitz Creek (Mombasa, Kenya) in 1985 and 1986

Qualitative abundance of zooplankton taxa found during six 24h-series across Likoni Ferry (April, june, August, October, December 1985 and February 1986). The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Okemwa, E. (1987). Analysis of six 24-hours series of zooplankton sampling across a tropical creek, the Port Reitz, Mombasa, Kenya, in: Martens, E.E. (1987). Kenyan-Belgian Project in Marine Sciences: Second Quarterly Report. pp. 36-47
ImagDOP Benthic Video Annotations in Condor seamount in 2010

Annotations of benthic sessile and mobile species recorded on video by Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) during dives performed in the Condor seamount, located 10 nm SW of Faial Island, in the Azores archipelago, Portugal. Videos were recorded between 180 and 1100 meters depth.
Several ROV dives in 2010 collected imagery date between 180 and 1100 meters depth, extending from the summit to the lower slope of the Condor seamount. Benthic sessile and mobile megafauna of conspicuous morphotype, or larger than circa 10 cm, as well as all icthyofauna present, was logged on to a database with the customizable video annotation software COVER (Ifremer). The ROV SP ( SeaBotix LBV300S-6 ; IMAR-DOP/Uaz), was operated from the R/L Águas Vivas . The ROV was equipped with a colour camera (570 line/02 Lux, 4:3), with four lights installed externally on the four front corners (480 Lumen each) and a scaling two-point laser system (5 cm apart) that was used to estimate sizes. ROV SP was positioned with a Subsea Micron Nav USBL (Ultra Short Baseline) unit fitted onto the vehicle in the transponder mode. The navigational data were manually filtered for outliers and smoothed with a moving average, to remove false loops. The moving average allowed adjusting the resulting dive track (Gomes-Pereira and Tempera 2015). For more detailed information on the daataset please contact data owner (zn.multimedia@gmail.com).
COLETA - IMAR/DOP-Uac reference collection from 1977 to 2012

Reference collection of the IMAR/DOP-UAz, consisting in several taxa preserved with different methods and collected mostly in the Azores area. 
The reference collection has been created in order to be a referential of marine species of the Azores, both common and rare. Thus, new occurrences could be compared with new ones. Therefore, material in the collection can be useful for new scientific and taxonomic studies.
Specimens collected in the Azores (few collected in Madeira island and near seamounts) from 1977 to 2012. The collection consists mostly of preserved animals, however few specimens from other groups are also present. Preserved specimens consists of organisms inhabiting coastal areas until the deep-sea. All are marine species, except for one terrestrial record.
 
The specimens were collected by different persons and from different sources: during research cruises or scientific field work, by commercial or recreational fishermen, coastal and beach strandings, donations, etc. Most of the specimens are preserved in formalin, but other preservation methods, such as dry, alcohol and frozen, are also used according to the preserved specimen.
Microphytobenthos North Adriatic-INTERREG Project

Microphytobentos data collected in the framework of INTERREG II and III Italy-Slovenia project, implemented on behalf of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Regional Environment Office by the Marine Biology Laboratory in Trieste, with the contribution of the newly-founded Regional Agency for the Conservation of the Environment (ARPA - Agenzia regionale per la protezione dell'ambiente).
BIOMÔR 4 The Outer Bristol Channel Marine Habitat Study

The Outer Bristol Channel Marine Habitat Study (OBCMHS) was a multifaceted project involving scientific investigation, interpretation and education in an area with potential marine aggregate resources.
The Outer Bristol Channel Marine Habitat Study (OBCMHS) was a multifaceted project involving scientific investigation, interpretation and education in an area with potential marine aggregate resources.

Data was obtained on five geophysical and biological research cruises (2003-2005). The study area was approximately 2400 km². Eleven 30-40 km x 1 km wide corridors, covering 15% of the area, where examined using multibeam, sidescan and sub-bottom profiling. These were ground-truthed with the analysis of macrofauna from 137 grab and 13 trawl locations, sediments from 141 stations, and images from 20 video and camera tows.
Acquario di Genova, Delfini Metropolitani Project, cetacean sightings 2001-2009

Delfini Metropolitani is a long term research project of Acquario di Genova to study the ecology of cetaceans and, in particular, of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus).
Delfini Metropolitani is a long term research project of Acquario di Genova to study the ecology of cetaceans and, in particular, of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). 

The study area is located along the Eastern Ligurian coast, between Genoa and La Spezia. The research platforms are two 5.10 m long inflatables. Research activity is conducted during the whole year, depending on weather conditions.

The project is mainly focused on the bottlenose dolphin with regards to habitat use, home range analysis, abundance estimates, and interactions with human activities (fishing, trawling, sea traffic). We use photo-ID techniques for abundance estimates, home range analysis and social structure analysis. We use ArcGIS 9.3 as a software tool for spatial analysis.
Happywhale - Harbor Seal in North Atlantic Ocean

Happywhale.com is a resource to help you know whales as individuals, and to benefit conservation science with rich data about individual whales.
Original provider: HappywhaleDataset credits: Happywhale and contributorsSightings and images were submitted to Happywhale by contributors. A portion of the Happywhale data were transferred to OBIS-SEAMAP upon the agreement between Happywhale and OBIS-SEAMAP. There may be duplicate records among Happywhale datasets and other OBIS-SEAMAP datasets. The precision of date/time vary per record. Some records have date accuracy up to year only. This dataset includes sightings and photos from the following 4 contributors in alphabetic order: Caitlin Fitzmaurice; Per Nikolaj Bukh; Sarah Robinson; S. Helgu
BIOMÔR 5 Habitat Mapping for Conservation and Management of the Southern Irish Sea (HABMAP)

The HABMAP project was set up to address the need for better spatial awareness of habitat distributions in the southern Irish Sea, and aimed to provide seabed habitat maps that could be used for conservation and management.
The HABMAP project aimed to:produce modelled seabed habitat (biotope) maps with an indication of degree of confidence,gather new benthic data from several areas within the southern Irish Sea,provide recommendations for future seabed mapping work.The main objective of the HABMAP survey work was to collect data that could be used to validate modelled biotope distribution outputs arising from the project, as well as to map a range of different areas in the southern Irish Sea. A combination of accoustic and ground-truthing sample techniques were employed on two cruises undertaken during the summer of 2005.
Happywhale - Sea otter in North Atlantic Ocean

Happywhale.com is a resource to help you know whales as individuals, and to benefit conservation science with rich data about individual whales.
Supplemental information: Sightings and images were submitted to Happywhale by contributors. A portion of the Happywhale data were transferred to OBIS-SEAMAP upon the agreement between Happywhale and OBIS-SEAMAP. There may be duplicate records among Happywhale datasets and other OBIS-SEAMAP datasets. The precision of date/time vary per record. Some records have date accuracy up to year only. This dataset includes sightings and photos from the following 1 contributors in alphabetic order: Caroline Hodgkiss
SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Harbour porpoise in Sweden

The national monitoring program is financed by the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management.Monitoring is performed by the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Data are stored in the Swedish Ocean Archive (SHARK) by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI).Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, https://www.havochvatten.se/overvakning-och-uppfoljning/miljoovervakning/marin-miljoovervakning/tumlare.html
Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, https://www.havochvatten.se/overvakning-och-uppfoljning/miljoovervakning/marin-miljoovervakning/tumlare.htmlStudy ExtentMonitoring programMethod step description:Data is collected using acoustic click detectors that record the click signals of Harbour porpoises. Detectors are deployed during a time period, logging continously.
A*MIDEX CHROME: Western Mediterranean automated flow cytometry surface sample from Ships of O/P crossing Tunis-Marseille and Tunis-Genova between October 2016-January 2017

Phytoplankton functional diversity and spatio-temporal distribution at the meso-scale are studied in the frame of the A*MIDEX CHROME (Continuous High Resolution Observation of the Mediterranean, https://en-chrome.mio.univ-amu.fr/?page_id=42)  project thanks to the combined installation of a Ferrybox system (belonging to the INSTM, Tunis) and a cytosense flow cytometer onboard the CTN’s ferry “Le Carthage”. Samples were collected during the cruises between Tunis-Marseille and Tunis-Genova from October 2016 to January 2017. This led to an mount of 80 transects and more than 7000 samples collected. Data analyses resolved the abundances of up to six phytoplankton functional groups based on size and pigment content.
Sampling activities in the framework of JERICO-NEXT
Phytoplankton data for Danish marine monitoring (ODAM) from 1988 - 2016

Data is an assembly of plankton monitoring stations situated between 54° and 58° North along the Danish coasts and in estuaries. There are multiple phytoplankton stations and 15 of them are maintained by 2016, although the data set also contains data of several discontinued stations. Each phytoplankton station is visited 1 to 4 times per month over a period of 25 years for some of the stations (two times per month is the norm). Samples are analyzed to estimate phytoplankton composition and abundance. The cell volume is determined for a sub group of cell of each species encountered, thus estimating a cell volume that is applied to the entire sample, in case biomass is estimated.
The stations can be categorized as ‘open water’ stations or estuarine stations. The open water stations are all located in the “open” waters of the Kattegat – Belt Sea area (average depth 27.1 m ± std. dev16.4 m) forming the transition zone between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. The water column at those stations is permanently stratified (Lyngsgaard et al. 2014) and the samples were collected from the mixed upper 10 meters that is periodically nutrient limited. Two stations were in the Wadden Sea, a shallow and turbid tidal area adjacent to the North Sea on the West Coast of Jutland. The remaining stations are located in shallow (average depth 7.9 m ± 6.5 m) estuaries with significant freshwater and hence nutrient inputs.

Salinities vary between 2 and 31. The highest salinities were found in the Wadden Sea and Nissum Bredning  and the lowest are close to the Baltic Sea or in enclosed estuaries. Data covered the period from 1989 to 2016. Over this period nutrient supply has decreased significantly, by 43 percent for nitrogen and by about 90 percent for phosphorous.

Sampling, measurements and laboratory analyses were carried out by a number of different agencies but followed a common set of technical guidelines to ensure consistency. These guidelines are written in Danish language by are in-line with the guidelines given in the appropriate sections of the HELCOM COMBINE manual.
SNU-FF Crustacea (2004-2005)

In the present study, the taxonomical and ecological characteristics of species belonging to the subphylum Crustacea were determined in the Zostera facies along the Sinop Peninsula coasts of Turkey.
In the present study, the taxonomical and ecological characteristics of species belonging to the subphylum Crustacea were determined in the Zostera facies along the Sinop Peninsula coasts of Turkey.

During four sampling events (June 2004, September 2004, January 2005 and April 2005), samples were quantitatively collected by a quadrat (25 x 25 cm), and sorted with a 0.5 mm mesh sieve. In the laboratory, the organisms were sorted from the sifted sediment under a stereo microscope and stored in 70% alcohol.

The extracted fauna and flora were separated into taxonomic groups, identified and listed according to the monographic works. A total of 55 species and 7057 specimens belonging to 41 genera, 34 families and 6 orders were recorded. With 35 species, Amphipoda is the most dominant order, followed by Decapoda with 6 species.

Furthermore, physico-chemical data was collected: turbidity (ntu), dissolved oxygen concentration (mg/l), temperature (°C), salinity (ppt), pH and conductivity (µS/cm).
Nematoda from Kenya and Zanzibar

Gegevens over de soorten- en trofische samenstelling van de nematodengemeenschap in koraaldegradatiezones in Kenia en Zanzibar.
Coral degradation zones (CDZ) in Kenya and Zanzibar were sampled in order to contribute to the knowledge of the nematode assemblages in these areas of the Indian Ocean. They investigated- amongst others - if these CDZs harbour a typical nematode community (on genus level).
Atlantic Meridional Transect cruise JC039 Coccolithophore composition - light microscopy (CTD bottles)

This dataset contains coccolithophore abundance data from CTD bottle samples collected during the JC039 cruise in the Atlantic between Falmouth, UK and Punta Arenas, Chile in October-December 2009. Niskin samples were collected during the pre-dawn CTD (second cast of the day) from six light depths (1%, 7%, 14%, 33%, 55%, 97%) and from two deeper (down to 200 m) depths for coccolith enumeration. Coccolith and cell counts were collected on Millipore HA (nitrocellulose) filters which were rinsed with a potassium tetraborate buffer and frozen at 20 degC. Samples were then dried and mounted onto slides using Norland Optical Adhesive. These were then enumerated by birefringence microscopy (Balch et al. 2011). These data were collected by scientists from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and contribute to the Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) project.