AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
WWF Italy - Manfredonia (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

Il progetto intende investigare i movimenti delle tartarughe marine comuni Caretta caretta che frequentano il Golfo di Manfredonia, recentemente riconosciuto come una importante zona neritica di alimentazione per questa specie nel mar Adriatico. Le 5 tartarughe monitorate in questo progetto sono state catturate da reti a strascico nel Golfo di Manfredonia. Per ridurre al minimo lo stress per gli animali, le trasmittenti satellitari sono state applicate appena possibile dopo l’arrivo delle tartarughe al porto e le tartarughe sono state rilasciate subito dopo.
Project partner Questo è un progetto di WWF Italia, “Centro Cultura del Mare” A.P.S, Lega Navale di Manfredonia, Università di Roma La Sapienza ed è realizzato grazie alla collaborazione con molti pescatori di Manfredonia. Le attività a Manfredonia sono coordinate da Giovanni Simone (vicepresidente “Centro Cultura del Mare” A.P.S.), in collaborazione con la dott.ssa Gabriella Troiano, i pescatori di Manfredonia Ciro e Michele Conoscitore, Ciro e Domenico Tattilo e il Comandante della Capitaneria di Porto di Manfredonia C.F. (CP) Francesco Staiano.
Telemetry of loggeread turtles in Amvrakikos Bay (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

Little is known of the foraging turtles in Amvrakikos Bay. We have tag returns from turtles that have nested at the three nearby Ionian nesting areas, Kefalonia, Zakynthos and Kyparissia Bay, but when they come and go and where they move around in the bay was unknown. This project has helped to answer some of these important conservation issues.
Original provider: ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece Dataset credits: Data provider ARCHELON (2002-2007) Originating data center Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)Project partner ETANAM - Local management agency of the Amvrakikos Bay region Project sponsor or sponsor description LIFE-Nature. A European Union funding programme to develope management plans and protection for NATURA 2000 sites. Supplemental information: Visit STAT's project page for additional information. This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.
Northern Cyprus 2009 (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

The Marine Turtle Conservation Project is a project of the Marine Turtle Research Group and has been monitoring the nesting beaches of Northern Cyprus since 1992. The project is in collaboration with the Society for the Protection of Turtles in Northern Cyprus (SPoT) and the Department of Environmental Protection. In Northern Cyprus both green and loggerhead turtles nest. Green turtles in the Mediterranean are listed as endangered by the IUCN, with estimates suggesting that there are as few as 300-400 females nesting annually in this region. Loggerhead turtles nest in slightly greater numbers, with approximately 2000-3000 females nesting annually. Approximately 30 % of the green and 10% of the loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean nest in Northern Cyprus.
Original provider: Marine Turtle Research Group Dataset credits: Data provider Marine Turtle Research Group Originating data centerSatellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)Project partner Marine Turtle Research Group (Annette Broderick, Wayne, Fuller and Brendan Godley) of the University of Exeter, UK, and the Society for the Protection of Turtles in Northern Cyprus (SPoT) Project sponsor or sponsor descriptionThis project is supported by British Chelonia Group, Natural Environment Research Council. Supplemental information: Visit STAT's project page for additional information. This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.
Phytoplankton of the northern part of the Black Sea 1992-1993

Phytoplankton of the northern part of the Black Sea 1992-1993 collected during 6 scientific cruises on the ships of Ukrainian Scientific Center of Ecology of the Sea (UkrSCES) on unified stations grid.
These data were collected during 6 scientific cruises on ships of the Ukrainian Scientific Center of Ecology of the Sea (UkrSCES). All cruises were done by unified station grid. The cruises were performed once in 2 month period.

There were 2 types of stations:
Type  1 samples were taken during period 08:00 AM - 14:00 PM by 30 L Niskin bathometer from depth where irradiance level = 100, 46, 25, 10 and 1%. In addition during stagnation period , samples were taken under, in, above thermocline. Samples were processed without concentration in drop 0.1 ml using microscope БИОЛАМ Р-16, 20x magnification

Type 2 samples were taken from 2-6 times during day from standard depths 0, 10, 25, 50 , 100 m. Fixation Lugol’. Samples were processed using standard methodology.
Zakynthos Nesting Turtles (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

The turtles tracked in this project are of the first loggerheads to be tracked during their postnesting migration from a Greek nesting beach. The project is carried out by the division of Conservation Biology of the University of Berne (Switzerland) in collaboration with ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece. Zakynthos is the largest known sea turtle nesting area of the Mediterranean, hosting about 1/4 of all known loggerhead nesting in the Mediterranean. The nesting beaches of Zakynthos are monitored by ARCHELON since 1983.
Original provider: Judith Zbinden Dataset credits: Data provider ARCHELON (2004-2007) Originating data center Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)Project partner Division of Conservation Biology (Judith Zbinden, Adrian Aebischer, Raphael Arlettaz) of the University of Berne, Switzerland, and ARCHELON, The Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece Project sponsor or sponsor description The MAVA foundation and to a lesser extent the Karl Mayer foundation are funding the project, which is embedded into a larger project including research on different aspects of Zakynthian loggerheads. Supplemental information: Visit STAT's project page for additional information. This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.
HELCOM/OSPAR Sweden ports water sampling

This dataset includes the data used in in the HELCOM/OSPAR Ballast Water Exemptions Decision Support Tool. This tool was developed in 2013 based on the overall IMO framework, the 21 Baltic and North-East Atlantic coastal states and the EU. It allows user to define 'low risk' routes, as well as other necessary steps in granting exemptions under regulation A-4 of the IMO Ballast Water Management Convention (BWMC)
HMAP Dataset 01: SE Australian Trawl Fishery I: Fish (various) landings and fishing effort, South East Australia, 1918-1923

Historical data relating to the South East Fishery (SEF), time period 1918-1923.
On 28 November 1991, the New South Wales Department of Agriculture and Fisheries provided historical data relating to the South East Fishery (SEF) to the Bureau of Resource Sciences (BRS) in accordance with the Fishing Industry Research and Development Corporation (FIRDC)-funded 'historic SET catch data' project. The data were originally collected by CSIRO and handed over to NSW Fisheries when CSIRO ceased work in the 1960s on what was then known as the 'South East Trawl Fishery'. These data cover the periods 1918-1923, 1937-1943 and 1952-1957.No documentation exists for these data except for a simple description of the data field names. This document describes the processing carried out, and the assumptions made, to convert the data into a format suitable for inclusion in the Australian Fishing Zone Information System (AFZIS). This format, in turn, was adapted to render the data compatible with the HMAP/OBIS schema.
Spatial and temporal distribution of phytoplankton off the coast of Portugal

The present phytoplankton dataset was obtained during a seasonal sampling cycle conducted over five surveys named CICLOS I to IV and AREAS aboard the R/V Noruega from IPIMAR, as part of the project “Ciclos de produção planctónicos na costa portuguesa e sua relação com os recursos pesqueiros”. The campaigns took place from August 85 to April 87.
Rocky shore data from the Capraia Marine Protected Area

Data were part of a research project that wanted - amongst others - to quantify the spatial and temporal variation of the benthic rocky reef assemblages in the Marine Protected Area (MPA) of Capraia Island (Tuscan Archipelago) and a bordering non-protected area.
Data are from rocky bottom photographic samples at 5 m depth
Sampling location was Capraia Island Marine Protected Area, NW Mediterranean, Tuscany Archipelago, 43°02'.40N, 09°50'.14E
Sampling was repeated in each of 3 Protected and Unprotected Shores (stretches of shore about 30m long, hundreds of m apart) 
2 Sites (Stretches of shore 3-5 m long, tens of m apart) were sampled in each Shore
5 Replicates (photographic samples on 20x20 cm quadrates) were sampled in each Site
Sampling was repeated at three different dates
HMAP Dataset 02: SE Australian Trawl Fishery II: Fish (various) landings and fishing effort, South East Australia, 1937-1943

Historical data relating to the South East Fishery (SEF), time period 1937-1943.
On 28 November 1991, the New South Wales Department of Agriculture and Fisheries provided historical data relating to the South East Fishery (SEF) to the Bureau of Resource Sciences (BRS) in accordance with the Fishing Industry Research and Development Corporation (FIRDC)-funded 'historic SET catch data' project. The data were originally collected by CSIRO and handed over to NSW Fisheries when CSIRO ceased work in the 1960s on what was then known as the 'South East Trawl Fishery'. These data cover the periods 1918-1923, 1937-1943 and 1952-1957.No documentation exists for these data except for a simple description of the data field names. This document describes the processing carried out, and the assumptions made, to convert the data into a format suitable for inclusion in the Australian Fishing Zone Information System (AFZIS). This format, in turn, was adapted to render the data compatible with the HMAP/OBIS schema.
Bionomic map of Latioum coast. Scale 1:250.000

This map was produced using a mixed procedure which aims to integrate biological and environmental data. For this purpose biological benthic and sediment samples,belonging to 233 sites,were interpolated taking into account the bathymetric trend of seafloor. All these information were collected during the monitoring activities for beach Biocenotic maps of Latium coast nourishment founded by ÔÇ£Regione LazioÔÇØ local authority.For more info read : S. Agnesi, R. Proietti, P. La Valle, C. Maggi, D. Paganelli, M. Gabellini, L. Nicoletti (2012) -Cartografia tematica dei fondali marini laziali. Compendio degli studi condotti nel decennio 1999-2009 per la caratterizzazione ambientale dei fondali marini antistanti la costa laziale per il dragaggio di depositi sabbiosi ai fini del ripascimento. ISPRA, Rapporti 170/2012.
Dutch long term monitoring of macrobenthos in the Dutch Continental Economical Zone of the North Sea

Long term measurements of benthos composition in the Dutch national part of the North Sea. Samples have been taken by benthic sledge, box-corer, video and Hamon sampler. Samples were taken annually between 1991-2010, in 2012 and in 2015 and analysed to the genus or species level. For video sampling, coverage percentages were measured. The dataset has been used for assessment of the marine environment and habitat quality in the scope of the OSPAR Quality Status Reports and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive.
The monitoring is directed and the dataset is maintained by Rijkswaterstaat, the executing body of the Dutch Ministery for Infrastructure and Environment. Publication of the dataset has been facilitated by Deltares, The Netherlands.
ICES Phytobenthos community dataset

Phytobenthos community data, a large portion of the data held are monitoring data submitted for the OSPAR CEMP and HELCOM COMBINE monitoring programmes and therefore follow specific monitoring programme guidelines.
Data are quality assured using internal and external programmes. For example, the national laboratories that take part in monitoring programmes related to contaminants and biological effects that submit information to ICES, subscribe to the Quality Assurance of Information for Marine Environmental Monitoring in Europe (QUASIMEME) or the Biological Effects Quality Assurance in Monitoring Programmes (BEQUALM) inter-laboratory proficiency-testing schemes and perform internal quality assurance. ICES operates through a network of scientific expert and advisory groups. These groups, and the processes they feed into, act as a quality check on the marine evidence, both in terms of how the evidence was gathered and how the evidence has been subsequently treated. The groups, in cooperation with regional programmes under the Regional Sea Conventions, set standards and guidelines for the collection, transmission and analysis of these data.
In addition, the ICES Secretariat provides supplementary quality assurance through its internal programmes related to the different types of marine data collection datasets, which is fedback to the participating national and regional programmes. These internal and external programmes and procedures have been established over a period of 30 or more years. They continue to evolve and strive to reflect the best available practices in the collection and treatment of marine data relevant to the ICES community.
Isle of Lewis Benthic Ecology Drop-down Video Survey - Envision (2011)

Lewis Wave Power Ltd. (LWP) (a wholly owned subsidiary of Aquamarine Power Ltd.) was seeking to develop a wave energy demonstration array off the west coast of the Isle of Lewis. As a first stage of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the project, LWP commissioned Royal Haskoning Ltd. to produce an Environmental Scoping Report (Lewis Wave Power Ltd., 2011) to facilitate the identification and assessment of the potential environmental impacts associated with the project. The survey reported on here formed this field-based benthic component. Its purpose was to provide site-specific benthic data to inform an assessment of impact of the proposed development. The key objectives were to: Determine the distribution and abundance of marine habitats and communities within the study areas; Determine the substrate type at all locations sampled and Identify habitats or species of conservation importance.
Tunisian Polychaetes by 2022

This dataset was compiled by a. gathering data and taxonomic revision of polychaetes records from published literature, b. adding new species from sampling on the Gulf of Gabes Tidal channels, and c. from the systematic revision of the polychaetes collection deposited at the Institut National des Sciences et Technoligies de la mer (INSTM); which were confused with their congeneric species. The regional distribution of the species is Western and Central Mediterranean.
Cetaceans sightings from shore 2010-2016

Collecting data regarding sightings of the Black Sea cetacean at the Romanian coast.
In the Black Sea, cetaceans are represented by three species: Phocoena phocoena relicta, Tursiops truncatus ponticus and Delphinus delphis ponticus. The main threat and cause for the decline of the Black Sea dolphins are fishing nets. They are victims of the so-called bycatches.To protect the dolphin populations in the Romanian Black Sea area, the NGO "Mare Nostrum" started a series of activities in partnership with:the National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa" Constanțathe Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Authoritythe National Agency for Fishing and Aquaculturethe Natural Science Museum Complex "Dolphinarium" Constanțathe Border Police Inspectorate of Constanța CountyThis was done in conformity with the objectives of the "National Action Plan for Conservation of Dolphins" and the "Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and the contiguous Atlantic Area", and was financed by the European Union through the Sectorial Operational Programme - Environment. Among these activities we will present in the following study the situation of strandings and by-catch of dolphins in the Romanian costal waters during 2010 and 2011.The data were collected from the entire Romanian coast, from Sulina to Vama Veche. During the study more than 100 expeditions were done over land and water along the coast. The collected data recorded over 140 dead cetaceans and 1 alive. The maine cause of this mortality was due to drowning in the fishing nets. To reduce the number of bycatched dolphins we are studying the effect of pingers (ADD/Accustic Deterent Devices) on cetaceans and fishes. Therefore data were collected from five fishing units (Sulina, Vadu, Corbu, Midia, Costinești) equipped with these technologies. This measure of protecting the dolphins from the fishing nets is also proposed in ACCOBAMS.Observations were made by the border police (20 m boat), or on board small boats between 5-12 m long. Supplemental shore-based observations are available: Cetaceans along Romanian Black Sea Coast by boat 2010-2011 (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/832).
Happywhale - Bearded Seal in Arctic Ocean

Happywhale.com is a resource to help you know whales as individuals, and to benefit conservation science with rich data about individual whales.
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: Petra Stolz
Mortensen Th. And Steuer Ad. 1937. The fishery grounds near Alexandria. XIII Echinoderma. Notes and Memoirs No 21. Hydrobiology and Fisheries Directorate, Egypt

This is a historical dataset that was published in 1937 by Th. Mortensen and Ad. Steuer and concerns of the faunistic report on the Echinoderma collected during the floristical and faunistical survey of Adolf Steuer on the coasts near Alexandria mainly with the vessel “El Hoot”.
In this historical paper, there are no information about exact sampling temporal coverage. This dataset contains occurrence data of Echinoderma in the coasts of Alexandria, Egypt. It also contains information about individual counts, sex and lifestage. The digitization of this dataset was done by LifewatchGreece team.

Echinoderma were found in about 80 sampling stations in Alexandria, Egypt, eastern Mediterranean.

This dataset is only a part from a large faunistical expedition that took place in the coasts near Alexandria. The samples were collected by A. Steuer. For bottom samples almost exclusively a dredge with 20x70 cm opening was used. A single catch was made in a depth of 20 m with a large otter trawl in the eastern part of the Bay of Abukir. In general, the motor-launch of the Marine Laboratory "El Hoot" was used for dredging and a rowing boat in shallow water. All excursions were one-day trips. After the expedition, taxonomic identification of the samples was done by specialists. The results of this expedition were published in separate for each taxonomic group volumes. Thus, sampling methods were only described in a preliminary report by A. Steuer. Echinoderma species that collected in this expedition were identified by Th. Mortensen.
Marine Intertidal Phase 1 species dataset from the Countryside Council for Wales 1996-2005

This datasets contains species recorded as part of CCW's Phase 1 Intertidal habitat mapping survey. The Intertidal mapping took place between 1996 and 2005. All work was carried out by an in-house survey team.
Purpose of data capture: Surveys were undertaken to provide an assessment of sites as possible SSSI's and as a basis for developing sensitivity mapping. There are also used in the production and evaluation of EIA's and as an integrated information resource for local authorities' structure and development plans in the coast and or the consideration of planning applications.

Methods of data capture: Species were recorded in one of three ways:- in target notes, in species lists for certain (mainly specialised and nationally important) biotopes found on a site, or in species lists for the whole site and therefore precision is variable.
Historical landings from the Rijeka (Croatia) fish market between 1914 and 1932

Historical landings from the Rijeka (currently Croatia) fish market for the period 1914-1932 were digitised from D’Ancona (1926). At the time, the Rijeka fish market was one of the most important in the area together with Trieste (currently Italy) and Venice (Italy). These fish markets collected almost all fish caught in the Northern Adriatic Sea at time.
Species were reported with their scientific names that were updated according to the modern nomenclature referring to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). The dataset contains landings for 95 marketed categories (1,805 records). Data is referred to local capture sea-fisheries. Marketed categories may include one or more species. Multispecies categories usually group taxonomically similar species, i.e. species of the same genus or family.
Trawl survey data from the Jabuka Pit area (central-eastern Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean) collected between 1956 and 1971

Between October 1956 and January 1971, the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (IOF, Croatia) performed a series of trawl-surveys in the Croatian coastal waters between Split and Šibenik (central-eastern Adriatic, Mediterranean) in the area of the Jabuka Pit with two motorboats, “Bios” (300 HP; LOA = 26 m) and “Predvodnik” (200 HP; LOA = 19 m).
447 hauls were carried out at 26 fixed stations. Three different bottom otter-trawl nets were used. A cotton bottom otter-trawl net (wing mesh-size: 55 mm; cod-end mesh-size: 20 mm; foot-rope length: 36.3 m; head-rope length: 29.1 m) was towed by the motorboat “Bios”, while a cotton bottom otter-trawl net (wing mesh-size: 55 mm; cod-end mesh-size: 20 mm; foot-rope length: 46.1 m; head-rope length: 34.1 m) was towed by the motorboat “Predvodnik”. In 1971, a synthetic bottom otter-trawl net (wing mesh-size: 50 mm; cod-end mesh-size: 20 mm; foot-rope length: 40 m; head-rope length: 37 m) was towed by the motorboat “Bios”. Tow duration was one hour for all hauls. The average tow speed was 3 knots. CPUE (n/h and kg/h) indexes were derived for 129 demersal species (19,756 records). Species synonymies were updated according to the modern nomenclature referring to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Some species are grouped into multispecies categories that group taxonomically similar species, i.e. species of the same genus or family (e.g. Raja spp., Triglidae). Information on the sediment type at each station was also recorded using an echo sounder. The depth of each station was extracted from the EMODnet Digital Bathymetry.