oih/oih-wis2 huggingface dataset:
Study of epibenthos and demersal fish in and around the aniline discharge area of the Belgian Continental Shelf (1982-1984)

Keywords: Abiotic factors, Demersal fishes, Aniline, Epibenthos, Discharge, Samplingevent, Ecological monitoring
Temporal coverage: 1982/1984

Presence and density data for ichtyofauna and epibenthos sampled in and around the aniline discharge area between 1982 and 1984 and comparison of the spring sampling data with two coastal reference zones choosen in the Belgian Part of the North Sea. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Maertens, D. (1987). Analyse van de levensgemeenschappen op het Belgisch Kontinentaal Plat: studie van de epibenthische biocoenoses en van de demersale Pisces in het lozingsgebied voor afvalstoffen afkomstig van een anilineproduktie. Mededelingen van het Rijksstation voor Zeevisserij (CLO Gent), 219. CLO Gent: Gent. 28 pp.
BIOGEOMAR | Marine Invertebrates | Bryozoa

Keywords: Specimen, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1838/2018

BIOGEOMAR | Dataset | Mollusca | Aplacophora

The BioGeoMar Program was created in 2019 with the support of the Boticário Group Foundation for Nature Protection in order to analyze the state of knowledge of marine biodiversity in Brazil, describe how biodiversity is distributed along the coast, and point out priority areas for conservation and carry out future studies. The program gathered 18 researchers, 9 postgrads, and 6 research assistants, from different expertise representing 12 public universities in Brazil, working in a collaborative network. Global platforms are being used that obtain information on the geographic distribution of the species and unprecedented data for science from the zoological and botanical collections of the researchers' laboratories are being accessed. All the data will be publicly available in national and international digital repositories. BioGeoMar is also promoting continuous training and contributing to the UN Ocean Decade.

University Consortium: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Universidade de São Paulo. 

Coordinator: Dr. Fernanda Correia Azevedo
NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) Fisheries Log Book System (FLS) Commercial Pelagic Logbook Data

Keywords: Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1992/2005

The Fisheries Logbook System records the fishing and non-fishing activity of fishermen who are required to report their fishing activity via logbooks submitted for each trip. The Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) manages two vessel logbook programs. This program principally covers vessels that use pelagic longline gear, but also includes vessels that use other types of gear (harpoon and handline) that target pelagic species in the highly migratory species fishery management plan. This logbook program was initiated in 1986, and has continued uninterrupted since then. Because the pelagic program supports assessments that require catch per unit effort data for individual sets, the design of this program focuses on data for individual sets.
Coleccion Regional de Moluscos de la Peninsula de Yucatan

Keywords: Occurrence, Deep sea Occurrence, sand beach, Cayo Arcas reef, Campeche Bank, Caribbean, Coral Reef, Gulf of Mexico
Temporal coverage: 2007/2019

The dataset contains information about the  “Colección Regional de Moluscos de la Península de Yucatán” (federal register INV-240-01-11) at the Unidad Multidisciplinaria de Docencia e Investigación, Faculty of Science, UNAM. This dataset represents only specimens of Phylum Mollusca  identified to genus and species (3969 specimens) from 35 localities of the coast, coral reefs  and deep sea at the Gulf of Mexico and Mexican Caribbean for a period of time from 2007 to 2019.  The dataset contains information of specimens belonging to 166 families, 386 genus and 542 species. The specimens at the collection have been either identified or validated by professional mollusk taxonomists, providing a significant level of trust in the data. The taxonomists that participated in this process appear in the list of authors.
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, Vaquita 1997, Cruise 1608

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence, Occurrence,Vessels,Sightings,Vaquita,Population,Abundance,Survey,Census
Temporal coverage: 1997/1997

Original provider:
NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC)

Dataset credits:
Marine Mammal and Turtle Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NMFS, NOAA

Abstract:
The 1998 Vaquita Abudance Survey was a collaboration between the National Marine Fisheries Service and SEMARNAP’s Instituto Nacional de la Pesca (INP) of Mexico. This line-transect survey was designed to collect data to estimate the abundance of vaquita, or Gulf of California harbor porpoise. The study area was from the northern end of the Gulf of California south to about 30 degrees north latitude in waters less than 100 meters deep. This survey was conducted by the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center aboard the NOAA ship <i>David Starr Jordan</i> for a total of 1,560 kilometers surveyed from mid-August to mid-September 1997. This dataset provides the time-date and geographical coordinates, by species/stock, of all cetaceans detected during the survey, as well as the daily and intra-daily start and end points of the line-transect survey.

Purpose:
The primary objective was to collect data to estimate the abundance vaquita, or Gulf of California harbor porpoise.

Supplemental information:
This dataset is supplemental to the following datasets: 
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, Vaquita 2008, Cruise 1637
Meiobenthic community in the Westerschelde estuary between 1977 and 1979

Keywords: Meiobenthos, Samplingevent, Meiofauna communities
Temporal coverage: 1977/1979

Data on quantitative aspects of the meiofauna community in the Westerschelde estuary such as density, biomass, diversity and community structure. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Van Damme, D.; Herman, R.; Sharma, Y.; Holvoet, M.; Martens, P. (1980). Benthic studies of the Southern Bight of the North Sea and its adjacent continental estuaries: Progress Report 2. Fluctuation of the meiobenthic communities in the Westerschelde estuary.
JOGMECCRFC12018 Env Template HK17-01 phyto

Keywords: Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2017/2017

Sampling data captured in Oceanic Exploration Research JOGMEC has implemented the following work as crust exploration activities during 2018: (1) Exploration work During 2018, two surveys were conducted on the R/V Hakurei in the exploration area. Multi Beam Echo Sounder (MBES) acoustic survey, Benthic Multi-coring System (BMS) drilling, Arm-bolted Rock Dredge (AD) rock sampling were carried out for resource evaluation. The first survey targeted the JA04 Seamount, JA06 Seamount (aka the Xufu Guyot), the JA12 Seamount (aka the Zhinyu Guyot) and the JA17 Seamount (aka the Scripps Guyot). The period of the first survey was from 5 April to 5 May (31 days). The second survey targeted the JA02 Seamount (aka the Lamont Guyot), the JA04 Seamount and the JA06 Seamount. The period of second survey was from 11 May to 11 June (32 days). High-resolution bathymetry data of the JA04 and JA12 Seamounts, 84 drilling cores in 31 blocks and 394 kg of rock samples were acquired during the exploration survey in 2018. Chemical analysis for resource evaluation and lithofacies similarity analysis to compare characteristics of crust ores were carried out on drilling core samples. Moreover, statistical analysis between acoustic backscattering strength and seafloor observation was carried out to evaluate the distribution of crust ores on seamounts in the  exploration area.
FRB: Thecate hydroids from the shelf waters of northern Canada

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 1923/1966

Based largely on collections from the Calanus-Salaelinus expeditions, 54 species of thecate hydroids were identified from the shelf waters of northern Canada between northeastern Newfoundland and the Alaska-Yukon border.

Thecates were found in material from 84 of the stations occupied by M.V. Calanus and M.V. Salvelinus,. The source report contains reference to previously unreported hydroids from arctic Canada in the collection of the Museum of Natural Sciences - these specimens are not included in this datasets. 

Specimens from these two collections were identified by Dale R. Calder who at that time worked at the Museum of Natural Sciences, National Museums of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.

or - are included but flagged with collectionCode of CMN and institutionCode.
BRUV data from the Beagle Australian Marine Park, Bass Strait, Australia (2018)

Keywords: Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 2018/2018

Sampling undertaken in and around Bealge AMP using NESP BRUV and Sampling SOPs (https://marine-sampling-field-manual.github.io/)
Stereo BRUV sampling of fish by IMAS researchers in and around Beagle AMP using NESP BRUV and Sampling field manuals (https://marine-sampling-field-manual.github.io/). Sampling was done using a BAS spatially balanced design as per detailed in Barrett, N, Monk, J., Nichol, S., Falster, G., Carroll, A., Siwabessy, J., Deane, A., Nanson, R., Picard, K., Dando, N., Hulls, J., and Evans, H. (2020). Beagle Marine Park: Post Survey Report. Report to the National Environmental Science Program, Marine Biodiversity Hub. University of Tasmania.
Metadata and data from GlobalArchive (https://globalarchive.org/geodata/data/campaign/get/989) and accessed on 2021-08-31.
ImageDOP Bentic Video Annotations in the Faial-Pico Channel in 2011

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Video observations, Data, propelled unmanned submersible, Deep water
Temporal coverage: 2011/2011

Annotations of species recorded on video by Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) during dives performed in the Faial-Pico Channel in the Azores archipelago, Portugal. Videos were recorded between 80 and 250 meters depth.
MARMAP Blackfish Trap Survey 1990-2009

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 1977/1989

Abundance and biomass of fish species collected during the day from 1977 to 1989 off the coast of the southeastern United States (Cape Fear, NC to Cape Canaveral, FL). Blackfish traps were set on live-bottom reef areas at depths &lt; 50 m. Blackfish trap were nearly cubic (0.6 m x 0.6 m x 0.5 m; 0.16 m3 volume) and constructed of 38-mm (1.5-inch) octagonal mesh ("chicken wire"). Each trap consisted of two entrances (0.13 m diameter, 0.09 m length) and one bait well (0.10 m diameter, 0.25 m length). Each trap was soaked between 90 and 120 mintues.
Xanthichthys greenei, a new species of triggerfish (Balistidae) from the Line Islands

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2005/2005

Xanthichthys greenei n. sp. is described from six specimens, 97-154 mm standard length (SL)  collected from mesophotic coral ecosystems (90-100 m) at Kiritimati (Christmas Island), Line Islands, part of the Republic of Kiribati in the Central Pacific. Of the six species of Xanthichthys, it is most similar to the Atlantic X. ringens and the Indo-West Pacific X. lineopunctatus, sharing with these species the character of three pigmented cheek grooves. It is distinctive in its low body scale row count (33-35, other Xanthichthys species with 39 or more), small size (maximum SL 154 mm, other species over 225 mm), and color pattern of scattered dark spots sub-dorsally and no other spots or lines on body.
NMML Harbor Porpoise Vessel, SE Alaska, Spring 1993

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence,harbor porpoise,Phocoena phocoena,abundance,marine mammal survey,survey,marine mammal,cetacean,Vessels,Sightings
Temporal coverage: 1993/1993

Original provider:
National Marine Mammal Laboratory

Dataset credits:
National Marine Mammal Laboratory

Abstract:
In spring 1993, the Alaskan panhandle and Prince William Sound were surveyed for harbor porpoise (<i>Phocoena phocoena</i>) from the NOAA John N. Cobb using line-transect methodology.  The shipboard platform was 28.36 m (93 ft) in length with a bridge height of 4.27 m (14 ft). To obtain data on seasonal movements of porpoise, a limited number of transects were made in areas of known porpoise concentrations. When a sighting was made, the following variables were recorded: time, angle, number of reticles to the sighting, radar distance (nm) to the shoreline at the same angle of the sighting, the species, the count of the porpoise seen (best, high, and low), and the animal(s) direction of travel. Search effort was recoded by noting the time and location of the ship at the beginning and end of each transect.

Purpose:
Although harbor porpoises, <i>Phocoena phocoena</i>, are known to occur throughout Alaska waters, few estimates of abundance exist. In 1991, the National Marine Mammal Laboratory initiated a 3 year study on Alaska harbor porpoises. The objectives of this program were to: 
1) Obtain minimum population estimates in coastal waters using line transect methodology with a coefficient of variation for density estimates of less than 30% for each survey area, and 
2) Establish a baseline for detecting changes in abundance through time, for analysis of trends. 
The ability of the observers to sight porpoise was sensitive to environmental conditions.  As expected, when conditions deteriorated the number of porpoises observed declined.

Supplemental information:
This dataset and associated effort data were updated on September 8, 2005. Those who downloaded them before that date should renew them.
Seabird observations by John Hatch on the research vessel RV Franklin from Hobart to Adelaide, Australia (1987)

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1987/1987

Historic seabird observations from Hobart to Adelaide via a summer upwelling region nera Cape Portland observed and recorded by the ornithologist John Hatch. Observations typically over a ten minute period multiple times per day. Location and weather details (sea temperature, salinity, water depth and wnd speed and direction) were recorded at the start period. Original data recording sheets can be downloaded at https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/download.cfm?file_id=5467. Data entered by OBIS Australia and where possible matched to WoRMS taxa. Voyage details at https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/survey_details.cfm?survey=FR198702
Kelp habitat density and composition from underwater video, east coast Tasmania, Australia (2020-2021)

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2020/2021

Annotations of canopy forming seaweed derived from towed video at selected key abalone blocks along the east coast of Tasmania, Australia. The purpose of the study was to examine the patch dynamics of seaweeds and urchin barrens and to provide validation for the identification of urchin barrens from multibeam surveys.
The video footage was annotated at the scale of individual kelp patches, whereby the start and end-point of individual patches were recorded as precisely as possible with the assistance of Biigle video analysis software (https://biigle.de/). The different kelp patches were categorised based on the canopy species and the overall percentage cover of the canopy (sparse = 0-20% cover, middle= 20-60%, dense=60-100% cover). Eck= Ecklonia radiata, Phyll = Phyllospora comoasa, Cys= Cystophora sp. Other = all other canopy species, bare= completely bare reef. These annotations were then matched to GPS coordinates collected from a transponder mounted to the camera platform.
Data accessed from cited metadata record on 2022-09-01.
Happywhale -  in South Atlantic Ocean

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence,PhotoID;Visual sighting, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2006/2021

Original provider:
Happywhale

Dataset credits:
Happywhale and contributors

Abstract:
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:

Marilia Olio
Jellyfish Database Initiative: Global records on gelatinous zooplankton for the past 200 years, collected from global sources and literature, subset of records from Australian and adjacent seas. (1907-2011)

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1907/2011

The Jellyfish Database Initiative (JeDI) is a scientifically-coordinated global database dedicated to gelatinous zooplankton (members of the Cnidaria, Ctenophora and Thaliacea) and associated environmental data. The database holds 476,000 quantitative, categorical, presence-absence and presence only records of gelatinous zooplankton spanning the past four centuries (1790-2011) assembled from a variety of published and unpublished sources. Gelatinous zooplankton data are reported to species level, where identified, but taxonomic information on phylum, family and order are reported for all records. This dataset is a subset of data in Australian waters and adjacent seas.
Yangtze finless porpoise in Yangtze River, China 2006

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2006/2006

Original provider:
Zhao Xiujiang, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Dataset credits:
Zhao Xiujiang, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wang Ding, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Abstract:
The Yangtze finless porpoise (<i>Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis</i>) is endemic to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, China. It is the only freshwater population of porpoises in the world and is currently listed as Endangered by IUCN. In November and December 2006, we used two boats and line transect methods to survey the entire current range of the population, except for two lakes (Poyang and Dongting). When on-effort, one boat surveyed 3,100 km with 240 sightings and a mean group size of 1.87 resulting in 0.077 sightings/km, while the other boat surveyed 3,065 km with 198 sightings and a mean group size of 2.05 resulting in 0.065 sightings/km.

Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to search for baiji and evaluate the status of Yangtze finless porpoise.

Supplemental information:
Baiji was announced to be likely extinct after this range-wide survey since not a single baiji was found during this survey (Turvey et al. 2007).
CSIRO, Catch records from eddy studies off the New South Wales coast, Australia 1979-1980

Keywords: Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1979/1980

The data were obtained as part of a time series study of Eddy "J" in the Tasman Sea off the New South Wales Coast. Stations inside and outside the eddy were sampled for hydrology/nutrients, phytoplankton fluorescence and particle size, zooplankton (including organic nitrogen), and midwater fishes using the RMT (rectangular midwater trawl) net. Within the eddy, the most abundant family of fishes in the midwater trawls was family Myctophidae (lanternfishes). Decapod crustacea, salps and squid were also enumerated. Some squid jigging with hand lines was also carried out on two occasions.
This data has been republished (2022-09-05 with additional details of each occurrence where they can be one of three types:  catch composition (counts per taxa and optional aggregated weights by trawl event), catch measurements (length and/or weight) of individual taxa and/or catch specimens and their stored location. The occurrence type is recorded in occurrenceremarks.
Data from: Notes on shrimps from the Marshall Islands

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 1946/1949

This dataset is from a paper by Fenner a. Chace, Jr. (1955) on the shrimps of the Marshall Islands.
The collections on which the following notes are based were made during biological surveys of the northern Marshall Atolls of Eniwetok, Bikini, Rongelap, and Rongerik in 1946 and 1947, under the sponsorship of the U. S. Department of the Navy. Only the decapod shrimps of the families Penaeidae, Sergestidae, Pasiphaeidae, Processidae, Thalassocaridae, and the genera Automate and Athanas of the Alpheidae are included here.
Australian Museum's Lizard Island Research Station, Queensland, Australia (1900 - 2018)

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1900/2018

Records from the Australian Museum's Lizard Island Research Station. The station is a coral reef research facility that is owned and operated by the Australian Museum.
Data sourced from Atlas of Living Australia (Dec 2018). Taxa matched to the World register of Marine Species. This copy of the data holds only marine records.
Biomass of Characteristic Intertidal and Subtidal Taxa in the N of Spain from 1992 to 2003

Keywords: Samplingevent, Ecological monitoring
Temporal coverage: 1992/2003

The second dataset was developed with the objective of the ecological status assessment in marine areas where sewage outfall discharges were projected. For this purpose, several field campaigns were carried out along the north coast of Spain (Avilés, Gijón, Saja-Besaya, Santander, Santoña, Urdaibai and San Sebastián-Pasajes) between 1998 and 2003. In each of these sites transects perpendicular to the coast were established. Then, samples were taken both in the intertidal and shallow subtidal to obtain the biomass of macroalgae taxa. The main characteristic and canopy taxa of the area were selected: Bifurcaria bifurcata, Cystoseira baccata, Cystoseira tamariscifolia, Gelidium corneum, Gelidium spinosum, Laminaria hyperborea, Laminaria ochroleuca, Saccorhiza polyschides and Stypocaulon scoparium.
Tracking arctic tern Sterna paradisaea between breeding sites in the northern arctic and temperate regions and survival/molt areas in the Antarctic pack‐ice zone. (2008-2015)

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2008/2015

The arctic tern Sterna paradisaea completes the longest known annual return migration on Earth, traveling between breeding sites in the northern arctic and temperate regions and survival/molt areas in the Antarctic pack‐ice zone. Light‐level geolocators were used to record 12 annual journeys by eight individuals of arctic terns breeding in the Baltic Sea. Data accessed from the Dryad repository cited in the Alerstam et al. paper on 2022-09-12.