oih/oih-wis2 huggingface dataset:
Aportes al conocimiento de la biodiversidad de aguas profundas del mar Caribe colombiano

Keywords: Peces, Observation, Exploración Costa-Afuera, Biodiversidad, Aguas Profundas, Cefalópodos, Occurrence, Caribe Colombiano
Temporal coverage: 2015/2017

La exploración y caracterización de los fondos marinos puede llegar a ser muy importante para aspectos de soberanía y economía, dada la gran cantidad de recursos naturales que se encuentran en el mar profundo. Pese a que aproximadamente 44% del territorio colombiano se encuentra sumergido, el conocimiento de los fondos marinos más allá de una profundidad de 150 m es limitado en Colombia. La biodiversidad de las aguas profundas es actualmente muy poco conocida en la región del sur del Caribe, ya que no se ha llevado a cabo ninguna exploración sistemática que permita el descubrimiento de patrones de diversidad biológica. La mayor limitante para esta exploración y caracterización es la falta de equipos de alta tecnología que permiten llegar a profundidades de más de 1000 m. 
Anadarko Colombia Company (ACC) es una empresa internacional que realiza exploración de hidrocarburos en aguas profundas y ultra profundas colombianas. Durante la fase de exploración, ha realizado diversos estudios (toma de muestras del fondo marino, batimetría e interpretación de señales de retro dispersión de alta resolución, pozos exploratorios) que le han permitido tener confirmaciones visuales, remotas y directas, de diferentes organismos del fondo marino, contando con un archivo invaluable de imágenes (fotos y videos) del fondo marino que representan los primeros registros en Colombia a más de 1500 m de profundidad.
Este proyecto emplea imágenes de video y fotografías obtenidas durante las diferentes actividades de exploración realizadas por Anadarko, y permite realizar una caracterización de la fauna de comunidades estructurantes asociada a filtraciones frías y a fondos blandos, en aguas profundas del Caribe colombiano.
SPC CoFish Invertebrates Observations Cook Islands 2007

Keywords: Occurrence, Marine invertebrates, CoFish, SPC, PROCFish/C
Temporal coverage: 2007/2007

Marine invertebrate species of commercial interest observed in Cook Islands during the CoFish surveys in Rarotonga, Palmerston, Mangaia and Aitutaki (2007) with a mix of survey methods (manta tow, reef benthos transects, and day and night searches)
The genus Lophocochlias Pilsbry, 1921 (Gastropoda, Tornidae) in the Indo-West Pacific

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 1898/2012

This dataset is from a paper by Rubio F. &amp; Rolán E. (2015) on the genus Lophocochlias Pilsbry, 1921 in the Indo-West Pacific.
The authors studied the species of the genus Lophocochlias, family Tornidae, of the tropical Indo-Pacific, collected during the expeditions of the Tropical deep-sea Benthos, directed by IRD and MNHN, in Madagascar, Reunion Island, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, the Philippine Islands, the Society Islands and Papua New Guinea. New data on geographical distribution and habitat of the species studied are provided, and their morphological variability is discussed.
MIRC NAVFAC Incidental Sightings - Vessel 1965-2014

Keywords: Occurrence,Mariana Islands Range Complex,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Visual Sighting,Vessel, Observation, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1965/2013

Original provider:
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.

Dataset credits:
The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program

Abstract:
Features in this feature class represent incidental sightings from vessels between 1965 and 2014.

Supplemental information:
[2018-04-16] Irregular date of 7/15/2065 was corrected to 7/15/1965.

A report of an incidental sighting did not require time and thus the time value is a rough indication (e.g. morning).
Happywhale - Common Minke Whale in Arctic Ocean

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

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 14 contributors in alphabetic order:

Adelie Xiaohang Li; Alex Sinclair Lack; Greta Henderson; Joel Moore; Karen Mulders; MACHI YOSHIDA; Marian Herz; Marilia Olio; Nacho Oria; Olivier Blaud; Raina Burke; Sabine+Ulf; Sara Jenner; Tobias Brehm
Polychaete Study in Northeastern Mediterranean Coast of Egypt

Keywords: Occurrence, Taxonomy, Introduced species, New species
Temporal coverage: 2008/2008

Within the frame work, organized by the National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Alexandria, Egypt, 15 quantitative samples were collected and analysed for Polychaetes using a Van Veen grab on the soft bottom, at depths ranging from 12m to 106 m. Samples were taken over two seasons (spring and summer, 2008) during two trips to the Northeastern coast of the Egyptian Mediterranean waters at El Tina Bay, Balteem, Abokhashaba and Gamasa.
CSIRO, Cruise SS199701, Marine Biological Survey, South Tasmania, Southeast Australia, 1997

Keywords: Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1997/1997

Biological data collected on Southern Surveyor cruise SS 01/97. This cruise took place in southern Tasmanian Continental Slope waters during 20 January - 1 February 1997, under the leadership of Tony Koslow, as part of an Tasmanian Seamounts study. Biological data collected on this cruise include photographic surveys of four seamounts, dredge samples, faunal samples (including corals and many other benthic invertebrates) and fish samples. Samples of several species of corals, including Solenosmilia variabilis, were also taken for genetic analysis, and rock samples taken for age determination of the seamounts.
Reports, metadata and other data from this voyage are at https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/survey_details,cfm?survey=SS199701

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.
Lophelia pertusa reefs in Norwegian seawaters

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence, Oil industry, Fishermen, Reefs, Literature, Origin
Temporal coverage: 1929/2015

<i>Lophelia pertusa</i> reefs dataset contains scientific registrations of reefs in Norwegian seawaters done by Institute of Marine Research through their own seabed mapping, registrations from MAREANO, information from fishermen, registrations from the oil industry and from scientific litterature.
CRC HRC PMRF Small Vessel-Based Monitoring Surveys February 2016

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence, Occurrence,Hawaii Range Complex,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Visual Sighting,Vessel
Temporal coverage: 2016/2016

Original provider:
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.

Dataset credits:
The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program

Abstract:
Features in this feature class represent animal sightings for seven days of Navy-funded small boat surveys to photograph and satellite tag marine mammal odontocetes. Surveys were conducted from 9 to 15 February 2016 off Kauai, in and around the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), within the Hawaii Range Complex (HRC). Work was performed under HDR task order KB08 (IDIQ contract award N62470-15-D-8006, NAVFACPAC).
Barrow Island Green Turtle Satellite Tracking Program 2013-2014 (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2014/2014

Original provider:
Pendoley Environmental Pty Ltd

Dataset credits:
Data provider
West Australian Sea Turtle Satellite Tracking Project
Originating data center
<a href="http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/">Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)</a>


Abstract:
The first Kiwisat101 satellite transmitters deployed on marine turtles in  Western Austalia were attached to hawksbill turtles at Varanus Island and green turtles at Barrow Island over the summer of 2000-2001, as part of Kellie Pendoley's PhD project. In December 2013, a Pendoley Environmental team attached three modern GPS TDR ptt units to green tutles at Barrow Island.  Advances in technology over the intervening 13 years is expected to result in substantial improvements in data quantity and quality relative to the turn of the century program.

Supplemental information:
<a href="http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=956">Visit STAT's project page</a> for additional information.

This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.
18S Monterey Bay Time Series: an eDNA data set from Monterey Bay, California, including years 2006, 2013 - 2016

Keywords: Observation, 18S, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2006/2016

These data are from marine filtered seawater samples collected at a nearshore station in Monterey Bay, CA. They have undergone metabarcoding for the 18S V9 region. A selection of samples from this plate were included in the publication "Environmental DNA reveals seasonal shifts and potential interactions in a marine community" (Djurhuus et al., 2020). Samples were collected by CTD rosette and filtered by a peristaltic pump system.
Illumina MiSeq metabarcoding data was processed in the following steps: (1) primer sequences were removed through atropos (Didion et al., 2017), (2) reads were denoised, ASV sequences inferred, paired reads merged and chimeras removed through Dada2 (Callahan et al., 2016), (3) taxonomic ranks were assigned through blastn searches to NCBI GenBank's non-redundant nucleotide database (nt) with hits filtered by lowest common ancestor algorithm within MEGAN6 (Huson et al., 2016). Furthermore, post-MEGAN6 filtering was performed to ensure only contigs with a hit of ≥97% sequence identity were annotated to the species level and only contigs with a hit of ≥95% sequence identity were annotated to the genus level. Annotations were elevated to the next highest taxonomic level for contigs that failed these conditions.
Data are presented in two comma-separated values files: occurrence.csv, and DNADerivedData.csv. The former contains the taxonomic identification of each ASV observed and its number of reads, in addition to relevant metadata including the location the water sample was taken, references for the identification procedure, and links to archived sequences. The latter contains the DNA sequence of each ASV observed, in addition to relevant metadata including primer information and links to detailed field and laboratory methods. This data set was transformed from its native format into a table structure using Darwin Core and DNA Derived Data Extension term names as column names.
References:
Djurhuus, A, Closek, CJ, Kelly, RP et al. (2020). Environmental DNA reveals seasonal shifts and potential interactions in a marine community. Nat Commun 11, 254. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14105-1
Didion JP, Martin M, Collins FS. (2017) Atropos: specific, sensitive, and speedy trimming of sequencing reads. PeerJ 5:e3720 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3720
Callahan, B., McMurdie, P., Rosen, M. et al. (2016) DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data. Nat Methods 13, 581–583 . https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3869
Huson DH, Beier S, Flade I, Górska A, El-Hadidi M, Mitra S, Ruscheweyh HJ, Tappu R. (2016) MEGAN community edition-interactive exploration and analysis of large-scale microbiome sequencing data. PLoS computational biology.  Jun 21;12(6):e1004957.
Harmful Algal Event Database (HAEDAT)

Keywords: Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 1770/2024, 1770/2023

The Harmful Algal Event Database (HAEDAT) is a component of the Harmful Algal Information system (HAIS) within the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, and in cooperation with ICES, and PICES. The HAEDAT is a meta database containing records of harmful algal events. HAEDAT contains records from the ICES area (North Atlantic) since 1985, and from the PICES area (North Pacific) since 2000. IOC Regional networks in South America, South Pacific and Asia, and North Africa have recently started contributing.

This instantiation of the HAEDAT database contains all species occurrences associated with harmful algal events, including abundance and toxicity ranges.
Phytoplankton, National Pilot Monitoring Studies Phyllophora July 2017, EMBLAS II Project

Keywords: Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: null/null

Phytoplankton data: species composition, volume of the cell [µm3], abundance [*1000cells/l], biomass (mg/m3) and Carbon biomass collected during the survey of the National Pilot Monitoring Studies Ukraine (NPMS UA) in the Ukrainian waters (North-Western part of the Black Sea) in the area of the Zernov’s Phyllophora Field onboard the M/V "Auguste Piccard" (Ukraine) in July 2017
DFO Quebec Region Biodiversity of the snow crab trawl survey in the Lower North Shore (2018)

Keywords: Canada, St-Laurent, biodiversity, Quebec, Québec, benthic, Gulf, Samplingevent, Golfe, Occurrence, St-Lawrence, benthique, biodiversité, observation
Temporal coverage: 2018/2018

Observations of biodiversity during the snow crab survey on the Lower North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence between Havre-St-Pierre and Blanc-Sablon. A research survey on snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio), using a beam trawl, was carried out by DFO in 2018. The main objective of this survey was to assess crab abundance and the diversity of benthic species associated with crab habitat according to a fixed station sampling plan. The data provided is a compilation by species (or taxon), by station. The taxonomic and geographic validity of the records were verified
Un relevé de recherche sur le crabe des neiges (Chionoecetes opilio), à l'aide d'un chalut à perche (connu aussi sous le nom de chalut à bâton), a été réalisé par le MPO en 2018 dans le Golfe du Saint-Laurent sur la Basse Côte-Nord, entre Havre-St-Pierre et Blanc-Sablon. L’objectif principal de ce relevé était d’évaluer l’abondance du crabe et la diversité des espèces benthiques associées à l’habitat du crabe selon un plan d'échantillonnage à stations fixes. Les données fournies sont une compilation par espèce (ou taxon), par station. La validité taxonomique et géographique des enregistrements a été vérifiée.
Habitat-forming Cold Water Corals in the New Zealand region

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 1954/2009

Occurrence data of five main species (Enallopsammia rostrata, Goniocorella dumosa, Madrepora oculata, Oculina virgosa, and Solenosmilia variabilis) of habitat-forming cold water corals in the New Zealand region.

Determining the distribution of habitat forming scleractinian corals in the New Zealand region is necessary in order to understand the ecological significance of these taxa and the likely impact of anthropogenic activities on their persistence. Historical records from early publications, research trawl surveys, commercial fishing bycatch and recent biodiversity surveys were compiled for the habitat-forming coral species Madrepora oculata, Solenosmilia variabilis, Goniocorella dumosa, Enallopsammia rostrata and Oculina virgosa. These data were used to describe the observed depth, geographic distribution and geomorphic habitat associations of the study corals in the region.
Virgin Islands National Park Coral Transplant Study

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1999/2009

In a pilot project in the Caribbean (Virgin Islands National Park, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands), storm-produced fragments of <i>Acropora palmata</i>, <i>A. cervicornis</i>, and <i>Porites porites</i> were collected from donor reefs and transplanted to nearby degraded reefs.
Marine data from Natural Resources Wales (NRW) Technical Support (Research &amp; Monitoring) Contracts, Wales

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Biological sampling
Temporal coverage: 1902/2019

This dataset is comprised of marine benthic surveys created by Natural Resources Wales' (and previously the Countryside Council for Wales') technical support (research and monitoring) contracts since 1993. The surveys focus on benthic habitats (often referred to as 'biotopes') in intertidal, inshore (typically within 3nm) and subtidal areas. These surveys include the capture of many species records. Only the species records are available on the NBN Gateway. Some of the surveys were originally stored in the MNCR (Marine Nature Conservation Review) database created by JNCC but then transfered to CCW. (However, none were carried out as part of JNCC's MNCR officical survey programme). Original copies of all the surveys are now held in NRW's Marine Recorder database.
Bumphead Parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum) observations at Ningaloo Reef, Australia (2008-2021)

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2007/2021

Bolbometopon muricatum (bumphead parrotfish, Valenciennes, 1839) is a conspicuous, iconic and ecologically important coral reef fish species. B. muricatum plays an important role in the bioerosion of the reef framework and as a result has been described as both an ecosystem engineer and keystone species. Despite the complete absence of B. muricatum from 32 years of scientific surveys across the Ningaloo ReefWorld Heritage Area, the authors recorded a total of 155 individuals of B. muricatum across 63.2 ha of reef crest surveys, equating to mean density of 2.38 ind/ha
Joint Open Sea Surveys 2016, Improving Environmental Monitoring in the Black Sea - Phase II (EMBLAS-II), ENPI/2013/313-169, (Mesozooplankton)

Keywords: Biological sampling, Samplingevent, research vessel, Biological monitoring, Mare Nigrum
Temporal coverage: 2016/2016

Mesozooplankton data: species composition, abundance (ind/m3), biomass (mg/m3) collected during the Joint Open Sea Survey (JOSS UA - GE 2016) in the Black Sea waters (Transects Odessa - Batumi - Constanta) onboard the R/V "Mare Nigrum" (Romania) in May-June 2016
Mesozooplankton, National Pilot Monitoring Studies Phyllophora July 2017, EMBLAS-II

Keywords: Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 2017/2017

Mesozooplankton data: species composition, abundance (ind/m3), biomass (mg/m3) collected during the survey of the National Pilot Monitoring Studies Ukraine (NPMS UA) in the Ukrainian waters (North-Western part of the Black Sea) in the area of the Zernov’s Phyllophora Field onboard the M/V "Auguste Piccard" (Ukraine) in July 2017
NT Alligator Rivers Region Billabongs Bird Count, Northern Territory, Australia (1981-1984)

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1981/1984

Quantitative waterbird surveys over seasonal wetlands of the Alligator Rivers Region (ARR) of the NT, provided by the Supervising Scientist Division (SSD) of the Commonwealth Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA). Ground and aerial surveys at 17 billabongs within the Magela Creek catchment. Environmental information includes structural classification of each billabong surveyed
TARTACare Calabria: monitoring and conservation of the loggerhead turtle nesting activity along the Ionian coast of Calabria (Southern Italy) (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

Keywords: Occurrence,Radio transmitters,Animal movements, Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2009/2013

Original provider:
Islameta Group, University of Pisa

Dataset credits:
Data provider
Islameta Group, Dept. of Biology - University of Pisa
Originating data center
<a href="http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/">Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)</a>
Project partner
The overall TARTAcare project of the Dept. of Ecology, Calabria University is a collaboration with: Islameta Group, University of Pisa (satellite tracking), University of Rome Tor Vergata (genetic analysis), University of Florence (beach characterization), Stazione Zoologica A. Dohrn, Naples (tagging), and WWF Italia and FAI (Fondo Ambiente Italiano) for nest protection and public awareness campaigns
Project sponsor or sponsor description
The project is authorized by the Ministry of Environment (Direzione Protezione della Natura). The main financial supports to the project were provided through the years by the Italian Ministry of Environment and of University and Research, and the Calabrian regional government (Assessorato alle Politiche dellï¿½Ambiente)


Abstract:
The Southern Ionian coast of Calabria is currently recognized as the main nesting ground for loggerhead turtles in Italy, accounting for 70% of the total nesting events which were documented nationwide over the last six years (2003-2008). This finding arose from a research project (TARTACare Calabria) initiated by the Dept. of Ecology of Calabria University (Rende, Italy) in summer 2000. This project mainly aims at nest monitoring and protecting, but also has additional objectives such as estimating of nesting population, genetic analysis, beach characterization, definition of type and entity of threats to nesting derived from human impact (including fishing impact). Satellite tracking of nesting females has also been attempted to track the post-nesting migrations and to ultimately identify the so far unknown foraging areas of the turtles nesting on the Ionian coast.Zeffiria and Esperia are the first two turtles nesting in Italy that are being tracked by satellite during their post-nesting migrations.

Supplemental information:
<a href="http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=427">Visit STAT's project page</a> for additional information.

This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.
Phytoplankton sampling in the coastal waters of south eastern Tasmania, Australia (2009-2015)

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen
Temporal coverage: 2009/2015

Phytoplankton was counted and identified from five sites over the 5-year period. Annual cycles in abundance are available (as cells mL-1), along with detailed species identification. Cell measurements and approximate geometric shape were also recorded for the calculation of biovolume (μL cell-1). Diatoms and dinoflagellates dominated the samples in terms of biomass, however, small cells were also very abundant throughout each year. The data are restricted to an integrated sample from the top 12 m of the water column. Fluorescence profiles elsewhere in this dataset can provide an indication of phytoplankton presence lower in the water column.
Queensland Museum Molluscs - Marine records

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen
Temporal coverage: 1853/2016

Queensland has extraordinarily high diversities of marine and terrestrial molluscs. These encompass the megadiverse faunas of the Great Barrier Reef, the Wet Tropics and the Brigalow Belt with over 17,000 species represented in our collections. The collection contains donated marine collections of exceptional scientific importance.
Data downloaded from ALA (http://collections.ala.org.au/public/show/co147), marine records identified and taxa matched to World Register of Marine Species.
Zooplankton monitoring in the Belgian Part of the North Sea between 2009 and 2010

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence, Zooplankton
Temporal coverage: 2009/2010

Zooplankton from the Belgian Part of the North Sea was sampled monthly in 2009 and 2010 at 10 monitoring stations, using a WP2 net (57cm, 200µm mesh size), which was towed in an oblique haul from bottom to surface.