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TPWD HARC Texas Coastal Fisheries Lower Laguna Madre Trawl

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1982/2008

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) utilizes several sampling gears for fisheries-independent monitoring of finfish and shellfish communities. They include bag seines, trawls, gill nets and oyster dredges. TPWD uses multiple gears in a random sampling protocol, and they identify (to the lowest taxonomic unit possible) and count everything that they collect. This dataset contains bay trawl data collected for the Lower Laguna Madre system in Texas from 1982 to 2008. Collected data also included spatial and temporal information describing the sample location and time, collection gear information, hydrological data (e.g. dissolved oxygen, water temperature, and salinity), weather conditions, species caught, and number of each species captured. Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) calculated the relative abundance data, calculated as the catch of a particular species in a sample divided by the total number of animals captured in that sample. Absence data was recorded for species on the TPWD species sampling lists that were not captured during sampling.
South Australian Museum Australian Biological Tissue Collection - marine records

Keywords: Specimen, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1931/2018

The Australian Biological Tissue Collection (ABTC) was the first frozen tissue collection in any Australian museum and is one of the largest wildlife tissue collections in the world. This important collection encompasses most vertebrate groups as well as a broad representation of major invertebrate groups from Australia and surrounding regions. It has immense research significance for researchers around the world.

The ABTC is the largest tissue bank for wildlife research in the Southern Hemisphere. It contains nearly 125,000 animal and plant samples collected from terrestrial and marine animals since 1979.
This dataset is of marine species sourced from the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) January 2019 (https://collections.ala.org.au/public/show/co166). Taxa have been matched to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and if not then matched to the Australian Faunal Directory (AFD)
ME harbor and gray seals time series

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Shore,Visual Sighting
Temporal coverage: 1981/2001

Original provider:
University of Maine

Dataset credits:
NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center
James Gilbert, University of Maine
Wendy Dow, Duke University

Abstract:
Seal populations in the northwest Atlantic are thriving, yet few grant dollars go to seal projects in the northeast region. According to many researchers and managers in the region, the healthy state of stocks is exactly why we should be studying seals. Seal and human activities along the coast often result in conflicts, which will undoubtedly increase as the population and range of both seals and humans increase. The east coast of the United States lacks a management plan for seals. A problem that seriously impedes management is that managers do not know where the seals are and more specifically, where haul-out sites are. This atlas is designed to aid managers and researchers in the management and conservation of seals in the northwest Atlantic. The atlas and the data used to create the atlas can be accessed through OBIS-SEAMAP.

Purpose:
The purpose of this dataset and atlas is to provide data from a series of aerial surveys conducted between 1981 and 2001 of harbor and gray seal haul-out sites in Maine.

Supplemental information:
The original data were transposed so that each record represents seals abundance at a single ledge on a single day. As this dataset is a time-series, an appropriate way to represent it is to show it with time-series charts by region. Currently, OBIS-SEAMAP lets you see it on Google Earth with the charts. Not all seasons are represented in this dataset, and distributions of seals may be different in other seasons. Lack of a count for a ledge on a particular date does not necessarily mean the ledge was not observed.
POLIQUETOS HOLOPLANCTÓNICOS (ANNELIDA: POLYCHAETA) DE LA PLATAFORMA NORTE DE LA PENÍNSULA DE PARIA Y GOLFO DE PARIA, VENEZUELA

Keywords: Venezuela, ID:BID-CA2020-025-NAC., golfo de Paria, Atlántico Tropical, península de Paria, CaribeSur, Poliquetos holoplanctónicos, Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 2005/2005

Se realizó una caracterización taxonómica de los poliquetos holoplanctónicos, recolectados en 17 estaciones, entre la plataforma norte de la Península de Paria y el Golfo de Paria, durante el mes de marzo de 2005. Las muestras se obtuvieron mediante una red de arrastre tipo Bongo modificada, operada a bordo del B/O Guaiqueri II. Se identificaron siete especies de poliquetos holoplanctónicos: Alciopina parasitica, Plotohelmis tenuis, P. capitata, Lopadorhynchus uncinatus,Tomopteris nationalis, T. planktonis y Travisiopsis dubia, siendo todas primer registro para Venezuela, y de las cuales, P. tenuis y P. capitata son primer registro para el Mar Caribe.
Macroalgas del área de influencia del terminal marino de la empresa Salinera Sacosal, Araya, Estado Sucre, Venezuela

Keywords: macroalgas, muelle, Samplingevent, ID:BID-CA2020-025-NAC, CaribeSur, Araya, taxonomía, biomasa
Temporal coverage: 2011/2011

En el estado Sucre se han efectuado importantes estudios dirigidos al conocimiento de las macroalgas marinas, sin embargo en la península de Araya existen pocos trabajos al respecto. Se recolectaron macroalgas en 11 estaciones con substrato rocoso situadas en el área de influencia del terminal marino de Araya (estado Sucre, Venezuela) en junio de 2011. Las muestras para estudios taxonómicos se recolectaron a mano, se preservaron con formalina al 5 % y se identificaron hasta especie mediante el uso de claves taxonómicas, además se tomaron algas para la determinación de la biomasa en peso seco utilizando una cuadrata dispuesta al azar sobre el sustrato. Se identificaron 33 especies de macroalgas, de las cuales el 61,8 % correspondió a las Rhodophyta, seguidas por 32,4 % de Chlorophyta y 5,9 % de Ochrophyta.  Las categorías taxonómicas distribuidas por Phylum según el esquema Orden-Familia-Género-especie, fue el siguiente: Rhodophyta (8-11-19-20), Ochrophyta (2-2-2-2) y Chlorophyta (3-5-6-11). Las especie con mayor biomasa fue Centroceras clavulatum, seguida por Ulva lactuca y Gelidium pusillum, la estación 5 presento la máxima biomasa total 54,62 g.m-2. Las estaciones situadas en el muelle mostraron pocas especies y bajos valores de biomasa debido a la posición vertical del substrato que favorece el establecimiento de otros organismos como esponjas, ascidias coloniales y briozoarios que compiten exitosamente con las algas por el espacio. Se puede concluir con este trabajo que las macroalgas son un componente biótico importante en la zona estudiada, pudiendo utilizarse su presencia en estudios de calidad de las aguas, constituyendo un elemento importante en el biofouling de los muelles.
NMML Killer Whale Vessel, Bering Sea, 1993

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence, Occurrence,Killer Whale,Orcinus orca,vessel survey,survey,abundance
Temporal coverage: 1993/1993

Original provider:
National Marine Mammal Laboratory

Dataset credits:
National Marine Mammal Laboratory

Abstract:
From 13 July to 24 August, 1993, a part of a larger study, the Bering Sea was surveyed for killer whales (<i>Orcinus orca</i>) from the NOAA Glorita using line transect methodology. To provide adequate coverage throughout the area, the study was limited to areas of known killer whale concentrations. The vessel was 44.8 m (147 ft) long and had a bridge height of 8.8 m (29 feet).

Purpose:
The objectives of this study were as follows: 
1) Develop a photographic identification catalogue of each killer whale encountered, and its pod, to determine pod identity, distribution, and movements relative to annual survey effort, 
2) Obtain minimum population estimated of killer whales in the southeastern Bering Sea, central/eastern Aleutian Islands, western Gulf of Alaska (including Prince William Sound), and southeastern Alaska, and 
3) Establish baseline data for detecting annual changes in abundance.
TRAS LA RUTA DE LAS TORTUGAS GOLFINAS EN LOS CABOS, BCS 2009-2018 !! (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2010/2019

Original provider:
Organización par

Dataset credits:
Data provider
Organización para la Sustentabilidad y Conservación del Medio Ambiente
Originating data center
<a href="http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/">Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)</a>


Supplemental information:
<a href="http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1373">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.
Caracterización bacteriana del Distrito Nacional de Manejo Integrado Cabo Manglares Bajo Mira y Frontera, Pacífico colombiano - Proyecto Colombia BIO

Keywords: tejidos blandos, PACÍFICO, patógeno, biorremediación, Anadara tuberculosa, aislados bacterianos, SEAFLOWER, sedimento, bioindicador, Piangua, Caracterización, Anadara similis), gradiente ambiental, COLOMBIA_BIO, Specimen, Tumaco, Occurrence, SIB_MARINO, agua, Candelilla de la Mar
Temporal coverage: 2018/2018

La propuesta de investigación de la Universidad del Sinú se enfocó, originalmente, a la evaluación de la contaminación microbiológica en agua y sedimentos para correlacionar con los contenidos observados en tejidos vivos de la especie de Piangua Anadara tuberculosa; sin embargo, una vez en campo el proyecto adquirió una dimensión mayor, ya que se tuvo la posibilidad de incluir la especie Anadara similis en los muestreos biológicos y a la posibilidad de realizar algunos análisis de laboratorio adicionales. En este contexto, se efectuó un relacionamiento con el personal de DIMAR a fin de complementar la información de contaminación en estas especies, para lo cual la Universidad del Sinú realizó la recolección y separación de muestras de Piangua, para adelantar el registro de hidrocarburos en estos organismos en los laboratorios del CIOH Pacífico.
Durante la fase de campo se logró obtener muestras de Piangua, agua y sedimentos en cuatro (4) localidades, a saber: Candelilla de la Mar, Teherán, Colombia Grande y Tumaco, donde también se registraron los valores de algunas variables fisicoquímicas en el agua superficial. El procesamiento del material biológico se llevó a cabo en el laboratorio montado en el buque “7 de agosto” de la Armada Nacional de Colombia. Las muestras de Piangua, agua y sedimento se almacenaron en congelación en el buque hasta su traslado por vía aérea al laboratorio de microbiología de la Universidad del Sinú – Seccional Cartagena.
En total se obtuvo información de 99 registros biológicos.
TPWD HARC Texas Coastal Fisheries, Corpus Christi Bay Gill Net

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 1976/2008

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) utilizes several sampling gears for fisheries-independent monitoring of finfish and shellfish communities. They include bag seines, trawls, gill nets and oyster dredges. TPWD uses multiple gears in a random sampling protocol, and they identify (to the lowest taxonomic unit possible) and count everything that they collect. This dataset contains gill net data collected for the Corpus Christi bay system in Texas from 1976 to 2008. Collected data also included spatial and temporal information describing the sample location and time, collection gear information, hydrological data (e.g. dissolved oxygen, water temperature, and salinity), weather conditions, species caught, and number of each species captured. Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) calculated the relative abundance data, calculated as the catch of a particular species in a sample divided by the total number of animals captured in that sample. Absence data was recorded for species on the TPWD species sampling lists that were not captured during sampling.
Benthic habitats of Marra Sea Country - Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia (2021)

Keywords: Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 2021/2021

This dataset summarises benthic surveys in Marra Sea Country, including the Limmen Marine Park (Commonwealth) and Limmen Bight Marine Park (Northern Territory). Records are from 3 datasets as described by the investigators are  (1) A point (site) shapefile describes (a) seagrass presence/absence, (b) seagrass species composition, (c) algae cover and (d) benthic macro-invertebrate cover at n=2018 sites surveyed by small vessel and helicopter. (2) A point (site) shapefile describes deep-water (a) seagrass presence/absence, (b) seagrass species composition, (c) algae cover and (d) benthic macro-invertebrate cover at 54 sites surveyed by benthic towed camera and sled net. (3) The meadow shapefile describes attributes of 69 seagrass meadows. Data sourced from cited paper on 2020-06-01.
The sampling methods used to study, describe and monitor seagrass meadows were developed by the TropWATER Seagrass Group and tailored to the location and habitat surveyed; these are described in detail in the relevant publications (https://research.jcu.edu.au/tropwater).
Coral reef-associated fauna in the Bajos del Norte and National Park Alacranes Reef: OCEANA Expedition 2021

Keywords: invertebrates, National Park Alacranes Reef, Bajos del Norte, Occurrence, Campeche Bank, fishes, Gulf of Mexico, diversity, reef
Temporal coverage: 2021/2021

This dataset contains information about invertebrates (non-coral) observed in Bajos del Norte and the National Park Alacranes Reef (PNAA), and information on fishes species observed in the PNAA. Both reefs Bajos del Norte and Alacranes, are located in the north portion of Campeche Bank, Gulf of Mexico. OCEANA Mexico carried out both expeditions in August and September 2021.
BGRPMN12016 Biodiversity Envdata

Keywords: Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2010/2014

Sampling data captured in Oceanic Exploration Research One objective of the exploration campaign in 2016 was to increase the box corer sampling density in a nodule field of high economic potential (prospective area #1 [PA1] in the eastern German license area) called sub-cluster CL11 (231 km2) in order to (1) determine its reservoir content in more detail, and (2) investigate whether and to what extent resource assessment can be improved (and the efficiency of exploration planning increased) by determining the optimal number of box core samples required per target area. For the analysis of nodule abundances obtained from box core samples, the geostatistical methods variography and ordinary block kriging were used.
JOGMECCRFC12016 Env Template 2016 Edokko data

Keywords: Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2016/2016

Sampling data captured in Oceanic Exploration Research JOGMEC has implemented the following works as the crust exploration activities during the year 2016: (1) Exploration work A sampling survey, acoustic survey, and seafloor observation were conducted according to the exploration plan. The exploration target was the JA02 Seamount and BMS drilling, ROV survey, MBES survey were performed with the marine resource research vessel Hakurei owned by JOGMEC during a period of 29 days from April 11 to May 9. In the BMS drilling, 25 holes were drilled at 13 sites to collect 22 core samples. In the ROV survey, 278 kg of samples were collected for benefication and metallurgy tests. In the MBES survey, benthic landform data including the foot of the JA02 seamount were collected. In addition to the surveys with Hakurei, automatic measurement of the crust thickness was conducted at the JA02 Seamount with a chartered vessel owned by a private company during a period of 21 days from February 3 to 23. Although the actual survey could be made only for two days due to bad weather, we made 3D mapping of the acoustic measurement result of the crust thickness on the benthic plane. The measured crust thickness was found consistent with the BMS data collected from the surrounding area.
The Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking (Standardised) Data from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

Keywords: Occurrence, ANIMAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR
BIRDS
ALBATROSSES/PETRELS AND ALLIES
PENGUINS
MAMMALS
SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES
BALEEN WHALES
Temporal coverage: 1991/2016

The Southern Ocean is a remote, hostile environment where conducting marine biology is challenging, so we know relatively little about this important region, which is critical as a habitat for breeding and foraging of many marine endotherms.   Scientists from around the world have been tracking seals, penguins, petrels, whales and albatrosses for more than two decades to learn how they spend their time at sea. The Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking Data (RAATD), was initiated by the SCAR Expert Group on Marine Mammals (EG-BAMM) in 2010. This team has assembled tracking data shared by 38 biologists from 11 different countries to accumulate the largest animal tracking database in the world, containing information from 15 species, containing over 3,400 individual animals and almost 2.5 million at-sea locations. Analysing a dataset of this size brings its own challenges and the team is developing new and innovative statistical approaches to integrate these complex data. When complete RAATD will provide a greater understanding of fundamental ecosystem processes in the Southern Ocean, help predict the future of top predator distribution and help with spatial management planning.
Colección de Bacterias del Museo de Historia Natural Marina de Colombia – Makuriwa (Invemar)

Keywords: Bacteria;Actinobacteria;Firmicutes;Proteobacteria;Caribe colombiano;Pacífico colombiano;Museo de Historia Natural Marina de Colombia;MHNMC, Occurrence, Specimen
Temporal coverage: 2015/2017

El Museo de Historia Natural Marina de Colombia que hace parte del INVEMAR además de sus colecciones de especímenes y tejidos, cuenta con colecciones vivas, entre las cuales se encuentra la colección de Bacterias creada en el 2006 por la Doctora Martha Liliana Gómez García, quien en ese momento formaba parte del Programa de Investigación de Calidad Ambiental Marina del instituto; la colección fue originada a partir de un proyecto de investigación del cual se seleccionaron 122 cepas con capacidad biodegradadora de compuestos orgánicos persistentes, las cuales fueron aisladas de sedimentos colectados en áreas costeras del Caribe y el Pacífico colombiano, donde se tenía conocimiento de concentraciones significativas de hidrocarburos y plaguicidas organoclorados. Durante varios años la colección se mantuvo relativamente estable en cuanto al número original de cepas, con eventuales adiciones y algunas bajas; sin embargo, a partir del año 2015 que se registró un crecimiento significativo de la colección, debido al inicio de un nuevo ciclo de proyectos que incorporaron entre sus componentes de investigación la caracterización de microorganismos. Actualmente el cepario se encuentra conformado por 569 lotes de cepas marinas y costeras, los cuales se mantienen en condiciones de criopreservación a -80°C con glicerol como agente crioprotectante. El presente conjunto de datos incluye 423 registros biológicos de especímenes catalogados correspondientes a los fila Actinobacteria, Fimicutes y Proteobacteria, así como también contiene aislados bacterianos que se encuentran identificados hasta categoría de reino Bacteria. Del total de registros documentados 399 pertenecen al Caribe y 24 al Pacífico colombiano, y corresponden a muestras colectadas desde las zonas estuarinas hasta el margen continental alrededor de los 4500 m de profundidad.
Happywhale - Arnoux's Beaked Whale in Southern Ocean

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence,PhotoID;Visual sighting, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: null/null, 2004/2022

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 2 contributors in alphabetic order:

Adrian Boyle; Ted Cheeseman
National monitoring of macrobenthos in the Kavala Gulf

Keywords: Rocky shores, Biodiversity, Monitoring, Benthos, Occurrence, Zoobenthos, Macrobenthos, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2004/2004

Data were collected as part of a monitoring programme, studying the changes in seaweed communities across an eutrophication gradient in the Kavala Gulf. As part of the Water Framework Directive (WFD), the results of this study were then compared to the Ecological Status assessment of the coastline, based on the Ecological Evaluation Index (EEI).
Dry Tortugas Reef Visual Census 1999

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence, Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 1999/1999

In 1998, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Fisheries Independent Monitoring (FIM) program began a long-term monitoring effort of key reef fish populations in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. This effort was aimed at evaluating the relative abundance, size structure, and habitat utilization of specific reef fish species that are targeted by commercial and recreational fisheries.
Total phytoplankton inventory in the Southern Bight of the North Sea between 1973 and 1974

Keywords: Phytoplankton, Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 1973/1974

Phytoplankton abundances and cell counts for 45 stations in the Southern Bight of the North Sea between November 1973 and May 1974.The data are digitized from technical reports in the frame of the 4DEMON project.
Equinodermos de las unidades ecológicas someras Expedición Seaflower Serranilla2017 - Proyecto Colombia BIO

Keywords: Colombia BIO, Occurrence, Serranilla, Expedicion Seaflower, Equinodermos, Registros
Temporal coverage: 2017/2017

Se documentan los datos de los equinodermos asociados a las unidades ecológicas someras identificadas en la Isla Cayo Serranilla durante la Expedición Científica SeaFlower 2017. Los datos fueron tomados mediante buceo autónomo a través de transectos de 20 m, mediante buceo a pulmón y mediante captura manual en la zona intermareal y en el litoral arenoso. Durante estos muestreos se registraron las especies observadas y se capturaron especímenes y tejidos, por lo que los datos que se documentan incluyen observaciones y material recolectado que actualmente se encuentra depositado en las colecciones de equinodermos y tejidos del Museo de Historia Natural Marina de Colombia – MHNMC. Se visitaron siete unidades ecológicas y tres localidades alrededor del Cayo Beacon, en las cuales se observaron un total de 49 registros biológicos de equinodermos, 19 corresponden a observaciones y 30 a ejemplares preservados. Estos registros corresponden a 24 especies, incluidas en 17 géneros y 15 familias.