oih/oih-wis2 huggingface dataset:
Happywhale - Harbor Seal in North Atlantic Ocean

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence,PhotoID;Visual sighting
Temporal coverage: 2018/2021, 2016/2022, 2018/2022

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 4 contributors in alphabetic order:

Caitlin Fitzmaurice; Per Nikolaj Bukh; Sarah Robinson; S. Helgu
Records of cephalopod paralarvae (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) in the Caribbean and Venezuelan Atlantic Ocean

Keywords: Atlantic Ocean, Ommastrephidae, Southern Caribbean, Samplingevent, density, CaribeSur, Venezuela, biomass, Cephalopoda, Paralarvae, dorsal mantle length, samplingEvent, ID:BID-CA202-025-NAC, Loliginidae
Temporal coverage: 2001/2009

The dataset provides records of the composition, density and biomass of cephalopod planktonic paralarvae (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) in the Venezuelan Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Venezuela and Aves Island areas
South Australian Museum Ornithology Collection - marine records

Keywords: Specimen, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1875/2015

The collection houses over 55,000 registered and 6,000 unregistered specimens including skins, eggs, skeletons, nests and spirit collections.
Data downloaded from ALA (http://collections.ala.org.au/public/show/co127) and non-marine records have been excluded. Taxa have been matched to the World Register of Marine Species.
North Sea Benthos Survey

Keywords: Epibenthos, Benthos, Samplingevent, Biodiversity, Data, Macrobenthos, Meiobenthos, Marine Genomics, Meiobenthic organisms
Temporal coverage: 1985/1986

North Sea macrobenthos species density and abundance, measured on a regular grid of stations corresponding with ICES standard stations. All sampling was done in spring 1986.
Composition and abundance of decapod crustaceans in mixed seagrass meadows in the Paraguaná Peninsula, Venezuela

Keywords: El Supi, diversity, CaribeSur, Falcon, abundance, Venezuela, seagrass, BID-CA2020-025-NAC, Thalassia trestudinum, Adicora, Samplingevent, Decapoda, Crustacea
Temporal coverage: 2013/2013

The aim is to identify the crustacean decapod species associated with mixed seagrass meadows in two zones (Adicora and Supi) of the eastern Paraguaná Peninsula (Falcón state, Venezuela).
BioChem:  Zooplankton of St. Margarets Bay 1968 to 1971.

Keywords: Observation, oceans, biological classification, biota, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1968/1971

A survey of zooplankton abundance and distribution was initiated in 1968, as a part of a multidisciplinary program designed to study biological and physical processes pertinent to the marine food web in St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, and was carried through to April 1971. Samples were collected using plankton ring nets with the objective to examine seasonal variation in abundance of important species/taxa of zooplankton.
GOALS Vessel Surveys June - July 2013

Keywords: Occurrence,Gulf of Alaska Temporary Maritime Activities Area,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Visual Sighting,Aircraft, Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2013/2013

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 animal sightings that occurred during a line-transect vessel survey ("GOALSII") for marine mammals. Real-time acoustic monitoring and recording effort was also conducted using a towed-hydrophone array and sonobuoys around-the-clock to detect and localize vocally active cetaceans. The survey was conducted from 23 June to 18 July 2013 in the U.S. Navy's Temporary Maritime Activities Area in the central GoA, east of Kodiak Island. Work was performed under HDR task order TO 22 (IDIQ contract award N62470-10-D-3011, NAVFAC LANT).

There are some discrepancies between the sighting totals in the GOALS II project report and this GIS dataset. For example, the report lists 91 humpback whale sightings (295 count) on-effort, and 15 sightings (36 count) off-effort, while this dataset contains 92 sightings (296 count) on-effort, and 19 sightings (250 count) off-effort. The reason for this discrepancy is that a large non-cohesive group of humpbacks was encountered and individual perpendicular distances could not be estimated for each of the subgroups. The first approach was to stay on effort and complete a “total count” estimate for whales in a specific quadrant until the ship had gone through the majority of the animals. Once completed, it was agreed that perpendicular estimation was needed for every subgroup of whales and the ship altered course and reran the trackline in the opposite direction for observers to get position fixes on as many of the animals/subgroups as possible. On the second pass, the density of whales was not as high and thus the numbers may have differed when compared to the first pass that was ultimately adjusted to be an “off-effort” sighting. Minor discrepancies also exist in sighting counts for other species, in most cases this is the result of how resightings were recorded (instances where the same animal group was observed more than once).
Bentho-pelagic coupling in the North Sea: Copepoda

Keywords: Meiobenthos, Zooplankton, Occurrence, Marine invertebrates, Benthos, Observation, Sediments
Temporal coverage: 1999/1999

The number of individuals per species of benthic copepods was counted for a station on the Kwintebank and on the Gootebank on the Belgian Continental Shelf.
Happywhale - False Killer Whale in North Atlantic Ocean

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence,PhotoID;Visual sighting, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2013/2022

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:

Marilia Olio; Mike Greenfelder
Biogeographic distribution of the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic brachiopods (living forms)

Keywords: Occurrence, Southern Ocean, Literature
Temporal coverage: null/null

The only Antarctic review about brachiopods has been done by Forster in 1974. Since about 100 publications dealing with living Antarctic brachiopods have been issued and nearly 50 on fossil Antarctic brachiopods, until 2009. The classification of the Brachiopoda has been basically changed in 1996 and developed in the 6 volumes of the “Treatise” (1997-2007).
All specialists of living brachiopods are now retired (less than 5!). Consequently, the distributional biodiversity of the extant brachiopods must be stored online as soon a possible. This task will be difficult to be completed in a next future.  
For the proposed work all the available publications (about 150) on living brachiopods will be analyzed, as well the citations on living forms included in the palaeontological papers.
The dataset holds taxonomic and distribution data on Brachiopoda (lamp-shells) from the Antarctic and Subantarctic regions. The sources of the information (bibliography and expeditions) are also provided.
Canadian Maritimes Fishermen and Scientists Research Society Lobster Recruitment Index from Standard Traps

Keywords: biological classification, Observation, oceans, Occurrence, biota
Temporal coverage: null/null

American lobster (Homarus americanus)is a highly prized and valuable commercial species. A primary research focus for the Fishermen and Scientists Research Society (FSRS) is the recruitment of lobster into the commercial fishery (become large enough to catch). During the regular commercial season, over 100 volunteer fishermen on Canada's east coast count, sex and measure the size of lobsters from their science traps and record them in a logbook. They also indicate if lobsters are berried, tagged, and/or v-notched. Participants also monitor bottom temperatures by placing a computerized temperature recorder, or VEMCO minilog, in one of their project traps for the entire season. The resulting information are subsequently quality controlled by a data manager, loaded to a relational database and routinely used for resource management purposes including American lobster assessments.
Soft-plumaged Petrel (Pterodroma mollis) tracking from Antipodes Island, New Zealand (2011-2013)

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2011/2013

Soft-plumaged Petrel (Pterodroma mollis) tracking from Antipodes Island, New Zealand comprising of 5 females and 9 males all at breeding stage.
Data from Zoatrack projects 253 (https://zoatrack.org/projects/253/) and 817  (https://zoatrack.org/projects/817/) and accessed on 2021-06-01
Florida Offshore Cetacean Observations by FAU HBOI Stranding and Population Assessment

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Visual Sighting,Vessel, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2021/2022

Original provider:
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida Atlantic University

Dataset credits:
Steve Burton, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida Atlantic University

Abstract:
Our current five-year General Authorization (LOC #23069) for scientific research (Level B Harassment) to perform monthly vessel-based photo identification surveys of cetaceans in the IRL and the Atlantic Ocean from Sebastian Inlet to Jupiter Inlet, Florida. We propose to take a maximum of 700 bottlenose dolphins in the IRL annually. Offshore we propose a 
maximum of 100 takes on bottlenose dolphins, 20 takes on pygmy sperm whales, 20 takes on humpback whales, 100 takes on pilot whales, 100 takes on Risso’s dolphins, 100 takes on Atlantic spotted dolphins, 100 takes on pantropical spotted dolphins, and 100 takes on rough-toothed dolphins annually. Research will occur year-round from 2021 through 2026.

Supplemental information:
[2023-01-31] 18 records in Jul-Oct 2022 were added.
[2022-08-23] Three records in May 2022 were added.

New sightings will be added quarterly.
PIFSC, Cetacean Survey, PICEAS 2011, Cruise 1108, NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Visual Sighting,Vessel
Temporal coverage: 2011/2011

Original provider:
NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC)

Dataset credits:
NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center

Abstract:
The Pacific Islands Cetacean Ecosystem Assessment Survey (PICEAS) was a line-transect survey for cetaceans was conducted within the Palmyra exclusive economic zone (EEZ)(20 October - 18 November 2011). The set of standard tracklines surveyed was established prior to the cruise and was intended to cover approximately two thirds of the Palmyra Atoll EEZ transect line grid used for the 2005 PICEAS (AR-05-07) survey conducted by Southwest Fisheries Science Center. This was the first of two surveys that were designed to cover the entire Palmyra EEZ. Twenty-eight days of on-effort surveys were completed during the cruise, resulting in 28 cetacean sightings including seven identified species and five types of unidentified cetaceans.

Supplemental information:
Data were collected under NMFS permit 14097.
The data included here are the sightings and on-effort tracks recorded within WinCruz survey software and extracted from the QA/QC'd DAS file using the R package swfscDAS (https://smwoodman.github.io/swfscDAS).

Attributes for fields within the trackline files:
Cruise - see description in attribute table below
segnum - segment number for continuous on-effort line
Date - Local date m/dd/yyyy
TimeStart - Local time at start of on-effort segment
LatStart - Latitude in decimal degrees at starting point of on-effort segment
LongStart - Longitude in decimal degrees at starting point of on-effort segment
TimeEnd - Local time at end of on-effort segment
LatEnd - Latitude in decimal degrees at end point of on-effort segment
LongEnd - Longitude in decimal degrees at end point of on-effort segment
Mode - see description in attribute table below
EffType - see description in attribute table below
avgSpdKt - average speed (knots) of the ship over the on-effort segment traveled
avgBft - average Beaufort Sea State over the on-effort segment

Other data not included here:
Photos and biopsy samples were collected during some sightings. There were acoustic detections from the towed hydrophone array. Sonobuoys were deployed opportunistically. A High-frequency Acoustic Recording Package (HARP) was deployed off Kingman Reef. Oceanographic data were collected (CTD, XBT).

See the PIFSC Cetacean Survey, PICEAS 2012, Cruise 1203, NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center for cetacean sightings and effort within the remaining portion of the Palmyra EEZ.
Comparación de la diversidad y abundancia de peces en los esteros Boca Grande y Río San Juan en el PN Coiba, Provincia de Veraguas, Republica de Panama.

Keywords: Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2003/2003

De junio a diciembre de 2003, se realizaron seis muestreos ictiológicos en los esteros Boca Grande y río San Juan en el Parque Nacional Coiba, Provincia de Veraguas, con el objetivo de comparar la diversidad y abundancia de las especies de peces existentes. Se determinaron los parámetros ambientales que los regulan. Los datos obtenidos indican que estos esteros insulares, constituyen áreas de crianza de juveniles de diferentes especies de peces comerciales. Se capturaron un total de 582 peces, 290 en el estero Boca Grande y 292 en el estero río San Juan. Se reportaron un total de 6 ordenes, correspondientes a 20 familias, incluidas en 30 géneros y 44 especies, distribuidas de la siguiente manera: 18 familias, 24 géneros y 30 especies para el estero Boca Grande y para el estero río San Juan un total de 15 familias, 21 géneros y 29 especies. Quince especies fueron comunes para ambos esteros con un 59% de especies consideradas de interés comercial y un 90% de especies juveniles. En el estero Boca Grande la especie más abundante fue Atherinella argentea y en el estero Río San Juan fue Lile stolifera.
Giant Devil Rays in the North-Western Mediterranean Sea

Keywords: Occurrence,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Visual Sighting,Aircraft, Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2009/2013

Original provider:
Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Tethys Research Institute

Dataset credits:
Tethys Research Institute

Abstract:
The giant devil ray <i>Mobula mobular</i>, the only Mediterranean mobulid, is subject to mortality caused by directed and accidental captures in fisheries throughout the region. Whilst the combination of human impacts, limited range and a low reproductive potential is not inconsistent with its endangered listing, there are insufficient data to enable a quantitative assessment of trends. Without this, it is difficult to assess and prioritise threats and develop effective conservation actions. Using results from aerial surveys conducted between 2009 and 2014 over the Ligurian, Corsican, Sardinian, northern and central Tyrrhenian seas (626,228 km2), this study provides the first quantitative information on giant devil ray abundance and habitat choice in the western Mediterranean. Devil rays were observed in all seasons except winter, with their estimated abundance in the study area peaking in summer.
The overall uncorrected mean density in the study area during summer was estimated at 0.0257 individuals km-2 (range: 0.017–0.044), resulting in a total abundance estimate of 6,092 (12.7%CV) individuals at the surface; once corrected for availability bias, this estimate indicates a summer presence of &gt;12,700 devil rays in the study area. Rays were mostly observed alone even if occasionally, larger aggregations up to a maximum of 18 individuals were observed. Although observed throughout the study area, spatial modelling identified their preferred habitat to be over a broad strip connecting the Tuscan Archipelago to Eastern Sardinia, over a wide range of water depths ranging from 10 to 2000m. The observed seasonal changes in giant devil ray distribution in this study, combined with similar evidence from other areas in the Mediterranean, support the hypothesis that the species
undertakes latitudinal migrations across the region, taking advantage of highly productive waters in the north during summer, and warmer southern waters during winter.

Supplemental information:
Some records do not have time part.
Historical datasets of dugong (Dugong dugon) observations in the Kimberley region of Western Australia (1985)

Keywords: Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1985/1985

This series of surveys represents the first attempt to quantitatively assess dugong distribution and abundance throughout the west Kimberley region. The 1985 survey was divided into two sections - The southern section, which extended from LaGrange Bay to Broome and the northern section, which commenced just north of Broome and extended to Cape Leveque including the Lacepede Islands and into King Sound
For all sections two flights were conducted during each of April, July and October resulting in a total of 12 flights. Each flight within each survey area was replicated, with transects flown perpendicular to the coast at a height of 275m and speed of 90 knots. Distances between transects varied as did the lengths of transects as flights were generally made to a point where visibility restricted the sighting potential. Observations were conducted by a single observer with markers delineating a strip on the water surface equivalent to 400m wide. Flights were conducted during neap tides to maximise sighting potential. Aside from dugong observation other megafauna, such as dolphins and turtles, were also recorded, but for the purposes of this report only dugong sightings are described.
Data and report from https://data.pawsey.org.au/public/?path=/WA%20Node%20Ocean%20Data%20Network/AODN/Dave_Holley_Dugongs (December 2020)
US-CAN-Transboundary_BOEMproject_Beaufort Sea_Epibenthos_2012_2013_2014

Keywords: Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2012/2014

Sampling occurred along 11 transects perpendicular to shore at target sampling depths of 20 m, 50 m, 100 m, 200 m, 350 m, 500 m, 750 m, and 1000 m in the Alaskan and western Canadian Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean. Epibenthic communities were sampled in the summers of 2012, 2013 and 2014, with some locations resampled in subsequent years and others only sampled once, using a 3-m plumb-staff beam trawl with 7 mm mesh and 4 mm codend liner deployed for associated fish surveys. Taxa were field-identified onboard by the data providers and their research group members, and identifications of select vouchers preserved in formaldehyde-seawater solution were later confirmed or corrected by taxonomic experts (those are listed in the below listed publications). This work was partially conducted under BOEM Cooperative Agreement No. M12AC00011 US−Canada Transboundary Fish and Lower Trophic Communities,’ US Department of the Interior, BOEM, Alaska Outer Continental Shelf Region, Anchorage, Alaska, as
part of the BOEM Environmental Studies Program.
CSIRO, Cruise SS200803, Marine Biological Survey, Great Australian Bight; South Australian and Tasmanian continental slope, 2008

Keywords: Specimen, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2008/2008

Benthic biota samples were taken in the Great Australian Bight (GAB) and near St Helen's Hill seamount during the pilot survey for estimating the effectiveness of spatial closures for deepwater gulper sharks and associated fishery species. There are large gaps in ecological knowledge of gulper sharks which limit the effective design of area closures (e.g. optimising sizes and numbers) and assessment of their performance. The survey aimed to fill these gaps do this by characterising the habitats and ecosystem processes in 200-700 m depths that sustain key species, and commencing a process to determine the relevant aspects of species ecology. Primarily this will be (1) to measure the movement of fish within and to/ from a large closed area in the GAB with a tagging program, and (2) estimate the abundance of selected species in relation to habitat features (substructure within submarine canyons, escarpments and rocky banks, and adjacent water column features) with two independent, non-extractive photographic methods. This metadata record describes the benthic biota samples taken at during this survey.
Epibenthic biota were collected using epibenthic sled (5 ops) and macro-infauna were extracted by elutriation of sediment collections taken using the Smith-MacIntyre grab (13 ops). The invertebrate specimens were distributed to Museum collections for registration and curation. Data on specimen identifications by taxonomic experts are tracked, collated and archived at the CSIRO.
SE_BrazilRockyShores

Keywords: marine ecology, Samplingevent, spatial distribution, large-scale patterns, intertidal, macroecology
Temporal coverage: 2015/2015

A fundamental goal in ecology is to understand how environmental drivers affect patterns and processes, and ultimately ecosystem functioning. The effect of single local factors on populations and communities has long been documented but less is understood on the influence of simultaneous environmental drivers emerging at multiple spatial scales. The importance of environmental drivers as mediators of cascade trophic effects and direct regulation of rocky shore populations is subject of vast literature for temperate regions where these landscapes are conspicuous. Despite of that, other regions on tropical and subtropical domains are poorly explored, including the Southwest Atlantic coasts. Knowledge about such ecological patterns is key to access ecological function and ecosystem functioning, allowing predictive capacity and managing of natural systems. Thus, the activities of this project focused on issues related to the assessment of spatial variation at multiple scales of producers and consumers and their association with the composition and population structure of intertidal organisms on rocky shores in SE Brazil. To achieve that, the geographical area covered by the project extended from the north of Rio de Janeiro to the south of São Paulo, comprising a broad gradient of productivity, coastal complexity and anthropic impact. This collection corresponds to the species registered on benthic fauna of 62 rocky shores from spanning 530 km of coasts using standardized sampling protocols using a nested hierarchical design. This dataset comprises measurements of individual size, density or relative cover of dominant species found in intertidal rocky shores in SE Brazil coast sampled in 2015. Species include filter feeders (mussel Mytilaster solisianus, barnacles Tetraclita stalactifera and Chthamalus bisinuatus), a predatory gastropod (whelk Stramonita haemastoma) and grazers (limpets Lottia subrugosa and Fissurela rosea, and periwinkle Echinolittorina lineolata). Sampling, materials and personnel were financed by grants provided by CNPq and FAPESP (Brazil).