oih/oih-wis2 huggingface dataset:
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, CADDIS 1995, Cruise 1601

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence,Vessels,Sightings,Whales,Diving,Dive,Population,Abundance,Survey,Census, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1995/1995

Original provider:
NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC)

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

Abstract:
The Cetacean Acoustic Detection and Dive Interval Studies (CADDIS) survey was conducted by the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center primarily in the southern Gulf of California aboard NOAA research ship <i>McArthur</i> from early September to early November 1995 for a total of approximately 6,000 kilometers surveyed. The project focused on two potential approaches to improve abundance estimates of long-diving whales: (1) acoustic detection of diving animals, and (2) collecting dive interval data on those species to serve as a basis for a model-based abundance correction factor. 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 purpose of this research was to learn how to better estimate the abundance of long-diving whales during ship line-transect surveys. These whale species, including beaked whales and dwarf and pygmy sperm whales, dive for such long periods of time that there is a high probability that they will never surface within the visual range of observers searching from a moving survey vessel with 25X binoculars.
Epibenthic fauna along the salinity gradient in the Westerschelde area in 1990

Keywords: Samplingevent, Salinity gradients, Epibenthos
Temporal coverage: 1990/1990

Overview of monthly epibenthic fauna in a marine and brackish zone along the salinity gradient of the Westerschelde in 1990. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Puturuhu, L. (1994). Density, biomass and feeding consumption of some demersal fish along salinity gradient in the Westerschelde area. MSc Thesis. RUG: Gent. IV, 44 pp.
Project for Reef Fish Monitoring

Keywords: Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2008/2010

This dataset contains observation data of reef fishes based on routine underwater research at Chiba, Hiroshima, Koch, Fukuoka, Nagasaki and Kagoshima, Japan in order to estimate global warming impacts on reef fish fauna. See detail "Sunobe T., H. Kawase, Y. Sakai, N. Shimizu, N. Mochioka, T. Takegaki, Y. Nakamura and S. Dewa, 2014. Global warming and comparison of fish fauna in southern Japan. Report of Chiba Biodiversity Center 7:3-13."
Arctic Species Trend Index (ASTI) : Freshwater

Keywords: Arctic, abundance, CAFF, vertebrates, ASTI, Freshwater, Arctic Species Trend Index, trends, CBMP, Arctic biodiversity, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: null/null

The Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program, a cornerstone programme of the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), Arctic Council working Group is an international network of scientists, government agencies, Indigenous organizations and conservation groups working together to harmonize and integrate efforts to monitor the Arctic's living resources.CBMP experts are developing four coordinated and integrated Arctic Biodiversity Monitoring Plans to help guide circumpolar monitoring efforts. Results will be channeled into effective conservation, mitigation and adaptation policies supporting the Arctic. These plans represent the Arctic's major ecosystems(Marine, Freshwater, Coastal, Terrestrial). 

It is important that monitoring programs develop the most effective reporting strategies if they are to inform decision making. To facilitate effective and consistent reporting, the CBMP has chosen a suite of indices and indicators that provide a comprehensive picture of the state of Arctic biodiversity – from species to habitats to ecosystem processes to ecological services. These indices and indicators are developed in a hierarchical manner, allowing users to drill down into the data from the higher-order indices to more detailed indicators. These are being developed through an expert consultation process.

The Arctic Species Trend Index (ASTI) is part of this suite of indicators and indices developed by CAFFs CBMP. It tracks trends in over 300 Arctic vertebrate species and comprises the Arctic component of the Living Planet Index. It is important to identify how wildlife and ecosystems are changing in order to develop effective conservation and adaptation strategies in the Arctic, an environment undergoing dramatic changes. The ASTI describes overall trends across species, taxonomy, ecosystems, regions and other categories.
Monitoring of macrozoobenthos in the Voordelta

Keywords: Occurrence, Protected sites, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2004/2007

Port of Rotterdam is carrying out the Project Mainport Development Rotterdam, PMR, expanding the port with 1,000 hectares through suppletion of sand in the shallow coastal Voordelta area in the North Sea. As the Voordelta has the status of protected nature reserve (Natura2000 area), the loss of habitat, caused by the expansion of the port, must be compensated for. As part of the compensating measures, the Dutch national government established a series of protected areas in the Voordelta region and is following the effects of these measures.

This dataset contains abundances of macrobenthis in the “Voordelta”. The set exists of a pre-protected status data (2003 – 2007) and a post-protected status (currently still under embargo).
Macrobenthos monitoring at long-term monitoring stations in the Belgian part of the North Sea from 2001 on

Keywords: Long term follow up, Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 2007/2021

This dataset is part of the long term monitoring program of ILVO at some fixed locations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea. This dataset contains the data of 2001 to 2012. This dataset will be updated with the flow of the ongoing monitoring.
Moluscos Arrecifes Coralinos San Esteban Carabobo Venezuela

Keywords: CaribeSur, Isla Larga, Mollusca, Bivalvia, Parque Nacional San Esteban, Gastropoda, Venezuela, BID-CA2020-025-NAC, Alcatraz, Carabobo, Samplingevent, coral reef
Temporal coverage: 2006/2010

Caracterización de los moluscos asociados a los arrecifes coralinos de Isla larga y Alcatraz en el Parque Nacional San Esteban, Carabobo, Venezuela
Los ejemplares identificados en el presente trabajo fueron colectados manualmente en visitas ocasionales al arrecife, entre los años 2006, 2007 y 2009, y de forma sistemática sobre el gradiente de profundidad de 0 a 18 m durante los meses de mayo, junio y julio de 2010 en el caso de Isla Larga, a fin de tener un reporte taxonómico de las especies de bivalvos y gasterópodos en estas dos zonas. Se identificaron 26 familias dentro del Phylum Mollusca correspondientes a 40 especies de las Clases Bivalvia (22) y Gastropoda (18). Valores similares de riqueza de especies se han registrado en otros arrecifes del Caribe. Estos ejemplares se encuentran preservados en formalina, en la Colección de Organismos Marinos del Biomac-UC de la Universidad de Carabobo
Wilkinson Basin Time Series Station (WBTS): Mesozooplankton 2004-2017

Keywords: Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 2005/2017

Mesozooplankton time series data collected at Wilkinson Basin Time Series (WBTS) between January 1, 2005 and July 19, 2017. Sampling was conducted in collaboration with Drs. Doug Vandemark and Joe Salisbury and Research Associate Shawn Shellito at the University of New Hampshire (UNH).  Between 2004-2008, the WBTS station was sampled at approximately monthly intervals by the Coastal Ocean Observing and Analysis Center (COOA: http://www.opal.sr.unh.edu/) at the University of New Hampshire, where J. Runge was a research faculty member until moving to the University of Maine in October, 2006.  The WBTS station (known as Station WB-7 during the COOA project) was the furthest station on a transect extending out from Portsmouth Harbor. Funding for COOA ended in 2008 and the Wilkinson Basin was sampled at much less frequent intervals without zooplankton sample collection between September, 2008 and April, 2012.  Between April 6, 2012 and May 21, 2013, the WBTS station was sampled at monthly intervals including zooplankton collection with the support of an NSF RAPID award to J. Runge (OCE-.1235920). In 2014, WBTS was sampled on three occasions. With the NSF award OCE- 1459087, entitled “Collaborative Research: Mechanisms supporting persistence of a key plankton species during climate change on the Northwest Atlantic continental shelf”, funding for monthly sampling at the WBTS station was supported between March, 2015 to July, 2017. The zooplankton samples were collected and analyzed by Rebecca Jones (2005-2011) and Cameron Thompson (2012-2017) under the supervision of J.Runge. Hydrographic and other environmental data were collected by the OPAL group at UNH under the supervision of J. Salisbury and D. Vandemark.
Macrofaunal composition and zonation on sandy beaches at Gazi, Kanamai and Malindi Bay Kenya between April and December 1986

Keywords: ISW, kenya, coast, kwale, gazi bay, Tide levels, ISW, Kenya, coast, Malindi Bay, Occurrence, Zonation, ISW, Kenya, coast, Kanamai, Observation, Macrofauna
Temporal coverage: 1986/1986

List of macrofauna species present in 4 zones at the sandy beaches of Gazi, Kanamai and Malindi Bay. Study was carried out from April-December 1986. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Ruwa, R.K. (1987). Macrofaunal composition and zonation on sandy beaches at Gazi, Kanamai and Malindi Bay Kenya, in: Martens, E.E. (1987). Kenyan-Belgian Project in Marine Sciences: Second Quarterly Report. Pp. 81-93
Records of the nudibranch Hexabranchus sanguineus on Tongatapu island, Tonga

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1976/1976

This dataset records the occurrence records of the nudibranch Hexabranchus sanguineus collected for the paper "Habitat, food and reproductive activity of the nudibranch Hexabranchus-sanguineus on Tongatapu island" by Francis, 1980. 
The taxonomy of the genus Hexabranchus Ehrenberg,1831 is confused and requires revision. More than 20 species have been described (see Thompson, 1972), many of them based primarily on differences in colour pattern. Some authors (Bergh, 1900; Eliot, 1904; Thompson, 1972) consider the many named species to be merely colour varieties of Hexabranchus sanguineus (Riippell &amp; Leuckart, 1828). The validity of the use of colour pattern as a taxonomic character remains to be demonstrated in this genus. Nevertheless, a full description of the colour pattern of Tongan Hexabranchus is given below to facilitate comparative studies in the event that colour does prove to be distinctive. External and internal morphology appear to vary little among the described varieties (Eliot, 1904) but these features were not investigated in Tongan animals.
In the absence of any distinctive taxonomic characters, Tongan Hexabranchus are here referred to the type species of the genus, H. sanguineus (Riippell &amp; Leuckart). Other described "species" will here be considered simply as colour variations of H. sanguineus.
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, CCES 2018, Cruise 1651

Keywords: Occurrence, Occurrence,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Sea turtles,Visual Sighting,Vessel, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2018/2018

Original provider:
NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC)

Dataset credits:
NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC)

Purpose:
CCES = California Current Ecosystem Survey
Objective: Joint survey for coastal pelagic fish stock, cetaceans and seabirds, to update fish and cetacean stock assessments and study spatial predator-prey relationships.  
Vessel: NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker.  
Study area: waters off the west coasts of southern Canada (Vancouver Island), U.S., and northern Mexico (Baja California).

Supplemental information:
SWFSC MMTD Cruise Number: 1651
Perpendicular distance will be released upon permission by the contributor. Please contact the contributor if needed.

Attribute descriptions for effort data:
dist: Length of the segment (km) 
Mode: Effort mode type (C = closing mode; P = passing mode)
Occurrence of Eukaryotes in the size fraction 20-180 micrometres, collected worldwide during the Tara Oceans expedition (2009-2013) using a ring net and analysed by environmental High Content Fluorescence Microscopy (e-HCFM).

Keywords: Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 2009/2013

The Tara Oceans project sampled contrasting ecosystems of the world oceans during a three-year expedition (2009-2013), collecting environmental data and plankton, from viruses to metazoans, on board the 36-metre Tara Schooner. It surveyed 210 ecosystems in 20 biogeographic provinces, collecting over 35,000 samples of seawater and plankton. Samples were later analysed using modern sequencing and state-of-the-art imaging technologies.
Kimberley Islands Biodiversity Survey (Birds)

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2007/2014

Dataset collected as part of the Kimberley Islands Biodiversity Survey from 2006 to 2009. Gibson, L.A., Yates, S. &amp; Doughty, P., eds. (2014) Biodiversity values on selected Kimberley islands, Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 81. Western Australian Museum, Perth.
Data sourced from the Atlas of Living Australia (December 2018) https://collections.ala.org.au/public/show/dr7814. Taxa have been matched to the World Register of Marine Species: WoRMS (www.marinespecies.org) and only marine records have been published.
Islas Canarias (Proyecto Aegina): juvenile loggerheads (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2006/2011

Original provider:
Proyecto Aegina (Canary Islands)

Dataset credits:
Data provider
Proyecto Aegina
Originating data center
<a href="http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/">Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)</a>
Project partner
This satellite project is a collaboration among the Instituto Canario de Ciencias Marinas (ICCM) of the Gobierno de Canarias, the Instituto Nacional de Desenvolvimento das Pescas (INDP), and the Direcção Geral do Ambiente, the latter depending on the Ministerio de Ambiente, Agricultura e Pescas of the Republic of Cabo Verde.The Centro de Recuperación de Fauna Silvestre (Cabildo de Gran Canaria) provides us logistic support for the development of this proyect
Project sponsor or sponsor description
This project was funded by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) through the Interreg IIIB Program Açores-Madeira-Canarias, dependent on the European Union.


Abstract:
Aegina is a cooperation project between Gobierno de Canarias (Spain) and Republic of Cabo Verde; the main goal of the project is to propose a management plan for the Protected Marine Areas important for the sea turtles at both archipelagos.In the Canary Islands there lives an important juvenile stock of loggerheads, and in Cabo Verde archipelago occurs one of the largest nesting populations of loggerheads in the world.Five transmitters will be deployed on males of the Cabo Verde nesting population, complementary with the ongoing studies of females by Marine Turtle Research Group (Brendan Godley, Lucy Hawkes; see also at Turtle Track). Another ten transmitters will be deployed on juvenile loggerheads in Canary Islands.

Supplemental information:
<a href="http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=126">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.
Happywhale - King Penguin in South Atlantic Ocean

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence,PhotoID;Visual sighting
Temporal coverage: null/null, 1999/2019

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:

Carol Irwin; Doug Cheeseman; Marilia Olio; Rémi Bigonneau
Georgia Loggerhead Tracking Project 2005 (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2005/2006

Original provider:
Mark Dodd

Dataset credits:
Data provider
Georgia Department of Natural Resources
Originating data center
<a href="http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/">Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)</a>
Project partner
This project is a collaboration between the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the University of Georgia-Warnell School of Forest Resources, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Fish &amp; Wildlife Foundation, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service


Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to document inter-nesting habitat use, migratory pathways, and post-nesting movements of Georgia?s nesting loggerhead turtles using satellite and conventional telemetry. Loggerhead turtle movements will be compared with the distributions of commercial fishing and dredging activity and results will be used to make management recommendations to protect adult loggerhead sea turtles and their habitats. During the second year of our study, We deployed a total of twelve satellite transmitters on Sapelo (8) and Blackbeard Islands (4). In addition to monitoring loggerhead movement patterns, our tracking project provides a unique educational opportunity for students to learn more about Georgia?s loggerhead turtles and coastal marine ecosystems.  School kids from grades K-5 were given the opportunity to submit names for eight of the turtles. Over 240 Georgia students in kindergarten through fifth grade took part in the sea turtle naming contest. Click on each individual turtle to get more information.

Supplemental information:
<a href="http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=82">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.
Happywhale - North atlantic right whale in North Atlantic Ocean, Happywhale - North Atlantic Right Whale in North Atlantic Ocean

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence,PhotoID;Visual sighting
Temporal coverage: 2011/2023, 2019/2023

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 5 contributors in alphabetic order:

Alethea Leddy; Alex Busato; Grace Guiney; Laura Rauscher; Mitch Doucet
Rocky shore data from the Giannutri Island Marine Protected Area

Keywords: Rocky shores, Macrobenthos, Observation, Benthos, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1999/2001

These data were part of a study investigating the general statement that Marine Protected Area’s (MPA’s) have an effect on the population and assemblages of benthic organisms in the intertidal zone of rocky shores. The effects were evaluated over a variety of spatial scales
DORDPMN12018 Env Mn Bio

Keywords: Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2017/2017

Sampling data captured in Oceanic Exploration Research In accordance with Section 10, Appendix II of the Contract for Exploration, Deep Ocean Resources Development Co., Ltd. (DORD) hereby submits to the International Seabed Authority (ISA) the Annual Report for 2018 (the 3 rd year of the 5-year plan (June 2016 – June 2021)) on the ex ploration of polymetallic nodules. This report contains our activities conducted in 2018 as follows: Survey cruise in DORD’s license area from 18 September to 8 October 2018 Geological analysis on the resource data collected from th e cruise surveyconducted in 2017; Environmental analysis on samples collected from the cruise survey conductedin 2017; Consideration on a collector system Research and development on mining systems and metallurgical processing Economic assessment Training Programme Other items included in this report are a certified financial statement of actual and direct exploration expenditure and a program of activities for the following year.
Rocky shore data from the Capraia Marine Protected Area

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence, Benthos, Marine protected area, Macrobenthos, Rocky shores
Temporal coverage: 2003/2004

Data were part of a research project that wanted - amongst others - to quantify the spatial and temporal variation of the benthic rocky reef assemblages in the Marine Protected Area (MPA) of Capraia Island (Tuscan Archipelago) and a bordering non-protected area.
NMML Harbor Porpoise Aerial Survey, Alaska Peninsula, Replicate 1, 1992

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence, Occurrence,Aircraft,Sightings,harbor porpoise,Phocoena phocoena,abundance,aerial survey,marine mammal survey,survey,marine mammal,cetacean
Temporal coverage: 1992/1992

Original provider:
National Marine Mammal Laboratory

Dataset credits:
National Marine Mammal Laboratory

Abstract:
On 6 July to 9 August 1992, as part of a larger study, Alaska harbor porpoise (<i>Phocoena phocoena</i>) abundance was investigated during an aerial survey off the south side of the Alaska Peninsula. Employing a Twin Otter as the survey platform, the first of two identical sawtooth tracklines was flown at an altitude of 152.2 m (500 ft) and at an airspeed of 185 km/h. Line-transect methodology was used, and only those observations made during optimal conditions were analyzed.  Density of harbor porpoises was calculated using line transect estimates based on perpendicular distances of sightings to the cruise track of the airplane. On average, porpoise group size and density off the south side of the Alaska Peninsula was 1.1 (SE = 0.10) and 2.03 groups/100 km2 (SE = 1.65).

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. 
During the present study, it was not fiscally possible to survey all areas of the state in any one year. Accordingly, we selected sections of the state to survey in consecutive years to maximize the likelihood of including all of the animals for a particular area surveyed while minimizing the likelihood of significant movement between areas among survey years.

Supplemental information:
This dataset and associated effort data were updated on Sept 8, 2005. Those who downloaded them before that date should renew them.