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USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Seabirds Compendium

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 1938/2014

Several bureaus within the Department of Interior compiled available information from seabird observation datasets from the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf into a single database, with the goal of conducting research and informing coastal and offshore planning activities.  The cooperators were the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's (BOEM) Environmental Studies Program (http://www.boem.gov/Environmental-Stewardship/Environmental-Studies/Environmental-Studies.aspx), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (USFWS) Division of Migratory Bird Management (http://www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/) and the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov).  The resulting product is the Atlantic Offshore Seabird Dataset Catalog, which characterizes the survey effort and bird observations that have been collected across space and time. As of December 2013, the database contains over 70 datasets from 1906-2013 with about 300,000 records of seabird observations. Data were initially provided as summary web mapping services, with web feature services (for downloading and looking at single-species data) at the linkage given elsewhere in this document.  A full archive of the scientific data is available at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC).  The data archived at NODC is comprised of roughly 50 datasets from 1938-2013 with about 260,000 observation records.  This archive is a subset of the main database, excluding datasets from surveys where the scientific design was not specifically designed to sample marine birds (e.g. coastal portions of National Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Counts).
NEFSC Survey 1998 1

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence, Occurrence,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Sea turtles,Vessel,Visual Sighting
Temporal coverage: 1998/1998

Original provider:
NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC)

Dataset credits:
NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC)

Abstract:
The survey was performed on the R/V Abel-J from 6 July to 4 August 1998 (Leg I), and from 8 August to 6 September 1998 (Leg II) starting and ending in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The study areas in Leg I and Leg II, respectively, were from Cape Cod. Massachusetts to Virginia, and from Cape Cod, Massachusetts to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Both study areas extended from the 100 m depth contour to the Gulf Stream.

Purpose:
Primary objectives of the survey were:
1) Estimate the abundance of strategic species of pelagic dolphins and whales, such as common, spotted, and bottlenose dolphins, and sperm, pilot, and beaked whales, and 
2) Estimate the abundance of all other dolphins and whales detected in these waters. 

Secondary objectives included: 
1) Collect bongo, CTD, water depth and temperature data to correlate with the spatial distribution of the marine mammals, 
2) Conduct marine mammal photographic and video identification studies, and 
3) Collect biopsy samples.

Supplemental information:
In addition to the sighting data, effort data were recorded  every half hour or whenever conditions changed. This dataset, therefore, should be used with the effort data.
Zooplankton sampling in the coastal waters of south eastern Tasmania, Australia (2009-2015)

Keywords: Specimen, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2009/2015

Zooplankton was counted and identified from three sites over the 5-year period. The net used (200 microm Bongo net) was designed to catch meso-zooplankton with an integrated vertical tow through the water column. One net from each of the paired Bongo samples was analysed and the data expressed as numbers per m3. Copepods dominated the zooplankton, with other groups such as salps, krill, appendicularians, cladocerans, chaetognaths and meroplanktonic larvae being seasonally dominant.
BioChem: Zooplankton collected from the Bay of Fundy, 2002-2007

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2002/2007

The sampling program was part of a study led by the Canadian Wildlife Service with the objective to determine the plankton composition in the surface waters at two specific locations in the Bay of Fundy. Sampling occurring during six cruises to two areas in the Bay of Fundy: Deer Island and Lords Cove and around Brier island between the years 2002 to 2007. A specialized net was used to collect surface plankton samples. This OBIS dataset contains only presence information data - abundance data will be released at a later date.
Happywhale - Long-finned Pilot Whale in Southern Ocean

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence,PhotoID;Visual sighting, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2018/2022, 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 1 contributors in alphabetic order:

Mike
Scottish West Coast Groundfish Survey

Keywords: Samplingevent, Trawls, No limitations to public access, Bottom trawls, Biota, Species distribution
Temporal coverage: 2011/2021

<p>The dataset includes age- and length-based catch per unit effort data for commercial fish species collected during the Scottish West Coast Bottom Trawl Survey. This is a new survey from 2011, replacing the historical DATRAS SWC-IBTS dataset.</p>
USWTR JAX Aerial Survey -Left side- 2010-2011

Keywords: Occurrence,JAX Aerial,Vessels,Sightings, Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2010/2011

Original provider:
University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Dataset credits:
William A. McLellan, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Supplemental information:
The original survey data are separated into two datasets, from left-side and right-side observers upon provider's request. This dataset is from the left side sightings data. The right side sightings data are available on OBIS-SEAMAP in the <a href="/datasets/detail/747">USWTR JAX Aerial Survey -Right side- 2010-2011</a> dataset.

This dataset includes a subset of the data collection for the JAX Aerial surveys.
All the data of the collection are available in the following datasets including this dataset:
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1664">UNCW JAX Aerial Survey -Right side- 2017</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1662">UNCW JAX Aerial Survey - Left side - 2015</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1475">UNCW JAX Aerial Survey - Left side - 2016</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1477">UNCW JAX Aerial Survey - Right side - 2016</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1362">UNCW JAX Aerial Survey - Left side - 2015</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1364">UNCW JAX Aerial Survey - Right side - 2015</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1241">AFTT JAX Aerial Survey -Left side- 2014</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1239">AFTT JAX Aerial Survey -Right side- 2014</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1128">AFTT JAX Aerial Survey -Left side- 2012-2013</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1136">AFTT JAX Aerial Survey -Right side- 2012-2013</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/857">USWTR JAX Aerial Survey -Left side- 2011-2012</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/859">USWTR JAX Aerial Survey -Right side- 2011-2012</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/745">USWTR JAX Aerial Survey -Left side- 2010-2011</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/747">USWTR JAX Aerial Survey -Right side- 2010-2011</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/687">UNCW USWTR JAX Aerial Surveys May - Oct 2010 - Left side</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/688">UNCW USWTR JAX Aerial Surveys May - Oct 2010 - Right side</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/590">USWTR JAX Aerial Survey -Left side- 2009-2010</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/592">USWTR JAX Aerial Survey -Right side- 2009-2010</a>

All the US Navy-funded survey datasets are found in the <a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/partner/NAVY">OBIS-SEAMAP US Navy</a> page.
NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Ecosystem Sciences Division, National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Stratified random surveys (StRS) of reef fish in the U.S. Pacific Islands

Keywords: Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 2007/2019

The stationary point count (nSPC) method is used by the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD; formerly the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division) to conduct reef fish surveys in the Hawaiian and Mariana Archipelagos, American Samoa, and the Pacific Remote Island Areas. The first iteration of the nSPC surveys were conducted as part of the Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (RAMP) from 2008-2012. In 2013 the reef fish surveys, and Pacific RAMP, became part of the NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP). 

The nSPC method catalogs the diversity (species richness), abundance (numeric density) and biomass (fish mass per unit area) of diurnally active reef fish assemblages in shallow-water (less than 30 m) hard-bottom habitats. Visual estimates of benthic cover and topographic complexity are also recorded, with benthic organisms grouped into broad functional categories (e.g., 'Hard Coral', 'Macroalgae'). A stratified random sampling (StRS) design is employed to survey the coral reef ecosystems throughout the U.S.-Pacific regions. For all regions, the survey domain encompasses the majority of the mapped area of reef and hard bottom habitats and the stratification includes island, reef zone, and depth, with the exception of the Main Hawaiian Islands that includes habitat structure type as well. Sampling effort is allocated based on strata area.

Reef fish and benthic estimate data provided in this data set were primarily collected during ESD-led research cruises funded by the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) as part of Pacific RAMP or NCRMP. Additionally, data collected during Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument led research cruises to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands from 2007 to 2017, and PIFSC annual Reef Fish Survey cruises from 2014 to 2016 in Guam, the main Hawaiian Islands, and American Samoa, respectively, are also included as these data are funded separately from but are complementary to the CRCP-funded data.
North Carolina Rehabilitated Sea Turtle Monitoring Project (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: null/null, 2010/2013

Original provider:
SEATURTLE.ORG

Dataset credits:
Data provider
SEATURTLE.ORG Animal Tracking Program
Originating data center
<a href="http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/">Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)</a>
Project partner
The partners of this tracking project include Jean Beasley and her crew of volunteers and interns at the <a href="http://www.seaturtlehospital.org">Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center</a>, Matthew Godfrey and Wendy Cluse of the <a href="http://www.ncwildlife.org">NC Wildlife Resources Commission</a>, and Michael Coyne of SEATURTLE.ORG.
Project sponsor or sponsor description
We are looking for sponsors for this project. Please contact tracking@seaturtle.org if you are interested in sponsoring one or more satellite tracked turtles from the North Carolina Rehabilitated Sea Turtle Monitoring Project


Abstract:
Since 1997, the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center, located on Topsail Island in North Carolina, has worked towards caring for sick or injured sea turtles in order that they should be released back to the wild. Each year, the KBSTRRC admits dozens of turtles that have been found in North Carolina and elsewhere. Working in collaboration with the wildlife veterinarians from North Carolina State University and others, the staff of the KBSTRRC have successfully rehabilitated and released more than 100 sea turtles over the past 7 years. The majority of turtles that have been released have been juveniles, and up until now there was no information available on where and how the turtles were going in the water. Now, with the help of satellite tracking, we can watch where some of the rehabilitated turtles go after their treatment at the KBSTRRC.

Supplemental information:
<a href="http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=444">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.
Macrozoobenthos data collected in the Northern part of the Romanian littoral (Danube mouths) between 1977 and 1999

Keywords: Macrozoobenthos, Observation, Seasonal, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1977/1999

The macrozoobentos dataset includes a number of 347 samples collected in the Northern part of the Romanian littoral between Sulina and Chituc from 5 m to 52m depths. Van Veen grab with a sampling area of 1/20 m2 was employed as a macrozoobenthos sampler. One replicate was collected at every station. Sampling was done in spring, summer and autumn mounths.The samples have been analyzed qualitative (number of species) and quantitative (densities and biomasses). The macroinvertebrates have been identified at species level.
Phytoplankton, Joint Open Sea Surveys 2016, EMBLAS II Project

Keywords: Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 2016/2016

Phytoplankton data: species composition, volume of the cell [µm3], abundance [*1000cells/l], biomass (mg/m3) and Carbon biomass 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
Non-indigenous (NIS) and cryptogenic species in European regional seas and adjacent areas

Keywords: Non-native marine species, Samplingevent, Introduced species
Temporal coverage: 1801/2016

The dataset includes 3305 georeferenced points/records. The data records were gathered using three types: digitatalization, exact occurences and expert judgement. The georeferenced data was extracted from the scientific publications and specialized databases (AquaNIS, ICES and Google scholar).
National Pilot Monitoring Studies August 2017, Improving Environmental Monitoring in the Black Sea - Phase II (EMBLAS-II), ENPI/2013/313-169, (Phytoplankton)

Keywords: Biological sampling, lowered unmanned submersible, Samplingevent, Biological monitoring
Temporal coverage: 2017/2017

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) onboard the M/V "Auguste Piccard" (Ukraine) in August 201
SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean - macroalgae - Data

Keywords: BASO, Macroalgae, Occurrence, CAML, SCAR-MARBIN
Temporal coverage: null/null

This dataset represents a literature study on the distribution of marcoalgae in Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic waters. Dataset supplied in the framework of the SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean (BASO).

The Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean is a collection of representative maps and syntheses on the distribution of the Southern Ocean organisms, providing a general overview of the biogeography of the Southern Ocean (s.l.) and a benchmark of current biogeographic knowledge at the end of the Census of Antarctic Marine Life. This updates the well-known and useful but largely outdated biogeographic Folios of the Antarctic Map Folio Series (American Geographical Society).

This dataset contains species records of macro algae from the Southern Ocean (locations below 40°S) reported in 72 publications published between 1890 and 2011.
CSIRO Marine Invertebrates Image Collection (MIIC)

Keywords: Specimen, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2003/2018

The CSIRO Marine Invertebrates Image Collection (MIIC) is a catalogue of geo-referenced images of invertebrates from surveys around Australia. Identifications have been done at CSIRO on the survey vessels or post voyage or the specimens have been passed to various Australian museums for identification. Images identifications use the Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) database and where possible CAAB records are cross linked to the World Register of Marine Species. Each specimen has a record identifier labelled CSIRO Specimen Reference.
As at January 2020, there are 4900 images linked to 1565 taxa with the deepset sample from 4890 m. Many of the images have revised identifications. A significant addition is specimens from the RV Investigator research voyage in2017_v03, titled "Sampling the abyss: latitudinal biodiversity patterns along the base of Australia's eastern continental margin."  See https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/survey_details.cfm?survey=IN2017_V03 for survey details.
If this data has been used in any products, please acknowledge with the following: We acknowledge the use of the CSIRO Marine National Facility (https://ror.org/01mae9353) in undertaking this research.
POPA- Fisheries Observer Program of the Azores: Seabird sightings in the Azores tuna fishery from 1998 to 2013: during the capture of live bait

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence, Tuna fisheries
Temporal coverage: 1998/2013

Recorded sightings of seabirds close to and/or interacting with the boat, while capturing the live bait.
Disko Fan Conservation Area in the Davis Strait (Eastern Arctic) - Epibenthic Megafauna Database

Keywords: Disko Fan, Marine, CBMP, CAFF, Davis Strait, Oceans, Observation, Benthic
Temporal coverage: 2012/2012

In 2012 and 2013, Fisheries and Oceans Canada conducted benthic imagery surveys in the Davis Strait and Baffin Basin in two areas then closed to bottom fishing, the Hatton Basin Voluntary Closure (now the Hatton Basin Conservation Area) and the Narwhal Closure (now partially in the Disko Fan Conservation Area). The photo transects were established as long-term biodiversity monitoring sites to monitor the impact of human activity, including climate change, on the region’s benthic marine biota in accordance with the protocols of the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program established by the Council of Arctic Flora and Fauna. These images were analyzed in a techncial report that summarises the epibenthic megafauna found in seven image transects from the Disko Fan Conservation Area. A total of 480 taxa were found, 280 of which were identified as belonging to one of the following phyla: Annelida, Arthropoda, Brachiopoda, Bryozoa, Chordata, Cnidaria, Echinodermata, Mollusca, Nemertea, and Porifera. The remaining 200 taxa could not be assigned to a phylum and were categorised as Unidentified. Each taxon was identified to the lowest possible taxonomic level, typically class, order, or family. The summaries for each of the taxa include their identification numbers in the World Register of Marine Species and Integrated Taxonomic Information System’s databases, taxonomic hierarchies, images, and written descriptions. The report is intended to provide baseline documentation of the epibenthic megafauna in the Disko Fan Conservation Area, and serve as a taxonomic resource for future image analyses in the Arctic.
Baker, E., Beazley, L., McMillan, A., Rowsell, J. and Kenchington, E. 2018. Epibenthic Megafauna of the Disko Fan Conservation Area in the Davis Strait (Eastern Arctic) Identified from In Situ Benthic Image Transects. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 3272: vi + 388 p.
USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Right side- 2010-2011

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence,Onslow Aerial,Vessels,Sightings
Temporal coverage: 2010/2011

Original provider:
University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Dataset credits:
William A. McLellan, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Supplemental information:
The original survey data are separated into two datasets, from left-side and right-side observers upon provider's request. This dataset is from the right side sightings data. The left side sightings data are available on OBIS-SEAMAP in the <a href="/datasets/detail/749">USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Left side- 2010-2011</a> dataset.

This dataset includes a subset of the data collection for the Onlsow Aerial surveys.
Other data of the collection are available in the following datasets:
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/749">USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Left side- 2010-2011</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/586">USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Left side- 2008-2010</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/588">USWTR Onslow Bay Aerial Survey -Right side- 2008-2010</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/435">UNCW Aerial Surveys for monitoring of proposed Onslow Bay USWTR site - Left side -</a>
<a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/437">UNCW Aerial Surveys for monitoring of proposed Onslow Bay USWTR site - Right side -</a>

All the US Navy-funded survey datasets are found in the <a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/partner/NAVY">OBIS-SEAMAP US Navy</a> page.
SOCAL XE31 UNDET Vessel Surveys May 2014

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence,Southern California Range Complex,Navy project,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Visual Sighting,Vessel, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2014/2014

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 as part of marine species monitoring during an underwater detonation (UNDET) training event in the U.S. Navy's Silver Strand Training Complex, San Diego, CA. Survey dates: 13-14 May 2014. Work was performed under HDR task order XE31 (IDIQ contract award N62470-10-D-3011, NAVFAC LANT).

Supplemental information:
Trackline data are not available.
Fish of the Recherche Archipelago , Western Australia (2002)

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen
Temporal coverage: 2002/2002

The Recherche Archipelago is a chain of approximately 105 islands and 1500
islets extending over 470 km of coastline (230 km linear distance) in
temperate southern Western Australia with a wide variety of benthic habitats (Seagrass, Reef, Rhodoliths and Sand). Between the 26th of May and 13th of June 2002 fish assemblages within these habitats were sampled using baited stereo-video and single camera systems.
Data and report sourced from https://data.pawsey.org.au/public/?path=/WA%20Node%20Ocean%20Data%20Network/AODN/FRDC_Recherche and https://www.frdc.com.au/project/2001-060 respectively.
Macroinvertebrate groups on deep-sea volcanic habitats in the Galapagos Marine Reserve in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean: Mollusca

Keywords: Deep-sea; Galapagos Marine Reserve; Macroinvertebrate; Mollusca; Seamounts; Volcanic seascapes
Temporal coverage: 2015/2015

Macroinvertebrate groups on deep-sea volcanic habitats in the Galapagos Marine Reserve in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean: Mollusca