oih/oih-wis2 huggingface dataset:
Passive acoustic monitoring of killer whales in the northern Gulf of Alaska

Keywords: Occurrence, Occurrence,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Acoustic precense/absence,Ocean-based Platforms, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2016/2020

Original provider:
Hannah Myers

Dataset credits:
Hannah Myers, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Abstract:
Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are top predators throughout the world’s oceans. In the North Pacific, the species is divided into three ecotypes—resident (fish-eating), transient (mammal-eating), and offshore (largely shark-eating)—that are genetically and acoustically distinct and have unique roles in the marine ecosystem. We deployed hydrophones in the northern Gulf of Alaska to examine the year-round distribution of killer whales from 2016 to 2020 using passive acoustic monitoring. Highest year-round acoustic presence occurred in Montague Strait, with strong seasonal patterns in Hinchinbrook Entrance and Resurrection Bay. Passive acoustic monitoring revealed that both resident and transient killer whales used these areas much more extensively than previously known and provided novel insights into high use locations and times for each population. These results may be driven by seasonal foraging opportunities and social factors, and have management implications for this species.

Purpose:
Year-round passive acoustic monitoring of killer whales

Supplemental information:
This dataset presents killer whale presence or absence based on acoustic detection. 
The locations of the stationary acoustic devices are approximate. 

Passive acoustic monitoring efforts were done during the following periods:
Montague Strait
    Hanning Bay 10/1/2016 - 1/31/2017
    Little Bay 9/14/2017- 5/7/2018
    Little Bay 5/15/2018 - 9/17/2018
    Little Bay 10/1/2018 - 9/24/2019
    Little Bay 09/27/2019 - 5/31/2020

Hinchinbrook Entrance
    Port Etches 10/1/2016 - 6/16/2017
    Port Etches 9/7/2017 - 5/12/2018
    Port Etches 5/15/2018 - 9/30/2018
    Zaikof Bay 10/1/2018 - 7/25/2019
    Zaikof Bay 10/1/2019 - 5/29/2020

Resurrection Bay
    6/7/2018 - 10/2/2018
    10/2/2018 - 5/27/2019
    5/27/2019 - 9/22/2019
    9/22/2019 - 5/31/2020
Zooplankton community of Shirazi bay (Kenya) sampled between April and December 1998

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, ISW, Kenya, Coast, Shirazi bay, Environmental variables
Temporal coverage: 1998/1998

Density on zooplankton taxa and related environmental variables (chlorophyll a, dissolved oxygen and biological oxygen demand) for 30 samples taken in Shirazi Bay from 15 April to 16 December 1998. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Anyango, C. (2000). The zooplankton community of Shirazi Bay, Kenya. MSc Thesis. VUB: Brussel. 81 pp.
Gelatinous zooplankton in the Belgian part of the North Sea and the adjacent Westerscheldt estuary, period 2011-2012

Keywords: Gelatinous zooplankton, Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 2011/2012

Many ocean ecosystems ar ethought to be heading towards a domiance of gelatinous organisms. However, gelatinous zooplakton has been largely understudied and the absence of quantitative long-term data for the studied area impeded drawing conclusion on the potential increasing densities. This study gives a comprehensive overview of the spatio-temporal distribution patterns of gealtinous zooplankton in terms of diversity and density bewteen March 2011 and February 2012 in the Belgian part of the North Sea and the adjacent Westerschelde estuary, based on monthly and seasonal samples respectively.
Antarctic macrobenthic communities: A compilation of circumpolar information

Keywords: sea-bed video, corers, macrobenthic communities, dredges, grabs, trawls, direct observations (scuba-diving, sea-bed photography)
Temporal coverage: null/null

Comprehensive information on Antarctic macrobenthic community structure is publicly available since the 1960s. It stems from trawl, dredge, grab, and corer samples as well as from direct and camera observations (Table 1). The quality of this information varies considerably; it consists of pure descriptions, figures for presence (absence) and abundance of some key taxa or proxies for such parameters, e.g. sea-floor cover. Some data sets even cover a defined and complete proportion of the macrobenthos with further analyses on diversity and zoogeography. As a consequence the acquisition of data from approximately 90 different campaigns assembled here was not standardised. Nevertheless, it was possible to classify this broad variety of known macrobenthic assemblages to the best of experts knowledge (Gutt 2007; Fig. 1). This overview does not replace statistically sound community and diversity analyses. However, it shows from where which kind of information is available and it acts as an example of the feasibility and power of such data collections. The data set provides unique georeferenced biological basic information for the planning of future coordinated research activities, e.g. under the umbrella of the biology program "Antarctic Thresholds - Ecosystem Resilience and Adaptation" (AnT-ERA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and especially for actual conservation issues, e.g. the planning of Marine Protected Areas (MPA's) by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).
Mortality, Movements, and Migration Timing of Age-0 Cowichan Chinook Salmon Tagged in the Southern Gulf Islands in Fall 2017

Keywords: EARTH SCIENCE &gt; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION &gt; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES &gt; FISH, ACOUSTIC TAGS, Occurrence, Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 2017/2018

This is the OBIS extraction of the Ocean Tracking Network  and Kintama Research Services (KRS)  Mortality, Movements, and Migration Timing of Age-0 Cowichan Chinook Salmon Tagged in the Southern Gulf Islands in Fall 2017, consisting of the release tagging metadata, i.e. the location and date when the tagged animal was released, and summarized detection events of tagged individuals.
    If readers are interested in the source dataset they may also inquire with the project PIs as listed here or on the OTN web site (https://members.oceantrack.org/project?ccode=NEP.CCSALMON).
Abstract:Similar to other Chinook populations in the Salish Sea, the Cowichan River Chinook population has declined precipitously since the 1990s. Previous studies have tracked Salish Sea populations of Chinook during the winter and fall months and found that juvenile Chinook likely either remain resident in the Salish Sea beyond the time when they were tracked, or suffer very high mortality. In late summer 2017, we tested these hypotheses by acoustic-tagging 80 age-0 wild and hatchery Chinook salmon (&gt;140 mm FL) resident near the outlet of the Cowichan River in Maple Bay and Sansum Narrows. The fish were captured using microtrolling and then released near their capture locations after tagging. Mobile tracking was conducted for 10 days in September after tagging was completed, and sporadically throughout the fall. We will track their migration until spring 2018 with an array of special-purpose, short-term, receivers deployed to the north and south of the capture and release areas and at two harbour seal haul-outs. The existing POST sub-arrays in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Northern Strait of Georgia, and Discovery Islands will allow us to determine if fish remain the Salish Sea over winter. In addition to the acoustic tag, fish were implanted with a PIT tag which can ultimately be used to estimate smolt to adult survival back to the Cowichan River. Finally, we collected gill and scale samples for genetic stock dentification and to investigate infectious agents that might be present in tagged fish.i
Happywhale - Leatherback Sea Turtle in North Pacific Ocean

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence,PhotoID;Visual sighting
Temporal coverage: null/null, 2014/2019

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 3 contributors in alphabetic order:

Doug Cheeseman; Isidore Szczepaniak; Marilia Olio
Happywhale - Southern Right Whale Dolphin in South Pacific Ocean

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence,PhotoID;Visual sighting
Temporal coverage: 2004/2018

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; Ted Cheeseman
SHARK - Regional monitoring and monitoring projects of Epibenthos in Sweden since 1994

Keywords: Samplingevent, Diving, Regional
Temporal coverage: 1994/2017

Regional monitoring programs for Epibenthos have been performed since 1994 in Sweden. The monitoring is financed by the Swedish county administration boards, Swedish municipalities and Swedish coalitions of water conservation.  Recipient control data financed by companies are also included. Sampling is performed by a large number of different institutes and consulting firms. Data from monitoring projects are also included in this dataset. The data is stored in the database SHARK, hosted and maintained by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. The Epibenthos monitoring programs and projects studies hard and soft bottoms from the surface down to 10-20 meters. Data is collected in transects or squares with help of divers. Species abundances are determined directly by the divers or photographs are taken and analyzed later.
CRESLI marine mammal observations from whale watch cruises 2020

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Visual Sighting,Vessel
Temporal coverage: 2020/2020

Original provider:
Coastal Research and Education Society of Long Island, Inc.

Dataset credits:
Coastal Research and Education Society of Long Island, Inc.

Purpose:
The Coastal Research and Education Society of Long Island is a non-profit research and education organization. Our mission is: "To promote and foster understanding and stewardship of coastal ecosystems through research and education ." Part of our work is to 
observe and document the whale and sea bird populations of NY and New England and to take people to see these animals in the wild.

Since 2002 we have been offering incredible and successful single day and multi-day offshore pelagic bird and whale observation trips.

Supplemental information:
A static view of vessel tracks is available. To show it online, go to "Layers" tab and choose "Vessel tracks".
Happywhale - Hector's Dolphin in South Pacific Ocean

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence,PhotoID;Visual sighting, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: null/null, 2014/2017

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:

Marian Herz; Rémi Bigonneau
Colección de Plancton Mixto – Sección Fitoplancton del Museo de Historia Natural Marina de Colombia – Makuriwa (Invemar)

Keywords: Specimen, Colombia, Fitoplancton, MHNMC, Occurrence, Plancton, Colección biológica, Museo de Historia Natural Marina Makuriwa, Invemar
Temporal coverage: 2008/2018

El Museo de Historia Natural Marina de Colombia que hace parte del INVEMAR, cuenta entre sus colecciones biológicas con una colección de Plancton mixta que tiene una sección de Fitoplancton. Cada lote de esta colección, contiene una muestra en la que se encuentran inmersos y sin separar los organismos o grupos que la componen, y es por ello que es denominada como mixta. La colección se creó en el año 2013, aunque en el Museo existían muestras de este tipo más antiguas que datan incluso de décadas previas al establecimiento del Museo, y que provenían del desarrollo de diferentes actividades científicas y académicas del Invemar a lo largo de su historia o de donaciones de otras entidades. Para la constitución oficial de la colección, se tomó como punto de partida el material obtenido en diferentes proyectos realizados por el Invemar en conjunto con la Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos (ANH). A estos rápidamente se sumaron numerosos lotes depositados por diversas entidades nacionales, que en cumplimiento con la normativa que entró en vigencia en 2013, requerían entregar este tipo material a colecciones biológicas legalmente registradas y con las condiciones para su almacenamiento, una circunstancia coyuntural que ha enriquecido considerablemente la colección. 
El presente conjunto de datos reúne información de 327 lotes de muestras mixtas de fitoplancton, colectadas tanto en el Caribe (87%) como del Pacífico colombiano (13%) entre los 0 y 1000 m de profundidad durante 11 proyectos de investigación. A partir de estos lotes, se documentan 7959 ocurrencias de 10 diferente fila; los registros se obtuvieron mediante el análisis general de dichas muestras, y se complementan con datos de abundancias correspondientes para 2900 ocurrencias, las cuales son descritas en un archivo complementario (eMoF). 
Aunque los ejemplares o células se encuentran inmersos en las muestras originales mixtas, y por ello no cuentan con un número de catálogo, los lotes que los contienen pueden ser consultados en la Sección de Fitoplancton a través del código de seguimiento asignado por el museo, el cual es denominado como Número consecutivo (No. Consec.).
Baltic Porpoise Acoustic Surveys 01-02

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence,Marine mammals,Habor porpoise,Habour porpoise,Acoustic survey
Temporal coverage: 2001/2002

Original provider:
International Fund for Animal Welfare

Dataset credits:
International Fund for Animal Welfare

Abstract:
Boat-based acoustic and visual surveys for harbor porpoises (<i>Phocoena phocoena</i>) were conducted during the summers of 2001 and 2002 in order to investigate their distribution and relative abundance in the Baltic Sea, and to compare the results with the adjacent Kiel and Mecklenburg Bights and the Little Belt.

Purpose:
Harbor porpoises are subject to year-round bycatch in gillnets and other fishing gear in these waters. This is of particular concern in the Baltic Sea where a survey carried out in 1995 indicated that the population is low and current levels of anthropogenic mortality are believed to be unsustainable.

Supplemental information:
6/15/2010: The primary contact was changed from Douglas Gillespie to Anna Moscrop upon provider request.



Acoustic sound files are not available in OBIS-SEAMAP.
This dataset includes acoustic events only.

Data for visual sightings during the survey are available in Baltic Porpoise Sightings 01-02.
Seabird Atlas of South-eastern Australian Waters 1975-1993

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence, EARTH SCIENCE &gt; Oceans &gt; Marine Biology &gt; Marine Birds
Temporal coverage: 1975/1993

Seabird Atlas of South-eastern Australian Waters derived from multiple sources. Data from paper by Reid, T.A., Hindell, M.A., Eades, D.W. and Newman, M. 2002 Seabird Atlas of South-eastern Australian Waters, Birds Australia Monograph 4, Birds Australia, Melbourne. The following surveys/voyages have been removed as they exist in the existing OBIS dataset ANARE WoV - WOCE91, geosci , 1988/89 v4, 1989/90 v3, fishog and Thirst
TPWD HARC Texas Coastal Fisheries Matagorda Bay Bag Seine

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 1977/2008

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 bag seine data collected for the Matagorda bay system in Texas from 1977 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.
MIRC NAVFAC MISTCS Vessel Surveys Jan-Apr 2007

Keywords: Occurrence,Mariana Islands Range Complex,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Sea turtles,Visual Sighting,Vessel, Observation, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2007/2007

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 sightings from the NAVFAC MISTCS Vessel Surveys Jan-Apr 2007.
Green sea turtle satellite tracking in the Nansha and Penghu Archipelagos 2000-2005

Keywords: Occurrence,green turtles,migration,Taiwan Straits,Nansha Archipelago, Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2000/2005

Original provider:
Cheng, I-Jiunn

Dataset credits:
Cheng, I-Jiunn

Abstract:
Green turtle is an endangered species in Taiwan. In addition to understanding their nesting ecology, the migration behavior and whereabouts in the ocean are equally important. The purpose of the current study is to deploy as many satellite tags as possible to understand fully its post-nesting migration routes, rest/foraging areas and the influence of currents to the migration of green turtles. Furthermore, the combination of satellite tracking with genetic studies allow us to construct comprehensive conservation measures on a regional and international basis.

Purpose:
To understand the whereabouts of green turtles that nest in Taiwan, and the influence of currents to the migration behavior.
Acoustic detections from R/V Song of the Whale during the winter 2019 MAPS survey (NMFS permit 14809)

Keywords: Occurrence,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Acoustic - group size,Vessel, Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2019/2019

Original provider:
Marine Conservation Research

Dataset credits:
Oliver Boisseau, Marine Conservation Research International

Abstract:
The dataset contains sperm whale acoustic detections made during the MAPS winter cruise in Jan/Feb 2019 (NMFS permit 14809). Each datapoint represents an acoustic detection of an individual sperm whale.

Purpose:
The MAPS (Marine Mammal Passive Acoustics and Spatial Ecology) cruises form part of a BOEM project to describe the distribution and behaviour of deep-diving cetaceans in the offshore waters of North Carolina (NMFS permit 14809). MAPS is a cooperative agreement between the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the University of North Carolina Wilmington in partnership with Duke University.

Supplemental information:
Visual sightings made in the same survey and survey tracklines are available at <a href="http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1999">http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1999</a>
Fish distribution data, Mayor Is. (Tuhua) marine reserve 1993

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1993/1993

The Mayor Island (Tuhua) marine reserve was created in January 1993. A pre-reserve survey had already compiled algae, invertebrate, and fish species lists, with distributional data and habitat descriptions (Jones &amp; Garrick 1991). They recorded a total of 54 fish species and presented the relative abundances of each. These data were essential for site selection and replication in the present survey,which was undertaken in March/April 1993, only 3 months after the reserve was established. Fieldwork for the present survey was undertaken by Department of Conservation (Bay of Plenty Conservancy) and NIWA-Oceanographic staff, as well as 2nd-year marine biology students from the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic. It was designed to provide background data on numbers of fish species present, numbers of individuals, their distribution within sites and depth, and to ascertain whether there were differences between "reserve" and "control" sites. These data would then be available for comparisons with those obtained after the reserve had been in place for some time, and would provide assistance for reserve management as well as the wider scientific questions recently outlined by Rowley (1992) on whether marine reserves act as spillover areas to enhance fisheries adjacent to their boundaries.
Only the presence data is presented in this dataset. The analysis of the fish length data is given in the final report by Grange (1993).
Quantitative Diatom data collected from the RV Investigator voyage, IN2017_V01, Sabrina Coast, Antarctica (2017)

Keywords: Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 2017/2017

There were 13 cores taken (11 Kasten cores and two piston cores) at depths from 2100 to 3356 metres. Samples for diatom analysis were collected on board ship immediately after core recovery. Samples were dried in an oven at 50 degrees C prior to analytical work. For further details, see cited metadata record.
Voyage details (metadata, projects, other datasets either online or as downloads, publications and reports, events, maps etc) can be accessed at https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/survey_details.cfm?survey=IN2017_V01
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.