oih/oih-wis2 huggingface dataset:
Non-encrusting macroalgal zonation on rocky cliffs around Mombasa (Kenya) sampled between April and August 1985

Keywords: Occurrence, ISW, Kenya, Coast, Shelly, ISW, Kenya, coast, Kanamai, Eulittoral zone, Observation, Sheltered habitats, Seaweed zonation, Cliffs, ISW, Kenya, coast, Mombasa, ISW, Kenya, Coast, Tiwi, Littoral zone, Exposed habitats, Rocky substrata
Temporal coverage: 1985/1985

Presence and absence of macroalgae and their zonation patterns at several localities around Mombasa sampled between April and August 1985. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Polk, P. (Ed.) (1986). Kenya report. VUB: Brussel. 358 pp.
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) - Surveys of Octocorals in the Rowley Shoals Marine Park and the Mermaid Reef National Marine Nature Reserve, Western Australia (2007)

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen
Temporal coverage: 2007/2007

Octocoral biodiversity was surveyed at eighteen sites across all three Rowley Shoals (Mermaid, Clerke and Imperieuse Reefs). At each site, transects commenced at ~20m depth and ascended gradually, finishing at ~5m depth over a horizontal distance of ~300m. All octocorals encountered were identified (so far as possible in the field), most were photographed and selected samples were taken of new observations for later taxonomic analysis.
Taxa have been matched to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). This dataset was sourced on July 2018 from the original DiGIR dataset at OBIS and updated to reflect changes in the OBIS data requirements.
Benthic Forams collected on the Continental Margin off Nova Scotia between 1979-1981

Keywords: Oceans, Biological Classification, Biota, Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: null/null

Data on marine benthonic foraminifera were obtained from samples collected by Shipek grab from the continental margin off Nova Scotia, Canada. Samples were collected from the benthos in water depths ranging from 16 metres to 440 metres and once brought shipboard sediment was scraped off the surface (20ml)of the sample and preserved in a combination of seawater and formaldehyde buffered with borax. In the laboratory, samples were sieved and stained in Rose Bengal and then dried and concentrated by flotation in carbon tetrachloride. Relative abundance of each species of foraminifera was then recorded. 

Survey results consist of density (number of individuals per cubic centimetre). 

The original survey report (Williamson, 1983) contains information on temperature, slope, percent gravel, sand and mud. The OBIS view of this dataset includes only the abundance and biomass information.
NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program Coral Demographic Data

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2013/2021, 2013/2022

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coral Reef Conservation Program (Coral Program) invests approximately $5 million of its annual operating budget to support the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) for biological, climate, and socioeconomic monitoring throughout the U.S. Pacific, Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico coral reef areas. The monitoring program is unique for its national scale across a vast geographic area as well as its progressive inclusion of social science integrated with biophysical science. The effort provides a consistent flow of information about the status and trends of environmental conditions, natural resources, and the people and processes that interact with coral reef ecosystems. The overarching goal is to collect the scientific data needed to evaluate changing conditions of U.S. coral reef ecosystems, which are among the most biologically diverse and economically valuable ecosystems on earth, providing billions of dollars in food, jobs, recreational opportunities, coastal protection, and other important ecosystem services. The program focuses on four monitoring themes: benthic community structure, fish community structure, climate impacts, and socioeconomic condition. Within the benthic theme, the core indicators include: coral species abundance and size structure, coral diversity, coral condition, benthic percent cover, key coral and mobile invertebrate species, and reef rugosity. Data provided here include species abundance. The coral demographics protocol provides more detailed and species-specific insight (‘signal magnitude’) for coral populations.

Individual data collections:
Gulf of Mexico: https://doi.org/10.7289/v5vd6wts
Florida: https://doi.org/10.7289/v5xw4h4z
Puerto Rico: https://doi.org/10.7289/v5pg1q23
US Virgin Islands: https://doi.org/10.7289/v5ww7fqk
National Pilot Monitoring Studies Phyllophora July 2017, Improving Environmental Monitoring in the Black Sea - Phase II (EMBLAS-II), ENPI/2013/313-169, (Mesozooplankton)

Keywords: Biological monitoring, Samplingevent, Biological sampling
Temporal coverage: 2017/2017

Mesozooplankton data: species composition, abundance (ind/m3), biomass (mg/m3) collected during the survey of the National Pilot Monitoring Studies Ukraine (NPMS UA) in the Ukrainian waters (North-Western part of the Black Sea) in the area of the Zernov’s Phyllophora Field onboard the M/V "Auguste Piccard" (Ukraine) in July 2017
Biotic Census of Cape Cod Bay 1965-1969: Hydroids

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 1966/1969

The Biotic Census of Cape Cod Bay was initiated in 1965 by the Systematics Ecology Program at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Completed in 1969, the census involved qualitative and quantitative sampling of the benthos to determine the species occurring in the bay, and to provide information about their ecology. This report is an account of the hydroids collected during the project.

Presence information only is recorded. There are no abundance measurements.

Distribution information associated with this study (Calder, 1975) was digitized, standardized and republished as part of the Atlantic Coastal Zone Information Steering Committee (ACZISC) Atlantic Ecosystem Initiative (AEI) funded project “Atlantic Canada’s Biological Data for Ecosystem Planning and Decision-making” and OBIS Canada.
Happywhale - Striped Dolphin in North Atlantic Ocean

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence,PhotoID;Visual sighting, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2013/2022, 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 3 contributors in alphabetic order:

Dirk-Jan Saaltink; Marilia Olio; Sabine+Ulf
Reptiles y aves del Distrito Nacional de Manejo Integrado Cabo Manglares Bajo Mira y Frontera, Pacífico colombiano - Proyecto Colombia BIO

Keywords: reptiles., diversidad taxonómica, Cabo Manglares, Occurrence, SIB_MARINO, COLOMBIA_BIO, Tumaco, PACÍFICO, Observation, aves
Temporal coverage: 2018/2018

Con el fin de evaluar la diversidad (taxonómica y funcional) de reptiles y aves, se realizaron protocolos de muestreo estandarizados para cada grupo taxonómico, para aves se realizaron caminatas libres, puntos de observación y registros auditivos y para reptiles se realizó búsqueda libre delimitada por tiempo, con muestreos principalmente diurnos por la logística de acceso a los puntos de muestreo. 

Los objetivos específicos del proyecto consistió:
1. Determinar la diversidad taxonómica (alfa y beta) de reptiles y aves en diferentes
hábitats en manglares y zonas de litoral en Cabo Manglares.
2. Establecer la proporción de rasgos y grupos funcionales de reptiles y aves en
diferentes hábitats en manglares y el litoral en Cabo Manglares.
3. Determinar la relación entre variables ambientales y de los hábitats con la diversidad taxonómica y funcional de reptiles y aves en manglares y zonas de litoral en Cabo Manglares.
En total se registraron 204 registros de aves y reptiles.
Presence of cetaceans in Sicilian waters, Ionian and Tyrrhenian Sea (records 2008-2019)

Keywords: Visual observation, Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 2008/2019

Data collection on population size and distribution of cetaceans in Sicily, Ionian Sea, promoted by the MareCamp association thanks to the citizen science initiative "Report a sighting and help the research" through phone and e-mail communications made by yachtsmen and fishers, and also filling in the following online form https://forms.gle/mAx9ZHZDzrPfs9P59 
Data here provided were collected in 2008-2019 period. The project is ongoing; sightings are reported in the database only if the advisories have good photos of reference able to distinguish the species and the area of observation.
Presence of boats, fishing activities, other species like birds, fish, jellyfish, meteorological and sea conditions are also collected.
Jellyfish Sightings Along the Italian Coastline from 2009 to 2017

Keywords: Gelatinous zooplankton, Citizen science, Jellyplankton: jellyfish blooms, Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 2009/2017

The lack of gelatinous blooms data reveals scant attention to such phenomena due to their irregular occurrence (Boero et al. 2008), to modern publication trends that give no importance to observations (Boero 2013b), to current monitoring programs that usually do not cover jellyfish (Riisgård et al. 2012) and to the lack of remote sensing tools to detect jellyfish. From 2009 the Italian project Occhio alla Medusa started involving citizens to record sightings of gelatinous organisms. In 2010 till 2015, the Italian popular science magazine FOCUS supported the campaign dedicating a webpage and releasing a smartphone app to upload records.
Benthic Foraminifera Collected from the Magdalen Shallows, Gulf of St. Lawrence, 1963

Keywords: Oceans, Biological Classification, Biota, Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: null/null

Data on marine benthonic foraminifera were obtained from samples collected in late August of 1963 in the Magdalen Shallows aboard CNAV Sackville with a modified Van Veen bottom grabber. Samples were collected from the sediment in water depths from 37 meters to 77 meters. 
Only species presence is included in this OBIS view. The original report also contains information about the physical environment and relative percentages of forams found in each sample(Vilks,1968).
SPC CoFish Fish Observations Federated States of Micronesia 2006

Keywords: CoFish, Fish, UVC, Occurrence, PROCFish/C, SPC, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2006/2006

Coastal fish species of commercial interest observed on Underwater Visual Census transects in Federated States of Micronesia during the CoFish surveys in Romanum, Piis-Panewu, Riiken and Yyin (2006). The individual counts correspond to the observations by a single diver (one side) on the 50 m transect, from the transect line up to visibility (distance sampling).
Phytoplankton samples - 2006/07 V3 SAZ-Sense

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: null/null

Locations of sampling sites for ASAC project 40 on voyage 3 of the Aurora Australis in the 2006/2007 season. The dataset also contains information on chlorophyll, carotenoids, coccolithophorids and species indentification and counts. LOSS ( see http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/voyages/display_voyage.cfm?voyage_id=336).
Grand Manan Basin Benthos

Keywords: biota, Occurrence, Observation, oceans, biological classification
Temporal coverage: 2004/2004

This study investigates the faunal biodiversity of the deep water sediments of Grand Manan Basin in the Bay Fundy on the East Coast of North America. Specimens were collected using a 0.1 m2 grab, and identified and enumerated at the Atlantic Reference Centre. The sediment types at the research sites were found to be complex containing cobbles, pebbles, sand and clay. The specimens retrieved from these samples showed a great degree of biodiversity, and include species not previously reported in this region.

Version 1 of this resource was created as a Census of Marine Life dataset in 2005.
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Rotifera Collection (Rotifera)

Keywords: Planktonic rotifers, Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 1988/2006

The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Rotifera collection contains 39 digitised specimens over 7 taxa (mostly species). This dataset only contains the marine species of the collection. The following classes are included: Eurotatoria De Ridder, 1957.
NAFO: Cod fisheries at Greenland: catch statistics, 1911-1995

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: null/null

This dataset includes annual nominal catches of cod extracted from Volume 28 of the NAFO Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fishery Science which documents the development of the cod fisheries around Greenland. Official statistics from this area were first recorded in 1910 (Svend Aage Horsted, 2000). 

Data records include the scientific name, the NAFO fishing area and nominal position, the year, annual nominal catches(tons) and vessel type (small Greenland boats below 50 GRT; Greenland trawlers above 150 GRT;non-greenlandic vessels above 150 GRT). Nominal catches are landed weight, for instance gutted, heads-on fish converted to corresponding weight of round fresh fish.

Zero catches are not included in this version of the dataset.
At-Sea Observations of Seabirds 1969 to 1990, Tasman Sea, New Zealand and Australian waters

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1969/1990

This is a dataset of at-sea observations of seabirds dating from 1969 to 1990.
The data was recorded using guidelines for the Australasian Seabird Mapping Scheme and counts seabirds seen from a ship during a 10 minute period. The data includes geolocations of the sightings, bird species, numbers and behaviour, observer and ship name, and observation date and time.
It has been built from data elements extracted by Te Papa staff from the at-sea bird observations recorded in the logbooks of Captain John Arthur Francis Jenkins (1928-1989) and count cards held by the convenor of the Australasian Seabird Mapping Scheme. Metadata record is https://catalogue.data.govt.nz/dataset/at-sea-observations-of-seabirds-1969-to-1990
The logbooks of Captain Jenkins are held by the Archives of the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Happywhale - Beluga in North Pacific Ocean

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence,PhotoID;Visual sighting
Temporal coverage: 2017/2021

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:

Sara Franson; Ted Cheeseman
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery - Marine Invertebrates

Keywords: Specimen, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1885/2018

Over the last 15 years a deliberate effort has been made to increase holdings of invertebrate specimens in the collections and to register and database existing material. There are currently approximately 75000 registered lots, most are of Tasmanian in origin. (We also house a large collection of unsorted and unregistered invertebrate material donated as a result of various fauna surveys around Tasmania).

The collection was established in 1842 and continues to the present.
This dataset is of marine species sourced from the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) January 2019 (https://collections.ala.org.au/public/show/co258). Taxa have been matched to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and if not then matched to the Australian Faunal Directory (AFD)
Catch composition and measurement records from trawling, RV Investigator voyage IN2017_V05, North West Shelf, Australia (2017)

Keywords: Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 2017/2017

Survey sampling occurred aboard the RV Investigator between 12 October and 6 November 2017  between 30 and 125 km offshore between Port Hedland and the Montebello Islands on the Pilbara section of the North West Shelf, Western Australia, in water depths of 25 m to 100 m.
Approximately 373 fish taxa from 89 families were identified.. The following families had the highest number of identified taxa: Carangidae (19 species), Apogonidae (17), Serranidae and Labridae (16 species), Lutjanidae, Monacanthidae, Nemipteridae and Scorpaenidae (12), Dasyatidae, Synodontidae and Platycephalidae (11) and Lethrinidae (10). Other diverse families included Gobiidae, Bothidae and Tetraodontidae (9), Chaetodontidae and Paralichthyidae (8), Mullidae, Muraenidae and Ostraciidae (7 each), and Syngnathidae (6 each). All other families had five or less species and 41 families were represented by a single species.
One hundred and thirty-three “soft coral” species (133) within the subclass Octocorallia, Order Alcyonacea were identified. The following families had the highest number of identified taxa: Plexauridae (58), Nephtheidae (13), Acanthogorgiidae (13), Ellisellidae (12) and Nidaliidae (10). All other families were represented by only a few species (1–9).
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_05
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.
Programa Poseidon - Citizen Science Project Results

Keywords: Citizen science, diver, Citizen participation, Samplingevent, Marine species
Temporal coverage: 2010/2017

Programa Poseidon is marine biodiversity citizen science project delivered by ECOAQUA Institute, University Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ECOAQUA), supported by Fundacion Biodiversidad (2014-2015). In 2014 is established web platform, where target groups as scuba divers, whale watchers, environmentalist, etc. could introduce photo, location and other information on observed marine species.  In the period of two years were registered more than 7000 observations by more than 400 users. All the reported observations where validated by ECOAQUA Ichthyology experts team, and finally encoded applying EU-nomen or WORMS classification.
Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 10/95 survey in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia (Nov 1995)

Keywords: Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 1995/1995

The  Southern Surveyor cruise SS 10/95 took place in the Gulf of Carpentaria during 10 October - 5 November 1995, under the leadership of John Salini. Biological data collected on this cruise include samples from 92 paired bycatch reduction device (BRD) prawn trawls and from 50 environmentally friendly net (EFN) trawls, clear video images of fish behaviour in the BRD codends of the prawn net and the EFN, shark longlining including dyed bait experiments and samples of saurids for population genetic studies. Details of the voyage and related data is at https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/survey_details.cfm?survey=SS199510
Turbellaria from mudflats in the Zwin nature reserve (1983-1984)

Keywords: Flatworms, Meiofauna, Samplingevent, Nature reserves
Temporal coverage: 1983/1984

Inventory of Turbellaria species and examination of the share of Turbellaria in the meiofauna of the Zwin. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Revis, N. (1984). Studie van de Turbellaria in een slikke van het Zwin. BSc Thesis. Free University of Brussels: Faculty of Science: Brussel.

A total of 29 samples were collected and divided over six sampling locations (Zwin1-Zwin6) between 14 September 1983 and 09 March 1984. The Turbellaria define 1 to 39% of the meiofauna. In total there were 47 species (without Acoela, except <i>P. rubra</i>) found in the Zwin, from which 43 were determined to species level. From those, there is one new for science: <i>Archilopsis arenaria.</i>
NMML Harbor Porpoise Aerial Survey, SE Alaska, Replicate 3, 1993

Keywords: Occurrence, Occurrence,Aircraft,Sightings,harbor porpoise,Phocoena phocoena,abundance,aerial survey,marine mammal survey,survey,marine mammal,cetacean, Observation
Temporal coverage: 1993/1993

Original provider:
National Marine Mammal Laboratory

Dataset credits:
National Marine Mammal Laboratory

Abstract:
On 1 to 26 June 1993, as part of a larger study, Alaska harbor porpoise (<i>Phocoena phocoena</i>) abundance was investigated during an aerial survey from Prince William Sound to Dixon Entrance. Employing a Twin Otter as the survey platform, the third of three 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 from Prince William Sound to Dixon Entrance was 1.22 (SE = 0.04) and 4.02 groups/100 km2 (SE = 7.42).

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 September 8, 2005. Those who downloaded them before that date should renew them.
Rocky reef biodiversity survey: Punta Pardelas, Argentina

Keywords: Samplingevent, Scientific diving, Biodiversity, Southern Ocean, Sampling event, Rocky reef, Photoquadrats
Temporal coverage: 2019/2019

Temperate rocky reefs in the SW Atlantic are productive areas that support highly diverse communities of invertebrates, algae and fishes. Rocky outcrops form complex structures which offer a diversity of microhabitats that lead to a great variety of co-existing species. Subtidal biodiversity within the Natural Protected Area Península Valdés is largely unexplored and studies are mainly limited to fish. A total of 560 high definition photoquadrats from 7 rocky reefs (1-25 m depth) at Punta Pardelas were obtained during March 2019. In total, 4491 occurrences were recorded and identified to phyla (n=2), superclasses (n=1), classes (n=5), subclasses (n=2), orders (n=2), families (n=1), subfamilies (n=1), genera (n=10) and species (n=43) levels. This dataset was developed to provide a baseline inventory of Punta Pardelas inside the Natural Protected Area, that was only partially reported more than 50 years ago. Such data represent the first step towards monitoring these less-accessible ecosystems.