oih/oih-wis2 huggingface dataset:
Southern Maine Community College Gulf of Maine Invertebrate Data

Keywords: Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1969/2006

This Invertebrate Data Base includes the data relating to the specimens collected by my students in the Invertebrate Zoology course taught as part of the Applied Marine Biology and Oceanography (AMBO) Program at Southern Maine Community College (SMCC). SMCC was formerly known as Southern Maine Vocational-Technical College (SMVTI), and then Southern Maine Technical College (SMTC).

The collection began in 1971 and continues to the present (2010) and includes specimens collected primarily (but not exclusively) in the Casco and Saco Bay areas of the Gulf of Maine as our campus is located on the shore of Casco Bay in South Portland. There are entries from as far north as Nova Scotia and as far south as Florida.

The procedure that was followed by the students involved collecting live organisms in the marine environment by what ever means they could, i.e. walking along the shore, dredging from a boat, plankton sampling, SCUBA diving, etc. They recorded the location, substrate, date, organism characteristics when live and in the field, associated organisms, etc. They then brought the specimen to the laboratory where they used a variety of dichotomous and tabular identification manuals to identify the organism.
St. Croix, USVI Benthic Composition and Monitoring Data (2002 - Present)

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2001/2010

The Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessments Biogeography Team (BT) has been conducting research and monitoring in the US Virgin Islands since 2001. The basis for this work is the nearshore benthic habitats maps (less than 100 ft depth) created by NOAAs Biogeography Program in 2001 and NOS bathymetry models. Using ArcView GIS software, the digitized habitat maps are stratified. Smapling sites are randomly selected within these strata to ensure coverage of the entire study region and not just a particular reef or seagrass area. At each site, fish, macro-invertebrates, and benthic composition information is then quantified following standardized protocols. By relating the data collected in the field back to the habitat maps and bathymetric models, BT is able to model and map species level and community level information. This dataset contains the benthic composition and monitoring data from St. Croix, US Virgin Islands.
Hydroids of the BANZARE Antarctic expeditions 1929 - 1931

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 1929/1929

The BANZARE Expeditions (British, Australian, New Zealand, Antarctic Research Expeditions) 1929 - 1931 sampled the marine benthos in the Southern Ocean, at the Kerguelen Islands, Heard Island, Macquarie Island, and southwest of Tasmania and along the coast of the Australian Antarctic Territory. Forty six stations at depths of 2 - 640 m were occupied along the Australian Antarctic Territory coast. Eight species of Halecium including five new and Hydrodendron arboreum were found and recorded from eight stations.
Steinbock (1937) Turbellaria XIV. The fishery grounds near Alexandria. Notes and Memories of the Fisheries Directorate of Egypt, No. 25

Keywords: Metadata, Platyhelminthes, Historical dataset, Egypt Expedition, Turbellaria
Temporal coverage: 1933/1933

Turbellarians (Phylum Platyhelminthes) collected by Professor Steurer during his stay in Alexandria (1933), including two new species to science.
TPWD HARC Texas Coastal Fisheries San Antonio 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 San Antonio 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.
Status and occurrence of the non-indigenous Mulinia lateralis (Say, 1822) in the central Wadden Sea (southern North Sea)

Keywords: Introduced species, Samplingevent, Distribution
Temporal coverage: 2022/2022

<p>The species <i>Mulinia lateralis</i> (Say, 1822) is native in the western Atlantic Ocean and was first documented in European coastal waters in 2017. To report its current distribution status in the central Wadden Sea, individuals were collected systematically from intertidal flats along 10 transects ranging from the outer Ems estuary to the outer Elbe estuary (German North Sea coast) between February and May 2022. In total, 897 specimens of M. lateralis were sampled from 392 stations (mean abundance 2.29 ± 4.97 ind./m²). The shell length ranged between 3.98 to 23.5 mm thus representing.&nbsp;</p>
OTN Residence Time and Survival of Fraser River (Chilko) Chinook Salmon in the Strait of Georgia, 2016 - Tag Release Metadata, Residence Time and Survival of Fraser River (Chilko) Chinook Salmon in the Strait of Georgia, 2016

Keywords: Samplingevent, Observation, ACOUSTIC TAGS, EARTH SCIENCE &gt; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION &gt; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES &gt; FISH, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2016/2016

This is the OBIS extraction of the Ocean Tracking Network  and Kintama Research Services (KRS)  Residence Time and Survival of Fraser River (Chilko) Chinook Salmon in the Strait of Georgia, 2016, 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.CCS).
Abstract:Marine survival of Fraser River Chinook salmon stocks has decreased to &lt;1% in recent years and lack of information on downstream and early marine survival hampers their effective management. We conducted a small acoustic telemetry pilot study on 100 Chilko River Chinook that were reared at Chehalis Hatchery B.C. and then transported and released into the Chilko River.  The project goals were to estimate freshwater survival, investigate residence timing in the Strait of Georgia, and begin to investigate early marine survival. Because marine acoustic receiver arrays capable of detecting smolts implanted with small 180 kHz acoustic tags only monitor the northern exit from the Strait of Georgia, residence time and early marine survival could only be potentially estimated if smolts migrated north before tag batteries expired five months after ocean entry. Freshwater survival of acoustic-tagged Chinook to the Fraser River mouth (49%) was comparable to other populations or species which migrate the same distance downstream; however, their downstream migration rate 18 km/day) was dramatically slower than that of wild Chilko Lake sockeye, which migrate rapidly to the ocean after exit from Chilko Lake (100-170 km/day). It is unknown whether this behavioural difference is the result of their hatchery origin and transport to Chilko Lake. Only one fish was detected in the Strait of Georgia and none were detected exiting. Combined with the results from trawl surveys, the complete lack of detections in the Discovery Islands and Johnstone Strait suggest that Chilko Chinook do not migrate directly north after river exit. Instead, they likely remain in the Strait of Georgia for at least several months. It is unclear if smolts eventually exited the Strait via the southern route, died during their summer residence, or simply ceased migration to take up residence. An animation of the movements of the Chilko Lake Chinook smolts released in 2016 is available on our website (http://kintama.com/visualizations/).
JAX FIREX Aerial Monitoring 2011

Keywords: Occurrence,Aircraft,Sightings, Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2011/2011

Original provider:
HDR Environmental, Operations and Construction, Inc.

Dataset credits:
The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program

Abstract:
Aerial marine species monitoring occurred between 19 and 21 September 2011 for a Firing Exercise (FIREX) with Integrated Maritime Portable Acoustic Scoring and Simulator (IMPASS) Exercise that occurred in the Jacksonville Range Complex (JAX) off the eastern coast of Florida within the United States (U.S.) Navy’s FIREX boxes BB and CC.

Supplemental information:
[2020-09-30] The following invalid species names were corrected according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Turtles: Testudines (173749) =&gt; Testudines (948936)
Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 2011

Keywords: Samplingevent, Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2011/2011

In 1998, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Fisheries Independent Monitoring (FIM) program began a long-term monitoring effort of key reef fish populations in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. This effort was aimed at evaluating the relative abundance, size structure, and habitat utilization of specific reef fish species that are targeted by commercial and recreational fisheries.
WADFW PSAMP W1994

Keywords: Occurrence, Occurrence,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Seabirds,Aircraft,Visual Sighting, Observation
Temporal coverage: 1993/1994

Original provider:
Washington Department of Fish &amp; Wildlife

Abstract:
The metadata edits are in progress. Please contact the contact person for detail.

Aerial surveys of marine birds have been conducted annually since 1992 by the Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program (PSAMP) staff during both a summer (July) and a winter (December to early February) survey window, sampling some part of every portion of the marine shoreline of the inner marine waters of Washington state by two strata:  nearshore (&lt; 20 meters in depth) and offshore (&gt; 20 meters in depth).  

The datasets are split by season (summer or winter) and year.

Purpose:
The purpose of this program is to monitor population trends of either summer or winter resident species rather than migrations around Puget Sound.

Supplemental information:
[2020-09-30] The following invalid species names were corrected according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Bonaparte's Gull: Larus philadelphia (176839) =&gt; Chroicocephalus philadelphia (824040)
Anas oustaleti (202228) =&gt; Anas platyrhynchos (175063)

2015-11-17:
A negative herd size (Unidentified Black-Wing Tip Gull, 1993-12-09 12:15:51) was changed to null (presence-only record)

2006-03-17:
Wrong ITIS number for Unidentified Sea Lion
180623 -&gt; 180615

2006-03-14:
Wrong ITIS number for Unidentified [Large|Small] Gulls
180297 -&gt; 176802

The nearshore strata were sampled in two fashions: 
1)in nearshore habitat that was relatively narrow, the plane flew parallel to the shoreline generally 100 meters from the high tide line; 
2)in nearshore habitat with broad extensive shallow areas such as river estuaries, the plane flew in an S-pattern to sample a larger proportion of the habitat available in that locality.  The offshore strata were sampled in a crisscross pattern that zigzagged back and forth across depth contours, with an attempt made to cut across most all banks and similar major underwater bathymetric features.  There was no attempt made to survey during the same tidal stage in these areas.

The survey always began in the southernmost study areas and proceeded to the northern portions; therefore the same areas were usually sampled during the same time of month each year, give or take a week.  The last two summer surveys (1997-98) did not include the southern and central portions of Puget Sound, due to budget cuts.  These areas were chosen to be continued on a less frequent basis because low and consistent numbers of birds were seen there during the July survey window in the previous five summer surveys.

Effort data is provided in separate files.
Cephalopod specimens from RV Investigator voyage IN2017_v04, Tasman Sea, Australia (2017)

Keywords: Specimen, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2017/2017

Cephalopods were sampled from a cyclonic cold-core eddy in the western Tasman Sea, using midwater trawls from 10th to 12th September 2017 during a research voyage on Australia's Marine National Facility RV  Investigator. Two different types of trawl equipment were used. The first trawl type sampled the upper 100 m of the eddy using a Danish pelagic trawl with 300 μm mesh, towed at approximately 1 m/s (2 knots) for 60    min per trawl (n= 9). The second trawl type was an International Young Gadoid Pelagic Trawl (IYGPT) fitted with a MIDwater Open and Closing net system with six distinct codends to enable depth stratified sampling. The IYGPT trawl has a mesh size of 200 mm reducing to 10  mm, and the codend mesh size was 500 μm. The IYGPT trawl was lowered to 500 m, with the first codend sampling obliquely from the surface to 500 m, and each subsequent codend sampled 100 m depth intervals for approximately 20 min each at 1 m/s, as the trawl returned to the surface.
Data supporting this study are available from a GitHub repository archived using Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3980411 - see citation (Murphy et al., 2020). Deployment locations are from event logs stored in the ships data archive.
Broch H. 1935. The fishery grounds near Alexandria. III Cirripeds. Notes et Memoires No 10.

Keywords: Metadata
Temporal coverage: 1933/1933

This is a historical dataset that was publlished in 1935 by H. Broch and concerns of the faunistic report on the Cirripeds collected during the floristical and faunistical survey of Adolf Steuer on the coasts near Alexandria mainly with the vessel “El Hoot”. This dataset covers the time span of 30/8/1933 to 14/11/1933 and contains occurrence data of Cirripeds in the coasts of Alexandria, Egypt. The digitization of this dataset was done by LifewatchGreece team.
Composición del Ictioplancton de la Isla Cayo Serranilla durante la Expedición Seaflower 2017 - Proyecto Colombia BIO

Keywords: Ictioplancton. Seaflower. Serranilla. Composición. Colombia.
Temporal coverage: 2017/2017

En este conjunto de datos se encuentran presentes los registros taxonómicos pertenecientes al componente ictioplanctónico que fueron recolectados dentro del proyecto "EVALUACIÓN FÍSICA Y BIOLÓGICA DE LOS AMBIENTES PROFUNDOS DE LA ISLA CAYO SERRANILLA EN LA RESERVA DE LA  BIÓSFERA - SEAFLOWER", para el efecto se establecieron 10 estaciones distribuidas en el área de estudio, el cual se llevó a cabo en la embarcación ARC Roncador durante el 04 y el 16 de septiembre de 2017. Se registraron 34 larvas, las cuales se encuentran distribuidas en 16 familias, 15 géneros y nueve especies. Este material actualmente se encuentra en custodia en el Museo de Historia Natural Marina de Colombia MAKURIWA.
St. John, USVI Benthic Composition and Monitoring Data (2002 - Present)

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2001/2010

The Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessments Biogeography Team (BT) has been conducting research and monitoring in the US Virgin Islands since 2001. The basis for this work is the nearshore benthic habitats maps (less than 100 ft depth) created by NOAAs Biogeography Program in 2001 and NOS bathymetry models. Using ArcView GIS software, the digitized habitat maps are stratified. Smapling sites are randomly selected within these strata to ensure coverage of the entire study region and not just a particular reef or seagrass area. At each site, fish, macro-invertebrates, and benthic composition information is then quantified following standardized protocols. By relating the data collected in the field back to the habitat maps and bathymetric models, BT is able to model and map species level and community level information. This dataset contains the benthic composition and monitoring data from St. John, US Virgin Islands.
North West Shelf Joint Environmental Management Study - historic data (1895-1994)

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 1895/1993

NWSJEMS was a A$7.7m marine environmental study of the North West Shelf, jointly funded by CSIRO and the Western Australian Government. The overarching objective was to develop and demonstrate practical science-based methods that could support integrated regional planning and multiple-use management of the North West Shelf marine ecosystems. This datasets is historic species occurrences covering marine and some terrestrial species.
Project information at http://www.cmar.csiro.au/nwsjems/ and https://coastalresearch.csiro.au/?q=node/56
Scavenging Amphipods, Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory, North Atlantic, 1985-2016

Keywords: Occurrence
Amphipod
Deep-sea
Scavenger
Temporal coverage: 1985/2016

Samples of the scavenging amphipod assemblage have been collected at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO) in the North Atlantic (48° 50' N 016° 30' W, 4850 m) for more than 30 years. Samples were collected by means of baited traps deployed at the PAP-SO between 1985 and 2016, covering a period of well-characterised changes in the upper ocean. From the 19 trap samples analysed, a total of 16 species were identified from 106,259 amphipod specimens.
eDNA from Gulf of Mexico Ecosystems and Carbon Cruise 2021 (GOMECC-4)

Keywords: 16S rRNA, 18S rRNA, Occurrence, ATLANTIC OCEAN (UUID: cf249a36-2e82-4d32-84cd-23a4f40bb393), GULF OF MEXICO (UUID: 75fab119-51a6-4b59-9711-f6c3cd3139db), Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory; OAR; NOAA; U.S. Department of Commerce (UUID: 274cc3ed-e075-4fb3-89cd-51fa72bc64f9), Observation
Temporal coverage: 2021/2021

Seawater was collected on board the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown as part of the fourth Gulf of Mexico Ecosystems and Carbon Cycle (GOMECC-4) cruise from September 13 to October 21, 2021. Sampling for GOMECC-4 occurred along 16 coastal-offshore transects across the entire Gulf of Mexico and an additional line at 27N latitude in the Atlantic Ocean. We also collected eDNA samples near Padre Island National Seashore (U.S. National Parks Service), a barrier island located off the coast of south Texas. Vertical CTD sampling was employed at each site to measure discrete chemical, physical, and biological properties. Water sampling for DNA filtration was conducted at 54 out of 141 total sites and three depths per site (surface, deep chlorophyll maximum, and near bottom) to capture horizontal and vertical gradients of bacterial, protistan, and metazoan diversity across the Gulf.
Littoral Monitoring Network of Cantabria (Invertebrates)

Keywords: Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 2005/2021

IHCantabria with the support of the Regional Government of Cantabria has been carried out since 2005 the monitoring of the coastal waters of Cantabria in accordance with the Water Framework Directive. Here is included the abundance and biomass of soft bottoms invertebrates obtained from field campaigns in the coast and the mouth of the two biggest estuaries.
Benthic amphipods from Alacranes Reef, Campeche Bank, Mexico

Keywords: Yucatan, Occurrence, Benthos, Species diversity, Coral Reef, Tropical, Crustacea, Macrofauna, Peracarida, Amphipoda
Temporal coverage: 2009/2011

The dataset contains information about records of benthic amphipod crustaceans collected in the Alacranes Reef, southern Gulf of Mexico, during the years 2009 - 2011.The identified material form part of the crustacean regional collection from the UNAM-Sisal, and represents the first inventory of amphipods from the Alacranes Reef National Park.
Happywhale - Blainville's Beaked Whale in North Atlantic Ocean

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence,PhotoID;Visual sighting
Temporal coverage: 2015/2019

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 2 contributors in alphabetic order:

Marcin Solowiej; Marilia Olio
Free-living nematodes in a brackish tidal flat of the Westerschelde

Keywords: Observation, Meiofauna, Occurrence, Modelling, Free-living nematodes, Meiobenthos, Temporal variations, Nematoda
Temporal coverage: 1982/1992

Data were collected in the framework of a Msc. Thesis. The objective was to compare the horizontal distribution of meiofaunal parameters among several scales,by using statistical methods.
Cemetery Beach Port Hedland Flatback Tracking Project  2009/2010 (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2010/2010

Original provider:
Pendoley Environmental

Dataset credits:
Data provider
West Australian Sea Turtle Satellite Tracking Project
Originating data center
<a href="http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/">Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)</a>
Project partner
BHP Billiton Quantum ProjectCare for Hedland AssociationPendoley Environmental Pty Ltd
Project sponsor or sponsor description
BHP Billiton Quantum Project


Abstract:
Flatback turtles are being satellite tracked from Cemetery Beach in the town of Port Hedland in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. This is the second year of this project and with 5 transmitters deployed in 2008/2009 and an addtional 10 transmitters deployed during the 2009/2010 season. The project is being sponsored by BHPBIO as part of the Quantum Project.

Supplemental information:
<a href="http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=357">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.