oih/oih-wis2 huggingface dataset:
Happywhale - Southern Right Whale in Indian Ocean, Happywhale - Southern right whale in Indian Ocean

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence,PhotoID;Visual sighting
Temporal coverage: 2000/2023, 2000/2022

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 7 contributors in alphabetic order:

Angie Gullan; Chelsea O'Brien; Gabrielle Lui; Ken Finlay; Michele Calaça; Tanja; Tom Henshilwood
Happywhale - Fin Whale in South Atlantic Ocean

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence,PhotoID;Visual sighting, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 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 28 contributors in alphabetic order:

adam maire; Adrian Boyle; Andrew Thompson; Andy Wolff; Annette Bombosch; Beth Caldwell; Byron Elvin Berger; Conor Ryan; Doug Cheeseman; Ed Bennett; Ella Potts; Genna Roland; Javier Cotin; Jeff Higgott; Joel Moore; Jo Feldman; Marian Herz; Marilia Olio; Mark Harris; Pat Murphy; Per Nikolaj Bukh; Phillip Hunter; Sarah Kather; Siyu Liu; Stefan Bernhard; steve; Thomas Vogelsang; Valerie Bronckers
Presence of sea turtles collected through Fixed-Line-Transect monitoring across the Western Mediterranean Sea (Civitavecchia-Barcelona route) between 2013 and 2017

Keywords: Strip transect, self-propelled boat, Fast passenger ferries, Sea route monitoring, Turtles, Aquatic reptiles, Samplingevent, Seasonal
Temporal coverage: 2013/2017

The dataset provided here consists of sighting data of sea turtles (Caretta caretta) collected between April 2013 and October 2017, along the ferry route between Italy and Spain, within the Fixed Line Transect Mediterranean monitoring Network (FLT Med Net), a multidisciplinary  monitoring project coordinated by ISPRA since 2007. The programme uses ferry boats as observation platforms to undertake surveys of marine macro-fauna and main threats (maritime traffic and floating marine litter), and involves several International partners that share common protocols for data collection across different routes in the Mediterranean Sea. This datasets includes 117 georeferenced sightings of loggerhead turtles, together with effort data covered in good weather conditions (Beaufort &lt;4), for a total of approximately 79.700 km, over 333 surveyed transects.
Phytoplankton of Lebanon

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence, Introduced species, Biodiversity
Temporal coverage: 1969/1989

During the last 40 years of survey in the  Lebanese seawaters and the Levantine Basin, we identified and described about 400 species, belonging to 85 genera, including 230 dinoflagellates and 156 diatoms, 10 Silicoflagellates and 4 Ebriidae, many of them are introduced or migrated from Red Sea and Indian Ocean into the Mediterranean, through the Suez Canal pathway.
Infauna from seagrass meadows in the coastal Bulgarian Black Sea (2013-2014)

Keywords: Black Sea, Sea grass, Community composition, Burrowing organisms, Marine invertebrates, Samplingevent, Biomass, Abundance, Coastal zone
Temporal coverage: 2013/2014

Abundance (individuals/m2) and biomass (g/m2) of macrozoobenthic taxa from seagrass meadows along the Southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast (Burgas Bay), collected during field surveys of IBER-BAS in 2013-2014 as part of project PERSEUS. Due to the sampling method (hand corer), the dataset represents the infauna associated with the seagrasses. The dataset also contains measurements of several environmental parameters at the stations: sediment grain size (% gravel, sand, and silt/clay); sediment moisture content (%) and total organic matter (% loss on ignition); temperature and salinity of the water.
Happywhale - Southern Elephant Seal in Southern Ocean

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence,PhotoID;Visual sighting
Temporal coverage: 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 5 contributors in alphabetic order:

Marilia Olio; Nicole Rosen; Nina Waffenschmidt; perennec thierry; Ted Cheeseman
British Columbia Geoduck (Panopea generosa) Age, Size Structure and Growth Parameters, 1993 - 2002

Keywords: geoduck, age, generosa, Panopea, Samplingevent, growth, size
Temporal coverage: 1993/2002

Biological samples of Geoduck Clams have been collected during surveys in British Columbia as part of the broader survey objectives of determining Geoduck density, distribution and population structure. Samples of Geoducks were collected from 41 locations throughout British Columbia between 1993 and 2002. Clams were measured for total weight, shell length, shell weight and were aged. Biological parameters are presented here for individual clams sampled. See Bureau D., W. Hajas, N.W. Surry, C.M. Hand, G. Dovey and A. Campbell. 2002. Age, size structure and growth parameters of Geoducks (Panopea abrupta, Conrad 1849) from 34 locations in British Columbia sampled between 1993 and 2000. Can Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2413: 84 p. and Bureau D., W. Hajas, C.M. Hand and G. Dovey. 2003. Age, size structure and growth parameters of Geoducks (Panopea abrupta, Conrad 1849) from seven locations in British Columbia sampled in 2001 and 2002. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2494: 29 p.

Please note that the scientific name of this species is Panopea generosa, there was a name change in 2010 separating from Panopea abrupta.
Population estimate and distribution pattern of Indian Ocean humpback dolphin in northwestern Persian Gulf

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Visual Sighting,Vessel, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2012/2022

Original provider:
Mohammad Sadeghsaba

Dataset credits:
Marine &amp; Wetlands Division, Department Of the Environment

Abstract:
The habitat specialist Indian Ocean humpback dolphin (Sousa plumbea) is 
the second most common cetacean in the Persian Gulf. Mousa Bay in the 
northwestern Persian Gulf is an important, but highly industrialised habitat 
for this species. We developed a systematic and comprehensive distance 
sampling survey carried out from 2014 to 2016 to estimate abundance and 
population density of humpback dolphin in this bay. To evaluate 
distribution pattern of the species, eight environmental variables were 
measured and employed in a zero-inflated generalised additive model 
(ZINB GAM). With an estimated abundance of 92 animals (64–131, 95% CI) 
and density of 0.123 animal / km2 (0.086–0.176, 95% CI), our results 
revealed Mousa Bay as one of the largest population of humpback dolphin 
in northern latitudes of its global range.

Purpose:
- Studying the abundance, distribution and zoning of dolphin habitats in the 
coastal waters of Khuzestan
- Collecting and producing information about the environmental, 
ecological, and human characteristics and the most important factors of 
threats and pressure on the humpback dolphin.
- Obtaining demographic information of the species such as group size and 
proportion of newborns
- Obtaining information on the abundance and probability of seeing the 
species in the study area for use in ecotourism purposes

Supplemental information:
Observation time was not provided.
Observations before and after the project implementation period (2014-2016) 
are also presented.
Registered as part of the International Marine Mammal Area under the title 
"NORTHERN GULF AND CONFLUENCE OF THE TIGRIS, EUPHRATES, AND KURAN 
IMMA"
CorMedNet- Distribution and demographic data of habitat-forming invertebrate species from Mediterranean coralligenous assemblages between 1882 and 2019.

Keywords: Mortality, Samplingevent, Conservation, diver, Demography
Temporal coverage: 1882/2019

This dataset compiles data on geographic and depth distribution, demography, population and mortality, of different habitat-forming invertebrate species dwelling the Mediterranean coralligenous assemblages.
Zooplankton data collected in the Romanian Black Sea waters between 1961 and 1969

Keywords: Mesozooplankton, Samplingevent, Seasonal, Black sea shelf
Temporal coverage: 1961/1969

The zooplankton dataset contains samples collected during 1961-1970, from different stations, from the Romanian Black Sea waters. Samples were collected from different depths, mainly monthly, covering in this way all seasons (spring, summer, autumn,winter). All samples were collected using the Baskakova net, with an opening of 36 cm diameter. Zooplankton samples were analyzed both from quantitative (density and biomass) and qualitative (list of species) point of view.
Classified benthic data for mesophotic organisms and substrates around the Lord Howe Island and Balls Pyramid shelves, southwest Pacific Ocean (2013)

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2013/2013

This dataset contains classified benthic data from 2,668 still images collected using a towed underwater camera system around the Lord Howe Island and Balls Pyramid shelves. Underwater imagery were collected at 39 sites in depths ranging 6 m to 115 m from surveys aboard the RV Southern Surveyor in February 2013 and Lord Howe Island Marine Park vessel Tursiops in November 2013.
The data published here is the taxa classified to genus level or better. The original data has been classified using the Collaborative and Annotation Tools for Analysis of Marine Imagery and Video (CATAMI) classification scheme as a standard for scoring marine biota and physical characteristics from underwater imagery.
ICES contaminants and biological effects

Keywords: Occurrence, Biological effects, Contaminants, Observation
Temporal coverage: 1978/2011

DOME contains marine environmental data featuring: 
<ul>
<li> North-East Atlantic, Greenland sea, Baltic sea and Norwegian sea 
</li><li> Contaminants in biota, sediment and water, fish disease and biological communities 
</li><li> Aggregated fish trawl survey data 
</li><li>Data spanning the years 1965-2008 
</li></ul>
Raby Coho Salmon Tagging, OTN Raby Coho Salmon Tagging - Tag Release Metadata

Keywords: EARTH SCIENCE &gt; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION &gt; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES &gt; FISH, ACOUSTIC TAGS, Observation, Occurrence, Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 2012/2014, 2012/2015

This is the OBIS extraction of the OTN Raby Coho Salmon Tagging project, consisting only of the release tagging metadata. i.e. the locations  and dates of tagged animal release. If readers are  interested in the full source  dataset they should refer to the OTN web site  (members.oceantrack.org). Abstract: In August 2012, we conducted a pilot study in the Juan de Fuca strait where we tagged 50 wild adult coho salmon with VEMCO V8 acoustic transmitters (PhD student Raby, technicians Stamplecoskie, Hills, Thompson). This effectively is the first work anywhere on tracking the homeward migration of coho salmon in the marine environment. The fish we tagged were biopsied for DNA and we anticipate that we tagged a mixture of American (Puget Sound) and Canadian (Fraser River) stocks. This project utilized the acoustic receiver lines currently operating in the Juan de Fuca strait, the Fraser River mouth, the lower Fraser River, and likely also an American line operating in Puget Sound (tracking data to be downloaded). The project was a collaboration with industry partners (Area B Seine Society), the Pacific Salmon Foundation, and DFO, with the objective of generating a bycatch mortality estimate for coho salmon captured in purse seine fisheries that target sockeye and pink salmon. As a research platform, we chartered a purse seine vessel and crew, and tagging involved external attachment of V8 tags using Floy Tag "spaghetti" tags. As this was a novel tagging method for migrating adult salmon, we simultaneously conducted a tagging validation study using an on-board net pen with 24-h holding trials. Tagged coho salmon bycatch were also evaluated for injury and reflex impairment in order to link post-release fate with fish condition. Likewise, we were able to compare fish condition with mortality in the on-board 24-h holding study (repeated 4x) in order to bolster our samples sizes for the mortality estimate.  In August of 2013, other researchers (PhD students Cook and Drenner, technicians Ward, Hills, Chapman) repeated this study in the same area and with the same crew except with increased sample sizes; 220 coho bycatch were tagged.  Unlike in 2012, pink salmon abundances were high and the vessel was chartered to simulate an actual commercial pink salmon fishery.  Therefore, mortality estimates from 2013 are likely more realistic than those from 2012.  Additionally, longer holding studies (i.e. 3 days and 4 days) were conducted using the same on-board net pen to evaluate progression of disease and stress indices following capture.
Données d'observation des pontes des tortues marines ACBM

Keywords: Occurrence, tortues marines, Cameroun, Observation, pontes
Temporal coverage: 2009/2021

Les données publiées ici sont celles des femelles de tortues marines observées au cours de la période de reproduction. Ce sont les occurrences des individus femelles qui viennent pondre sur la côte sud du Cameroun. Ce sont aussi des occurrences des traces et des nids de ces femelles. Les données indique également la menace observé (nids braconnés ou intactes, individus tués) au cours de la période de reproduction des tortues marines au Cameroun qui de septembre à mars de chaque année.
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, CSCAPE 2005, Cruise 1627

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence,Vessels,Sightings,Cetaceans,Whales,Dolphins,Population,Abundance,Survey,Census,CSCAPE,ORCAWALE
Temporal coverage: 2005/2005

Original provider:
NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC)

Dataset credits:
NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC)

Abstract:
CSCAPE (Collaborative Survey of Cetacean Abundance and the Pelagic Ecosystem) 2005 was a shipboard survey conducted aboard the NOAA ships <i>David Starr Jordan</i> and <i>McArthur II</i> to assess marine mammals and their ecosystem off the U.S. West Coast.  It was designed to survey waters off California, Oregon and Washington from the coast to 300 nmi (556 km) offshore, and to provide additional fine-scale coverage within four of the five 
West Coast National Marine Sanctuaries (NMS).  This dataset provides the time-date and geographical coordinates, by species/stock, of all cetaceans detected during the survey, as well as the daily and intra-daily start and end points of the line-transect survey by the NOAA Ship <i>McArthur II</i>.

Purpose:
The primary purpose of the survey was to assess the abundance and distribution of marine mammals and seabirds, and to characterize the pelagic ecosystem within the National Marine Sanctuaries and in the ecological context of the broader California Current region.

Supplemental information:
[2021-04-13] Updated with additional attributes.

SWFSC MMTD Cruise Number: 1627
Perpendicular distance will be released upon permission by the contributor. Please contact the contributor if needed.

Attribute descriptions for effort data:
dist: Length of the segment (km) 
Mode: Effort mode type (C = closing mode; P = passing mode)
WADFW PSAMP W2000

Keywords: Occurrence, Occurrence,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Seabirds,Aircraft,Visual Sighting, Observation
Temporal coverage: 1999/2000

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)

Data correction Mar 17, 2006:
Wrong ITIS number for Unidentified Sea Lion
180623 -&gt; 180615

Data correction Mar 14, 2006:
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.
Mass mortality events in Mediterranean marine coastal ecosystems

Keywords: Citizen science, Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 1979/2020

The Mass Mortality Events database (hereafter MME-T-MEDNet) is a collaborative initiative involving more than 30 research institutions from 10 Mediterranean countries including EU and non-EU countries. This initiative aims to facilitate the access to information (published in scientific journals and gray literature or still unpublished) related to Mediterranean Mass Mortality Events (MMEs).
Puerto Rico Reef Visual Census (RVC) 2016 - 2021

Keywords: CORAL REEF, FLORIDA KEYS, IOOS, FISH, Occurrence, National Oceanic &amp; Atmospheric Administration
Temporal coverage: 2016/2021

The National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP)’s biological sampling provides a biennial ecological characterization of general reef condition for reef fishes, corals, and benthic habitat (i.e., fish species composition, density, and size; coral species composition, density, size, condition; and benthic community cover) at a broad spatial scale. In the U.S. Atlantic, NCRMP biological sampling includes coral reef and hardbottom habitats in Florida, Flower Garden Banks, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI). NCRMP Fish surveys are conducted using the Reef Visual Census (RVC) stationary point count method (Brandt et al. 2009). Fish surveys are conducted at all NCRMP biological survey sites and may occur concurrently with Coral Demographic/Benthic Assessment surveys. These data are fish observations from the RVC in the waters of Puerto Rico in 2016, 2019, and 2021. 
Data were downloaded from the Southeast Fisheries Science Center (https://grunt.sefsc.noaa.gov/rvc_analysis20/) and standardized to Darwin Core for publication through OBIS-USA. Taxa that could not be aligned to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) were filtered out. Data includes water visibility and fish length measurements.
SHARK - National Harbour seal monitoring in Sweden since 1988

Keywords: Top predators, Long-term monitoring, Air monitoring, Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 1988/2016

Data from Swedish environmental monitoring of abundance of Harbour seal. Swedish monitoring of Harbour seals started in 1988. The monitoring program was initiated by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and later the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management took over the responsibility and financing of the program. The monitoring is performed by the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Data is stored in the database SHARK, hosted and maintained by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. Monitoring of seal is performed by counting seals from land, ship or airplane. More information is available in Swedish at https://www.havochvatten.se/hav/samordning--fakta/miljoovervakning/miljoovervakningens-programomrade-kust-och-hav/delprogram-sal-och-havsorn.html
NORIPMN12022 Env Template BIO

Keywords: Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2020/2021

Sampling data captured in Oceanic Exploration Research NORI significantly advanced all aspects of work programme in 2022. Importantly, as in the previous year, NORI conducted all activities in 2022 safely with no significant health, safety, or environmental incidents. This section summarises some key achievements.
The NORI-D environmental programme saw significant progress in 2022 as the company successfully tested a fully integrated polymetallic nodule collection system—the first time anyone has done so in over 50 years. Planning, preparing, and executing the integrated collection system test—which comprised five environmental baseline and monitoring campaigns from early July to late December 2022 (see below)—kept NORI’s environmental team occupied throughout the year. The campaigns involved thousands of work hours and hundreds of onshore and offshore personnel. In all, the campaigns recovered over 3,000 tonnes of polymetallic nodules from the seabed to the surface—the largest ever nodule-recovery effort from 4,000 m deep in the ocean.