oih/oih-wis2 huggingface dataset:
SCANS II cetacean sightings from aerial surveys 2005

Keywords: Occurrence,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Sea turtles,Visual Sighting,Aircraft, Observation, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2005/2005

Original provider:
Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St. Andrews

Dataset credits:
Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St. Andrews

Abstract:
The European Union (EU) Habitats Directive requires Member States to monitor and maintain at favourable conservation status those species identified to be in need of protection, including all cetaceans. In July 2005 we surveyed the entire EU Atlantic continental shelf to generate robust estimates of abundance for harbour porpoise and other cetacean species. The survey used line transect sampling methods and purpose built data collection equipment designed to minimise bias in estimates of abundance. Shipboard transects covered 19,725 km in sea conditions 6Beaufort 4 in an area of 1,005,743 km2. Aerial transects covered 15,802 km in good/moderate conditions (6Beaufort 3) in an area of 364,371 km2. Thirteen cetacean
species were recorded; abundance was estimated for harbour porpoise (375,358; CV = 0.197), bottlenose dolphin (16,485; CV = 0.422), white-beaked dolphin (16,536; CV = 0.303), short-beaked common dolphin (56,221; CV = 0.234) and minke whale (18,958; CV = 0.347). Abundance in 2005 was similar to that estimated in July 1994 for harbour porpoise, white-beaked dolphin and minke whale in a comparable area. However, model-based density surfaces showed a marked difference in harbour porpoise distribution between 1994 and 2005. Our results allow EU Member States to discharge their responsibilities under the Habitats Directive and inform other international organisations concerning the assessment of conservation status of cetaceans and the impact of bycatch at a large spatial scale. The lack of
evidence for a change in harbour porpoise abundance in EU waters as a whole does not exclude the possibility of an impact of bycatch in some areas. Monitoring bycatch and estimation of abundance continue to be essential.

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)

Data from three teams aboard different airplanes were merged. Teams are flagged 'A', 'B' and 'C' in 'computer' attribute.
Bycatch along Romanian Black Sea coasts 2010-2011

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence,Vessels,Sightings,bycatch,Black Sea dolphins
Temporal coverage: 2010/2011

Original provider:
Mare Nostrum

Dataset credits:
Mare Nostrum NGO, National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa"

Abstract:
In the Black Sea, the cetaceans are represented by three species: <i>Phocoena phocoena relicta</i>, <i>Tursiops truncatus ponticus</i> and <i>Delphinus delphis ponticus</i>. The main threat and cause of decline for the Black Sea dolphins are the fishing nets, or bycatches. For the protection of dolphin populations from the Romanian Black Sea area, in conformity with the objectives of the "National Action Plan for Conservation of Dolphins" and the "Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic Area," and with financial support from the European Union through the Sectorial Operational Programme – Environment, NGO "Mare Nostrum" started a series of activities in partnership with the National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa" Constanța, Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Authority, National Agency for Fishing and Aquaculture, Natural Science Museum Complex "Dolphinarium" Constanța, Border Police Inspectorate of Constanța County.  The present database presents the situation of dolphin bycatch events at the Romanian coast during 2010 and 2011. The data were collected from the entire Romanian coast, from Sulina to Vama Veche.

Purpose:
The purpose of this research was to monitor the population of Black Sea dolphins at the Romanian coast.
Antarctica cetacean observations from the TAN1901 voyage to the Ross Sea

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2019/2019

This dataset contains cetacean sighting data from the TAN1901 voyage by the RV Tangaroa. From 8 Jan - 17 Feb 2019 RV Tangaroa undertook a six-week research voyage to Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. On board 21 scientists, supported by 19 crew members, studied ocean, atmosphere and ecosystem processes with the focus on establishing monitoring programmes for the newly created Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area (MPA). 
At over 1.55 million km2 in size, the MPA is the world’s largest and just a year old. It comprises a range of zones from fully protected to special research zones, as well as areas left open to fishing. 
The voyage had eight separate research objectives to better understand the processes governing the region and the role of the Marine Protected Area (established in December 2017) in protecting this environment. These included surveys of fish species and seabed habitats, ecosystem studies of plankton, oceanographic and atmospheric measurements to improve understanding of climate-related processes, and making observations of whales. All of this research will provide baseline information about the MPA so scientists can start to evaluate its effectiveness.
There were international collaborations with American, Australian, and Korean research colleagues as well as the work of the onboard voyage participants from Italy, China, and France. The voyage was jointly funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment through the Ross-RAMP programme, NIWA, and the University of Auckland.
TGS Seismic Survey Acoustic Detections in Chukchi Sea 2013

Keywords: Occurrence,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Acoustic - group size,Vessel, Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2012/2013

Original provider:
TGS

Dataset credits:
ASRC Energy Services, Inc.
TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company
RPS

Abstract:
TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company (TGS) conducted a 2D marine seismic survey along predetermined lines in U.S. Federal and international waters of the Chukchi Sea during the open-water season from 25 August to 30 October 2013. Two vessels were involved including 1) a seismic vessel (Geo Arctic) towing a 3,280 cu.in. seismic array and 8,100 m long solid streamer cable and 2) a marine mammal monitoring vessel (Norseman) which operated in advance of the seismic vessel.  Both vessels had teams of visual protected species observers (PSOs) trained to monitor and implement seismic mitigation according to regulatory permits from U.S. Agencies. Twenty-six detections were made over 1195.5 hours of acoustic monitoring. In addition to acoustic monitoring, the monitoring vessel also employed visual protected species observers (PSOs). This data set includes acoustic detection data and visual sighting data is presented separately.

Purpose:
N/A

Supplemental information:
In numeric fields, original data may contain 'X' which was replaced with Null.
Great Australian Bight Research Program, Australia (2015-2017)

Keywords: Samplingevent
Temporal coverage: 2013/2017

This dataset is the collections of benthic biota (and their derived data) from two Marine National Facility charter voyages conducted under the Benthic Characterisation Project (3.1) of the Great Australian Bight Research Program (GABRP): Southern Surveyor voyage SS2013_C02 and RV Investigator voyage IN2015_C02 and Project 4 - Benthic biota of volcanic seamounts, seeps and canyons of the GAB - of the Great Australian Bight Deepwater Marine Program (GABDMP): RV Investigator voyages IN2015_C01 and IN2017_C01. There is also data from  REM Etive voyage RE2017_C01.
Voyage details (dataset metadata, maps, projects, publications, data reports and data) are at
<a href="https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/survey_details.cfm?survey=SS2013_C02">SS2013_C02</a>, 
<a href="https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/survey_details.cfm?survey=IN2015_C01">IN2015_C01</a>, 
<a href="https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/survey_details.cfm?survey=IN2015_C02">IN2015_C02</a>, 
<a href="https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/survey_details.cfm?survey=IN2017_C01">IN2017_C01</a> and 
<a href="https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/survey_details.cfm?survey=RE2017_C01">RE2017_C01</a>.
This data has been republished (2022-08-29 with additional details of each occurrence where they can be one of three types:  catch composition (counts per taxa and optional aggregated weights by trawl event), catch measurements (length and/or weight) of individual taxa and/or catch specimens and their stored location. The occurrence type is recorded in occurrenceremarks.
SPC CoFish Invertebrates Observations Niue 2005

Keywords: SPC, Occurrence, Marine invertebrates, CoFish, Observation, PROCFish/C
Temporal coverage: 2005/2005

Marine invertebrate species of commercial interest observed in Niue during the CoFish survey (2005) with a mix of survey methods (manta tow, reef benthos transects, and day and night searches)
Zooplankton collected in the Northwestern Black Sea in 1952

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence, Digitization
Temporal coverage: 1952/1952

The data were collected by the IBSS staff at several stations in the Northwestern Black Sea in April 1952, transect Tarhankut – open sea. Samples were processed by L.Sagina. This dataset contains abundance data (individuals per m³) and biomass data (mg/m³) for zooplankton taxa. No additional metadata is available
Identification of secondary foraging grounds for green turtles as they depart Mantanani, Malaysia (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence,Marine Biology
Temporal coverage: 2011/2011

Original provider:
Marine Research Foundation

Dataset credits:
Data provider
Marine Research Foundation - Marine Turtle Programme
Originating data center
<a href="http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/">Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)</a>
Project sponsor or sponsor description
This project is funded in part by the Mohammed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, the Forestry Bureau of Taiwan, and the Shell (Malaysia) Foundation.


Abstract:
Juvenile turtles recruit at Mantanani from their post-hatchling neritic drifting years at some 30 cm in CCL and reside there for some 5-6 years and they subsequently depart to secondary foraging grounds - presently unknown. This project will track small (40-60 cm CCL) green turtles as they depart Mantanani to identify the location of the secondary foraging areas. For conservation to be successful, we aim to inform governments and conservaiton agencies of the connectivity of marine habitats with this work.

Supplemental information:
<a href="http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=593">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.
Circumpolar dataset of sequenced specimens of Promachocrinus kerguelensis (Echinodermata, Crinoidea)

Keywords: Antarctica; Crinoidea; Cytochrome Oxydase subunit I; Echinodermata; Phylogeography; Promachocrinus; Southern Ocean; Sub-Antarctic
Temporal coverage: null/null

This circumpolar dataset of the comatulid (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) Promachocrinus kerguelensis (Carpenter, 1888) from the Southern Ocean, documents biodiversity associated with the specimens sequenced in Hemery et al. (2012). The aim of Hemery et al. (2012) paper was to use phylogeographic and phylogenetic tools to assess the genetic diversity, demographic history and evolutionary relationships of this very common and abundant comatulid, in the context of the glacial history of the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic shelves (Thatje et al. 2005, 2008). Over one thousand three hundred specimens (1307) used in this study were collected during seventeen cruises from 1996 to 2010, in eight regions of the Southern Ocean: Kerguelen Plateau, Davis Sea, Dumont d’Urville Sea, Ross Sea, Amundsen Sea, West Antarctic Peninsula, East Weddell Sea and Scotia Arc including the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and the Bransfield Strait. We give here the metadata of this dataset, which lists sampling sources (cruise ID, ship name, sampling date, sampling gear), sampling sites (station, geographic coordinates, depth) and genetic data (phylogroup, haplotype, sequence ID) for each of the 1307 specimens. The identification of the specimens was controlled by an expert taxonomist specialist of crinoids (Marc Eléaume, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris) and all the COI sequences were matched against those available on the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/IDS_OpenIdEngine). This dataset can be used by studies dealing with, among other interests, Antarctic and/or crinoid diversity (species richness, distribution patterns), biogeography or habitat / ecological niche modeling. This dataset is accessible through the GBIF network at http://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource.do?r=proke.
HRC CRC Small Vessel-Based Monitoring Surveys April-May 2009

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence,Hawaii Range Complex,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Visual Sighting,Vessel
Temporal coverage: 2009/2009

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

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

Supplemental information:
Presence only. No group size estimated.
Effort data is not available.
Vertical habitat use of black marlin (Istiompax indica) in the southwestern Pacific. (2002-2015)

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation
Temporal coverage: 2002/2015

To characterize the vertical habitat use of Istiompax indica, 102 pop-up satellite archival tags were deployed off the east coast of Australia (Queensland and New South Wales) in consecutive years from 2002 to 2014 as part of two separate tagging programmes. Tags were programmed to record pressure (depth), temperature and light at 20 or 60 s intervals. Tags were programmed to release from fish after 120 days (n=14), 180 days (n=86) or 270 days (n=2) in order to capture both broad-scale and high-resolution data.


This dataset is the maximum depths per dive from the cited paper accessed on 2022-08-01.
Coral reefs in the Gilbert Islands of Kiribati: Resistance, resilience, and recovery after more than a decade of multiple stressors

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 2012/2018

Coral reefs are increasingly affected by a combination of acute and chronic disturbances from climate change and local stressors. The coral reefs of the Republic of Kiribati’s Gilbert Islands are exposed to frequent heat stress caused by central-Pacific type El Niño events, and may provide a glimpse into the future of coral reefs in other parts of the world, where the frequency of heat stress events will likely increase due to climate change. Reefs in the Gilbert Islands experienced a series of acute disturbances over the past fifteen years, including mass coral bleaching in 2004–2005 and 2009–2010, and an outbreak of the corallivorous sea star Acanthaster cf solaris, or Crown-of-Thorns (CoTs), in 2014. The local chronic pressures including nutrient loading, sedimentation and fishing vary within the island chain, with highest pressures on the reefs in urbanized South Tarawa Atoll. This dataset is from a study which examines how recovery from acute disturbances differs across a gradient of human influence in neighboring Tarawa and Abaiang Atolls from 2012 through 2018.
Polycystine Radiolarians from the water column and the surface sediments of the World Ocean

Keywords: Foraminifera, Tintinnina, Chaetognatha, Radiolaria, zooplankton, Pteropoda, World Ocean, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1980/1996

This data set includes information on the distribution of Polycystine Radiolaria, planktonic Foraminifera, Tintinnina, Pteropoda Euthecosomata and Chaetognatha recovered in plankton samples, sediment trap samples and surface sediment samples collected in the Atlantic, Pacific and Southern Oceans. Samples have been retrieved with plankton nets, suction pumps, sediment traps and sediment corers, processed for analysis and their zooplanktonic specific makeups identified.
National Pilot Monitoring Studies 2016, Improving Environmental Monitoring in the Black Sea - Phase II (EMBLAS-II), (Macrozoobenthos)

Keywords: research vessel, Biological monitoring, Samplingevent, Mare Nigrum, Biological sampling
Temporal coverage: 2016/2016

Macrozoobenthos data: species composition, abundance (ind/m²), biomass (g/m²) collected during the survey of the National Pilot Monitoring Studies Ukraine (NPMS UA) in the Ukrainian waters (North-Western part of the Black Sea) onboard the R/V "Mare Nigrum" (Romania) in May 2016.
NW Pacific Deep-sea Benthos Biodiversity (Beneficial Project)

Keywords: distribution, biodiversity, Beneficial, Samplingevent, NW Pacific, abundance
Temporal coverage: 2010/2015

In the past decade, the biology of the bathyal, abyssal, and hadal faunas of all size classes(meio- macro-, and megabenthos) of the NW Pacific have been intensively investigated based on a Memorandum of Understanding (2007) between Russian and German partners. A total of four Russian-German and German-Russian expeditions with the RV Akademik M.A. Lavrentyev and RV Sonne have provided a wealth of data on the systematics, evolution and biogeography of the deep-sea faunas of the Sea of Japan (SojaBio, 2010) (Malyutina and Brandt 2013), Sea of Okhotsk (SokhoBio, 2015) (Malyutina et al. 2018), the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench (KKT), and the NW Pacific open abyssal plain adjacent to the KKT (KuramBio I and II, 2012 - 2016) (Brandt et al. 2019; Brandt et al. 2018; Brandt et al. 2020; Brandt and Malyutina 2015). 

The goals of these expeditions were to study the biodiversity, biogeography, and evolution of the benthic organisms in different NW Pacific deep-sea environments. We aimed to compare more isolated deep-sea basins with more easily accessible ones (Sea of Japan vs. Sea of Okhotsk) and to test whether the hadal bottom of the trench of the KKT isolates the fauna from the Sea of Okhotsk to the fauna of the open NW Pacific area. The faunal composition of these areas comprising systematic, ecological, and biogeographical data, as well as evolution of protists, selected invertebrate taxa and fish, has been published in four scientific volumes, and includes the formal descriptions of many species, some genera, and one family (Brandt et al. 2020; Brandt and Malyutina 2015; Malyutina and Brandt 2013; Malyutina et al. 2018; Saeedi et al. 2020).

Based on these expeditions, the Beneficial project (Biogeography of the northwest Pacific fauna. A benchmark study for estimations of alien invasions into the Arctic Ocean in times of rapid climate chance) was designed. The main aims of the Beneficial project were 1- digitizing the biodiversity and environmental data collected during our expeditions, 2- discovering the deep-sea biogeography and biodiversity patterns in the NW Pacific, 3- predicting the potential future distribution range shifts of key species from the NW Pacific to the Arctic Ocean under rapid climate change, and 4- compiling a novel book on the taxonomy and biogeography of the highly abundant key species. All the data, publications, and the book arising from this project provide crucial benchmarks and datasets for any deep-sea biodiversity assessment, and help predict the future status of the Arctic marine ecosystem in a changing environment (Brandt et al. 2020; Canonico et al. 2019; Saeedi et al. 2019b; Saeedi et al. 2019c; Saeedi et al. 2019d; 2020; Saeedi et al. 2019e).
Biological records from the U.S Antarctic Service Expedition, 1939-41

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: 1905/1941

The United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941), often referred to as Byrd’s Third Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition jointly sponsored by the United States Navy, State Department, Department of the Interior and The Treasury. Although a U.S.-government sponsored expedition, additional support came from donations and gifts by private citizens, corporations and institutions.
Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd donated many of the supplies that he had gathered for his own expedition, the largest item being the Bear of Oakland, commissioned the USS Bear. A second ship, the USMS North Star, a 1434-ton wooden ice ship built for the Bureau of Indian Affairs was supplied by the Department of the Interior. 
A total of 125 men departed from the United States in the two ships of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition. Most of the men who made up the expedition were solicited from the military ranks, civilian agencies of government and scientific institutions. A few volunteers were employed by the Department of the Interior for $10 per month, food and clothing included. A total of 59 men, divided initially into three groups, wintered in Antarctica.
The objectives of the expedition were outlined in an order from President Franklin D. Roosevelt dated November 25, 1939. The President wanted two bases to be established: East Base, in the vicinity of Charcot Island or Alexander I Land, or on Marguerite Bay if no accessible site could be found on either of the specified islands; and West Base, in the vicinity of King Edward VII Land, but if this proved impossible, a site on the Bay of Whales at or near Little America was to be investigated, and delineation of the continental coast line between the meridians 72 degrees W., and 148 degrees W. In view of the broad scope of the objectives and the unpredictable circumstances that always arise in Antarctica, it is remarkable that most of the objectives set for them were met.
Observations were conducted in every conceivable area: seismic, cosmic ray, auroral, biological, tidal, magnetic and physiological to name a few. All in all, it was an extremely successful expedition.
With international tensions on the rise, it was considered wise to evacuate the two bases rather than relieve the present personnel with new men who would continue to occupy the bases. It was hoped that one day this base would be reoccupied so much of the equipment and supplies were left behind as the two ships sailed from West Base on February 1, 1941. The evacuation of East Base was concluded on March 22 and both ships sailed immediately. The USMS North Star arrived in Boston on May 5 and the USS Bear on May 18.
SHARK - National Epibenthos monitoring in Sweden since 1992

Keywords: Benthos, Samplingevent, diver
Temporal coverage: 1992/2021

Epibenthos has been nationally monitored in Sweden since 1992. 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 Stockholm University, University of Gothenburg and Linnaeus University.  The data is stored in the database SHARK, hosted and maintained by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. The epibenthos monitoring program 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.  More information is available in Swedish at https://www.havochvatten.se/hav/samordning--fakta/miljoovervakning/miljoovervakningens-programomrade-kust-och-hav/delprogram-vegetationskladda-bottnar.html
NCOS1959_Echinodermata

Keywords: Observation, Occurrence
Temporal coverage: null/null

The Database of NCOS1959_Echinodermata includes 7723 records of Echinodermata specimen collected in the Marine Biological Museum of Chinese Academy of Sciences during the National Comprehensive Oceanographic Survey (NCOS) from 1958 to1960. The surveyed area covered the coast of China Seas, including the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea, almost 1200 sampling stations. Most taxa of marine invertebrates were obtained in this survey.