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Eggcases and Basking Sharks – linking long term citizen science sightings data to the Digital Twin Ocean - Harriet Allen
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The Shark Trust, established in 1997, uses citizen science to support global shark and ray conservation. Through projects like the Great Eggcase Hunt (over 522,000 eggcases from 50+ species) and the Basking Shark Project (over 65,000 individuals since 1986), the Shark Trust has gathered extensive long-term data.
With DTO-BioFlow’s support, the Shark Trust aims to harmonise and format these diverse datasets, collected via paper forms, platforms, and mobile apps, for ingestion into the EU Digital Twin Ocean (DTO), EMODnet Biology, and EurOBIS. This effort will enhance data accessibility and contribute to international marine biodiversity monitoring through open-access platforms.
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