Eggcases and Basking Sharks – linking long term citizen science sightings data to the Digital Twin Ocean - Harriet Allen
Beneficiary
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.
Pipeline for biodiversity data from the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) to the OBIS network and EMODnet.
Beneficiary
While BODC is a key provider of physical, geophysical and biogeochemical data to EMODnet Physics, Bathymetry and Chemistry, we do not currently have the capacity to easily provide biodiversity data to EurOBIS and EMODnet Biology. The reason for this is that the Darwin Core Archive (DwCA) format was never integrated into BODC’s basic workflows. BODC manages and ingests plankton and, to a lesser extent benthos data, alongside concomitant environmental measurements, into its databases, but there is currently no mechanism to make these data available in DwCA format.
Marine Megafauna Data for EU Digital Twin Ocean
Beneficiary
The purpose of this project is to make available for re-use previously inaccessible unique multi-decadal data on marine megafauna in European seas. These biodiversity data have been collected by scientists, citizen scientists and member of the public for more than 30 years in observing programmes carried out by the UK Sea Watch Foundation (SWF) and its partners.
Management and publication of Marine Characterisation Research Project data
Beneficiary
The Marine Characterisation Research Project (MCRP), managed by Menter Môn, is an innovative research and development project which is collecting an extensive range of data on the marine environment in North West Wales.