Name: Marine Life Survey Data (collected by volunteers) collated by MarLIN
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Collection of marine life surveys collated by the Marine Life Information Network (MarLIN) as part of their data access program.

Citation

Parr, J. Marine Life Survey Data (collected by volunteers) collated by MarLIN. MarLIN, collated Marine Life Survey Datasets, Marine Biological Association of the UK, Plymouth, UK.

Published

September 17, 2025 at 10:19

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

URL

http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=nbn_ga000189

Archive

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=nbn_ga000189

Contacts

Jon Parr
Marine Biological Association of the UK

Marine Biological Association of the UK
Marine Biological Association of the UK

10,046

total submitted occurrences

10,018

accepted occurrences

620

taxa

422

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
eventDate	2		0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	10,046		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	10,046		100.0%
scientificNameID	6	22	0.3%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	10,046	100.0%
ON_LAND	3,865	38.5%
NO_MATCH	28	0.3%
MARINE_UNSURE	24	0.2%

Marine Life Survey Data (collected by volunteers) collated by MarLIN

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data