Dataset

Marine Recorder Snapshot extract of surveys entered by SeaSearch

OBIS UK MeasurementOrFact Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The UK Marine Recorder public snapshot is an aggregated UK-wide marine dataset, published on a 6monthly basis. Data are collated by JNCC from publicly accessible data provided to JNCC by UK governmental and non-governmental conservation bodies from data holdings within each organisation’s internal “Marine Recorder” marine data management database application. Marine Recorder is a benthic survey data management system used widely within the UK’s statutory nature conservation bodies to store and query benthic sample data across the UK’s offshore and inshore waters. The system is able to store species occurrence data (with associated measurements), biotope information in the Marine Habitat Classification for Britain & Ireland and physical attribute data. The system maintains consistency and relationships between sample information, measurements and surveys allowing for accessible querying of the database. Contributors to the snapshot are: Centre for Environmental Data and Recording (CEDaR, Northern Ireland); Data Archive for Seabed Species and Habitats (DASSH); Joint Nature Conservation Committee; Natural England; Natural Resources Wales; Porcupine Marine Natural History Society; Scottish Natural Heritage; Seasearch (Marine Conservation Society); Shoresearch Kent Wildlife Trust and The Wildlife Trusts. This dataset consists of surveys entered by SeaSearch.

Citation: SeaSearch (2021): Marine Recorder Snapshot extract of surveys entered by SeaSearch. v2.1. Marine Biological Association. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://doi.org/10.17031/yq0gbg

Published: January 13, 2022 at 09:45

URL: https://www.dassh.ac.uk/ipt/resource?r=jncc_mr_snapshot_whole_uk_3

SeaSearch
SeaSearch

The archive for marine species and habitats data (DASSH)
The archive for marine species and habitats data (DASSH)

727,631
occurrence records
4,451,325
measurements and facts
3,189
taxa
1,897
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 727,631
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 63,494
8.7%
minimumDepthInMeters 72,976
10.0%
scientificNameID 20
0.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 56,750
7.8%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 30,578
4.2%
ON_LAND 24,331
3.3%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 496
0.1%
NO_MATCH 20
0.0%
MARINE_UNSURE 10
0.0%
NOT_MARINE 7
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data