Dataset

Marine Geoscience Data System

OBIS Secretariat Open in mapper Explore occurrences

This dataset contains biological specimens sampled at the seafloor, taken from NSF Ridge2000 expeditions.

Citation
Carbotte, S.M., R. Arko, D.N. Chayes, W. Haxby, K. Lehnert, S. OHara, W.B.F. Ryan, R.A. Weissel, T. Shipley, L. Gahagan, K. Johnson, T. Shank (2004), New Integrated Data Management System for Ridge2000 and MARGINS Research, Eos Trans. AGU, 85(51), 553, doi:10.1029/2004EO510002. Consulted on http://www.iobis.org on [date].
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/resource?r=mgds
Archive
http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/archive.do?r=mgds

Contacts

OBIS Secretariat
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

Robert Arko
Columbia University; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

979
total submitted occurrences
977
accepted occurrences
73
taxa
45
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 979
100.0%
eventDate 979
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 979
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 979
100.0%
occurrenceStatus 979
100.0%
scientificNameID 2
0.2%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 979
100.0%
NOT_MARINE 1
0.1%
NO_MATCH 1
0.1%

Measurement types

DNA derived data