British Oceanographic Data Centre

31/10/2024

Happy Halloween from BODC 👻🎃🦇

To get in the spooky spirit, check out these frightening marine datasets from our collection👇

💀Cold-water coral skeletons: https://hubs.la/Q02VZt2Q0
🦑Marine twilight zone: https://hubs.la/Q02VZv8W0 and https://hubs.la/Q02VZrc50
🐟Deep sea fish: https://hubs.la/Q02VZtX00

20/10/2024

Day 3 for BODC and MEDIN at at Techniquest🌍

Our Marine Data stand has been a huge hit with metadata jigsaws and colouring in 📊🌊

Charlotte Miskin-Hymas delivered a talk on 'Ocean Science: From Ship to Shore to Screen', inspiring a new generation of ocean data scientists 🚢🖥️

National Oceanography Centre

19/10/2024

A brilliant first day for BODC and MEDIN at at Techniquest yesterday

Some inspiring speeches last night from Louise Heathwaite and Huw Irranca-Davies discussing the importance of 🌍

Now we are ready for day 2 to present our Marine Data stand to the public 🌊📊

Make sure to come over and say hello 👋

National Oceanography Centre Welsh Government

11/10/2024

Only one week to go until 🌍

Come along to our Marine Data stand with the Marine Environmental Data Information Network (MEDIN) to find out more about the types of data we store and how you can access it. 📊🌊

See you there 👋

📊 Marine data underpins all important policy decisions and ensuring it's high quality is vital.

MEDIN and British Oceanographic Data Centre provide free access to thousands of marine datasets that anyone can use. You can learn about them at in Techniquest!

26/09/2024

Charlotte M-H from BODC attended the Ocean Thematic Centre (OTC) away day for the Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) in Bergen to discuss data management and interoperability of data within the ICOS carbon data portal. They also discussed the future collaboration opportunities between the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the ICOS community. https://www.icos-cp.eu/
National Oceanography Centre

28/08/2024

The new Marine Environment Monitoring and Assessment National database V2.0 (MERMAN+) has been released in production. MERMAN+ holds quality-assured marine environmental data, collected and uploaded into MERMAN+ by UK Competent Monitoring Authorities (CMAs) under the Clean Seas Environmental Monitoring Programme (CSEMP) - formerly the National Marine Monitoring Programme (NMMP).

MERMAN+ is owned, hosted and funded by the Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). In addition, MERMAN+ is also funded by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA); Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) and the Scottish Marine Directorate (SMD).

On behalf of the UK Government (Defra), we support CMAs in submitting and verifying their data and prepare MERMAN+ data for onward submissions and reports. The Clean Seas Environmental Monitoring Programme is a coordinated initiative that efficiently monitors environmental conditions within the coastal and estuarine areas of the UK.

The primary objectives of CSEMP encompass:

✳️Detection of long-term spatial and temporal trends in physical, biological, and chemical variables at selected estuarine and coastal sites.
✳️Support for consistent standards in national and international monitoring programs pertaining to marine environmental quality.
✳️Establishment of appropriate regulatory measures to protect marine ecosystems.
✳️Coordination and optimisation of marine monitoring activities across the UK.
✳️Provision of a high-quality dataset encompassing chemical and biological observations within the UK's marine environment.

This programme fulfils UK’s statutory national assessments and reporting obligations under UK Marine Strategy Regulations 2010, and mandatory reporting obligations under the Oslo Paris Convention 1992 (OSPAR) including mandatory monitoring requirements under OSPAR's Joint Assessment Monitoring Programme (JAMP).

MERMAN+ data are also submitted to European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) Chemistry to support European marine data initiatives. Additionally, biology data flow to the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) and will (in the near future) flow through the Marine Biological Association's Archive for Marine Species and Habitats Data (DASSH).

https://hubs.la/Q02MK89f0

22/08/2024

The BODC Published Data Library (PDL) is a catalogue of datasets which have been assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). We work with scientists to create a data management plan at the beginning of a project and agree which data will have a DOI. Assigning DOI's makes the data more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable (FAIR).

Not all data held at BODC have been allocated DOIs. The data within a DOI are freely available. Explore the PDL👇
https://hubs.la/Q02M2x-h0

30/07/2024

The Seabed 2030 Global Center, hosted by the British Oceanographic Data Centre, have released the GEBCO_2024 global bathymetric grid. 🗺

This is a collaborative project between The Nippon Foundation and General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) - operating under the joint auspices of the International Hydrographic Organization and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO Ocean.

🌊 An estimated 26.1% of the seafloor is now mapped, up from 6% in 2017 🌊

Download the new release here ➡ https://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gridded_bathymetry_data/

17/07/2024

BODC will be exhibiting our marine data stand at the 'Archwiliwch ein planed - Explore our planet' event to raise awareness of the importance of marine data management. 📊 🌊

Come along to find out more and get your questions answered. See you there!

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‘Archwiliwch ein planed - Explore our planet’, a free event in partnership with Natural Environment Research Council and Techniquest, will take place on 18th-20th October.

Learn more about how you can get onboard here 🚢 https://noc.ac.uk/news/announcing-explore-our-planet-public-event

10/07/2024

We have established a new robust workflow for archiving and publishing high volume data on CEDA (Centre for Environmental Data Analysis). CEDA is one of the NERC Environmental Data Centres and is the national data centre for atmospheric and earth observation research. 🌍 📊
Read in more detail about our collaborative project with CEDA here ➡: https://eds.ukri.org/index.php/news/impacts/new-workflow-established-bodc-archiving-high-volume-data

17/06/2024

We are excited to host the 2-day UK Argo meeting in Liverpool.
We are about to discuss the UK plans and data management aspects

British Antarctic Survey

14/06/2024

Jordan Atherton presented a poster at this week on recent web application developments to improve and speed up (meta)data management and monitoring of underwater gliders

13/06/2024

Emma Gardner presents on a new global community format for ocean glider data at ensuring glider data and metadata are harmonised

12/06/2024

Robyn Owen presenting at on the continuous glider operations from the Met Office Glider project (MOGli), providing critical measurements in the north North Sea.

11/06/2024

BODC is at , seeing a range of technological and scientific advancements - from a new shallow SEAEXPLORER to the longest endurance Slocum Sentinel glider, and the deepest a glider has ever gone at 10,000 m with the Petrel-X PLUS

10/06/2024

We have built a new service which allows anyone to see who has cited data held in the Environmental Data Service (EDS). This is possible if a dataset has been published with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) by any EDS data centre. This new development allows anyone to find how many citations and links are connected to the DOI’d resource - allowing greater understanding about who is re-using archived data for the first time.
https://eds.ukri.org/index.php/news/impacts/who-has-used-my-data-our-brand-new-citation-api
NERC Planet Earth General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans

Published on 30 May 2024 We have built a new service which allows anyone to see who has cited data held in the Environmental Data Service (EDS). This is possible if a dataset has been published with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) by any EDS data centre. This new development allows anyone to find....

07/06/2024

Today we have schools from the surrounding areas visiting NOC in Southampton and we are explaining why data management is important!

Our metadata jigsaws and colouring in are a big hit!
National Oceanography Centre

Check out our video 👇
https://hubs.ly/Q02zXTd10

28/05/2024

This week BODC are at the International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems (IMDIS) in Bergen to promote our latest work and engage with the international marine data management community. National Oceanography Centre and Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) are proud sponsors of this edition of IMDIS!

Find out more about the sponsors here ⬇:
https://noc.ac.uk/
https://medin.org.uk/