gov.noaa.nodc:0145037 eng utf8 dataset NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NOAA Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information custodian 2026-07-31T12:58:33Z ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) Observations of Deep-Sea Coral and Sponge Occurrences from the NOAA National Deep-Sea Coral and Sponge Database, 1842-Present, version 20250903-0 (NCEI Accession 0145037) 2016-03-14 publication 2025-10-17 revision 2016-03-04 creation International DOI Foundation (IDF) 10.25921/t8c0-yx22 NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information gov.noaa.nodc:0145037 NCEI Archive Management System 0145037 NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information publisher NOAA Office of Habitat Conservation (NMFS/OHC) https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/about/office-habitat-conservation HTTPS NOAA Office of Habitat Conservation (NMFS/OHC) website Institution web page information resourceProvider Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program (DSCRTP) deepseacoraldata@noaa.gov https://deepseacoraldata.noaa.gov/ HTTPS NOAA Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program (DSCRTP) website Institution web page information author Alaska Fisheries Information Network (AKFIN) collaborator Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum http://www.bishopmuseum.org HTTP Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum website Institution web page information collaborator Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) http://www.boem.gov/ HTTP Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) website Institution web page information collaborator National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) https://www.noaa.gov/ HTTPS National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website Institution web page information collaborator The California Academy 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Demersal and benthic fish occurrences that were recorded along with coral and sponge surveys are also included. The database is comprehensive, standardized, quality controlled, and networked to outside resources. The database schema accommodates both linear (trawls, transects) and point (samples, observations) data. The structure of the database is tailored to occurrence records of all the azooxanthellate corals, a subset of all corals, and all sponge species. Records shallower than 50 m are generally excluded in order to focus on predominantly deep-water species – the mandate of the DSCRTP. The intention is to limit the overlap with light-dependent (and mostly shallow-water) corals. The database version included in the current accession is 20260416-1 and currently holds 1484516 records. The database fulfills NOAA’s requirements under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA) to identify and map locations of deep-sea corals and to submit this information for use by regional fishery management councils. At present, there is no comprehensive, national scale data portal for deep-sea corals and sponges. Given the authorities outlined in MSA, NOAA’s DSCRTP will serve as a central data aggregator and distributor. The DSCRTP geodatabase will represent a baseline of historical observations from samples archived in museums, research institutions, and scientific literature augmented by observations collected during deep-water in situ surveys conducted as part of regional fieldwork initiatives. completed historicalArchive NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information pointOfContact asNeeded NCEI Accession 0145037 was revised and a new version of the archival package was published. Updates to existing archival packages may provide additional files or replace obsolete files. The latest version contains the most complete and up-to-date representation of this archival information package. All of the files received prior to this update are available in the preceding version of this accession. Please see journal.txt in the /about directory for additional details on changes made. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/metadata/landing-page/bin/gfx?id=gov.noaa.nodc:0145037 Preview graphic PNG 0145037 NCEI ACCESSION NUMBER 2016-03-02 publication ANIMALS - GROUP - NUMBER IN GROUP ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - COUNTS ANIMALS - INDIVIDUAL - PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS BENTHIC SPECIES BENTHIC SPECIES - TAXA COUNTS BENTHIC SPECIES - TAXA IDENTITIES biological data CORAL CORAL - CENSUS CORAL - COLONY SIZE CORAL - SPECIES IDENTIFICATION Fish FISH - CORAL REEF FISH SPECIES MACROINVERTEBRATE CENSUS SPECIES IDENTIFICATION SPONGE SPECIES IDENTIFICATION TAXONOMIC CODE theme NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS corer dredge net sediment sampler - grab trawl video camera instrument NODC INSTRUMENT TYPES THESAURUS benthic biological in situ survey - biological survey - coral reef survey - swimmer/diver trawl visual observation theme NODC OBSERVATION TYPES THESAURUS NOAA Office of Habitat Conservation dataCentre NODC SUBMITTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program (DSCRTP) project NODC PROJECT NAMES THESAURUS Adriatic Sea Aegean Sea Alboran Sea Andaman Sea or Burma Sea Arabian Sea Arafura Sea Arctic Ocean Bali Sea Banda Sea Bass Strait Bay of Bengal Bay of Biscay (Golfe de Gascogne) Bay of Fundy Beaufort Sea Bering Sea Bismarck Sea Caribbean Sea Celebes Sea (Sulawesi Sea and Mindanao Sea) Ceram Sea or Seram Sea Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Chukchi Sea Coastal Waters of Alabama Coastal Waters of Florida Coastal Waters of Louisiana Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia Coastal Waters of Texas Coral Sea Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary Davis Strait East China Sea (Tung Hai) Equatorial Atlantic Ocean Equatorial Pacific Ocean Flores Sea Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary Great Australian Bight Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Greenland Sea (including Iceland Sea and North Greenland Sea) Gulf of Aden Gulf of Alaska Gulf of California Gulf of Guinea Gulf of Maine Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Oman Gulf of Panama Gulf of Thailand Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Halmahera Sea Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary Indian Ocean Japan Sea Labrador Sea Laccadive Sea Malacca Straits Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin Mid-Atlantic Bight Molucca Sea Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Mozambique Channel National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa North American Coastline-North North American Coastline-South North Atlantic Ocean North Pacific Ocean Northeast Pacific Ocean (limit-180) Northwest Atlantic Ocean (limit-40 W) Northwestern Passages Norwegian Sea Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Persian Gulf (Gulf of Iran), Strait of Hormuz Philippine Sea Prince William Sound (Gulf of Alaska) Puget Sound Red Sea Rio de la Plata Rose Atoll Marine National Monument San Diego Bay Sawu Sea Sea of Okhotsk Selat Makasar (Makasar Strait) Solomon Sea South Atlantic Ocean South China Sea (Nan Hai) South Pacific Ocean Southeast Pacific Ocean (limit-140 W) Southern Ocean Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Strait of Gibraltar Sulu Sea Tasman Sea Teluk Bone (Gulf of Bone) Teluk Tomini (Gulf of Tomini) Timor Sea Tyrrhenian Sea West Coast - US/Canada place NODC SEA AREA NAMES THESAURUS oceanography theme WMO_CategoryCode 2012-09-15 publication DOC/NOAA/NMFS > National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce dataCentre Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords 2026 revision 24 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Greenbelt MD https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords HTTPS GCMD Keyword Forum Page Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. 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You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). download dataset NCEI Accession 0145037 v1.1 was published. 2016-03-14T18:07:50Z NCEI Accession 0145037 v1.1 publication https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0145037/1.1 HTTPS NCEI Accession 0145037 v1.1 published 2016-03-14T18:07:50Z download NCEI Accession 0145037 was revised and v2.2 was published. Updates were received for this dataset. These updates were copied into the data/0-data/ directory of this accession. These updates may provide additional files or replace obsolete files. This version contains the most complete and up-to-date representation of this archival information package. All of the files received prior to this update are available in the preceding version of this accession. 2018-03-23T22:21:47Z NCEI Accession 0145037 v2.2 publication https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0145037/2.2 HTTPS NCEI Accession 0145037 v2.2 published 2018-03-23T22:21:47Z download NCEI Accession 0145037 was revised and v3.3 was published. Updates were received for this dataset. These updates were copied into the data/0-data/ directory of this accession. These updates may provide additional files or replace obsolete files. This version contains the most complete and up-to-date representation of this archival information package. All of the files received prior to this update are available in the preceding version of this accession. 2021-08-06T20:32:17Z NCEI Accession 0145037 v3.3 publication https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0145037/3.3 HTTPS NCEI Accession 0145037 v3.3 published 2021-08-06T20:32:17Z download NCEI Accession 0145037 was revised and v4.4 was published. Updates were received for this dataset. These updates were copied into the data/0-data/ directory of this accession. These updates may provide additional files or replace obsolete files. This version contains the most complete and up-to-date representation of this archival information package. All of the files received prior to this update are available in the preceding version of this accession. 2023-01-20T20:32:47Z NCEI Accession 0145037 v4.4 publication https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0145037/4.4 HTTPS NCEI Accession 0145037 v4.4 published 2023-01-20T20:32:47Z download NCEI Accession 0145037 was revised and v5.5 was published. Updates were received for this dataset. These updates were copied into the data/0-data/ directory of this accession. These updates may provide additional files or replace obsolete files. This version contains the most complete and up-to-date representation of this archival information package. All of the files received prior to this update are available in the preceding version of this accession. 2023-07-19T15:26:57Z NCEI Accession 0145037 v5.5 publication https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0145037/5.5 HTTPS NCEI Accession 0145037 v5.5 published 2023-07-19T15:26:57Z download NCEI Accession 0145037 was revised and v6.6 was published. Updates were received for this dataset. These updates were copied into the data/0-data/ directory of this accession. These updates may provide additional files or replace obsolete files. This version contains the most complete and up-to-date representation of this archival information package. All of the files received prior to this update are available in the preceding version of this accession. 2024-11-14T17:40:42Z NCEI Accession 0145037 v6.6 publication https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0145037/6.6 HTTPS NCEI Accession 0145037 v6.6 published 2024-11-14T17:40:42Z download NCEI Accession 0145037 was revised and v7.7 was published. Updates were received for this dataset. These updates were copied into the data/0-data/ directory of this accession. These updates may provide additional files or replace obsolete files. This version contains the most complete and up-to-date representation of this archival information package. All of the files received prior to this update are available in the preceding version of this accession. 2025-10-17T19:21:35Z NCEI Accession 0145037 v7.7 publication https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0145037/7.7 HTTPS NCEI Accession 0145037 v7.7 published 2025-10-17T19:21:35Z download dataset Data Type: Occurance (measured); Units: count; Observation Type: in situ; Sampling Instrument: trawl, longline, ROV, submersible, camera sled; Sampling and Analyzing Method: Numerous methods were utilized.; Data Quality Information: Points were checked in GIS to ensure no records were on land or locations far outside of North America and United States Territories. Completeness of Fields: In general, each historical record from other sources includes as much information as possible from the original source, recorded in our database’s field schema. In certain cases, examination of the original literature allowed completion of additional fields (e.g., if the vessel and collection station were known, a missing “ObservationDate” might be able to be completed). Elimination of duplicate records: When records of the same specimen were provided from multiple sources (e.g., Literature, Museum records, and previous data compilations such as Hexacorallians of the World), the record from the primary repository of the specimen was retained and duplicate records were eliminated. If secondary records included additional information on the specimen, this information was included in our record and the secondary citation was added to the “Citation” field. Taxonomic Fields: As part of the QA/QC process, records were checked individually to ensure consistent use of valid taxonomic names. Each taxon identified in the “ScientificName” field was cross-checked with currently valid scientific names listed in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS; http://www.marinespecies.org). If the taxon name in the original source was a valid name (e.g.,Lophelia pertusa), this was recorded in the “ScientificName” field and the WoRMS AplhaID for that taxon was recorded in the “WormsID” field. The Taxon Rank was recorded and higher taxonomic classification names for that taxon were filled in according to WoRMS. In cases where the taxon name recorded in the original source was not a currently accepted name (e.g., Lophelia prolifera), the currently accepted valid name was recorded in the “ScientificName” field and the taxon name from the original source was recorded in the “Synonyms” field. Derived fields: For historical records, certain fields were derived from information in other fields. For example, the identification of the “VernacularNameCategory” or “VernacularName” for a valid “ScientificName” was derived from a review of the literature for that or taxon. In a similar fashion, the “IdentificationQualifier” field could often be determined from the name of the individual who identified a specimen (i.e., the “IdentifiedBy” field.) asNeeded Metadata are developed, maintained and distributed by NCEI. Updates are performed as needed to maintain currentness. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information custodian corer corer submersible, hydraulic rotary coring drill dredge dredge 6 x6 inch, weighted drege Wildco Petite Ponar weighted bottom-sediment sampler net net net sediment sampler - grab sediment sampler - grab grab sampler is used to take a sample of surficial seafloor sediments trawl trawl A fishing net that is dragged behind a boat. A wide range of demersal (bottom) or pelagic (mid-water) species of fish are taken by this fishing method which entails one or a pair of vessels towing a large bag-shaped net either along the seafloor or in mid-water. video camera video camera a camera which makes moving or still images used as the basis for making parameter determinations