Norwegian Polar Institute’s marine database (https://doi.org/10.21334/marine-db) is organised in the following collections that contain results or metadata from seawater and sea-ice sampling:
- Darwin Core Occurrence records (quantities of an organism relative to a standard volume or area)
- Darwin Core Sampling Event metadata
- Biogeochemistry data
The occurrence (aka. abundance) data is split in the following sub-collections:
- Marine protist biodiversity (https://data.npolar.no/dataset/322b6bdd-1326-4e70-9d77-a8cd861db8ec) cells/l
- Marine zooplankton and icefauna biodiversity (https://data.npolar.no/dataset/9167dae8-cab2-45b3-9cea-ad69541b0448) ind/m3 or ind/m2
- Darwin Core Taxon database
The Marine database contains metadata of all pelagic biological and biochemical sampling in addition it contains result of the main biological parameters listed below. The core of the data is from Kongsfjorden which has been sampled yearly since 1995, Rijpfjorden and the ice edge north of Svalbard but it also contains data from the Barents Sea and Arctic Canada. The background data /metadata includes; latitude, longitude, date and time, bottom depth, sampling depth, gear, project, animal group/biota and sample type. The Marine biological database contains result for the following parameters: Pigments (chlorophyll a & phaeophytin) Nutrients Phytoplankton taxonomy Microplankton taxonomy Ice algae taxonomy Zooplankton taxonomy Fatty acid (POM, zooplankton, fish, sea birds, seals) Lipid classes (POM, zooplankton, fish, seabirds, seals) We plan to also include the result of these parameters: Biological silicate Dissolved oxygen Dissolved organic carbon & total dissolved nitrogen (DOC/TDN) Particulate organic carbon & nitrogen (POC/PON) Flowcytometry Stable isotopes (POM, zooplankton, fish, seabirds, seals)