Southern Maine Community College Gulf of Maine Invertebrate Data

Occurrence
Latest version published by United States Geological Survey on Oct 26, 2021 United States Geological Survey

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Description

This Invertebrate Data Base includes the data relating to the specimens collected by my students in the Invertebrate Zoology course taught as part of the Applied Marine Biology and Oceanography (AMBO) Program at Southern Maine Community College (SMCC). SMCC was formerly known as Southern Maine Vocational-Technical College (SMVTI), and then Southern Maine Technical College (SMTC). The collection began in 1971 and continues to the present (2010) and includes specimens collected primarily (but not exclusively) in the Casco and Saco Bay areas of the Gulf of Maine as our campus is located on the shore of Casco Bay in South Portland. There are entries from as far north as Nova Scotia and as far south as Florida. The procedure that was followed by the students involved collecting live organisms in the marine environment by what ever means they could, i.e. walking along the shore, dredging from a boat, plankton sampling, SCUBA diving, etc. They recorded the location, substrate, date, organism characteristics when live and in the field, associated organisms, etc. They then brought the specimen to the laboratory where they used a variety of dichotomous and tabular identification manuals to identify the organism.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1,688 records.

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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: fbaa63e3-945b-43d9-920b-812215a5bb1f.  United States Geological Survey publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; Occurrence

Contacts

Robert Siegel
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Professor
Southern Maine Community College
Abby Benson
  • Publisher
  • Point Of Contact
  • Biologist
U.S. Geological Survey

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by OBIS

Alternative Identifiers fbaa63e3-945b-43d9-920b-812215a5bb1f
https://www1.usgs.gov/obis-usa/ipt/resource?r=smccinverts