Co-funding project grants 2020

Akvaplan-niva has published marine zooplankton samples from the North Atlantic and the Arctic.

2020 call for project proposals for co-funding the preparation of your species occurrence data and ensuring the data quality before datasets are published in GBIF and the Norwegian Species Map (Artskart). Deadline November 1st, 2020.

GBIF and OBIS (marine data infrastructure) aimed to merge infrastructure services to reduce duplication of efforts. OBIS required the WoRMS taxon LSIDs to be published as scientificNameID. The MOD database has an API towards the Worms database. The taxonomy in the Worms database is the reference taxonomy used for naming macrobenthos on the Norwegian continental shelf. All taxonomies in the MOD database were updated according to Worms. Different categories for non-compliance were gone through and updated. After updating, MOD data were exported, including the unique AphiaID from the Worms database, which is the same as the LSID referred to in OBIS. The dataset was handed over to GBIF, which published it.

Museum Stavanger has published data of birds ringed with Norwegian rings from the period 1961 to 1990. The dataset includes 2,43 million ringed birds from 336 different species. The data is aggregated in relation to species, date, age, sex, status and locality, resulting in 633 060 species occurrences.  

NINA has published 67815 observations of medium-size predators including arctic fox, red fox, wolverine, and golden eagle from above the treeline in Norway.

NaturRestaurering AS has published five datasets with a total of 13203 occurrences.

The University Museum of Bergen has published 7833 georeferenced and data quality validated specimen records for 19 diptera families. 

The University of Oslo Natural History Museum will publish specimen data for parasitic insects (Diptera: Tachinidae; Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea, Chalcidoidea) including an estimated 6500 new specimen records.

The Arctic University Museum of Norway will publish specimen data for the Macroalgae collection (Phaeophyta, Rhodophyta, Chlorophyta, and Charophyta) including an estimated 3500 + 431 + 300 +458 + 60 specimens.