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Mediterranean Sea - Beach litter aggregated datasets 2004/2024 v2024

EMODnet Chemistry aims to provide access to marine chemistry data sets and derived data products concerning eutrophication, ocean acidification, contaminants and litter. The chosen parameters are relevant for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), in particular for descriptors 5, 8, 9 and 10. The dataset contains standardized, harmonized and validated data collections from beach litter (monitoring and other sources).

Datasets concerning beach and seafloor litter data are loaded in a central database after a semi-automated validation phase. Once loaded, a data assessment is performed in order to check data consistency and potential errors are corrected thanks to a feedback loop with data originators.

For beach litter, the harmonized datasets contain all unrestricted EMODnet Chemistry data on beach litter, including monitoring data, data from cleaning surveys and data from research. A relevant part of the monitoring data has been considered for assessment purposes by the European institutions and therefore is tagged as MSFD_monitoring. EMODnet beach litter data and databases are hosted and maintained by 'Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Division of Oceanography (OGS/NODC)' from Italy.

Data are formatted following Guidelines and forms for gathering marine litter data, which can be found at: https://doi.org/10.6092/15c0d34c-a01a-4091-91ac-7c4f561ab508

The updated vocabularies of admitted values are available at:

https://nodc.ogs.it/marinelitter/vocab

The harmonized datasets can be downloaded as EMODnet Beach litter data format Version 7.0, which is a spreadsheet file composed of 4 sheets: beach metadata, survey metadata, animals and litter. Local_CDI field in the survey metadata sheet allows to retrieve the original data.

Simple

Alternate title

Mediterranean_sea_beach_litter_aggregated_datasets_ 2004/2024_v2024

Date (Creation)
2024-12-10
Edition

1.0

Citation identifier
7789d2d1-5076-47ab-bf23-c37661a37468
Credit

EMODnet Chemistry

Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Division of Oceanography

nodc@ogs.trieste.it

Author

UNKNOWN

Originator

CNR, Institute of Marine Sciences S.S. of Lerici (SP)

sdc@sp.ismar.cnr.it

Originator

Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography

iosecretariat@hcmr.gr

Originator

Department of Fisheries and Marine Research, Division of Marine Biology and Ecology

director@dfmr.moa.gov.cy

Originator

Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University

Originator

Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries

office@izor.hr

Originator

Center for marine research, Rudjer Boskovic Institute

predstojnik.cim@irb.hr

Originator

National Agricultural Research Foundation, Fisheries Research Institute

Originator

ARPA Emilia-Romagna, Struttura Oceanografica Daphne

Originator

Centre for Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution

cedre@ifremer.fr

Originator

Institute of Marine Biology

danijela.j@ucg.ac.me

Originator

University of Patras, Department of Geology, Laboratory of Marine Geology and Physical Oceanography

Originator

Directorate for Coast and Sea Sustainability. Ministry for Ecological Transition

buzon-dgc@mapama.es

Originator

Environment and Resources Authority

info@era.org.mt

Originator

Isotech Ltd, Environmental Research and Consultancy

info@isotech.com.cy

Originator

Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development

info@mio-ecsde.org

Originator

Legambiente

legambiente@legambiente.it

Originator

Mer-Terre

Originator

Marine Natural Park of Lion Gulf

parcmarin.golfe-lion@ofb.gouv.fr

Originator

Institute for Water of the Republic of Slovenia

info@izvrs.si

Originator

National Institute of Chemistry

projekt.office@ki.si

Originator

ARPA Liguria

info@arpal.gov.it

Originator

Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation

info@archipelago.gr

Originator

Surfrider Foundation Europe

Originator

Maritime Training Center for Pollution Prevention, Safety at Sea and Environmental Awareness

Originator

OceanCare

Originator

eXXpedition

Originator

ARPA Calabria

urp@arpacal.it

Originator

Aegean Greeners

greeners@aegean.gr

Originator

ECAT-Environmental Center for Administration & Technology

ecat@ecat-tirana.org

Originator

Thau Basin Permanent Centre for Environmental Initiatives

info@cpiebassindethau.fr

Originator

Camargue Regional Nature Park

secretariat@parc-camargue.fr

Originator

Explore & Preserve

explorepreserve@gmail.com

Originator

Marineland association

contact@marineland.fr

Originator

Marine Natural Park of Cape Corsica and Agriate

Originator

Bastia Golo Mediterranea Permanent Centre for Environmental Initiatives

info@cpiebastia.org

Originator

Venice Lagoon Plastic Free

segreteria@plasticfreevenice.org

Originator

University of Maribor

rektorat@um.si

Originator

Mohamed I University

a.barkaoui@ump.ac.ma

Originator

Thèmes Sextant

  • /Human Activities/Pollution

  • /Chemical Environment/Sediment

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Oceanographic geographical features

Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)
  • Beach litter abundance
Theme
  • EMODnet Chemistry

  • Beach litter,

SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer
  • Mediterranean Sea
Place
  • Coastal Area

Matrix Categories
  • sediment
EMODnet Chemistry chemical groups
  • Marine litter
Keywords

Ocean Hackathon - City and challenge

  • /Boulogne-sur-Mer/BOL02

  • /Boulogne-sur-Mer/BOL04

  • /Boulogne-sur-Mer/BOL06

  • /Bournemouth/BOR01

  • /Concepción/CON06

  • /Kuala Lumpur/KUL08

  • /La Rochelle/LAR01

  • /Peniche/PEN01

Use limitation

CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Use constraints
unrestricted
Other constraints

Usage is subject to mandatory citation: "This resource was generated in the framework of EMODnet Chemistry, under the support of DG MARE Call for Tender EASME/EMFF/2020/3.1.11/European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) - Lot 5 - Chemistry"

Spatial representation type
Vector
Language

eng

Topic category
  • Oceans
  • Environment
Description

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Begin date
2004-01-01
End date
2024-05-11

Vertical extent

Minimum value
0
Maximum value
0.0
Reference system identifier
EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
Geometric object type
Point
Distribution format
Name Version

EMODnet Beach litter data format

1.0

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:DOWNLOAD

https://nodc.ogs.it/repository/aggregated-datasets/litter/EMODnet_beachLitter_Mediterranean_2024_unrestricted.zip

EMD_beachLitter_Mediterranean_2024_unrestricted.zip

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

DOI

https://doi.org/10.13120/7789d2d1-5076-47ab-bf23-c37661a37468

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Hierarchy level
Series

Conformance result

Title

COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Statement

The original datasets can be searched and downloaded from EMODnet Chemistry Chemistry CDI Data and Discovery Access Service: https://cdi-chemistry.seadatanet.org/search

Metadata

File identifier
7789d2d1-5076-47ab-bf23-c37661a37468 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Series
Date stamp
2025-02-21T09:30:07.110595Z
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139 - EMODNET - SDN

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

EMODnet Chemistry

sextant@ifremer.fr

Point of contact
 
 

Overviews

overview

Spatial extent

thumbnail

Keywords

Beach litter, EMODnet Chemistry
EMODnet Chemistry chemical groups

Marine litter
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Oceanographic geographical features
Matrix Categories

sediment
Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)

Beach litter abundance
SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer

Mediterranean Sea
Thèmes Sextant

/Chemical Environment/Sediment /Human Activities/Pollution


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