Sampling event

Sea turtles validated sightings reported in the Mediterranean Sea from 2019 onwards by avvistAPP users

Version 2.0 published by National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics on 24 June 2022 National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics

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Description

Validated sightings reported from 2019 onwards by avvistAPP users. avvistAPP is a free citizen science tool that allows everyone to actively contribute to the monitoring of marine animals. Available both in Google and Apple app stores. App description: https://doi.org/10.13120/h127-9v54

Data Records

The data in this sampling event 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 22 records.

2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Event (core)
22
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
66
Occurrence 
22

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Versions

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How to cite

Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset.  Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Tirelli V, Goruppi A (2022): Sea turtles validated sightings reported in the Mediterranean Sea from 2019 onwards by avvistAPP users. v2.0. National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://doi.org/10.13120/23ce-tb78

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

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Keywords

Samplingevent

Contacts

Rodolfo Riccamboni
  • Publisher
Scientist
DelTa-Delfini e Tartarughe in Golfo di Trieste
IT
Menashè Eliezer
  • Metadata Provider
Technician
National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics - OGS
Marina Lipizer
  • Metadata Provider
Scientist
National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics - OGS
Borgo Grotta Gigante 42/C
34010 Trieste
TS
IT
+390402140710
Alenka Goruppi
  • Publisher
  • Originator
Researcher
National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics - OGS
IT
Milena Tempesta
  • Publisher
Scientist
DelTa-Delfini e Tartarughe in Golfo di Trieste
IT
Valentina Tirelli
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Principal Investigator
Researcher
National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics - OGS
via Auguste Piccard 54
34151 Trieste
TS
IT
+390402140726

Geographic Coverage

Mediterranean Sea: http://marineregions.org/mrgid/1905

Bounding Coordinates South West [44.59, 12.637], North East [45.79, 13.762]

Taxonomic Coverage

Sea turtles

Species Caretta caretta (common sea turtle)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2019-08-07 / 2020-10-27

Project Data

Italian description: https://www.inogs.it/it/content/noce-di-mare

Title Noce di Mare
Funding 'Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia' (l.r.n. 14/2018, art. 2 commi 51-55 and n. 26/2020, art. 4 commi 33-34).
Design Description Citizen science using a dedicated app.

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

avvistAPP is a free citizen science tool that allows everyone to actively contribute to the monitoring of marine animals. Available both in Google and Apple app stores. App description: https://doi.org/10.13120/h127-9v54

Study Extent Mediterranean Sea from 2019 onwards.

Method step description:

  1. The reported sightings are validated by researchers.

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Tirelli V., Goruppi A., Riccamboni R., Tempesta M. (2021) Citizens’ Eyes on Mnemiopsis: How to Multiply Sightings with a Click!, Diversity, 13, 224. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13060224

Additional Metadata