The announcement you have been waiting for!
First place 🥇 for the most commonly recorded #Marine species goes to the common #Starfish , Asterias rubens! ⭐⭐ ⭐
DASSH have an amazing 43010 occurences in our archives at buff.ly/3kSEnSe!
MBA - Marine Biological Association #Marine Biodiversity

Would you be surprised to learn that dead man's fingers, Alcyonium digitatum, take 2nd place 🥈 in DASSH's most commonly recorded species with 39279 occurrences?

These colonies of individual animals share a gelatinous skeleton and live to depths of 50m!
#MarineBiodiversity

All the latest marine data news!
#Data #Marine #Marine Biodiversity

Cancer pagurus, the edible #Crab , is awarded 3rd place 🥉 in DASSH's most commonly recorded #Marine species with 28654 occurrences! 🦀

Perhaps not surprising as it is found all around the UK up to depths of 100 metres!

#Marine Biodiversity #Third #Data #OceanData

Taking fourth place in DASSH's most commonly recorded marine species is sugar kelp, Saccharina latissima, with 26508 occurrences!

Did you know that during the winter sugar kelp can grow over a centimetre a day? #Kelp #MarineBiodiversity #Data #OceanData #SugarKelp

Ever wondered what our top five most commonly recorded species are?

Living up to its name at number 5 is the common sea urchin, Echinus esculentus, with 26146 occurences in our archives! As well as being one of the most common it is also the UK's largest sea urchin! #OceanData

One of the creepier looking species that we see archived in DASSH! #Lampreys #Agnatha #Jawless #MarineBiodiversity #Data

Did you know that our DASSH mapper can be used to search for fisheries #Data ? Search by species or select an area using a bounding box!
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#MarineBiodiversity #FAIRData #MarineConservation #Fisheries

Just one more day to nominate exceptional groups or individuals for the NBN Trust NBN Award for Marine Wildlife Recording 2024! Entries close on the 3 April 2024, see link for details 👇

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#MakingDataWorkForNature #NBNawards24

Hopefully #Easter weekend will provide the opportunity for #CitizenScientists everywhere to collect their own #Data which is easy with the iNaturalist app! Visit #iNaturalistUK at buff.ly/3892JnG for more details NBN Trust #MarineBiodiversity #RockPooling

The perfect course if you are thinking of submitting #Data to DASSH!

#FAIRData #MarineBiodiversity

Just a few days until the International Marine Plankton Project Bioblitz 2024 is held! A #CitizenScience project with results being recorded on iNaturalist
#iNaturalistUK NBN Trust

Details of how to join in can be found below 👇
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Researchers at the MBA are exploring whether scallop shells - a waste product from the seafood industry - can be used as a restoration material for growing kelp as part of the #GreenGravel project.

Read more in @conversationuk: buff.ly/4aa6J2d

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Dan Lear is currently representing the UK in supporting the global data management community at the 12th Session of the Obis Steering group in South Korea, running from the 25-29 March! OBIS EurOBIS
#MarineBiodiversity #Data

The orange-striped anemone is native to the north-western Pacific and was first discovered in #Plymouth , in the 1890s. Identified by its olive column and orange stripes, DASSH #Data shows that it is now found all around the UK buff.ly/3kSEnSe #NonNativeSpecies #NNS

Facelina auriculata is a #Nudibranch recorded in the UK and Ireland living under boulders in the intertidal and sublittoral where it feeds on its prey species of hydroids. DASSH archives contain hundreds of records of this beautiful creature! Visit buff.ly/3kSEnSe #Data

We've just released two new iNaturalist guides for iPhone and Android users! 📲

The latest up-to-date date guidance and walk-through on how to use the iNaturalist UK app on your phone. 🤳

Find both guides and other free resources to download here:
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Just ten of the amazing new #Marine species added to WoRMS WoRMS in 2023! Did you know that there are around 2000 marine species found every year? #WorldTaxonomistAppreciationDay #Marine Biodiversity #Data

They're on the move again! Meet Kevin the Chinese mitten crab (named by the dockmasters), enjoying the sunshine 🌞 at St Katharine's Dock Marina in London. As an invasive non-native species, we encourage sightings to be reported to us. See link - buff.ly/3TGf8o9 #Inns

The 2009-2015 Suffolk Biological Records Centre (SBRC) Suffolk records for Undaria pinnatifida and Crepidula fornicata, both non-native species, have now become available at buff.ly/3PklZkV
#NNS #NonNativeSpecies #Data #Wakame #SlipperLimpet