This section curates open, registered-access, and research-grade data resources for quantitative marine ecology, fisheries science, stock assessment, species-distribution modelling, and reproducible ocean science. The catalogue prioritizes resources useful for analysing fisheries, acoustic surveys, marine populations, environmental variability, species distributions, oceanographic drivers, climate signals, and human pressures.
The catalogue distinguishes external source data from project-specific derived products. Inclusion does not imply that all datasets are directly redistributed through this website.
Open resources link to their authoritative providers. Registered-access products retain their original access conditions. Restricted fisheries or institutional data will be represented only through metadata, variable dictionaries, processing descriptions, synthetic examples, or non-disclosive derived products when permitted.
Global and regional ocean products including physical, biogeochemical, wave, sea-ice, and model-based datasets.
Useful for: Habitat modelling, oceanographic drivers, SST, salinity, currents, oxygen, chlorophyll, productivity.
Ocean color, chlorophyll-a, sea surface temperature, and sea surface salinity products from multiple satellite missions.
Useful for: Chlorophyll, primary productivity proxies, pelagic habitat, environmental anomalies, frontal structures.
ERDDAP access to gridded satellite ocean datasets, with tools for subsetting, downloading, mapping, and visualization.
Useful for: SST, ocean color, salinity, winds, coastal ocean monitoring, reproducible R/Python workflows.
Integrated marine species occurrence records from thousands of datasets.
Useful for: Species distribution models, biodiversity mapping, marine biogeography, ecological baselines.
Global biodiversity occurrence records and taxonomic information from multiple institutions.
Useful for: Species occurrence data, ecological niche modelling, distribution validation, biodiversity synthesis.
Global fishery and aquaculture statistics, including capture, production, and sectoral datasets.
Useful for: Capture trends, fisheries production, comparative fisheries analysis, global context for stock and sector indicators.
Datasets and code for fishing activity, vessel behaviour, and ocean transparency.
Useful for: Fishing effort, fleet dynamics, AIS-derived activity, anthropogenic pressure indicators.
Objectively analysed climatological fields for temperature, salinity, oxygen, nutrients, and related variables.
Useful for: Climatologies, environmental baselines, anomaly calculation, model validation.
Global profiling-float observations of temperature, salinity, pressure, and related ocean variables.
Useful for: Vertical ocean structure, water masses, validation of satellite and model products.
Global gridded bathymetry and terrain model products.
Useful for: Depth, slope, benthic habitat, distance to coast, spatial modelling covariates.
Physical, chemical, biological, and topographic marine data layers for ecological modelling.
Useful for: Species distribution models, ecological niche modelling, biodiversity projections.
Monthly global sea surface temperature and sea-ice concentration dataset.
Useful for: Long-term SST variability, climate indices, historical anomalies, regime-shift analysis.
Public derived datasets, metadata records, processing scripts, and archived releases will be added when their documentation, access rights, citation information, and quality-control status are complete. See Reproducible marine data systems for the analytical framework connecting these resources.