The Institute of Marine Research provides access to thematic datasets through map services in accordance with the Web Map Services (WMS) and Web Features Services (WFS) standard, or through downloading thematic map data. The gadgets make it easy to include the thematic map in your own mapping solutions or tools for geographic information systems (GIS).
The species database Marbunn
Marbunn provides access to metadata about cruises and stations that have been investigated through Mareano. You can also download this information.
Metadatabase for fauna and environmental data
Metadata entries for all datasets are located on Geonorge.
Modelling of bottom currents
Bottom currents have a major impact on the seabed and which animals can live there. It is difficult to measure the bottom flow over large areas, but better models allow these to be calculated relatively accurately. In Mareano, the results are used in the work on habitat type maps. For access to model results from NorKyst-800, contact datahelp@hi.no.
Background dataset for grab report - Commissioned by MAREANO's program group, the Institute of Marine Research delivered a report in April 2018 in which the quantitative catch characteristics for small and large grab sedemint sampler were compared. A small grab collects sediment from a bottom area of 0.1 m2, while a large grab has a collected area of 0.25 m2.
The background for the project is that since its inception in 2006 and up to and including 2017, MAREANO has used large grabs in the mapping of Norwegian sea areas, and there has been a need to find out whether these grab results can be compared with data collected with small grabs by the petroleum industry when monitoring pollution around the offshore installations on the Norwegian shelf and in the Norwegian economic zone. The survey has been carried out to clarify whether MAREANO's fauna data collected with grabs can contribute with basic data for the petroleum industry's routine offshore monitoring.
