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Algal Blooms Sweden - 2021

SND-ID: 2022-197

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Ana Tronholm - University of Gothenburg, Biological and Environmental Sciences orcid

Magnus Lindeberg - Maranics AB

Jurie Germishuys - Combine Control Systems AB

Description

Dataset containing images of algal blooms in the Baltic Sea. The data is provided with a metadata description containing time spotted, comments, municipality, county and coordinates of each image. The images and metadata file are archived in a zip package. Images show various summer surface accumulations of so-called harmful algal blooms (HABs) or nuisance blooms. Typically, these blooms consists of species of cyanobacteria of the order of Nostocales, including toxic Nodularia and Aphanizomenon. These blooms were verified by Informationscentralen (Länsstyrelsen Stockholm and Länsstyrelsen Västerbotten). However, the blooms seen in the images have not been taxonomically annotated by microscopy nor genetic analysis.

Language

English

Swedish

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

University of Gothenburg

Principal's reference number

Formas 2020-00714

Responsible department/unit

Biological and Environmental Sciences

Funding

  • Funding agency: Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (FORMAS) rorId
  • Funding agency's reference number: 2020-00714
  • Project name on the application: Åtgärder mot farliga algblomningar: Utveckling av en innovativ och integrerande metod för att förutsäga giftiga cyanobakterier i en föränderlig miljö
  • Funding information: Tackling Harmful Algal Blooms: Development of an innovative and integrative method for forecasting toxic cyanobacteria in a changing environment
Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Time period(s) investigated

2021-06-19 – 2021-10-09

Species and taxons

nostocales

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic description: Swedish Baltic Sea coast

Topic and keywords

Research area

Ecology (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Biota, Oceans, Environment (INSPIRE topic categories)

Keywords

harmful algal bloom, algal bloom, citizen science, procaryote, cyanobacteria, species distribution, baltic sea

Publications

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Dataset
Algal Blooms Sweden - 2021

Description

The following data fields are contained in the metadata files (provided in both json and csv format):

report_id: unique identifier for reporting record, type: string
time_spotted: date that bloom was spotted, type: datetime
algae_overview_photo: url to overview photo submitted, type: string
algae_detail_photo: url to detailed photo submitted, type: string
comments: Any additional information relating to the bloom, type: string
lat: Latitude of position where bloom was seen, type: float
long: Lo

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Citation

Ana Tronholm, Magnus Lindeberg, & Jurie Germishuys. (2022). Algal Blooms Sweden - 2021 [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7234133

Data format / data structure

Numeric

Text

Still image

Geospatial

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Ana Tronholm - University of Gothenburg, Biological and Environmental Sciences orcid

Magnus Lindeberg - Maranics AB

Jurie Germishuys - Combine Control Systems AB

Time period(s) investigated

2021-06-19 – 2021-10-09

Data collection

  • Mode of collection: Compilation/Synthesis
  • Description of the mode of collection: Compilation of digital photographs submitted by participants of a citizen science project, along with metadata.
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2021-06-19–2021-10-09
  • Instrument: Digital camera (Technical instrument(s))

Variables

251

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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Published: 2023-02-03