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Digital Data Library

Digital data resources for geography, environmental science and marine science

students. Compiled by Rory Quinn, Chris McGonigle and Paul McKenzie.

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Crystal Hemoglobin Structure

UU Digital Data Library

PDF outlining the digital spatial data we hold, suitable for use with GIS.

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EMODnet

European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) - download GIS marine data layers including depth, substrate, habitat, oceanography, engineering, fisheries and aquaculture

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Bio-ORACLE

Bio-ORACLE Global Coverage

Marine Data Layers - download marine surface and benthic GIS data layers including salinity, temperature, DO and many more

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INFOMAR

Ireland's Marine Data Portal - download GIS layers of bathymetry, backscatter, sub-bottom, gravity, magnetics and LiDAR

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UKHO Portal

UK Marine Data Portal - download GIS layers of MBES bathymetry data, wrecks and obstructions

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OSNI Open Data

OSNI Open Data - download raster and vector data including DTMs, street maps, districts and townlands

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Global Fishing Watch

The Global Fishing Watch map is the first open-access online platform for visualization and analysis of vessel-based human activity at sea.

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DATRAS

DATRAS stores data collected primarily from bottom trawl fish surveys coordinated by ICES expert groups. Covering the Baltic Sea, Skagerrak, Kattegat, North Sea, English Channel, Celtic Sea, Irish Sea, Bay of Biscay and the eastern Atlantic from the Shetlands to Gibraltar. 

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Met Office Hadley Centre

Researchers at the Met Office Hadley Centre produce and maintain a range of gridded datasets of meteorological variables for use in climate monitoring and climate research.

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European Space Agency

Discover and download the Earth observation data you need from the broad catalogue of missions the European Space Agency operate and support.

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NOAA Data Discovery Portal

US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric online data portal 

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Continuous Plankton Recorder

The CPR Survey is the longest running, most geographically extensive marine ecological survey in the world. 

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IWDG Sightings

Irish Whale and Dolphin Group

sightings data

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IWDG Strandings

Irish Whale and Dolphin Group

strandings data

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NBN Atlas

UK’s largest collection of biodiversity information

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NPWS RoI

National Parks and Wildlife Service maps and data - download SAC, SPA etc. boundaries

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GSNI GeoIndex

Download GIS compatible geology

data for Northern Ireland

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GSI data

Download GIS compatible geology, geophysics and geotechnical data for Republic of Ireland

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NINIS

Northern Ireland Neighbourhood Information Services

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DAERA

Digital Datasets are held by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (NI) and are available for download in different file formats.

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Open Street Map

Open Street Map - updated daily

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UK CEH

Environmental Information

Data Centre. Nationally-important datasets concerned with the terrestrial

and freshwater sciences.

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