1. Data formats for beach litter, seafloor litter and micro-litter
EMODnet Chemistry 3 annual meeting
Roskilde, February 6th, 2018
M. Eugenia Molina Jack OGS
Matteo Vinci OGS
Alberto Brosich OGS
Morgan Le Moigne IFREMER

2. Marine Beach Litter formats
Guidelines and forms for gathering marine litter data (F. Galgani, A. Giorgetti, M. Le Moigne, A. Brosich, M. Vinci, M. Lipizer, E. Molina, N. Holdsworth, R. Schlitzer, G. Hanke, G. Moncoiffe, D. Schaap, G. Giorgi, 2017, Guidelines and forms for gathering marine litter data, 12/12/2017, 41 pp., DOI: /15c0d34ca01a ac-7c4f561ab508 )
Following the reference sources:
Guidelines for Monitoring Marine Litter on the Beaches in the OSPAR Maritime Area (2010)
Guidance on Monitoring of Marine Litter in European Seas’ (Galgani et al., 2013)
Format based on Ospar database for beach litter 2

3. Marine Beach Litter formats
Data format for beach information (metadata)
Field
Description
Example/Vocabs
Mandatory
Data type
RefNo
Beach ID
FR000006 y
char
BeachName
Country
ISO countries reference code for the country that performed the survey.
Beach geography
Beach width at mean low spring tide (m)
450
int
Beach width at mean high spring tide (m) 10
Total length of beach (m)
500
Back of beach
Dunes
Beach latitude
Recommended format: Degree.Decimal Degree of latitude
48.038
float8
Beach longitude
Recommended format: Degree.Decimal Degree of longitude
4.85
Coordinate system used
Coordinate reference system used
Date position measured
Recommended format: YYYY-MM-DD
date 3

4. Marine Beach Litter formats
Data format for beach litter information (metadata)
Includes information related to:
Beach identification
Beach geography
Usage and access
Nearest facilities
Beach cleaning 4

5. Marine Beach Litter formats
Data format for beach litter
Field
Description
Example/Vocabs
Mandat
Data type
RefNo
Beach ID. If it doesn’t exist, can be created with the country code and consequtive numbering (8 digits)
FR000006 y
char
BeachName
Country
ISO countries reference code for the country that performed the survey.
Type of survey
Cleaning/monitoring
enum
GPS coordinate Start (latitude)
Recommended format: Degree.Decimal Degree of latitude
48.038
float8
GPS coordinate Start (longitude)
Recommended format: Degree.Decimal Degree of longitude
4.85
GPS coordinate End (latitude)
GPS coordinate End (longitude)
4.86
Coordinate system used
Distance
Length of the survey in meters
Coordinates or Distance mandatory
float 5

6. Marine Beach Litter formats
After reviewing other data sources:
Any length of survey
New fields were added:
Beach position
Coordinate system used
Type of beach
Reference beach for litter monitoring
Survey distance
Type of survey
Litter reference list used 6

7. Marine Beach Litter formats
Data files
Excel with all fields in columns OR csv tab delimited
Files should be submitted to OGS
RefNo
BeachName
Country
Beach width at mean low spring tide (m)
Beach width at mean high spring tide (m)
Total length of beach (m)
Back of beach
Beach latitude
Beach longitude
FR001 FR
450 10
500
Dunes
48.038
4.85 7

8. Marine Sea Floor Litter formats
Guidelines and forms for gathering marine litter data (F. Galgani, A. Giorgetti, M. Le Moigne, A. Brosich, M. Vinci, M. Lipizer, E. Molina, N. Holdsworth, R. Schlitzer, G. Hanke, G. Moncoiffe, D. Schaap, G. Giorgi, 2017, Guidelines and forms for gathering marine litter data, 12/12/2017, 41 pp., DOI: /15c0d34ca01a ac-7c4f561ab508 )
Following the reference sources:
OSPAR Manual for the International Bottom Trawl Surveys (2012) and other survey protocols and reporting formats from ICES Library of Survey Protocols and Datras Documents
Guidance on Monitoring of Marine Litter in European Seas’ (Galgani et al., 2013)
Based on ICES database for seafloor litter 8

9. Marine Sea Floor Litter formats
Data files
Excel with all fields in columns OR csv tab delimited
Files should be submitted to OGS
Metadata:
Survey
Project_id
Date
Ship
Gear
Country
Originator
Collator
StNo
HaulNo
CoordRefSys
ShootLat
ShootLong
HaulLat
HaulLong
HaulDepth
Distance
WingSpread RO
12239
7301
OTB RO
697 1
43.9
28.733
43.866
28.716
39.2
4630 13
Data:
LTREF
PARAM
LTSZC
LTSRC
TYPPL
LTPRP
UnitWgt
LT_Weight
UnitItem
LT_Items
Shot_timestamp
HaulDur
TSG-ML
G192 15
SBS AO
kg/haul
5.5
items/haul 1
T13:05:20Z 60
G170 16 LB
CL6
3.65
G128
CL2
4.8
G51
SBF
2.6
G145 13
0.18 2 9

10. Marine Sea Floor Litter formats
After reviewing first data in EMODnet format (NIRMD):
Clarification of the guidelines was needed
New fields were considered:
Coordinate system used
Haul depth instead of Bottom depth 10

11. Marine Sea Floor Litter formats
Some practical specific indications will be included in the guidelines as an annex 11

12. Marine floating Micro-litter formats
Proposal for gathering and managing data sets on marine micro-litter on a European scale (F. Galgani, A. Giorgetti, M. Vinci, M. Le Moigne, G. Moncoiffe, A. Brosich, E. Molina, M. Lipizer, N. Holdsworth, R. Schlitzer, G. Hanke, D. Schaap, 2017, Proposal for gathering and managing data sets on marine micro-litter on a European scale, 12/12/2017, 38 pp., DOI: /8ce4e8b7-f42c ece-c dbd)
Reference source:
Guidance on Monitoring of Marine Litter in European Seas’ (Galgani et al., 2013)
Format presented and agreed with TG-ML, supporting EMODnet Chemistry initiative 12

13. Marine floating Micro-litter formats
It was decided to adopt SeaDataNet data gathering and management approach as generally applied for marine data, i.e. populating metadata and data in the CDI Data Discovery and Access service.
As for other kind of data, data collators will generate CDI and ODV files. As usual CDIs will be sent to Maris.
Mikado software for CDI generation is ready to manage microlitter CDIs (Turkey test). NEMO and OCTOPUS will need an upgrade to manage litter ODVs.
When NEMO and OCTOPUS are ready ODV will be generated and tested with them. In the meantime, manually generation will be needed. 13

14. Marine floating Micro-litter formats
For microlitter CDI the ISO xml was used. There is an available example.
For the generation of the CDI the following vocabularies have been updated:
P02 TN
TITLE
SHORT_NAME
DEFINITION
UMLW
Micro-litter in water bodies
WC_Microlitter
Parameters describing the abundance and nature of microscopic particles of man-made materials and in particular microplastics present in any body of fresh or salt water. 14

15. Marine floating Micro-litter formats
Proposal: "A fine-meshed net designed for sampling small size elements such as : microzooplankton, mesozooplankton, nekton or microlitter" 15