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The Marine Institute Open Access Repository facilitates full text access to the publications of the Marine Institute in accordance with copyright permissions. The aim of the Repository is to collect, preserve and provide open access to the publications of the Marine Institute, including the research publications supported by National and European funded marine research programmes.
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Explorers Climate Change Superheroes: Learning About Climate Change & Creating Solutions WorkbookThis workbook helps children learn key concepts about climate change by understanding the Earth's climate system. They will develop their skills and competencies using maps, conducting science, language, art, and wellness activities to help create solutions for change.
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Explorers Climate Change Superheroes: A Whale's Tale - My Creative Art & Story BookThis book teaches children about climate change using a map of climate zones as well as focusing on various species and its impacts on them to help the children engage with these concepts creatively through drawings, poetry and storytelling, to strengthen their understanding and confidence in communicating with their friends and families and to come up with solutions for change.
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International Blue Whiting Spawning Stock Survey (IBWSS) Spring 2025Coordination of the survey was initiated at the meeting of the Working Group on International Pelagic Surveys (WGIPS) in January 2025 and continued by correspondence until the start of the survey. During the survey, effort was refined and adjusted by the survey coordinator (Norway) using real time observations.
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A modular approach to cataloguing oceanographic dataThe ability to access and search metadata for marine science data is both a key requirement for answering fundamental principles of data management (making data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) and also in meeting domain-specific, community defined standards and legislative requirements placed on data publishers. This paper describes a modular data model to answer the functional requirements developed from these drivers and illustrates how this data model can be operationalised. The ability of this solution to meet the FAIR principles is then assessed.
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Management of spatial data integrity including stakeholder feedback in Maritime Spatial PlanningThe Maritime Spatial Planning process is data intensive, having to draw upon the best available data coming from many different sources. There are, therefore, multiple challenges in managing spatial data for inclusion in Marine Plans. These challenges include the need for data integrity to drive reproducibility; as well as providing contextual information to enable end users to increase understanding as well as the potential for the data to be reused independently. This paper examines the challenges associated with managing spatial data for inclusion in Ireland’s marine plan. It demonstrates how repeatability can be achieved for such data products and the underlying processes necessary to drive data integrity to ensure the best data is available for decision-making. During the marine plan consultation period, the spatial data used in the baseline and subsequent draft plan became outdated, with newer and better-fitting data identified. In total, 124 map products matured throughout the process; consequently, processes were developed to integrate stakeholder feedback as well as a method to provide a uniform way to deliver, manage and update datasets. Ireland held an array of stakeholder engagement efforts. The entire stakeholder engagement process spanned several years and involved numerous organisations. Informed by the process of engagement-data interaction the paper explores the innovative potential of using Maritime Spatial Planning as a driving force for Data Quality. This paper aims to describe the interwoven process of updating datasets in a marine plan and the benefits of simultaneously integrating stakeholder consultation feedback and developing repeatable data management processes.
