Southern Maine Community College Gulf of Maine Invertebrate Data
Citation
United States Geological Survey: Southern Maine Community College Gulf of Maine Invertebrate Data https://doi.org/10.15468/v2eq9j accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-15.Description
This Invertebrate Data Base includes the data relating to the specimens collected by my students in the Invertebrate Zoology course taught as part of the Applied Marine Biology and Oceanography (AMBO) Program at Southern Maine Community College (SMCC). SMCC was formerly known as Southern Maine Vocational-Technical College (SMVTI), and then Southern Maine Technical College (SMTC). The collection began in 1971 and continues to the present (2010) and includes specimens collected primarily (but not exclusively) in the Casco and Saco Bay areas of the Gulf of Maine as our campus is located on the shore of Casco Bay in South Portland. There are entries from as far north as Nova Scotia and as far south as Florida. The procedure that was followed by the students involved collecting live organisms in the marine environment by what ever means they could, i.e. walking along the shore, dredging from a boat, plankton sampling, SCUBA diving, etc. They recorded the location, substrate, date, organism characteristics when live and in the field, associated organisms, etc. They then brought the specimen to the laboratory where they used a variety of dichotomous and tabular identification manuals to identify the organism.Additional info
marine, harvested by OBISTaxonomic Coverages
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Robert Siegeloriginator
position: Professor
Southern Maine Community College
Robert Siegel
metadata author
position: Professor
Southern Maine Community College
Abby Benson
publisher
position: Biologist
U.S. Geological Survey
email: albenson@usgs.gov
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4391-107X
Abby Benson
administrative point of contact
position: Biologist
U.S. Geological Survey
email: albenson@usgs.gov