Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN)
Making all UK marine data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable (FAIR)
www.medin.org.uk
- There is still time to submit your abstract to present at the MEDIN Open Meeting! 🔹Session 1: Marine data types without a MEDIN Data Archive Centre 🔹 🔹Session 2: Solutions for marine data management challenges🔹 Deadline 19th September 👇 forms.cloud.microsoft/e/pkWfTKKpq9
- Register now to attend the MEDIN Open Meeting 2025: "Unlocking the oceans: managing emerging and established marine data" 📅Thursday 4th December 2025 📍Hybrid - Met Office, Exeter and online using Microsoft Teams Secure your place now: hubs.la/Q03D5RZ90
- 📢Call for speakers: MEDIN Open Meeting 2025 📢 "Unlocking the oceans: managing emerging and established marine data" 📅Thursday 4th December 2025 📍Hybrid - Met Office, Exeter and online using Microsoft Teams Deadline September 19th 2025 hubs.la/Q03D5PN_0
- Thank you to our wonderful speakers Monica Hanley from @bodc.bsky.social and Harry Richardson from The Crown Estate for kicking off the MEDIN webinar series 2025. Watch the webinar again - www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EJ1... Register now for webinar number 2 👇 medin.org.uk/news/medin-w...
- 📢Call for speakers: MEDIN Open Meeting 2025 📢 "Unlocking the oceans: managing emerging and established marine data" 📅Thursday 4th December 2025 📍Hybrid - Met Office, Exeter and online using Microsoft Teams Deadline September 19th 2025 hubs.la/Q03D5PN_0
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- 🚨 Time to Upgrade Your MEDIN Metadata Maestro 🚨 From 1 Oct, MEDIN Metadata Maestro for v2.3.8 is retiring Upgrade to v3.1 for: ✨ Easier navigation & tips ✅ Colour-coded compliance checks 🌍 Multi-standard metadata support 📋 Templates & vocabularies Download now ➡️ medin.org.uk/data-standar...
- Registration is now open for a series of free to attend scientific computing courses for Environmental Scientists. 🔵An introductory course 🔵An intermediate course 🔵An advanced course Secure your spot! forms.office.com/e/7xssC7FgXa @epcc.bsky.social
- Register now for the first MEDIN webinar: 📅 20th August 2025 14:00 – 15:00 🗺️Navigating Marine Data: Planning, Stewardship and the value of MEDIN Read more about the webinar series and sign up noc-events.co.uk/medin-2025-w... #MEDINwebinars2025
- Check out the Healthy & Biologically Diverse Seas Evidence Group (HBDSEG). Explore the 4 goals of HBDSEG 1️⃣Coordinated marine monitoring 2️⃣Community of stakeholders 3️⃣Continuously improving evidence base 4️⃣ Quality assured data hubs.la/Q03t7y_l0 #metadatamonday
- 📢We're looking for a #MarineOrnithologist to join us! This varied role will include supporting a review of the Special Protection Area (SPA) network, data analysis & review of management measures. 📆 Closing date: 30 June 2025 👉 Learn more & apply here: bit.ly/JNCCpost202529 #JobOpportunity
- Today at NOC Open Day we are announcing the next MEDIN workshop! Taking place on October 13-17th, online using OceanTeacher Global Academy, you can register for FREE here: bit.ly/446xQuo For more information about the MEDIN workshops check out our website: bit.ly/446xQuo
- Our colleagues at @icesmarine.bsky.social are inviting feedback on their Spatial Facility and Metadata Catalogue. 🔍 Explore: gis.ices.dk/sf/ gis.ices.dk/geonetwork/s... 📝 Share your feedback: forms.office.com/e/7EjqRhuidr Let’s make spatial data more accessible! #ICES #GIS #MarineData
- Check out our new YouTube tutorial 👇 MEDIN Online Metadata Editor: How to Create a MEDIN Discovery Metadata Record. This video tutorial will help you become familiar with creating MEDIN Compliant discovery metadata using the MEDIN Online Metadata editor. bit.ly/4jbgVv9 Don't forget to subscribe ✔️
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- We are delighted to announce the launch of our new Marine Data Management Webinar Series and are looking for prospective speakers 📢 Submit a brief abstract using the form below by 16th June 2025. bit.ly/4dolkcX
- At the METS RCN workshop at BIOS, Pier Luigi Buttegieg presents the work MEDIN completed sending MEDIN portal records to Ocean InfoHub during his presentation about the Ocean Data Information System (#ODIS) and being visible across the Ocean's Internet. oceaninfohub.org #METSRCN2025 #BIOS
- We've updated some MEDIN guidelines! Marine Biodiversity 🐟 Marine & Geophysics 🌋 Physical Oceanography and Metocean/Marine Chemistry 🌦️ Find the updated versions available to download for free from our website: medin.org.uk/data-standar...
- Save the date for the next MEDIN workshop! 📆 19th – 23rd May 2025 The FREE virtual/online workshop titled: ‘Marine Data Management, Governance and the MEDIN toolset’ is hosted on OceanTeacher Global Academy. Register now: medin.org.uk/data-standar... #marinedatamanagement #freetraining #CPD
- Today is the last day of the #IODE Committee meeting in Colombia. IODE was established in 1961 to enhance marine research & development, by facilitating the exchange of oceanographic data & information. Find out more: bit.ly/4bMur6x @dassh-at-the-mba.bsky.social @bodc.bsky.social
- The 28th session of the International Oceanographic Data & Information Exchange (IODE) committee is this week! @bodc.bsky.social is the #NODC of the UK, @dassh-at-the-mba.bsky.social is attending as the co-chair of #OBIS Cefas and MEDIN are #ADUs of IODE so are attending remotely.
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- Looking for information about fishing restrictions around the UK and beyond? 🎣🚫 Check out the reference layers in the MEDIN portal 👇 Under 'fisheries and aquaculture' 🐟 portal.medin.org.uk/portal/start... #WMSwednesday
- ScotMER Symposium - registration for FREE in-person day closes 19 Feb! 25–28 Feb the latest groundbreaking UK and international research on the impact of offshore renewable energy on the marine environment & other users of the sea will be showcased. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/7th-scotme...
- 🚀 The new MEDIN Online Discovery Metadata Editor is live! Create, validate, export, & publish marine metadata. 🌊 Please switch to the new editor! 🔗 metadata.marinebiodiversity.org ⚡Exciting key features Existing accounts transferred. Reset your password to access!
- Standards are common rules, conditions or guidelines & are essential to enable easy discovery and re-use of data. Explore the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard and tools to help your metadata creation 👇 medin.org.uk/data-standards #metadatamonday
- Register now for the #EMODnet Hackathon! 💻 📅5-27 March, 2025 opensealab.eu Develop impactful solutions on the European Digital Twin Ocean platform using EMODnet services and combine them with other European data services including the Copernicus Marine Service.
- Register now for the UK Environmental Observation Framework (UKEOF) conference "Climate change: evidence and impacts on UK environments and resources" 📅 13 February 2025 📍 Online Registration fee: FREE ukeof.org.uk/conference/c...
- How is MEDIN involved in the UN Ocean Decade? 🌊 The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) aims to harness ocean science to achieve sustainable development and reverse the decline in ocean health. Check out our website for more info 👇 hubs.la/Q032rmrK0 #UNOceanDecade
- The metadata from the Dudgeon and Sheringham Extension, CPT campaign (EQ24456) is #DatasetOfTheWeek. This contains the field, factual, & interpretative report for the 2024 CPT campaign. In addition the CPT data is shared. Find out more and access the data: hubs.la/Q032rhl10
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- Do we need an online database of UK marine monitoring? 🌊 Please complete this questionnaire (forms.office.com/e/8s7N2HAs92) to let us know if you need metadata, data and/or programme information about UK marine monitoring. For more details and information:https://hubs.la/Q032vhwR0
- Did you know? 🤔🌊 We have a non-spatial discovery metadata standard available 👇 medin.org.uk/data-standar... The MEDIN definition of a non-spatial dataset is “Marine data that are independent of geographic location.” E.g. lab or experimental results, social science data etc. #metadatamonday
- Join the MEDIN/mNCEA Non-Spatial Discovery Metadata Workshop 👇 📅 25/01/25 10:00AM 📍Online Tailored for professionals working with metadata, gain knowledge and understand the tools needed to make marine non-spatial data discoverable through the MEDIN Portal. forms.office.com/pages/respon...
- The newest record in the MEDIN portal that took place on November 28th is Liverpool Bay - Queen's Channel - Taylor's Spit to Askew Spit - 1m - Bathymetric Survey Find out more 👇🌊 portal.medin.org.uk/portal/?deta... #MEDINDataAdvent Day 17
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- The MEDIN Annual Report (2023-2024) is now published! Many accomplishments achieved by a huge collaborative effort of the marine community, MEDIN Sponsors, Partners and Data Archive Centres. Read more 👇 medin.org.uk/sites/medin/... #MEDINDataAdvent Day 16
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- The MEDIN Portal now has a #GitHub repository! 🎅🦌 This repository is for accessing MEDIN portal documentation & to log any ideas you may have for future developments. Any portal bugs can be reported via enquiries@medin.org.uk. github.com/medin-marine... #MEDINDataAdvent Day 13
- Join the Non-Spatial Discovery Metadata Workshop! 📅Jan 21, 2025, 10:00 AM 📍Online Tailored for professionals working with metadata, the workshop will equip you with the knowledge & tools needed to make marine non-spatial data discoverable. Register by Jan 14: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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- Carbon Uptake and Seasonal Traits in Antarctic Remineralisation Depth (#CUSTARD) programme dataset is #MEDINDataAdvent Day 12 🌟✨🎄 @bodc.bsky.social Find out more from the MEDIN portal here; portal.medin.org.uk/portal/?deta...
- ✨Job Opportunity ✨ Nekton is seeking a COO to co-lead & implement the organisation’s strategy, operational & fiscal oversight & team management – including science, marine operations, logistics, data, communications and more! Closing: 03/01/2025 nektonmission.org/about/jobs/c...
- Microplastics in sediment cores data from the UK continental shelf and slope from 2017 is #MEDINDataAdvent Day 11 ✨🌟 Data are archived at Cefas. Find out more from the MEDIN Portal 👇 portal.medin.org.uk/portal/?deta...
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- We are at the National Environment Monitoring Conference in Liverpool today! Dr Clare Postlethwaite presented in the freshwater, coastal and marine monitoring session. Great to see the Met Office & so many other MEDIN Sponsors! Explore #UKDMOS here 👇🌊 www.ukdmos.org
- On the 10th Day of Christmas #MEDINDataAdvent gives to you... ✨🌟✨ Seabed Prehistory: Site Evaluation Techniques Synthesis - Artefactual material, including faunal remains of reindeer🦌 from 2008,11km off the coast of Great #Yarmouth. 👇 portal.medin.org.uk/portal/?deta... Archaeology Data Service
- Scotland River Temperature Monitoring Network (SRTMN) - Tree planting prioritisation for shading rivers datasets is #MEDINDataAdvent Day 9 🎄🌲🎄🌲 Find out more from the MEDIN portal 👇 portal.medin.org.uk/portal/?deta...
- #MEDINDataAdvent 🎄❄️ Our latest ✨FREE ✨edition of Marine Data News has been published. Read all about the latest updates from MEDIN, @bodc.bsky.social @dassh-at-the-mba.bsky.social , UK Hydrographic Office, The Crown Estate, OceanWise and many more! mailchi.mp/df1637362b0a...
- Diver Observations on Arctic Charr (Salvelinus alpinus) Spawning Grounds in Llyn Padarn Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) - December 2010 is #MEDINDataAdvent Day 6 ❄️🎄 Data are held with Natural Resources Wales 👇🌊 portal.medin.org.uk/portal/?deta...
- Snorkel sightings from Portland Harbour Dorset, by Tom Kennedy in 2006 was #MEDINDataAdvent Day 5! Find out more from the MEDIN portal 👇🌊 portal.medin.org.uk/portal/?deta...
- Historical sea level observations from Santa🎅nder, Spain (1876-1924) are #MEDINDataAdvent Day 4 Sea level measurements have been digitised, quality-controlled and merged into a consistent sea level time series. Data are available to download from @bodc.bsky.social 👇🌊 bit.ly/3OyijuL
- Day 3 of #MEDINDataAdvent is this Cefas survey on Northern Gift 🎁as part of the Historic Arctic Survey Series. Find out more and download the data: bit.ly/4eZxzMf
- #MEDINDataAdvent Day 2 brings you the Angel👼ena Wreck bathymetric survey. This processed bathymetric data set has been derived from an Echosounder - multibeam survey. Data can be downloaded from the UK Hydrographic Office. #UKHO 👇🌊 portal.medin.org.uk/portal/?deta...
- Head over to the Archive for Marine Species and Habitats Data (DASSH) and download the 2023 FISP dataset: Ecosystem Benefits of UK Oyster Aquaculture Sites Pembrokeshire Sediment Sampling Survey 🎄🎁 doi.mba.ac.uk/data/3217/?u... #MEDINDataAdvent @dassh-at-the-mba.bsky.social
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- ✨Job Opportunity: Workshop Coordinator - Ocean Census ✨ The Ocean Census is actively seeking a Workshop Coordinator to join their dynamic team to manage the workshop & related processes with an international alliance of partners. oceancensus.org/job-opportun... #OceanJobs
- To celebrate 50 years of the Institute of Acoustics, there are 2 special webinars taking place on 5th and 12th December 2024. For more details and to register visit 👇 acoustics.ac.uk/ioa-50th-ann... acoustics.ac.uk/ioa-50th-ann...
