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Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Infrastructure Profile
Data Center Profile
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Country
Belgium
Organisation & Address
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS (IRScNB/KBIN)), Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Contact email
bmdc[at]naturalsciences.be
Description
General Information
The Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences is a National Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC) accredited by IOC-IODE and is dedicated to the long-term storage, the scientific processing and the publication of Belgian marine environmental data. The mission of BMDC is firstly to assure the safeguarding of meaningful oceanographic data collections as a valuable heritage to support environment assessments of the past, present and future quality state of the North Sea. BMDC also assures the development of information infrastructures and web services related to marine data collection, marine data handling and marine data publication. BMDC activities relies on the scientific expertise of a dedicated team of eight persons with environmental engineers, biologists and informaticians whose expertise is oriented towards the management and the analysis of marine environmental data and the development of related web services. BMDC has been and is still actively involved in various projects at national and international scales. At the national level, BMDC is responsible for the preservation and publication of national monitoring datasets and ensures the data reporting to the stakeholders. BMDC is also responsible for managing the en-route data of the RV Belgica.BMDC is also involved in international projects such as EU SeaDataNet and SeaDataCloud, EMODnet, ENVRI-FAIR, FAIR-EASE. Within EU Eurofleets+ project, BMDC has been leading the TA cruise data management work package which gave a solid experience to streamline and manage data from TA scientific projects.
Data Information
Data Disciplines (P08)
Biological oceanography (DS01), Chemical oceanography (DS02), Physical oceanography (DS03), Marine geology (DS04), Atmosphere (DS05), Administration and dimensions (DS07), Terrestrial (DS08), Environment (DS10), Human activities (DS12)
Data categories (C77)
Alkalinity (H27), Ammonia (H76), Atmospheric chemistry (M71), Benthic bacteria/micro-organisms (B16), Biochemical measurements (e.g. lipids, amino acids) (B72), Bottom deposits (P12), CTD stations (H10), Carbon dioxide (H74), Chlorinated hydrocarbons (P04), Contaminants in organisms (P13), Core – rock (G03), Core – soft bottom (G04), Crustaceans (B21), Current meters (D01), Current profiler (eg ADCP) (D71), Demersal fish (B19), Dissolved organic matter (incl DOC) (B06), Eggs and larvae (B13), Grab (G02), In-situ seafloor measurement/sampling (G71), Isotopes (H32), Mammals and reptiles (B26), Molluscs (B20), Nitrate (H24), Nitrite (H25), Optics (eg underwater light levels) (H17), Other biological/fisheries measurements (B90), Other chemical oceanographic measurements (H90), Other contaminant measurements (P90), Other dissolved gases (H33), Other dissolved substances (P05), Other geological/geophysical measurements (G90), Other meteorological measurements (M90), Other physical oceanographic measurements (D90), Oxygen (H21), Particulate organic matter (incl POC, PON) (B71), Pelagic bacteria/micro-organisms (B07), Pelagic fish (B14), Phosphate (H22), Phytobenthos (B17), Phytoplankton (B08), Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) (B02), Primary productivity (B01), Routine standard measurements (M06), Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder) (D09), Seston (B03), Silicate (H26), Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements (H11), Subsurface temperature measurements (H72), Surface drifters/drifting buoys (D05), Surface measurements underway (T,S) (H71), Suspended matter (P01)
FAIR data repositories
SeaDataNet
EMODnet Chemistry
EMODnet Data Ingestion