| Aggregates from R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise TT012 in the Equatorial Pacific in 1992 during the U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac) project | Deep-Sea Power and Light AVCS-101 Autonomous Video Camera synchronized with a high power strobe
| SNOY CCD V801 |
| Aggregates from R/V Thomas G. Thompson TT050, TT054 cruises in the Arabian Sea in 1995 (U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea project) | Deep-Sea Power and Light AVCS-101 Autonomous Video Camera synchronized with a high power strobe
| SNOY CCD V801 |
| Benthic cover data photoquadrat images from patch reef 13 in Kāne'ohe Bay, O'ahu, Hawai'i from 2015 to 2022 | | |
| Benthic cover quadrat observations and photos from the West coast of Leyte, the Philippines in the municipalities of Albuera and Bay Bay City, 2014-2017 | Waterproof Camera: Canon Rebel T5i with an EF-S 18-55mm lens.
| Canon Rebel T5i |
| Benthic invertebrate abundances associated with octocoral forests in St. John, US Virgin Islands from July 2019 to Jan 2020 | | GoPro Hero 3+ camera |
| Canopy closure values from photographs taken within octocoral forestsalong the south shore of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands in March of 2019 | | GoPro Hero 3+ camera |
| Clownfish photos from the West coast of Leyte, the Philippines in the municipalities of Albuera and Bay Bay City between 2015 and 2018 | Sealife Micro HD (13 megapixel photos, 1080p video, 140 degree super-wide photos)
| Sealife Micro HD |
| Coral calcification (G) from six sites on the south coast of St. John, USVI from 1992 to 2019 | Raw photographic data that generated colony size and density were generated by a variety of film and digital cameras from 1992-2019.
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| Branching data from a clipping experiment conducted on the coral Antillogorgia elisabethae at two sites in the Bahamas determined from June 1999 to June 2000 | Photographs were taken at 640 x 480-bit resolution using a Sony Mavica digital camera (either MVC-7 or MVC-FD81) in an underwater housing.
| Sony Mavica digital camera (either MVC-7 or MVC-FD81) |
| Branch extension measurements from a clipping experiment conducted on the coral Antillogorgia elisabethae at two sites in the Bahamas determined from June 1999 to June 2000 | Photographs were taken at 640 x 480-bit resolution using a Sony Mavica digital camera (either MVC-7 or MVC-FD81) in an underwater housing.
| Sony Mavica digital camera (either MVC-7 or MVC-FD81) |
| Coral density from six sites on the south coast of St. John, USVI from 1992 to 2019 | Raw images were recorded with a variety of film and digital cameras from 1992-2019.
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| Coral density from six sites on the south coast of St. John, USVI from 1992 to 2019 | Raw images were recorded with a variety of film and digital cameras from 1992-2019.
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| Physiology measurements on collected coral pairs from Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, HI between July and December 2019 | Underwater camera for photographing whole coral colonies and individual fragments
| Olympus TG-5 |
| Coral cover at six sites on the south coast of St. John, USVI from 1992 to 2019 | A variety of film and digital cameras were used to record images from 1992-2019.
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| Percent cover of organisms within quadrats surveyed during surveys of 12 sites around St. Thomas and St. John, US Virgin Islands from 2011-2021 | DSLR camera for underwater images.
Photographs were taken with a Nikon D90 camera in 2011 (12.3 MP, fitted with a Nikkor DX 18-70 lens), a Nikon D7000 in 2015 (16.2 MP, fitted with a Nikkor DX 18-70 lens), and a Nikon D810 in 2015–2021 (36.3 MP, fitted with a Nikkor FX 18-35 lens). Cameras were fitted with two strobes (Nikon SB105) and the pictures provided a resolution of objects > 5 mm diameter.
| Nikon D90 and Nikon D7000 |
| Coral sizes from six sites on the south coast of St. John, USVI from 1992 to 2019 | Raw data were collected with a variety of 35 mm and digital cameras from 1992 - 2019 as described in the paper (Edmunds and Perry, 2023).
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| Coral area from a study of year-long effects of high pCO2 on the community structure of a tropical fore reef assembled in outdoor flumes in Moorea, French Polynesia from 2017 to 2018 | Photographs were recorded in ambient light using a GoPro Hero 4 camera (12 MP, 3-mm focal length) that was fitted to a stand and positioned on the upper edge of the flumes to record the benthic community through the air-water interface.
| GoPro Hero 4 |
| Percentage cover of the benthos by live coral at 10 m depth at sites in Moorea Moorea, French Polynesia from 2008 to 2021 | | |
| Density of coral settlers detected on settlement tiles each year at two 10m sites on the north shore of Moorea, French Polynesia from 2008 to 2020 | | |
| Density of small corals at two 10m sites on the north shore of Moorea, French Polynesia from 2005 to 2021 | | |
| | Ocean Imaging Systems (OIS) Model D3300 24,000 Digital Still Camera (Nikon D7100 SLR) |
| Physiology color score extracted from pictures taken during a heatwave experiment done September to November 2018 using reef building corals collected in Kāne'ohe Bay, O'ahu, Hawai'i. | | |
| Lobate ctenophore in situ swimming velocities and morphometrics sampled off of Woods Hole, Massachusetts and the Kona coast of Hawaii, USA from 2019 to 2022 | | Sony AX100 video camera |
| Megafauna counts by taxon in images collected during three surveys (December 25, 2019, April 7 and 9, 2021) with deep-submergence vehicles at inactive sulfide mounds on the East Pacific Rise. | | Ocean Imaging Systems (OIS) Model D3300 24,000 Digital Still Camera (Nikon D7100 SLR) |
| Organism counts from photo-transects collected during quantitative benthic surveys in Southwest Puerto Rico at 50 and 70 m during 2018 and 2019 | | |
| Underwater field photos of Acropora hyacinthus sampled in Moorea, French Polynesia in 2019 | | |
| Neocalanus body and lipid sac morphometrics from zooplankton samples collected during Seward Line cruises in the Northern Gulf of Alaska from 2018 to 2020 | | Digital cameras |
| Abundance by species for parrotfish assemblages across 82 sites on the northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia from surveys conducted in September of 2014 | Handheld stereo video system consisting of two Canon Legria underwater video cameras.
| Canon Legria underwater video cameras |
| Biomass by species for parrotfish assemblages across 82 sites on the northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia from surveys conducted in September of 2014 | Handheld stereo video system consisting of two Canon Legria underwater video cameras.
| Canon Legria underwater video cameras |
| Parrotfish diversity metrics from a survey across 82 sites on the northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia from surveys conducted in September of 2014 | Handheld stereo video system consisting of two Canon Legria underwater video cameras.
| Canon Legria video cameras |
| Parrotfish assemblages, reef habitat, and predatory coral reef fish data from a survey at 82 sites across 31 reef structures on the Northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia in September of 2014 | Handheld stereo video system consisting of two Canon Legria underwater video cameras.
| Canon Legria underwater video cameras |
| Sponge volume from repeated surveys in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, before and after the 2017 hurricane season | | |
| Pyrosome (Pyrosoma atlanticum) counts from vertical video profiles in the Northern California Current acquired between February and July 2018. | In situ videos were captured using a GoPro Hero 4 (4K, 30fps) in a deep-water housing (GoDeep Aluminum, Sexton Inc.) with two 7500 lumen lights (BigBlue VL7500P) mounted to the ship’s onboard CTD rosette frame. Video was aligned to depth information captured by the CTD (SBE 911).
| GoPro Hero 4 (4K, 30fps) |
| Raw cover of sponges from repeated surveys in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, before and after the 2017 hurricane season | | |
| Sample stations for the Neotrypaea COP (Community, Oxygen, & Productivity) Effects ground-truth cruises in 2021 and 2022 | The camera lander consists of:
Two sets of (4 total) DeepSea Power and Lights LED SeaLites.
1 Titanium CR2 CP underwater pressure housing holding three NMFS-5 NiMh batteries to power the lights.
Two ParaLenz Vaquita underwater video cameras.
| a camera lander with two downward-facing video cameras |
| Classified Zooplankton ZooCam Images Captured by the Hoodsport ORCA Profiling Mooring Mounted SPC-2 Zoocam in the Hood Canal, Puget Sound, Washington from July to September 2018 (Zooplankton Swimming project) | The SPC-UW-Zoocam designed and built specifically for this project. The Zoocam was custom-built by Paul Roberts in the Jaffe Imaging Laboratory at the University of California San Diego. It is an underwater camera system that captured still images of zooplankton within a 500-mL imaged area using lighting in the visible wavelength range.
| SPC-UW-Zoocam |
| Sponge Density, Morphology, and Assemblages from repeated surveys in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, before and after the 2017 hurricane season | | |
| Canopy closure values from photographs taken within octocoral forests in Lameshur Bay St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands from July 2019 to Jan 2020 | | GoPro Hero 3+ camera |
| In Situ Amphipod and Copepod Video Output Captured by the Hoodsport ORCA Profiling Mooring Mounted SPC-2 Zoocam in the Hood Canal, Puget Sound, Washington from August to September 2018 (Zooplankton Swimming project) | The SPC-UW-Zoocam designed and built specifically for this project. The Zoocam was custom-built by Paul Roberts in the Jaffe Imaging Laboratory at the University of California San Diego. It is an underwater camera system with a 500-mL imaged area that captured still images while profiling using lighting in the visible wavelength range (images submitted as a separate dataset) and videos of zooplankton using IR lighting (while stationary and under low-flow conditions.
| SPC-UW-Zoocam |
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