| Number and sizes of abalone and urchin recorded during dive surveys at specially designed recruitment modules (RMs) deployed at rocky subtidal reef at Van Damme State Park, Mendocino County, California, USA from August 2001 to August 2023 | | |
| Abalone recruitment data from Baja California and Baja California Sur, Mexico in 2019 | | |
| Kelp and urchin mean densities from Aleutian habitat surveys 2008-2010 (Kelp Forest Apex Predator Collapse project) | These data come from dive surveys.
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| Percent cover of algal habitat types on a by-transect and/or subsample basis recorded during emergent and rapid emergent surveys conducted in the subtidal zone of northern California, Sonoma and Mendocino counties, from 1999 to 2023 | | |
| 16S rRNA V4 sequence metadata from surface swabs from Apostichopus californicus-associated flavivirus experiment under suboxic conditions and organic matter amendment | Forty-two specimens of Apostichopus californicus were collected by SCUBA divers in Thimbleberry Bay (57.0297N, 135.2283W), near Sitka, Alaska on 10 November 2021 and transported together in plastic tubs to the lab at the University of Alaska Southeast (Japonski Island, Sitka).
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| Benthic microalgal photopigment concentrations from nearshore shelf waters off Charleston, SC from June 2018 to August 2021 | | |
| Histological gonad reproductive scores for purple sea urchins from experiments at the Bodega Marine Laboratory from Sep to Dec 2023 | For the second experiment, we collected animals from three locations in California including Stillwater Cove in Sonoma County, Mohawk Reef in Santa Barbara, and Point Loma in San Diego using SCUBA from 3-5 meters mean low water.
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| Coral associated microbes on coral, sediment, and water sampled from coral reefs in Mo'orea, French Polynesia from 2017 to 2020 | | SCUBA |
| Sample log of coral biopsy specimens for genetic analysis of algal symbionts collected from Galapagos and Panama by divers, 2014-2017 (Response of ETP to ENSO) | | SCUBA |
| Coral Reef Fish Abundance from waters near U.S. Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico from May 2015 to Aug 2016 | | SCUBA |
| Counts of coral colonies per species along monitoring transects from the Caribbean Coast of Panama in August to September 2021 | | scuba divers |
| DNA microsatellite alleles from eelgrass ramets collected Curlew Beach in Nahant, MA and Niles Beach in Gloucester, MA in 2014 | | SCUBA |
| DNA microsatellite alleles from flowering shoots and seeds collected Curlew Beach in Nahant, MA and Niles Beach in Gloucester, MA in 2014 | | SCUBA |
| Dissolved Organic Carbon concentrations collected at the Mo’orea LTER forereef and back reef sites during the 2019 coral bleaching event. | Samples were collected either via Niskin bottle or by hand on SCUBA at Mo’orea, French Polynesia
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| Eelgrass density and reproduction at Curlew Beach in Nahant, MA and Niles Beach in Gloucester, MA from samples collected by SCUBA in 2014 | | SCUBA |
| Faunal ID, size and biomass on oyster reefs in Quonochontaug Pond, RI from July-August 2018 and September-October 2018 | | SCUBA |
| Measures of anemonefish habitat quality and parental traits from field experiments conducted at Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea from May to August 2017 | | SCUBA |
| Fate data for corals sampled at Flower Garden Banks from March 2023 to July 2024 | Divers on SCUBA took photos, recorded size estimates, percent of the colony showing old mortality, percent of the colony showing recent mortality, percent of living tissue that was bleached or paled, and disease identification.
| SCUBA |
| Field experiments to determine the ability of gnathiid isopods to detect and locate Caribbean reef fish hosts using chemosensory cues in John Brewers Bay, St Thomas, US Virgin Island from June to August, 2019 | | |
| Benthic oxygen fluxes and associated environmental data collected in the Florida Keys from 2016 to 2018 | | SCUBA |
| Genetic analyses and microsatellite characterization for formal recognition of new species of host-generalist species of dinoflagellate (Cladocopium, Symbiodiniaceae) mutualistic with Indo-Pacific reef corals collected from 2003 through 2015 | Samples of Scleractinia from various families were sampled by SCUBA with a hammer and chisel throughout various sites across the Indo-Pacific
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| Identity and heights of Octocoral species found on transects at 6 sites on the south shore of St John, U.S. Virgin Islands in 2021 and 2022 | | |
| Infaunal community composition and sediment grain size distribution, porosity, and organic content of sediment cores collected in the Northern Gulf of Mexico off the Alabama (USA) coast during 2020 and 2021 before and after Hurricane Sally | | SCUBA diving |
| Counts of organisms recorded during emergent and rapid emergent surveys conducted in the subtidal zone of northern California, Sonoma and Mendocino counties, from 1999 to 2023 | | |
| 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 | | SCUBA |
| NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) accession numbers for fastq sequence files of 16S amplicons from a longitudinal study of SCTLD at St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands from 2020 to 2024 | Samples were collected by SCUBA divers.
| SCUBA |
| Purple sea urchin morphometrics from Marna Laboratory Experiments at the Quadra Island Ecological Observatory from Sep to Dec 2021 | All animals were simultaneously collected from Ucluelet, British Columbia, Canada (48° 56.604N, 125° 34.699W) from a depth of 7-8 m relative to mean low tide on 3 September 2021 using SCUBA and immediately transported to the Marna Laboratory flow through seawater system.
| SCUBA |
| Histological gonad reproductive scores for purple sea urchins from experiments at the Quadra Island Ecological Observatory from Sep to Dec 2021 | All animals were simultaneously collected from Ucluelet, British Columbia, Canada (48° 56.604N, 125° 34.699W) from a depth of 7-8 m relative to mean low tide on 3 September 2021 using SCUBA and immediately transported to the Marna Laboratory flow through seawater system.
| SCUBA |
| Microbiome dynamics of coral reef and cleanerfish from ecological surveys, in situ manipulations, and laboratory experiments conducted from 2020-2021 | | SCUBA |
| Acropora hyacinthus isotope data from coral samples collected at a north shore site in Mo’orea in May 2019 | In May 2019, during the height of the bleaching event, SCUBA divers observed bleached Acropora hyacinthus coral colonies in both the shallow fore reef (~5 m depth) and deep fore reef (~14 m depth) habitats at a north shore site in Mo’orea (fore reef: 17.4731°S, 149.8176°W).
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| Nutrient concentrations and stable isotope values for groundwater in nearshore shelf waters off Charleston, SC from June 2018 to August 2019 | | |
| Octocoral Recruitment surveys on transects at 6 sites on the south shore of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands in 2021 and 2022 | | |
| Oyster density of restored reef edge/interior in Quonochontaug Pond, RI in May 2019 | | SCUBA |
| Abundance by species for parrotfish assemblages across 82 sites on the northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia from surveys conducted in September of 2014 | | |
| Biomass by species for parrotfish assemblages across 82 sites on the northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia from surveys conducted in September of 2014 | | |
| Parrotfish diversity metrics from a survey across 82 sites on the northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia from surveys conducted in September of 2014 | | |
| 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 | | |
| Prevalence of PcaFV in Apostichopus californicus specimens collected in Southeast Alaska from Jun to Nov 2021 | Twenty individual Apostichopus californicus specimens were collected by SCUBA divers during routine fisheries surveys by Alaska Department of Fish and Game from near southeastern Alaska (Juneau) in June/July 2021.
Thirty-two specimens of Apostichopus californicus were collected by SCUBA divers in Sitka Sound (57.1273 N, 135.4042 W), near Sitka, Alaska on 10 November 2021 and transported together in plastic tubs to the lab at the University of Alaska Southeast (Japonski Island, Sitka).
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| Dynamics of the Apostichopus californicus-associated flavivirus under suboxic conditions and organic matter amendment in mesocosm experiment | Forty-two specimens of Apostichopus californicus were collected by SCUBA divers in Thimbleberry Bay (57.031861N, 135.250972W), near Sitka, Alaska on 10 November 2021 and transported together in plastic tubs to the lab at the University of Alaska Southeast (Japonski Island, Sitka).
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| Sponge volume from repeated surveys in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, before and after the 2017 hurricane season | | |
| Sunflower star tissue collection metadata from specimens collected in British Columbia, Washington, and California between Mar 2022 and Apr 2025 | Specimens were located visually during recreational and/or scientific dives and during intertidal research or surveys conducted for other purposes.
| SCUBA |
| Community composition of corals in Palau determined by a qualitative survey conducted in 2021-2022 | | |
| Raw cover of sponges from repeated surveys in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, before and after the 2017 hurricane season | | |
| Reef Fish genetic accession numbers at NCBI Genbank | Wilcox et al. (2018) and Tenggardjaja et al. (2018) used conventional SCUBA to capture specimens with hand nets and pole spears.
| SCUBA |
| Respiration and Gross Photosynthesis Rates of Galápagos Macroalgae from 2022 to 2025 | Measurements were conducted via SCUBA across a rocky platform covered with macroalgal beds.
| SCUBA |
| Data from experiments testing the effects of hypoxia on behavior and physiology of two species of rockfish from from 2015-2016 | | SCUBA |
| Fate data for corals sampled at the U.S. Virgin Islands from April 2022 to April 2023 | All work was completed by divers on SCUBA.
| SCUBA |
| Lengths of organisms recorded during emergent and rapid emergent surveys conducted in the subtidal zone of northern California, Sonoma and Mendocino counties, from 1999 to 2023 | | |
| Sponge Density, Morphology, and Assemblages from repeated surveys in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, before and after the 2017 hurricane season | | |
| Diversity, distribution, and temporal stability of coral 'zooxanthellae' on a Pacific reef evaluated with samples collected in Palau from 2013 to 2022 | Samples of Scleractinia from various families were sampled by SCUBA with a hammer and chisel throughout various sites across the Indo-Pacific
| SCUBA |
| Percent coverage along a transect or subsample of each of four substrate types recorded during emergent and rapid emergent surveys conducted in the subtidal zone of northern California, Sonoma and Mendocino counties, from 1999 to 2023 | | |
| Size and abundance data for fish communities across the Thalassia Experimental Network (TEN) sites in the Western Atlantic from 2018-2019 | | SCUBA |
| Upper-pelagic particle numbers from imagery on the R/V Atlantic Explorer in the Sargasso Sea and from SCUBA in the Gulf of Trieste in July 2021 | | SCUBA |
| Pencil urchin respiration rates at different temperatures from four sites in the Galápagos archipelago | | SCUBA |
| Viral consortia in Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease- affected, disease-exposed, and disease-unexposed coral colonies from a transmission experiment conducted on samples collected from Rupert’s Rock in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands in 2019 | | |
| NCBI accession numbers and related metadata for an SRA archive of the seagrass, Zostera marina | | SCUBA |
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