Welcome to another EnerGeo Alliance initiative, related to Netuno Environmental Database.
For many years, the Alliance has been planning to offer something simple and useful, a portal providing links to the most relevant Brazilian and international databases, of interest to the O&G industry, with a focus on marine fauna and sound. We are sure that this initiative will benefit interested parties, licensing bodies, companies, consultancies, as well as researchers, students and society in general.
It is important to highlight that this initiative is aligned with and supports the UNESCO/UN Ocean Decade, specifically the “Challenge 9 - Skills, knowledge and technology for all - Ensure comprehensive capacity development and equitable access to data, information, knowledge and technology across all aspects of ocean science and for all stakeholders".
Please, if you would like to join this effort and send us suggestions, such as adding banks and corrections, do not hesitate to contact us at aowens@energeoalliance.org.
The Netuno Environmental Database aims to offer easy access for society to public data originated from the environmental licensing of maritime seismic activities in Brazil, currently carried out by the General Coordination of Environmental Licensing of Marine and Coastal Enterprises (CGMAC), from the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA).
Notes: The Netuno environmental database is the result of a joint effort by IBAMA, the geophysics companies CGG, TGS, WesternGeco and the operators Equinor and Petrobras, under the coordination of the EnerGeo Alliance, originated from requirements for Terms of Reference for maritime seismic activities in the Equatorial Margin in 2014 and, expanded to all TRs, for seismic activities in all Brazilian Basins, starting from 2018.
Data Types: Data from Projects of Social Communication (PCS), Pollution Control (PCP), Marine Biota Monitoring (PMBM), Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PMAP), Monitoring of Impacts of Platforms and Vessels on the Avifauna (PMAVE) and provides general information on research projects, under the Special Projects item.
Responsible Institutions: EnerGeo /CGG, Equinor, Petrobras, TGS, WesternGeco / IBAMA / LibGeo/Univali
The BDCA is a system that allows the storage, consultation, and sharing of environmental data collected through any projects that generate data on water quality, planktonic biota, bottom coverage, sediment quality, benthic and nektonic biota in the marine environment, in addition to the possibility of including key data for synergistic and ecological understanding of these (such as meteorological-oceanographic data).
Notes: It is prepared both to receive data from Environmental Characterization Projects (PCAs) and Environmental Monitoring Projects (PMAs) carried out within environmental licensing and post-license processes, at the Federal and State levels, as well as from research projects with more diverse structures and characteristics.
Data Types: Water quality, planktonic biota, bottom coverage, sediment quality, benthic and nektonic biota in marine environment.
Responsible Institutions: IBP /Prooceano
Centralize environmental and scientific studies, maps and general data on the environment and socioeconomics of the Brazilian Equatorial Margin.
Notes: Allows registered users to easily upload geospatial data. Search tool for geospatial data published by other users, organizations, and public sources.
Data Types: Data on biota, margins, economy, elevation, environment, geoscientific information, inland waters, oceans, populations, transport, among others.
Responsible Institutions: UNIVALI
The National Spatial Data Infrastructure (INDE) aims to catalog, integrate and harmonize geospatial data existing in the various Brazilian government institutions, producers and maintainers of different types of data, harmonizing them and providing their dissemination and effective use.
Notes: It is a repository of metadata from various sources producing geospatial data and information organized in the form of an online catalog of data and services, providing access through a map search tool.
Data Types: Geospatial data and information from Brazil.
Responsible Institutions: Brazilian Government
MAREM, a georeferenced database, consolidates and integrates data from 2 projects (Coastal Protection and Cleaning Project and Wildlife Protection Project) and allows for a detailed and agile analysis of regions affected by oil spills.
Notes: MAREM provides the Oil and Gas Exploration and Production sector and the Oil Spill Response sector with a technical and management tool for emergency planning, prioritization of locations and species to be protected in the event of an environmental emergency, and decision-making on response strategies to be adopted in the event of oil spill accidents at sea. Strategic Response Sheets (FERs) were developed for coastal data.
Data Types: Coast: mapping of the Brazilian coastline and coastal islands with the classification of locations as “priority area for protection”, “area of use to be defined - collection area/support area”, or “area of use to be defined”. Fauna: species and areas of occurrence of avifauna, mastofauna and herpetofauna on the Brazilian coast and coastal islands, classified as “vulnerable” and “priority” species.
Responsible Institutions: IBP / IBAMA
Marine Spatial Planning of Brazil
Notes: Marine Spatial Planning of Brazil
Data Types: Land infrastructure, administrative boundaries, economic sectors, environment, bathymetry, nautical charts, IBGE biomes, submarine cables.
Responsible Institutions: Ministry of Environment and Climate Change
Include special projects required in environmental licensing for offshore seismic activities. This platform also contains approved final versions of Environmental Studies for Offshore Seismic Activities as well as Final Activity Reports.
Notes: This is a repository of data linked to Netuno Environmental Database.
Data Types: Data obtained through the implementation of projects for Monitoring of Chelonians and Cetaceans by Satellite Telemetry, Monitoring of the Acoustic Landscape, among others, part of the environmental licensing of maritime seismic activities.
Responsible Institutions: EnerGeo / Univali
The Geospatial Analysis and Monitoring Platform for Environmental Information – Pamgia centralizes and provides environmental information of interest to Ibama and its partners in a dynamic and integrated manner, allowing thematic data to be viewed in a statistical and geospatial form by users.
Notes: Platform with integration of environmental data produced by IBAMA. Offers graphs, infographics, field collection, dynamic maps and artificial intelligence to improve geospatial monitoring of environmental information.
Data Types: Topics: environmental monitoring and protection, combating deforestation, integrated fire management, environmental accidents and emergencies, environmental licensing, flora and wood, fauna, environmental recovery, federal technical registration, chemical and biological waste emissions, environmental education and mangrove monitoring.
Responsible Institutions: IBAMA
Development of hydrodynamic models that simulated marine and atmospheric circulation in regions of the Amazon coast, continental shelf and adjacent oceanic region.
Notes: The models were integrated with the aim of closing the supply cycle between the atmosphere, ocean and rivers, enabling the simulation of operational situations involving oil dispersion and other impacts in the areas of interest of the PIATAM Mar project, as well as for strategic planning purposes.
Data Types: Hydrodynamic, atmospheric, wave and pollutant dispersion models.
Responsible Institutions: COPPE/UFRJ
The tool identifies measures to reduce impacts and searches for geographic spaces where the maintenance of ecosystem services and viable populations of species are guaranteed, without harming the installation and operation of the oil sector and without the net loss of sensitive and endangered species.
Notes: Territorial planning and management tool, imbued with systematic conservation planning tools to spatially guide the areas of greatest and least compatibility within the ten marine ecoregions, capable of supporting the decision-making of entrepreneurs, licensors and control bodies so that they can avoid, mitigate and compensate for the negative impacts associated with EPP&G activities.
Data Types: Biodiversity, ecosystem services and unique environments.
Responsible Institutions: ICMBio-MMA
Ocean observation and forecasting system for the Santos Basin.
Notes: Provides maps, interactive graphs of the collected data and results of models, works and publications from the data.
Data Types: Currents, temperature, salinity, sea surface height, wind, waves collected by SailBuoys, WaveRiders, SVPs, Profilers and Gliders.
Responsible Institutions: Shell Brasil , Laboratório de Métodos Computacionais em Engenharia LAMCE/COPPE/UFRJ and Prooceano
The Biodiversity Extinction Risk Assessment System - SALVE was developed with the aim of facilitating the management of the extinction risk assessment process coordinated and carried out by ICMBio; the system also makes it possible to organize information on the fauna assessed.
Notes: SALVE began in 2016 and, through it, a database was consolidated for the storage and organization of information about species and as a tool for controlling, monitoring and executing the different stages of the process, from the beginning of the compilation of data about the species, through the systematization of information about the researchers and partner institutions involved, to the assessment of the risk of extinction of the species and publication of the results.
Data Types: Brazilian fauna at risk of extinction.
Responsible Institutions: ICMBio-MMA
The Brazilian Biodiversity Information System is an online platform that integrates data and information on biodiversity and ecosystems from different sources, making them accessible for various uses.
Notes: Developed under the coordination of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), with technical support from UN Environment (UNEP) and financial support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), SiBBr acts as the Brazilian node of the GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility), a multilateral initiative with approximately 60 participating countries. SiBBr adopts international standards and protocols for sharing data and information and uses the Living Atlas - LA infrastructure, developed in open source by the Australian government and with various modules that can be reused by other organizations. The data made available on the platform comes from national public and private education and research institutions, research projects and programs and thematic networks (data providers).
Data Types: Brazilian biodiversity
Responsible Institutions: MCTI / GBIF
National Environmental Emergency System. A computerized tool for reporting environmental accidents, through which it is possible to view interactive maps and generate statistical data on environmental accidents registered by IBAMA.
Notes: The system has two types of report: (i) a report of an environmental accident involving oil pollution, which will be directed at incidents in waters under national jurisdiction; and (ii) a report of other environmental accidents involving dangerous product(s), and other cases that are required to be reported in the environmental licensing or authorization process.
Data Types: Environmental accidents
Responsible Institutions: IBAMA
System for managing data generated within the scope of beach monitoring projects (PMP) linked to Petrobras' environmental licenses.
Notes: The PMPs are being developed to meet the requirements of the federal environmental licensing process, conducted by IBAMA, for PETROBRAS' offshore oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P) activities in the Santos, Campos, Espírito Santo, Sergipe-Alagoas and Potiguar basins. Their aim is to assess the possible impact of Petrobras' E&P activities in the area covered by the projects on marine tetrapods (birds, turtles and marine mammals) by monitoring beaches, providing veterinary care for live, weakened animals and collecting dead animals for studies.
Data Types: Marine tetrapods (birds, turtles and marine mammals)
Responsible Institutions: Petrobras
Integrates information on marine mammals in Brazil.
Notes: A platform that displays data registered by its users. These users include non-governmental organizations (NGOs), universities, research institutes and companies. Data from marine mammal monitoring.
Data Types: Marine mammals of Brazil
Responsible Institutions: LIBGeo/Univali - CMA/ICMBio
GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility - is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments that aims to provide anyone, anywhere with open access to data about all types of life on Earth.
Data Types: World biodiversity
Responsible Institutions: GBIF
Citizen science project that aggregates records of any type of organism.
Notes: Includes sightings made by tourists in coastal and marine environments.
Data Types: Occurrence of organisms, terrestrial or marine
Responsible Institutions: iNaturalist is a 501c3 non-profit organization based in the USA (Tax ID 92-1296468).
The William A. Watkins Collection of Marine Mammal Sound Recordings consists of recordings of various marine mammal species collected over seven decades from a wide range of geographic areas by Watkins and many others.
Data Types: Sound Recordings of Marine Mammals
Responsible Institutions: New Bedford Whaling Museum / Woods Hole Oceanographic Insitution
Gallery of sounds at sea
Data Types: Sounds at sea
Responsible Institutions: University of rhode Island / ONR / NOAA / GSO / Inner Space Center / Inspire Environmental
Explore the sound library to learn more about the variety of ocean life that uses sound and the many ways in which sustainable human interaction with the ocean depends on us learning and working to navigate and respect this vast sensory environment.
Data Types: Sounds at sea
Responsible Institutions: Ocean Conservation Research Sound Science Serving the Sea
OBIS is a global open-access data and information clearing-house on marine biodiversity for science, conservation and sustainable development.
Notes: Integrated with GBIF.
Data Types: Any marine organism
Responsible Institutions: IOC-UNESCO