Marc Kummel Photography

Occurrence Observation
Latest version published by Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration on Aug 4, 2026 Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration

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Description

This dataset contains georeferenced occurrence records derived from the natural history photography collection of Marc Kummel, digitized and compiled by the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, University of California Santa Barbara. Records span all taxonomic groups photographed by Marc Kummel across the United States from 2003 to 2026 and are formatted to Darwin Core standards for submission to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 18,896 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Occurrence (core)
18896
Multimedia 
18896

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Kummel M (2026). Marc Kummel Photography. Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.15468/k4g2zn

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 9ec7b624-8f5c-4898-a90d-194913d7e0ab.  Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; natural history photography; biodiversity; citizen science; Darwin Core; United States; Occurrence; Observation

Contacts

Marc Kummel
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Marc Kummel Photography
Christopher J. Evelyn
  • Metadata Provider
Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration

Geographic Coverage

California and Oregon, United States

Bounding Coordinates South West [34.422, -124.553], North East [45.516, -116.489]

Taxonomic Coverage

All taxa recorded through natural history photography, including but not limited to invertebrates, vertebrates, fungi, and plants.

Kingdom incertae sedis, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia, Protozoa
Phylum Bryophyta, Marchantiophyta, Arthropoda, Annelida, Chordata, Mucoromycota, Amoebozoa, Echinodermata, Mollusca, Tracheophyta, Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, Cnidaria
Class Clitellata, Polypodiopsida, Polychaeta, Jungermanniopsida, Tremellomycetes, Arachnida, Marchantiopsida, Liliopsida, Aves, Reptilia, Diplopoda, Mammalia, Lycopodiopsida, Collembola, Dothideomycetes, Gastropoda, Amphibia, Pinopsida, Lecanoromycetes, Magnoliopsida, Sordariomycetes, Mucoromycetes, Insecta, Pucciniomycetes, Dacrymycetes, Agaricomycetes, Myxomycetes, Taphrinomycetes, Echinoidea, Pezizomycetes, Malacostraca, Leotiomycetes

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2003-01-01 / 2026-04-20

Sampling Methods

No Description available

Method step description:

  1. Occurrence records were derived from geotagged and annotated photographs taken by Marc Kummel. Metadata including taxon identification, date, and GPS coordinates were extracted from image sidecar files and compiled into Darwin Core format. Taxonomic names were verified against GBIF and relevant authoritative sources. Records were assigned unique occurrenceID values (UUID v4) and formatted for GBIF IPT submission.

Additional Metadata

Maintenance Description This dataset is updated as new records are digitized from the Marc Kummel photography collection.
Alternative Identifiers e495db61-2817-4938-b78a-6dd38803a3bb
https://www.gbif.org/dataset/e495db61-2817-4938-b78a-6dd38803a3bb
9ec7b624-8f5c-4898-a90d-194913d7e0ab
https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=kummel