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Mark J. Costello & Gerhard Pohle Atlantic Reference Centre Huntsman Marine Science Centre,

Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS). Mark J. Costello & Gerhard Pohle Atlantic Reference Centre Huntsman Marine Science Centre, St Andrews, Canada. Ocean Biogeographic Information System. Ocean Biogeographic Information System. Why?

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Mark J. Costello & Gerhard Pohle Atlantic Reference Centre Huntsman Marine Science Centre,

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  1. Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Mark J. Costello & Gerhard Pohle Atlantic Reference Centre Huntsman Marine Science Centre, St Andrews, Canada

  2. Ocean Biogeographic Information System Ocean Biogeographic Information System • Why? • To provide access to data for new and historical data amassed by the CoML • To provide a portal to biological oceanography data at a global scale • 1st OBIS Workshop November 1999 • USA NOPP 2000, 8 projects,15 countries, $3.7 million • 2nd OBIS Workshop September 2000 • International Steering Committee formed May 2001 • NSF, Rutgers hub funded June 2001 – 1st website proves concept • Joins GBIF as marine Associate Member July 2001 • NOPP 2002, up to $6.0 million

  3. Ocean Biogeographic Information SystemInternational Steering Committee • Mark J. Costello, Canada - Chair • Neil Ashcroft, United Kingdom • Geoff Boxshall, United Kingdom • Daphne Fautin, USA • Kim Finney, Australia • Rainer Froese, Germany • Dennis Gordon, New Zealand • J. Fredrick Grassle, USA • Yoshihisa Shirayama, Japan Website manager: Yunqing (Phoebe) Zhang Research Associates: Karen Stocks, James Wood

  4. FishNet – fish in museums FishBase – all about fish CephBase – all about squid & octopus Hexacorallia – anemones to corals Indo-Pacific molluscs Seamounts – species ecology BATS zooplankton – Bermuda long-term monitoring ZooGENE – calanoid copepods GMBIS – Gulf of Maine NODC plankton Present OBIS content: data

  5. The Illex Squid collapse from Gulf of Maine BIS - a part of OBIS

  6. Data on the way to OBIS • Nemertea • Aplacophora • Mammals, birds, turtles • Hydroids • Southampton Oceanography Centre pelagic • HMAP • TIES (Chesapeake Bay) • + NEW MEMBERS ON THE WAY!!

  7. Present OBIS content: tools Prediction /analysis • WhyWhere • GARP, LifeMapper • LOICZ view Species names • Names species and places • Name Servers • Syngraph Mapping • OBIS Dynamic Mapper (ARC-IMS) • EASy Netviewer • C-Squares System building • DODS, OPenDAP • Species Analyst / DiGIR 

  8. OBIS progress and future More • data being added to portal (400,000 records 2002) • ocean environment overlays • tools for GIS and data analysis Standards development Gazetteers Glossary All open-access on website portal www.iobis.org

  9. An achievable vision • All valid marine species names on-line within 10 years • All known species listed in the Catalogue of Life • Global standards and protocols in species informatics • Species guides (descriptions and images) on-line • Species distributions on-line • Improved quality control in identification and taxonomy • Data archiving a standard ‘good’ practice • Electronic ‘publication’ integrated into science culture • Increased rate of species being described • New understandings of role of biodiversity in ecosystems

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