Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Milestones
Year
Month
Plans, Partnerships &
Protocols (e.g., MOA's,
geographic expansion projects,
data)
Actions & Results (e.g., workshops, field work,
reports)
Commitments &
Resources (e.g.,
funding
proposals /
awards)
Recognition
(e.g., peerreviewed
publications,
awards,
honors)
^1997
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
"Census of the Benthos Workshop", at the Institute of
Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, to
explore innovative approaches to estimation of the
abundance and distribution of species in marine benthic
habitats. This Workshop was part of a series "To explore
the value, timeliness, and feasibility of stimulating,
designing, and organizing a period of intense,
comprehensive oceanic observation whose purpose
would be to assess and explain the global distribution of
marine life" (Ausubel 1997).
11
12
Grassle, J.F.,
1997:
Unpublished
Report: to the
Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation,
Workshop to
Consider the
Scientific and
Technical
Aspects of a
Census of
Marine Benthic
Species.
^1998
1
2
Proposal to the
Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation,
“Towards an OnLine Atlas of the
Benthos: Global
Benthic Species
Distributions and
Development of
Electronic Data
bases for
Assessing
Zoogeographic
Patterns of Marine
Species”, for
$30,000
3
4
5
6
7
8
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Conceptualization and
development of the Ocean
Biogeographic Information
System (OBIS) website
(http://marine.rutgers.edu/OBIS/),
posted Sep1998, last updated
early 2000, Institute of Marine
and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers
University
10
11
12
^1999
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Grassle, J.F.
and K.I. Stocks.
1999. A Global
Ocean
Biogeographical
Information
System (OBIS)
for the Census
of Marine Life.
Oceanography
12 (3): 12-14.
International Workshop on the Ocean Biogeographical
Information System, 3-4 November 1999. American
Geophysical Union, Washington, DC.
Leading to a Special Issue in Oceanography Magazine,
“Ocean Biogeographic Information System”, 2000. 13
(3) 1-77.
12
^2000
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
2/12/2016
Oceanography
Special Issue on
the Ocean
Biogeographic
Information
System:
Volume 13
Number 3 (see
references in
Attachment A)
OBIS Milestones (1997-2010)
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FY2000 OBISrelated Projects
funded under
NOPP:
(a) Development
of a Dynamic
Biogeographic
Information
System: A Pilot
Application for
the Gulf of Maine
(Dale Kiefer 2
years)
(b) The Fishnet
Distributed
Biodiversity
Information
System (Edward
Wiley, 2 years)
(c)
Biogeoinformatics
of hexacorallia
(Corals, Sea
Anemones, and
their Allies):
Interfacing
Geospatial,
Taxonomic, and
Environmental
Data for a Group
of Marine
Invertebrates
(Daphne Fautin, 2
years)
(d) Diel, Seasonal,
and Interannual
Patterns in
Zooplankton and
Micronekton
Species
Composition in
the Subtropical
Atlantic (Deborah
Steinberg, 2
years)
(e) ZooGene, a
DNA Sequence
Database for
Calanoid
Copepods and
Ephausiids: An
OBIS Tool for
Uniform
Standards of
Species
Identification
(Ann Bucklin, 2
years)
(f) Expansion of
CephBase as a
Biological
Prototype for
OBIS (Phillip
Lee, 2 years)
(g) A Biotic
Database of IndoPacific Mollusks
(Gary Rosenberg,
2 years)
(h) Census of
Marine Fishes
(CMF): Definitive
List of Species
and Online
Biodiversity
Database
(William
Eschmeyer, 2
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11
12
Grassle, J.F.,
Decker, C.J.,
2002. Feature:
The Ocean
Biogeographic
Information
System (OBIS).
ASC
Newsletter, 28
(6), 8-9.
^2001
1
2
3
4
5
6
$207,240 from
NSF, for Webinterfaced
Dynamic Ocean
Biogeographic
Information
System (1May0130Apr02)
OBIS joins GBIF as an Associate
Participant
7
8
9
10
11
12
^2002
1
OBIS attends ChEss Steering Committee Meeting, La
Jolla, CA
OBIS attends workshop on Exchange Format for
Species-related Data, ATCC/NSF/FAPESP, Miami
2
$616,000 from
Sloan Foundation,
for Ocean
Biogeographic
Information
System (1Jan0231Dec03)
OBIS IC Meeting, Leiden, The Netherlands
OBIS attends Ocean Science Meeting, Honolulu
3
4
5
2/12/2016
OBIS attends Species 2000 Asia Oceania Forum, Kyoto
OBIS attends GBIF Scientific and Technical Advisory
Group for an Electronic Catalogue of Names of Known
Organisms workshop, Sydney
OBIS attends 9th International Congress on the
Zoogeography and Ecology of Greece and Adjacent
Regions, Thessaloniki, Greece
OBIS Milestones (1997-2010)
$184,865 from
NSF, for Webinterfaced
Dynamic Ocean
Biogeographic
Information
System (1May0230Apr03)
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6
Pacific Biodiversity Information Network Information
Forum, Wailea, Hawaii
OBIS attends Scientific and technical Advisory Meeting
on Data Access and Interoperability for GBIF, Wash.,
DC
The Future of Marine Animal Populations (FMAP):
Data, Models and Prediction, Halifax
OBIS attends DODS ocean.US Steering Committee,
Chicago
OBIS attends GBIF-DADI workshop, La Jolla, CA
OBIS SEAMAP kick-off meeting, Durham, North
Carolina
OBIS attends the 3rd Global Taxonomy Workshop:
Towards Sustainable Development, Partnership for
Demand-Driven Taxonomic Capacity Building, Bionet
International, Pretoria, South Africa
7
OBIS attends GBIF OCB, Pretoria
OBIS attend 8th International Conference on Copepoda,
Keelung, Taiwan
OBIS attends Conference on Biodiversity Informatics –
What is it, how can we deal with it, and for what may we
use it?, Odense, Denmark
8
OBIS attends HMAP workshop, Durham, North Carolina
9
All NOPP projects are
interoperable with the OBIS
Portal.
OBIS attends North Atlantic Project (CORONA), Shoals,
New Hampshire
OBIS IC meeting, Washington DC, USA
EurOBIS-MARBENA e-conference
OBIS attend 1st Global Taxonomy Initiative Regional
Workshop, Asia Putrajaya, Kuala Lumpur
OBIS attends ICSEB, Patras, Greece
10
OBIS attends the International Sponge Conference,
Genoa, Italy
OBIS attends GBIF Governing Board and Nodes
Committee, Costa Rica
OBIS attends the International Council for the
Exploration of the Sea Annual Science Conference,
Copenhagen
11
OBIS attends Symposium: Key Innovations in
Biodiversity Informatics, Indaiatuba, Brazil
OBIS IC meeting, Brussels, Belgium
OBIS attend IODE Group of Experts on the Biological
and Chemical Data Management and Exchange Practices
(GEBCDME), Brussels
OBIS attends Colour of Oceans Data Conference,
Brussels
12
Zhang, Y.;
Grassle, J.F.
(2002).
Integrating
Heterogeneous
Databases in
Ocean
Biogeographic
Information
System, in:
Brown, M. et al.
(Ed.) (2002).
OBIS attends Marine Biodiversity in the Present: Known,
Unknown and Unknowable (KUU) Conference, La Jolla
OBIS attends the 1st US CoML National Committee
meeting, La Jolla
^2003
1
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3
4
5
GBIF Meeting: Participant Nodes Managers Committee,
London, UK
OBIS IC meeting, Rutgers University NJ, USA
GBIF Governing Board 6th Meeting, Copenhagen
OBIS Portal site reconstructed
No-cost
extension,
$184,865 from
NSF, for Webinterfaced
Dynamic Ocean
Biogeographic
Information
System (1May0330Sep03)
OBIS makes Education
Resources and Image Library
tools available on Portal
6
7
8
9
10
DiGIR server software is
installed and operating on all
OBIS data providers.
GBIF Training: Becoming a GBIF Data Provider,
Quebec, Canada
OBIS using the DiGIR
communication protocol,
allowing significantly increased
retrieval of information
OBIS IC meeting, Washington DC, USA
GBIF Governing Board 7th Meeting, and Nodes
Committee 4th Meeting, Tsukuba, Japan
OBIS tools are available to
visualize relations among species
$100,000 from
NSF, for
Integrated Ocean
Biogeographic
Information
System for
Knowledge
Discovery in BioInformatics
(1Sep0331Aug04)
Funding from the
Stavros S.
Niarchos
Foundation for the
Eastern
Mediterranean
and Black Sea
database.
HMAP serving 242,384 records
through OBIS
SEAMAP serving 278,682
records through OBIS
Hexacoral database serving
28,364 records through OBIS
ZooGene serving 114 records
through OBIS
Biotic Database of Indo-Pacific
Marine Mollusks serving 16,261
records through OBIS
Seamounts Online serving 7,319
records through OBIS
All marine fishes, FishBase
(including ICES and FAO catch
data) serving 638,362 records
through OBIS
11
2/12/2016
Zhang, Y.,
Grassle, J. F.
2003. A Portal
for the Ocean
Biogeographic
Information
System.
Oceanologica
Acta. 25 (5): pp.
193-197.
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Tsontos, V. M.,
Kiefer, D. A.
2003. The Gulf
of Maine
biogeographical
information
system project:
developing a
spatial data
management
framework in
support of
OBIS.
Oceanologica
Acta. 25 (5): pp.
199-206.
^2004
1
Dr. Rainer Froese,
OBIS IC member,
awarded a Pew
Fellowship (US$
150,000)
following
nomination by
OBIS. His
fellowship project
will produce an
electronic world
atlas of marine
organisms, which
will run from the
OBIS server.
No cost extension,
$616,000, from
Sloan Foundation,
for Ocean
Biogeographic
Information
System (1Jan0430Jun04)
2
3
4
2/12/2016
$45,000 from
Sloan Foundation,
for Development
of the Census of
Marine Life
Program in China
(1Mar0430Apr05)
China joins the OBIS
Management Committee as a
result of meetings with the
Chinese National Committee for
CoML, Qiangdao
GBIF Governing Board 8th meeting and Nodes
Committee 5th meeting, Oaxaca, Mexico
OBIS Milestones (1997-2010)
$45,000 from
Sloan Foundation,
for Development
of the Ocean
Biogeographic
Information
System of the
Census of Marine
of Life (Phase II)
(1Mar04—
31Dec04)
Funding:
Seamount
Ecology: From
Information to
Knowledge
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OBIS is the leading on-line
source for marine species’
distributions and is the primary
marine data provider to GBIF
(and the second-largest overall
provider)
OBIS links to GBIF,
Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission
(IOC), Global Ocean Observing
System (GOOS), International
Oceanographic Data and
Information Exchange (IODE),
Scientific Committee on Oceanic
Research (SCOR),
DIVERSITAS, International
Council for the Exploration of the
Seas (ICES), North Pacific
Marine Science Organization
(PICES), International
Association of Biological
Oceanographers (IABO), and the
International Union of Biological
Sciences (IUBS).
6
Costello, M.
(2004). A new
infrastructure
for marine
biology in
Europe: marine
biodiversity
informatics.
MARBEF
Newsletter 1:
22-24
7
$1,499,999 from
the Sloan
Foundation, for
Development and
Management of
the Ocean
Biogeographic
Information
System into a
Self-Sustaining
Global Network
(1Jul04-30Jun06)
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OBIS formalizes management
structure, including the following
Regional Nodes: Australia,
Canada, China, Europe, Indian
Ocean, Japan, New Zealand,
South America (Argentina,
Brazil, Chile Sub-Nodes), SubSaharan Africa
OBIS Management Committee #1 meeting, Dartmouth,
Canada
$194,947 from the
North Pacific
Research Board,
for Alaska marine
information
system (AMIS):
an integrated webbased information
system for the
NPRB (30Sep0431Aug06)
$200,000 from
NSF, for
Integrated Ocean
Biogeographic
Information
System for
Knowledge
Discovery in BioInformatics
(1Sep0431Aug05)
$1,000,000 from
Moore
Foundation, for
Toward a
Distributed
Information
System for
Marine Biology
and Limnology
(1Sep0431Aug06)
10
OBIS serves over 5 million
records for nearly 40,000 known
species, from 38 data sources
OBIS Canada interoperable with
OBIS
GBIF Governing Board 9th meeting and Nodes
Committee 6th meeting, Wellington, New Zealand
OBIS Canada data accessible
through OBIS
11
12
Madin, L.P.;
Grassle, F.;
Azam, F.;
Obura, D.;
Reaka-Kudla,
M.L.; Sibuet,
M.; Stone, G.S.;
Stocks, K.;
Walls, A.;
Allen, G.R.
(2004) The
unknown ocean,
in: Glover,
L.K.; Earle, S.
(Ed.) (2004).
Defying ocean's
end: an agenda
for action. pp.
213-238.
OBIS International Committee Meeting, Hamburg
OBIS Management Committee #2 meeting, Hamburg
In partnership with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission of UNESCO - International Oceanographic
Data and Information Exchange (IOC/IODE);
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
(ICES); International Association for Biological
Oceanography (IABO); Taxonomic Database Working
Group (TDWG); Flanders Marine Institute (Vlaams
Instituut voor de Zee - VLIZ): and the Marine
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning EU Network of
Excellence (MarBEF), CoML/OBIS co-sponsors an
Ocean Biodiversity Informatics International Conference
on Marine Biodiversity Data Management, Hamburg,
Germany.
24 OBIS-related
publications:
Ocean
Biodiversity
Informatics,
Hamburg,
Germany: 29
November to 1
December
2004: book of
abstracts. [S.n.]:
Germany. 106
pp. (see
Publications
section in OBIS
Annual Report)
^2005
1
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3
OBIS Portal moves to a Plonebased web content management
system
OBIS leads the efforts in
developing master lists for
marine taxa, especially
invertebrates
OBIS serves 6 million species
records
Library and Laboratory: the Marriage of Research, Data,
and Taxonomic Literature, London, England
Joint Workshop European Science Foundation (ESF) -Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning EU
Network of Excellence (MarBEF): Long Term and
Large Scale Management of Marine Biodiversity
Information, Helgoland, Germany
GBIF SpeciesBanks workshop, Amsterdam
Costello, M.J.;
Grassle, J.F.;
Zhang, Y.;
Stocks, K.;
Vanden Berghe,
E. (2005).
Where is what,
and what is
where? Online
mapping of
marine species.
MARBEF
Newsletter 2:
20-22.
EurOBIS interoperable with
OBIS
EurOBIS data accessible through
OBIS
Indian Ocean RON contract in
effect
New Zealand RON contract in
effect
4
OBIS implements “Link-out”
partnerships with National
Center for Biotechnology
Information (NCBI) in the U.S.
and with Google Scholar
OBIS Secretariat publishes a
"how-to" manual for
development of RONs
OBIS Secretariat publishes OBIS
RON Template and the Plone
Template Installation Instructions
South America RON, Chile SubNode contract in effect
OBIS establishes Framework for
“Participation in the Regional
Ocean Biogeographic
Information System Node (RON)
Network”
USA RON established
5
OBIS links formally to IOC and
IODE
South America RON, Brazil SubNode contract in effect
Australia RON contract in effect
Joint Workshop European Science Foundation (ESF) -Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning EU
Network of Excellence (MarBEF): Long Term and
Large Scale Management of Marine Biodiversity
Information, 28 Feb-4 Mar, Helgoland, Germany,
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Modeling Biodiversity Data workshop, 4-8 Apr, Mexico
City, Mexico,
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Governing Board 10th meeting, 18-22 Apr, Brussels,
Belgium,
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Nodes
Committee 7th meeting, 20-22 Apr, Brussels, Belgium,
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) ECAT
(Electronic Catalogue of Names of Known Organisms)
meeting, 21-22 Apr, Brussels, Belgium,
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) OCB
(Outreach and Capacity Building) meeting, 21-22 Apr,
Brussels, Belgium,
OBIS Management Committee (MC) meeting, 23-24
Apr, Oostende, Belgium,
Inauguration of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission (IOC) Project Office for International
Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE),
Oostende, Belgium, 25 Apr, Oostende, Belgium,
IODE 18th Session, 26-30 Apr, Oostende, Belgium,
The Future of Marine Biodiversity: The Known,
Unknown and Unknowable (KUU) Symposium, 22-25
Apr, La Jolla, California,
Census of Marine Life (CoML) Scientific Steering
Committee (SSC) meeting, 26-27 Apr, La Jolla,
California,
Consortium for the Barcode of Life - Species' Names List
meeting, 28-29 April, Front Royal, Virginia,
GBIF e-conference on ECAT seed money priorities
7th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, 16-21 May, Taipei,
Taiwan,
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research - Marine
Biodiversity Information Network (SCAR-MarBIN)
meeting (in conjunction with CAML Scientific Steering
Group, 27-31 May), 25-26 May, Brussels, Belgium,
OBIS working with the Marine
Metadata Initiative (MMI) (based
at MBARI)
Dr. Mark
Costello, Chair
of the OBIS
International
Committee,
elected to the
GBIF Review
Response Team,
representing the
Associate
Participant
Organizations
in the review of
the GBIF 3rd
Year Review.
GBIF accepts
and funds 2
OBIS
nominations to
the GBIF Data
Modeling
workshop,
Mexico City
No cost extension,
$45,000 from
Sloan Foundation,
for Development
of the Census of
Marine Life
Program in China
(1May0531Dec05) [is this
relevant to
OBIS?]
FishBase provides access to
793,318 records through OBIS
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OBIS develops long-term funding
strategy
OBIS International Committee Meeting, San Francisco
South America RON, Argentina
Sub-Node contract in effect
OBIS implementing multi-lingual
versions of Portal
OBIS establishing Editorial
Board
7
OBIS Canada providing access to
15 datasets, totaling 791,573
records, through OBIS
Sub-Saharan Africa RON
contract in effect
OBIS provides access to 49 data
sources
OBIS data schema version 1.1
released
EurOBIS providing access to 8
datasets, totaling 204,617 records
through OBIS
8
RON interoperable with OBIS:
Australia
Indian Ocean
Brazil Sub-Node
Argentina Sub-Node SubSaharan Africa
CoML field projects
interoperable with OBIS:
ArcOD
CenSeam
ChEss
CMarZ
GoMA
ICOMM
A Research Coordination Network to Study the
Historical Ecology of the Trans-Atlantic Biota
(CORONA) 4th Meeting, 20-24 Jul, Roscoff, France,
International Amphipod Workshop, 24-27 Jul, Cork,
Ireland
Update to: Fautin, Daphne G. and Robert W.
Buddemeier. 2005. Biogeoinformatics of Hexacorallia
(corals, sea anemones, and their allies): interfacing
geospatial, taxonomic, and environmental data for a
group of marine invertebrates.
http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Hexacoral [most recent version
released July 2005] Includes: Fautin, Daphne G.
Hexacorallians of the world: sea anemones, corals, and
their allies.
http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/hexacoral/anemone2/index.cfm
Annual Report
GBIF Review Response Team, 7-8 August, Copenhagen,
Marine Metadata Initiative workshop, 9-11 August,
Boulder, Colorado,
IABO/IAPSO/IAG Dynamic Planet Conference
(including a CoML Session), 22-26 Aug, Cairns,
Australia,
Census of Marine Life (CoML) Scientific Steering
Committee (SSC) meeting, 26-28 Aug, Cairns, Australia,
Percentage of CoML Project data
available through OBIS: HMAP
(50%), CenSeam (60%)
IndOBIS.org website online
9
NaGISA interoperable with OBIS
Australia’s CSIRO Marine and
Atmospheric Research biological
survey data available to OBIS.
Mainly fishes, plus some
invertebrates. Temporal
coverage: 1978-1989
Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG) - 2005
Annual Meeting , 11-18 Sep, St. Petersburg, Russia,
MTS/IEEE Oceans 05 Conference (including USNC
CoML sessions), 19-23 Sep, Washington, DC, USA,
ICoMM (CoML microbes) workshop, 25-26 Sep, MBL,
Woods Hole, USA,
IndOBIS data culled from NIO
and NCL existing databases such
as IndFauna, IndFlora, Algae,
Corals available to OBIS
$200,000 from
NSF, for
Integrated Ocean
Biogeographic
Information
System for
Knowledge
Discovery in BioInformatics
(1Sep0531Aug06)
South America RON, Argentina
Sub-Node, providing access to
data through OBIS
South America RON, Brazil SubNode, providing access to data
through OBIS
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OBIS establishes mirror site in
Australia
USA RON providing access to
data through OBIS
China Regional OBIS Node is
interoperable with Portal
Data from CeDAMAr is
accessible through OBIS (data
available through IFREMER
from French CeDAMAr
expeditions)
12
GBIF Governing Board 11th Meeting, Stockholm
Census of Marine Life - Education and Outreach (E&O)
meeting, 2 Nov, Frankfurt, Germany,
OBIS International Committee (IC) meeting, 2-3 Nov,
Frankfurt, Germany,
EuroCoML Symposium, 3 Nov, Frankfurt, Germany,
Invited scientists and the public
CoML All Programs meeting, 4-5 Nov, Frankfurt,
Germany,
Census of Marine Life (CoML) Scientific Steering
Committee (SSC), 6 Nov, Frankfurt, Germany,
OBIS Management Committee meeting, 6-7 Nov,
Frankfurt, Germany,
First Diversitas International Conference on Biodiversity
(including a CoML Session), 9-12 Nov, Oaxaca, Mexico,
Article on
OBIS in ICES
Newsletter
OBIS provides connections to
additional species information
including images, sound, and
molecular and ecological
knowledge
Percentage of CoML Project data
available through OBIS: MARECO (30%), NaGISA (100% of
publicly available data),
AfricaOBIS (10%), ArcOD (5%),
CAML (0%), CenSeam (60%),
ChEss (80%), CoMargE (10%),
EuroCoML (not applicable),
ICoMM (100%), HMAP (55%),
Australia (2.5x105 records)
^2006
1
2
OBIS links to GOOS
Australia RON implements web
map service interface for OBIS
data
3
Australia RON makes additional
data providers accessible to OBIS
4
5
AGU/ASLO/TOS Ocean Sciences Meeting, 20-24 Feb,
Honolulu, Hawaii,
Cephalopod International Advisory Council Symposium,
6-10 Feb, Hobart, Tasmania,
GBIF Governing Board 12th meeting, Cape Town, S.
Africa.
OBIS International Committee meeting, meeting site to
be determined
OBIS Management Committee meeting, may be hosted
by India.
6
OBIS submits
renewal proposal
to the Sloan
Foundation for
Management of
the Ocean
Biogeographic
Information
System
No-cost extension
from the Sloan
Foundation, for
Development and
Management of
the Ocean
Biogeographic
Information
System into a
Self-Sustaining
Global Network
(1Jul06-31Dec06)
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11th International Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, 9-14
Jul, Southampton, UK,
7
8
9
10
European Marine Biology Symposium, 4-8 Sep, Cork,
Ireland,
China Regional OBIS Node
providing access to data through
OBIS (??)
Korea OBIS Node providing
access to data through OBIS (??)
11
OBIS International Committee meeting, meeting site to
be determined
OBIS Management Committee meeting, may be hosted
by China.
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Southern Hemisphere RONs
(Australia, Indian Ocean, New
Zealand, South America, SubSaharan Africa) final delivery of
all contract data and services to
OBIS
South America RON sub-nodes
data to be delivered:
Argentina - # species: 620,
#species with distribution: 57,
total records: 50,000
Brazil - #species: 850, #species
with distribution: 150, total
records: 60,000
Chile - #species: 1035, #species
with distribution: 1035, total
records: 109,000
New Zealand RON data: New
Zealand and Ross Sea marine
algae, invertebrate and fish,
Fijian marine algae, invertebrate
and fish data. Temporal coverage:
1960’s to present.
Sub-Saharan Africa data
accessible to OBIS from: (a)
Iziko Museum, Cape Town:
Invertebrates: Molluscs,
Cephalopods, other (75,000
specimens)
Fish (3,000 specimens)
(b) SA Institute for Aquatic
Biodiversity (SAIAB),
Grahamstown
Fish (530,000 specimens)
(c) Natal Museum, Durban
Molluscs (700,000 specimens)
(d) Bolus Herbarium, Cape Town
Seaweeds (27,000 specimens)
(e) East London Museum, East
London
Molluscs (16,000 specimens)
(f) Selmar Schonland Herbarium,
Grahamstown
Seaweeds (32,000 specimens)
(g) Natal University, Durban
Seaweeds (12,000 specimens)
(h) More Sub-Saharan data from:
Liberia, Cote d’Ivore, Ghana,
Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon,
Gabon, Angola, Namibia,
Tanzania, Kenya, Mauritius,
Seychelles, Somali
Percentage of CoML Project data
available through OBIS: MARECO (50%), NaGISA (100% of
publicly available data),
AfricaOBIS (40%), ArcOD
(15%), CAML (0%), CenSeam
(80%), ChEss (100%), CoMargE
(25%), EuroCoML (aiming for
all), ICoMM (100%), HMAP
(60%), Australia (1x106 records)
^2007
1
2
3
4
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5
OBIS International Committee meeting, meeting site to
be determined
OBIS Management Committee meeting, meeting site to
be determined
International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) 29th
General Assembly, 9-13 May (provisional), Wash., DC,
6
7
OBIS continues to develop and
formalise Memoranda of
Understanding with international
and national organizations, data
providers and end-users
8
9
10
11
Ocean Biodiversity Informatics (OBI) International
Conference, Nov, Nova Scotia, Canada,
OBIS International Committee meeting, meeting site to
be determined
OBIS Management Committee meeting, meeting site to
be determined
12
Percentage of CoML Project data
available through OBIS: MARECO (50-75%), NaGISA (100%
of publicly available data),
AfricaOBIS (60%), ArcOD
(30%), CAML (0%), CenSeam
(85%), ChEss (100%), CoMargE
(40%), EuroCoML (aiming for
all), ICoMM (100%), HMAP
(65%), Australia (1.5x106
records)
^2008
1
2
3
4
5
OBIS International Committee meeting, meeting site to
be determined
OBIS Management Committee meeting, meeting site to
be determined
6
7
SCOR 50th Anniversary Meeting
(a CoML symposium to be held in conjunction with the
SCOR meeting), To be determined , Woods Hole,
Massachusetts, SCOR 50th Anniversary Meeting in
2008. SCOR is planning its 50th anniversary
8
9
10
11
OBIS International Committee meeting, meeting site to
be determined
OBIS Management Committee meeting, meeting site to
be determined
12
Percentage of CoML Project data
available through OBIS: MARECO (75%), NaGISA (100% of
publicly available data),
AfricaOBIS (80%), ArcOD
(50%), CAML (25%), CenSeam
(90%), ChEss (100%), CoMargE
(55%), EuroCoML (aiming for
all), ICoMM (100%), HMAP
(70%), Australia (2x106 records)
^2009
1
2
3
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4
5
OBIS International Committee meeting, meeting site to
be determined
OBIS Management Committee meeting, meeting site to
be determined
6
7
8
9
10
11
OBIS International Committee meeting, meeting site to
be determined
OBIS Management Committee meeting, meeting site to
be determined
12
^2010
Percentage of CoML Project data
available through OBIS: MARECO (75-100%), NaGISA (100%
of publicly available data),
AfricaOBIS (100%), ArcOD
(75%), CAML (75%), CenSeam
(95%), ChEss (100%), CoMargE
(70%), EuroCoML (aiming for
all), ICoMM (100%), HMAP
(75%), Australia (2.5x106
records)
OBIS atlas, in three-dimensions
to recognize the depth of the
ocean and, to be dynamic, the
fourth dimension of time.
Percentage of CoML Project data
available through OBIS: MARECO (100%), NaGISA (100% of
publicly available data),
AfricaOBIS (100%), ArcOD
(100%), CAML (100%),
CenSeam (100%), ChEss (100%),
CoMargE (100%), EuroCoML
(aiming for all), ICoMM (100%),
HMAP (80%), Australia (3x106
records)
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3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
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10.
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Costello, M.J. 2000. Developing species information systems: the European Register of Marine Species (ERMS). Oceanography. 13 (3): 48-55.
Fautin, D. G. 2000. Electronic atlas of sea anemones: an OBIS pilot project. Oceanography. 13 (3): 66-69.
Fornwall, M. 2000. Planning for OBIS: examining relationships with existing national and international biodiversity information systems.
Oceanography. 13 (3): 31-38.
Gordon, D.P. 2000. The Pacific Ocean and global OBIS: a New Zealand perspective. Oceanography. 13 (3): 21-24.41-47.
Grassle, J. F. 2000. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS): an on-line, worldwide atlas for accessing, modeling and mapping
marine biological data in a multidimensional geographic context. Oceanography. 13 (3): 5-9.
Paterson, G., Boxshall, G., Thomson, N., Hussey, C. 2000. Where are all the data? Oceanography. 13 (3): 21-24.
Starkey, D.J., Holm, P., Smith, T., Francis, R., Rozwadowski, H. 2000. H-OBIS: A historical dimension to the ocean Biogeographic information
system. Oceanography. 13 (3): 239-40.
Tsontos, V.M., Kiefer, D..A. 2000.Development of a dynamic Biogeographic information system for the Gulf of Maine. Oceanography. 13 (3): 2530.
Vieglais, D., Wiley, E. O., Robins, C.R., Peterson, A.T. 2000. Harnessing museum resources for the Census of Marine Life: the FISHNET project.
Oceanography. 13 (3): 10-13.
Wood, J.W., Day, C.L., Lee, P., O’Dor, R.K. 2000. CephBase: testing ideas for a cephalopod and other species-level databases. Oceanography.
13 (3): 14-20.
Myers, R.A. 2000. The synthesis of dynamic and historical data on marine populations and communities; putting dynamics into the Ocean
Biogeographical Information System (OBIS). Oceanography. 13 (3): 56-59.
Rees, T., Finney, K. 2000. Biological data and metadata initiatives at CSIRO Marine Research, Australia, with implications for the design of OBIS.
Oceanography. 13 (3): 60-65.
Smart, J.H. 2000. World-wide ocean optics database (WOOD). Oceanography. 13 (3): 70-74.
Mickevich, M.F., Collette, B.B. 2000. MARBID: NOAA/NMFS’s (US) marine biodiversity database. Oceanography. 13 (3): 70-77.
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