Mark J. Costello & Gerhard Pohle Atlantic Reference Centre Huntsman Marine Science Centre,
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Mark J. Costello & Gerhard Pohle
Atlantic Reference Centre
Huntsman Marine Science Centre,
St Andrews, Canada
Ocean Biogeographic Information SystemOcean Biogeographic Information System
(OBIS)(OBIS)
Why?Why?1.1. To provide access to data for new and historical data To provide access to data for new and historical data
amassed by the CoMLamassed by the CoML2.2. To provide a portal to biological oceanography data at a To provide a portal to biological oceanography data at a
global scaleglobal scale
11stst OBIS Workshop November 1999 OBIS Workshop November 1999 USA NOPP 2000, 8 projects,15 countries, $3.7 million USA NOPP 2000, 8 projects,15 countries, $3.7 million 22ndnd OBIS Workshop September 2000 OBIS Workshop September 2000 International Steering Committee formed May 2001International Steering Committee formed May 2001 NSF, Rutgers hub funded June 2001 – 1NSF, Rutgers hub funded June 2001 – 1stst website proves concept website proves concept Joins GBIF as marine Associate Member July 2001Joins GBIF as marine Associate Member July 2001 NOPP 2002, up to $6.0 million NOPP 2002, up to $6.0 million
Ocean Biogeographic Information SystemOcean Biogeographic Information SystemOcean Biogeographic Information SystemOcean Biogeographic Information System
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
Present OBIS content: data 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
Biological Structure – Gulf of Maine
Seasonal climatologies & BIO groundfish database
Bottom Temp, Avg.Cod abundance[20yr]Summer, NE.GOM
Overlay: [Chl-A] imagery, flow fields, bathymetrySpring, S.GOM/Georges Bank
• links b/w areas [phytoplankton], local circulation & topography • phytoplankton concentrated at Georges Bank & along coast
• distribution of cod generally constrained to rel. narrow bottom temperature range• within this spatial autocorrelation/local structure observed that is not explained by Temperature• note: considerable temporal variability in spatial abundance distributions of cod
The The IllexIllexSquid Squid
collapsecollapse
from Gulf of from Gulf of Maine BISMaine BIS- a part of - a part of
OBISOBIS
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!!
Present OBIS content: tools
Mapping OBIS Dynamic Mapper
(ARC-IMS) EASy Netviewer C-Squares
System building DODS, OPenDAP Species Analyst / DiGIR
Prediction /analysis WhyWhere GARP, LifeMapper LOICZ view
Species names Names species and places Name Servers Syngraph
OBIS progress and future OBIS progress and future
More More 1.1. data being added to portal (400,000 records 2002)data being added to portal (400,000 records 2002)2.2. ocean environment overlays ocean environment overlays 3.3. tools for GIS and data analysis tools for GIS and data analysis
Standards developmentStandards developmentGazetteersGazetteersGlossaryGlossary
All open-access on website portalAll open-access on website portal
www.iobis.org
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