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| Description | The OBIS node for Antarctica is run by the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) under the aegis of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). | ||||
| Website | http://www.biodiversity.aq/ | ||||
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| Description | The Arctic Biodiversity Data Service (ABDS) is the data-management framework for the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), the biodiversity working group of the Arctic Council, and its programs and activities including the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme (CBMP). It is an online, interoperable data management system that serves as a focal point and common platform for all CAFF programs and projects as well as a dynamic source for up-to-date circumpolar Arctic biodiversity information and emerging trends. The goal of the ABDS is to increase access to Arctic biodiversity data for the common good of scientists, policy makers and other stakeholders both inside and outside of the Arctic. It is intended to allow for discovery, archiving and access to data at various scales. Such a framework is essential to ensure effective, consistent, and long-term management of Arctic Biodiversity data. | ||||
| Website | https://www.abds.is/ | ||||
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| Description | The Caribbean Regional Node for OBIS serves the Caribbean region, centralizing and curating the regional datasets. We also provide training courses and technical advise in the wider Caribbean, Central and South America in Spanish. The operative center is located at the Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela which partially supports the node as an academic activity. | ||||||||
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| Description | EurOBIS - the European Node of the international Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) - publishes distribution data on marine species, collected within European marine waters or collected by European researchers outside European marine waters. | ||||||
| Website | http://www.eurobis.org | ||||||
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| Description | FishNet2 and FishBase together are the new global thematic Fish OBIS node. FishNet2 will provide specimen-vouchered occurrences and data derived from specimens, and FishBase will provide occurrence data gathered through trawling surveys, ecological monitoring etc. | ||||||
| Website | http://www.fishnet2.net,http://www.fishbase.org | ||||||
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| Description | The OBIS HAB node is a thematic node compiling and processiong data on occurrence of toxin producing micro-algae species and their impacts on ecosystems and human activity. The node covers the species included in the IOC-UNESCO Taxonomic Reference List of Harmful Micro Algae at http://www.marinespecies.org/hab/index.php. It is supported by a network of editors covering specific regions. In a first phase the editors are primarily harvesting the literature for known occurrences in order to have a base line data set in OBIS on toxic microalgae which will serve to validate occurrence data from larger data sets and time series in OBIS. This specific data set on toxic micro-alge will provide an important data basis for the first Global Harmful Algal Bloom Status Report. | ||
| Website | http://hab.ioc-unesco.org/ | ||
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| Description | The Indian Ocean Biodiversity Information System (IndOBIS) is a Regional OBIS Node (RON) run by the Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology (CMLRE) since 2009. The primary objectives of IndOBIS are the collection, collation and dissemination of spatially and taxonomically resolved marine species distribution records from the Indian Ocean region and the maintenance of voucher specimens from the Indian EEZ. | ||||
| Website | https://indobis.in/,https://www.cmlre.gov.in/mlr-programs/indobis | ||||
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| Description | MedOBIS, the Regional OBIS Node for the Mediterranean Sea, is hosted by the Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture https://imbbc.hcmr.gr/ (IMBBC), Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, HCMR https://www.hcmr.gr/en/ (Ελληνικό Κέντρο Θαλασσίων Ερευνών, ΕΛ.ΚΕ.Θ.Ε.), Heraklion (Crete). Launched in 2003, it has already been operational in 2005 as a Tier 3 Node of EurOBIS and covered the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Under the European projects EMODNET and LifeWatchGreece (started in 2013), it became a Tier 2 node and extended to all Mediterranean Sea. MedOBIS provides access to data from a wide range of sources and time periods, including new and historical data sets. MedOBIS actively contributes to global scientific effort for FAIR and OPEN data. | ||||||
| Website | https://www.lifewatchgreece.eu/?q=content/medobis | ||||||
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| Description | OBIS Argentina (acronym AROBIS, Argentina Ocean Biodiversity Information System ) is an IODE ADU hosted in CCT CONICET-CENPAT, Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina. The node centralizes the information about the distribution of vertebrates and invertebrates from the coastal areas of Argentina and the continental shelf of the South-western Atlantic Ocean called the Patagonian Large Marine Ecosystem (PLME). It also integrates data about the distribution of resident vertebrates which emigrate to the Southern Ocean and the Pacific. At regional level AROBIS is presented as a functional precursor for Linked Open Data to improve the discoverability of the content of the databases. | ||
| Website | http://arobis.cenpat-conicet.gob.ar/ | ||
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| Description | OBIS Australia is the regional OBIS Node for Australia. Its aim is fostering the online provision of marine species data from the Australian region and adjacent seas, or data from Australian providers, into the OBIS international data network. These data can also be forwarded to GBIF and Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) on a case by case basis. The website describes our activities and related resources. | ||||||
| Website | http://www.obis.org.au | ||||||
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| Website | http://www.sea.gov.ua | ||||
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| Website | https://www.sibbr.gov.br/ | ||||
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| Description | OBIS Canada is the Canadian regional node of the International Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS). | ||
| Website | https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/data-donnees/obis/index-eng.html | ||
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| Description | OBIS China is the regional OBIS node for Chinese region. OBIS China is responsible for collection, collation, and dissemination of data and information about the biodiversity of the China seas. Its main functions are to foster the on-line provision of marine species data from Chinese region into the OBIS portal, and to provide an access for Chinese users to the international OBIS data network. OBIS China is hosted by Institute of oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Mission and Objectives: OBIS China will manage marine biodiversity data from the seas of China, put data online, connect Chinese marine species data with the international OBIS network, and provide data service online. Spatial Coverage: Sea areas of China (including Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea) and adjacent western Pacific Ocean Temporal Coverage: From 1950s to the present Taxonomic coverage: Algae, protozoa, invertebrates, and fish Services offered: OBIS China will provide information concerning marine biodiversity relevant to regions of concern, and provide a local portal for submission and services of data request. | ||||
| Website | http://www.iobis.org.cn | ||||
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| Description | The OBIS node for Colombia is hosted by the Marine and Coastal Research Institute (INVEMAR), which is an IODE Associate Data Unit. INVEMAR is a national institution in charge of marine research, the generation of data and establishing data management systems to share environmental data. | ||||
| Website | http://siam.invemar.org.co/ | ||||
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| Description | The Permanent Commission for the South Pacific (CPPS) is an intergovernmental body with international legal personality, created by mandate of the countries through the Santiago Declaration in 1952. This Regional Maritime Organization promotes and articulates the maritime policies of its Member States: Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. As a knowledge node of marine information in the Southeast Pacific region, CPPS provides the platform to integrate data from different projects and programs carried out in the region. CPPS is currently an IODE/ADU member since 2017 (CPPS-OBIS), but its activities compiling marine biological observation data of identifiable marine species started several years before. | ||||
| Website | http://cpps-int.org/index.php/2015-04-28-20-21-16/nodo-obis | ||||
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| Description | The Deep-sea OBIS node is one of the global thematic nodes of the Ocean Biodiversity Information System, hosted at the OBIS secretariat, and managed by the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum. The deep-sea OBIS node aims to provide a single integrated access point to high-quality data and information on the diversity, abundance and distribution of all deep-sea organisms and their ecosystem properties, including habitat and environmental characteristics. The further development of this deep-sea OBIS node and data portal is a shared responsibility of the wider deep-sea scientific community, and is supported by the International network for scientific investigation of deep-sea ecosystems (INEEP project, http://www.indeep-project.org/) and the Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI, http://dosi-project.org/). | ||
| Website | https://obis.org/node/6f3223e3-50a6-4ba5-b02c-0037ae3863ce | ||
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| Website | https://patrimonio.ambiente.gob.ec/iptmae/ | ||
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| Description | GBIF Norway is the Norwegian participant node in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, GBIF. Our main task is to make primary data on biological diversity from the Norwegian collections and observation databases freely available and to coordinate and support GBIF-related activities and data use in Norway. | ||||||||||||||
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| Website | http://www.oseanografi.lipi.go.id/ | ||||
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| Description | The International Seabed Authority (ISA), established under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (the Convention) and the 1994 Agreement relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the Convention, is the organization through which States Parties to the Convention organize and control activities in the international seabed area (the Area). As part of its mandate, ISA is required to take the measures necessary to ensure the effective protection for the marine environment from harmful effects that may arise from the activities carried out in the Area. In addition, ISA is required to promote and encourage the conduct of marine scientific research in the Area and coordinate and disseminate the results of such research and analysis, when available. The ISA is also specifically mentioned in the Convention as the primary international competent organization through which States Parties have to cooperate to establish marine scientific research programmes in the Area for the benefit of developing States. As of June 2021, ISA has entered into thirty-one contracts (31) for exploration of mineral resources, involving twenty-one (21) countries. The vast majority relates to the exploration of polymetallic nodules (19 contracts) in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCZ) in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Further contracts have also been signed for the exploration of polymetallic sulphides (7 contracts) in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts (5 contracts) in the Western Pacific Ocean and South Atlantic Ocean. ISA holds centralized data of public and private information on marine mineral resources and environmental baseline data acquired by exploration contractors during their exploration activities. The environmental data, including biological, physical and geochemical parameters of the seafloor and water column ecosystems, is accessible to the public through the “ISA Deep Seabed and Ocean Database” (DeepData) (URL: http://data.isa.org.jm). | ||||
| Website | https://www.isa.org.jm/ | ||||
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| Description | OBIS Japan node collects marine species information around Japan. OBIS Japan node is hosted by Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). Further data and information on marine species around Japan can be found in BISMaL (http://www.godac.jamstec.go.jp/bismal/e/) | ||||
| Website | http://www.godac.jamstec.go.jp/bismal/e/index.html,http://www.godac.jamstec.go.jp/j-obis/j/index.html | ||||
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| Description | The Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI), which is also the National Oceanographic Data Centre for Kenya, runs the national OBIS node for Kenya. KMFRI’s main role is to undertake research in marine and freshwater fisheries, aquaculture, environmental and ecological studies, in order to provide scientific data and information for sustainable exploitation, management and conservation of Kenya’s fisheries resources. | ||||
| Website | https://obis.org/node/aa56c74b-90ba-461d-b117-2b384571993b | ||||
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| Description | MABIK was established in 2015 as the national agency responsible for developing the marine economy and creating value using marine bio resources. The overall aim of MABIK is to turn marine biological resources into national assets, contributing to the advancement of marine research, economy, and education. | ||||||
| Website | https://www.mabik.re.kr/eng/index.do | ||||||
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| Description | OBIS Malaysia is housed at the Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu. INOS is the leading research institute in Malaysia focusing on oceanography and marine science and has been recognised by the Ministry of Education, Malaysia as ‘Higher Institution Centre of Excellence’ (HICOE) in marine science. On the international scale, INOS is one of Associate Data Unit under International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE). The South China Sea Repository and Reference Centre (RRC) under INOS, which is the responsible unit for OBIS Malaysia currently curated more than 20,000 marine specimens and recognised by the Ministry of Water, Land and Natural Resources, Malaysia as the main centre for marine collection in Malaysia. | ||||||
| Website | http://inos.umt.edu.my/?lang=en | ||||||
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| Description | OBIS-SEAMAP, Ocean Biodiversity Information System Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations, is a spatially referenced online database, aggregating marine mammal, seabird, sea turtle and ray & shark observation data from across the globe. OBIS-SEAMAP, hosted at Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University, is aimed at augmenting our understanding of the distribution and the ecology of the target species by quantifying the global patterns of marine species distribution and biodiversity and designing and implementing standard databases and innovative sampling techniques. Started in 2002 by the funding from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and continued to grow through the past funding from National Science Foundation, National Oceanographic Partnership Program and Naval Postgraduate School, OBIS-SEAMAP has become one of the largest data repository of this kind. | ||||
| Website | http://seamap.env.duke.edu | ||||
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| Description | The OBIS secretariat, hosted at the UNESCO/IOC project office for IODE in Oostende (Belgium), provides training and technical assistance to its data providers, guides new data standards and technical developments, and encourages international cooperation to foster the group benefits of the network. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Description | OBIS Senegal is a node of the Marine Biodiversity Data Management System (OBIS), hosted by the Oceanographic Research Center of Dakar-Thiaroye (CRODT) of the Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research (ISRA). OBIS Senegal has a subregional scope, since it gathers data collected from west african marine waters. It began its activities in 2014. OBIS Senegal also has ambitions to provide services and tools for data management to institutions in the West African region. |
| Website | http://ipt.iobis.org/senegal/ |
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| Description | The UK OBIS Node is hosted at the Marine Biological Association (MBA) in Plymouth, UK. The MBA is one of the world’s longest-running societies dedicated to promoting research into our oceans and the life they support. Since 1884 we have been providing a unified, clear, independent voice on behalf of the marine biological community and currently have a growing membership in over 40 countries. We also run a leading marine biological research laboratory where many eminent scientists - including 7 Nobel prize winners - have carried out their research. | ||||||||
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| Description | Ocean Biodiversity Information System USA (OBIS-USA) brings together marine biological observation data – recorded observations of identifiable marine species at a known time and place, collected primarily from U.S. Waters or with U.S. funding. | ||||
| Website | https://www.usgs.gov/obis-usa | ||||
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| Description | The Oceans Past Initiative (OPI) is a global research network for marine historical research. Our goal is to enhance knowledge and understanding of how the diversity, distribution and abundance of marine life in the world’s oceans has changed over the long term to better indicate future changes and possibilities. OPI welcomes anyone interested in the history of humankind’s interactions with life in the oceans including paleo-ecologists and climatologists, archaeologists, marine environmental historians, economic historians, oral historians, historical ecologists, fisheries historians, and marine environmental and fisheries policy makers and managers. | ||||
| Website | http://oceanspast.org/ | ||||
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| Description | The Ocean Tracking Network is a global aquatic animal tracking, data management, and partnership platform headquartered at Dalhousie University in Canada. OTN and its partners are using electronic tags to track many keystone, commercially important, and endangered species at an international scale, across all ocean regions. The OTN Data Centre is responsible for the collection, aggregation, cross-referencing, and dissemination (both public and private) of acoustic detection data. OTNDC also maintains linkages to sibling acoustic telemetry data centres all over the world, and feeds global biogeographical information systems such as OBIS with animal tracking data as it is eventually made publicly available under the terms of the OTN Data Policy. | ||||||||
| Website | https://members.oceantrack.org,http://oceantrackingnetwork.org/ | ||||||||
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| Description | The OBIS node for the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman is run by the National Oceanographic Data Centre at the Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science (INIOAS). | ||
| Website | https://obis.org/node/066e070a-04ca-4cee-acb3-66379fe49d49 | ||
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| Description | The ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB), established in 2005, is ASEAN’s response to the challenge of biodiversity loss. It is an intergovernmental organization that facilitates cooperation and coordination among the ten ASEAN Member States (AMS) and with regional and international organizations on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use of such natural treasures. | ||||
| Website | http://chm.aseanbiodiversity.org,http://aseanbiodiversity.org | ||||
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| Description | The Southwestern Pacific OBIS Node site is a gateway to marine biodiversity data from the Ross Sea (Antarctica), the Southern Ocean south of New Zealand, the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone, and surrounding seas in the south western Pacific Ocean. The Southwestern Pacific Regional OBIS Node is hosted by New Zealand’s National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA). | ||
| Website | https://niwa.co.nz/our-science/coasts-and-oceans/tools-and-resources/southwestern-pacific-obis-node | ||
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