OBIS, a global biodiversity data-sharing platform for ABNJwardappeltans
OBIS as a potential contribution to a new implementing agreement to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ). Presentation from the BBNJ side event at the IOC Assembly XXVIII, June 2015
OBIS, a global biodiversity data-sharing platform for ABNJwardappeltans
OBIS as a potential contribution to a new implementing agreement to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ). Presentation from the BBNJ side event at the IOC Assembly XXVIII, June 2015
Biodiversity of fresh and brackish waters fish species in Africa is both highly diverse and of great regional importance to livelihoods and economies. Many areas in Africa are still not well surveyed such that available information on fish species is insufficient for environmental and development planning. Lack of basic information on species distribution and threatened status has long been a key obstacle facing freshwater ecosystem managers in Africa. Therefore, IRD has put in place FAUNAFRI an online GIS to collate, store, manage, and make widely available information about the distributions of fresh and brackish waters fish species in Africa. The application is accessible at the address http://www.ird.fr/poissons-afrique/faunafri/
A general presentation about the new vERSO (Ecosystem Responses to global change: a multiscale approach in the Southern Ocean) project, funded under the BELSPO BRAIN-BE call.
C2.02: Informing Priorities for Biological and Ecosystem Observations, suppor...Blue Planet Symposium
There are increasing opportunities to expand observation of ocean biology from advances in individual sensors to development of national and global networks. To leverage these opportunities, the ocean community has defined essential variables, initially in physical oceanography. In 2013, a Biological Integration and Observation Task Team (BIO-TT) was formed under the IOOC to focus on biological essential variables for U.S. IOOS. The primary goals of the BIO-TT were a) to improve availability of observations on the existing IOOS core biological variables (defined by BIO-TT as phytoplankton species; zooplankton species and abundance; fish species and abundance), and b) to identify and prioritize additional cross-cutting federal agency biological and ecosystem observation needs.
To address these objectives the team (1) completed a survey of federal agencies for existing core variable datasets and identified needs for biological and ecosystem observations and (2) conducted an expert workshop to explore best available science of biological and ecosystem observing, and determine implementation strategies for biological and ecosystem observation needs identified from the survey. To build upon the actions and recommendations made previously by several other groups working towards the development of a global, coordinated ocean observation system, the BIO-TT Expert Working Group activities followed the guidelines developed by the Framework for Ocean Observation (2012) and the prioritization themes identified by the GOOS Biology and Ecosystems Panel (IOC 2014).
Workshop participants agreed that the highest priority is to include species and abundance of core functional groups (pelagic and benthic) not currently represented among the IOOS core variables. This presentation will summarize key results from the survey and then focus on analyses, outcomes and recommendations from the expert workshop for new and enhanced biological variables as part of IOOS.
A new atlas, providing the most thorough audit of marine life in the Southern Ocean, is published this week by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Leading marine biologists and oceanographers from all over the world spent the last four years compiling everything they know about ocean species from microbes to whales. It’s the first time that such an effort has been undertaken since 1969 when the American Society of Geography published its Antarctic Map Folio Series.
In an unprecedented international collaboration 147 scientists from 91 institutions across 22 countries (Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the USA) combined their expertise and knowledge to produce the new Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean. More than 9000 species are recorded, ranging from microbes to whales. Hundreds of thousands of records show the extent of scientific knowledge on the distribution of life in the Southern Ocean. In 66 chapters, the scientists examine the evolution, physical environment, genetics and possible impact of climate change on marine organisms in the region.
Chief editor, Claude De Broyer, of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, said: “This is the first time that all the records of the unique Antarctic marine biodiversity, from the very beginnings of Antarctic exploration in the days of Captain Cook, have been compiled, analysed and mapped by the scientific community. It has resulted in a comprehensive atlas and an accessible database of useful information on the conservation of Antarctic marine life.”
Presentation provided at the SIDS BBNJ workshop 7-9 March 2017, Oostende, Belgium. Note there are 2 movies in this presentation which are not visible here.
One movie is posted on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjspMw8sVMw
Applying an ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management: focus on seamou...Iwl Pcu
Carl Gustaf Lundin
IUCN (Indian Ocean Seamounts)
Presentation given during the 5th GEF Biennial International Waters Conference in Cairns, Australia (during the pre-conference workshop marine ecosystems, Global Change and Marine Resources).
Synergies with the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) and the International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN) by Robert Branton (Ocean Tracking Network - OTN)
Biodiversity of fresh and brackish waters fish species in Africa is both highly diverse and of great regional importance to livelihoods and economies. Many areas in Africa are still not well surveyed such that available information on fish species is insufficient for environmental and development planning. Lack of basic information on species distribution and threatened status has long been a key obstacle facing freshwater ecosystem managers in Africa. Therefore, IRD has put in place FAUNAFRI an online GIS to collate, store, manage, and make widely available information about the distributions of fresh and brackish waters fish species in Africa. The application is accessible at the address http://www.ird.fr/poissons-afrique/faunafri/
A general presentation about the new vERSO (Ecosystem Responses to global change: a multiscale approach in the Southern Ocean) project, funded under the BELSPO BRAIN-BE call.
C2.02: Informing Priorities for Biological and Ecosystem Observations, suppor...Blue Planet Symposium
There are increasing opportunities to expand observation of ocean biology from advances in individual sensors to development of national and global networks. To leverage these opportunities, the ocean community has defined essential variables, initially in physical oceanography. In 2013, a Biological Integration and Observation Task Team (BIO-TT) was formed under the IOOC to focus on biological essential variables for U.S. IOOS. The primary goals of the BIO-TT were a) to improve availability of observations on the existing IOOS core biological variables (defined by BIO-TT as phytoplankton species; zooplankton species and abundance; fish species and abundance), and b) to identify and prioritize additional cross-cutting federal agency biological and ecosystem observation needs.
To address these objectives the team (1) completed a survey of federal agencies for existing core variable datasets and identified needs for biological and ecosystem observations and (2) conducted an expert workshop to explore best available science of biological and ecosystem observing, and determine implementation strategies for biological and ecosystem observation needs identified from the survey. To build upon the actions and recommendations made previously by several other groups working towards the development of a global, coordinated ocean observation system, the BIO-TT Expert Working Group activities followed the guidelines developed by the Framework for Ocean Observation (2012) and the prioritization themes identified by the GOOS Biology and Ecosystems Panel (IOC 2014).
Workshop participants agreed that the highest priority is to include species and abundance of core functional groups (pelagic and benthic) not currently represented among the IOOS core variables. This presentation will summarize key results from the survey and then focus on analyses, outcomes and recommendations from the expert workshop for new and enhanced biological variables as part of IOOS.
A new atlas, providing the most thorough audit of marine life in the Southern Ocean, is published this week by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Leading marine biologists and oceanographers from all over the world spent the last four years compiling everything they know about ocean species from microbes to whales. It’s the first time that such an effort has been undertaken since 1969 when the American Society of Geography published its Antarctic Map Folio Series.
In an unprecedented international collaboration 147 scientists from 91 institutions across 22 countries (Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the USA) combined their expertise and knowledge to produce the new Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean. More than 9000 species are recorded, ranging from microbes to whales. Hundreds of thousands of records show the extent of scientific knowledge on the distribution of life in the Southern Ocean. In 66 chapters, the scientists examine the evolution, physical environment, genetics and possible impact of climate change on marine organisms in the region.
Chief editor, Claude De Broyer, of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, said: “This is the first time that all the records of the unique Antarctic marine biodiversity, from the very beginnings of Antarctic exploration in the days of Captain Cook, have been compiled, analysed and mapped by the scientific community. It has resulted in a comprehensive atlas and an accessible database of useful information on the conservation of Antarctic marine life.”
Presentation provided at the SIDS BBNJ workshop 7-9 March 2017, Oostende, Belgium. Note there are 2 movies in this presentation which are not visible here.
One movie is posted on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjspMw8sVMw
Applying an ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management: focus on seamou...Iwl Pcu
Carl Gustaf Lundin
IUCN (Indian Ocean Seamounts)
Presentation given during the 5th GEF Biennial International Waters Conference in Cairns, Australia (during the pre-conference workshop marine ecosystems, Global Change and Marine Resources).
Synergies with the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) and the International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN) by Robert Branton (Ocean Tracking Network - OTN)
OBIS as a potential contribution to a new implementing agreement to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ). Presentation from the BBNJ side event at the IOC Assembly XXVIII, June 2015
Ocean Biogeographic Information System - for NOPP Biodiversity Ad Hoc Working...Sky Bristol
A global data sharing and clearinghouse for marine biodiversity data through the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)
Sky Bristol & Abby Benson – USGS/OBIS-USA
Ward Appeltans & Pieter Provoost – IODE-OBIS
Eduardo Klein – Universidad Simón Bolívar
USING E-INFRASTRUCTURES FOR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION - Module 5Gianpaolo Coro
An e-Infrastructure is a distributed network of service nodes, residing on multiple sites and managed by one or more organizations. e-Infrastructures allow scientists residing at distant places to collaborate. They offer a multiplicity of facilities as-a-service, supporting data sharing and usage at different levels of abstraction, e.g. data transfer, data harmonization, data processing workflows etc. e-Infrastructures are gaining an important place in the field of biodiversity conservation. Their computational capabilities help scientists to reuse models, obtain results in shorter time and share these results with other colleagues. They are also used to access several and heterogeneous biodiversity catalogues.
In this course, the D4Science e-Infrastructure will be used to conduct experiments in the field of biodiversity conservation. D4Science hosts models and contributions by several international organizations involved in the biodiversity conservation field. The course will give students an overview of the models, the practices and the methods that large international organizations like FAO and UNESCO apply by means of D4Science. At the same time, the course will introduce students to the basic concepts under e-Infrastructures, Virtual Research Environments, data sharing and experiments reproducibility.
Combining earth observations and statistics for evidence based policy making ...Bente Lilja Bye
Arctic Frontiers 2019
Abstract
Looking at climate change, development of activities like fishing, shipping, tourism etc together with the history of policies in the polar region in and around Svalbard applying an holistic approach, can result in new information that will help us make better decisions for the Arctic area in the future.
3 different H2020 projects INTAROS, NextGEOSS, and DataBio join forces to provide new information using the latest in big data and cloud technology, access to Copernicus data and services, and user requirements from social scientists. Through analysis of different types of met-ocean data ((e.g. ice edge, SST) and fishery statistics to investigate potential links between climate change and activity in the polar region in and around Svalbard. We evaluate if the FAIR principles are met for the chosen variables, using Copernicus, BarentsWatch and other open data resources. Accessibility and functionality of the related APIs will be assessed, and whether the chosen APIs can jointly provide new information.
We will also present how one can combine available information from existing sources, such as catch reports, oceanographic measurements, oceanographic simulations, stock simulations and stock observations, can be used for improving assessment of fish stocks and their distribution. Part of these data will be derived from remote sensing, while others will be collected using vessels equipped with appropriate sensors and communication and communication tools.
Together this combinations of data will provide new information that will be useful for policy making in polar regions and that take into account the different sectors and actors involved.
Participatory science to understand the ecological status of surface marine w...Luigi Ceccaroni
Participatory science to understand the ecological status of surface marine waters
Luigi Ceccaroni (Citclops)
Laia Subirats (BDigital)
Marcel Wernand (NIOZ)
Stéfani Novoa (NIOZ)
Jaume Piera (ICM-CSIC)
Roger Farrés (Kinetical)
Ivan Price (Noveltis)
and the Citclops
consortium
Barcelona
November 18th
2014
2nd International Ocean Research conference (IORC)
Theme Session T2.TS5
Operationalizing Ecosystem-based Management: the challenges of translating scientific knowledge into decision tools for integrated management
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
2. IOC of UNESCO
Established in 1960
Functional autonomy within
UNESCO
145 Member States
Focal point for ocean
observations, science,
services and data exchange
Competent international
organization for marine
science and transfer of
marine technology
(UNCLOS)
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4. Major IOC Programmes
Ocean Observations and Services
Global Ocean Observing System. GOOS is a
permanent global system for observations,
modelling and analysis of marine and ocean
variables to support operational ocean services
worldwide. (and JCOMM)
International Oceanographic Data and
Information Exchange. Established in 1961, IODE
facilitates the exchange of oceanographic data
and information between participating Member
States, and serves the needs of users for data
and information products.4
7. 1. To facilitate and promote the discovery, exchange of, and
access to, marine data and information including metadata,
products and information in real-time, near real time and delayed mode, through the use of international
standards, and in compliance with the IOC Oceanographic Data Exchange Policy for the ocean research
and observation community and other stakeholders;
2. To encourage the long term archival, preservation,
documentation, management and servicesof all marine data,
data products, and information;
3. To develop or use existing best practices for the discovery, management, exchange of,
and access to marine data and information, including international standards,
quality control and appropriate information technology;
4. To assist Member States to acquire the necessary capacity to manage
marine research and observation data and information and become partners in the IODE network;
5. To support international scientific and
operational marine programmes, including the Framework
for Ocean Observing for the benefit of a wide range of users.
IODE Objectives (2013)
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8. Foundation: IOC Data Policy (2003)
Clause 1: Member States shall
provide timely, free and
unrestricted access to all
data, associated metadata and
products generated under the
auspices of IOC programmes..
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9. Ocean Biogeographic
Information System
OBIS is the world’s largest open access, online data system
on the diversity, distribution and abundance of marine
species
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• 35 million species
observations
• 120,000 marine species
• 1,130 datasets
• >450 institutions, 56
countries
In ABNJ
• 6 million species
observations
• 74,000 species, of which
17,000 are unique to ABNJ
• 35,000 species live
exclusively at a depth
below 200m.
WWW.IOBIS.ORG
10. High-level goals of OBIS
Jointly with other IOC programmes:
"OBIS will strive to develop a global ocean
observing framework for monitoring the state of
marine biological species diversity, populations and
habitats, to assess risks and impacts on ecosystem
services and to underpin an ecosystem approach for
marine spatial planning and conservation policies for
the protection and sustainable management of the
ocean”
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11. High-level goals of OBIS
"OBIS will provide the infrastructure and
knowledge base necessary to predict or early
detect emerging issues such as marine invasive
species, harmful algal blooms, shifts in abundance
and species distribution ranges, extinction risks of
species, regime shifts, and loss or degradation of
marine habitats"
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12. High-level goals of OBIS
"OBIS will build the historical baseline, against
which future change can be measured. It will close
the data gap by growing in terms of geographic,
taxonomic and temporal coverage, as well as
expanding in capturing additional data types and
information"
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13. OBIS contributes to TMT:
1. National and regional technical centres (OBIS
nodes)
2. Open Access to data and information
3. Standards and guidelines on best practices (Quality
Assurance)
4. National/regional reporting/modeling tools
5. Training in data management, data transfer and data
analysis, Regional training centres
Transfer of Marine Technology
IOC criteria and guidelines
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14. 22 OBIS nodes
(national, regional and thematic)
1. Argentina
2. Australia
3. Belgium: EurOBIS, AntOBIS
4. Brazil
5. Canada
6. Chile: SE Pacific
7. China
8. Greece: MedOBIS
9. India
10. Japan
11. Korea
12. New Zealand: SW Pacific
13. Oman: (Persian Gulf)
14. Philippines: FishBase, (SEAOBIS)
15. South-Africa: AfrOBIS
16. Ukraine: BlackSea OBIS
17. USA: US-OBIS, SEAMAP, ArCOD, MicrOBIS, Hexacorals, SeaMountsOnline
18. Venezuela: (Caribbean OBIS)
(Regional nodes)
(Thematic nodes)
(Candidate nodes)
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15. Species name (and classification)
Position (single point, bounding box, transect line)
Time
Abundance (individuals, biomass)
Depth
Cruise, sampling gear, environmental parameters, …
+ Metadata on dataset (who, what, where, when, how,
and citation)
Open-Access to data: what data?
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16. Sample and observation data from
scientific cruises
(long-term) national monitoring
small-scale research projects
continuous observations (CPR)
scientific literature
museum collections
…
Open-Access to data: Data sources
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17. Benefit Sharing: data repatriation
102293
23016
9349
102745
182042
266302
1106458
1327640
419965
2104304
8951
52498
0 0 0
2178
5375
310673
25848
18823
442862
743579
2573860
105964
35316
121300
10936
613595 806219 967159
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Belgium S-Korea Japan Brazil Argentina Australia Canada USA New
Zealand
S-Africa India China France Germany Norway
records not from nat. OBIS node
records from nat. OBIS node
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18. Benefit Sharing: data repatriation
4551
1929
790
9248
1961
6554
8900 23415
5459
11151
7853
3072
0 0 0
21
762
8620
1976
2477
13336
4391 12787
4469
2490
2221
1281
8187 4480 7983
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Belgium S-Korea Japan Brazil Argentina Australia Canada USA New
Zealand
S-Africa India China France Germany Norway
taxa not from nat. OBIS node
taxa from nat. OBIS node
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20. Tools for geographic quality control
Example dataset “Marine Turtles”:
sightings and strandings of marine turtles around the coast of UK and Ireland”
Outliers due to missing of minus sign. Corrections made after consultation data provider.
-Water/Land positions
- Outlier detection
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21. Tools for quality control based on
environmental/habitat parameter ranges
Salinity range
Temperature range
Depth range
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22. Information for national, regional and
global reporting
Increased Nr of reporting obligations for
Member States
• 2014: CBD 4th Global Biodiversity Outlook
• 2014: GEF Transboundary Water Assessment
• 2015: UN 1st World Ocean Assessment
• 2018: 1st IPBES assessment
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31. Trends in species’ Commonness
Albatros
top-ranked seabird
because of tagging
32. Trends in species’ Commonness
Fulmar
? Start or end of major surveys?
OR
Underlying trends?
33. Marine Genetic Resources
Phylum level summary
of the distribution of c.
11.7M DNA
sequences across
c. 190,000 marine
species (Source
Thomas
Webb, unpublished data)
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34. Marine Genetic Resources
Number of GenBank
sequences plotted
against number of
records in OBIS for
approx. 80,000 species
common to both
databases (Source
Thomas
Webb, unpublished
data)
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Some of the
uncommon
species have
many DNA
sequences
Some of the
common
species have
few DNA
sequences
35. Biological data for area based management
OBIS provides scientific and technical support the
development of MSP and other area-based management
tools.
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47. UN-Biodiversity in ABNJ
May 2013 workshop, technical experts
recognized OBIS as an appropriate
mechanism for data and information
sharing in Areas Beyond National
Jurisdiction
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48. Potential OBIS role in BBNJ
Capacity Building
Guidelines, standards and best practices
Training in data collection, data management,
QC and data analysis
Data repatriation
National reporting tools
Support in development, hosting and
maintenance of database infrastructure
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49. Potential OBIS role in BBNJ
One central global open access data portal,
unlocking access to samples and data for
Selection of marine sites to be protected
Environmental Impact Studies
Scientific advancement (e.g. determine the
geographical origin of Marine Genetic
Resources)
Monitoring of changes to the ecosystem (incl.
setting baselines)
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50. OBIS is unique because
It is truly global (in terms of data and network),
It is part of UN through IOC-UNESCO,
recognized by UNCLOS for Marine Science
and Transfer of Marine Technology and;
OBIS holds data from non commercial, non-
target fishing species, which allows an holistic
(ecosystem) approach to measure impacts of
activities in ABNJ.
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Long-term goals Jointly with other IOC programmes (GOOS, IODE, Marine Spatial Planning and Harmful Algal Bloom) OBIS will strive to develop a global ocean observing framework for monitoring the state of marine biological species diversity, populations and habitats, to assess risks and impacts on ecosystem services and to underpin an ecosystem approach for marine spatial planning and conservation policies for the protection and sustainable management of the ocean. OBIS will provide the infrastructure and knowledge base necessary to predict or early detect emerging issues such as marine invasive species, harmful algal blooms, shifts in abundance and species distribution ranges, extinction risks of species, regime shifts, and loss or degradation of marine habitats. 5.2 Short-term goals In order to be fully effective in serving these long-term goals, OBIS will needs to build the historical baseline, against which future change can be measured. It will close the data gap by growing in terms of geographic, taxonomic and temporal coverage, as well as expanding in capturing additional data types and information.
Long-term goals Jointly with other IOC programmes (GOOS, IODE, Marine Spatial Planning and Harmful Algal Bloom) OBIS will strive to develop a global ocean observing framework for monitoring the state of marine biological species diversity, populations and habitats, to assess risks and impacts on ecosystem services and to underpin an ecosystem approach for marine spatial planning and conservation policies for the protection and sustainable management of the ocean. OBIS will provide the infrastructure and knowledge base necessary to predict or early detect emerging issues such as marine invasive species, harmful algal blooms, shifts in abundance and species distribution ranges, extinction risks of species, regime shifts, and loss or degradation of marine habitats. 5.2 Short-term goals In order to be fully effective in serving these long-term goals, OBIS will needs to build the historical baseline, against which future change can be measured. It will close the data gap by growing in terms of geographic, taxonomic and temporal coverage, as well as expanding in capturing additional data types and information.
OBIS is extensively used and cited in the scientific literature. More than 800 papers have cited OBIS and used data from OBIS like this Nature paper of 2010, and the Science Ecology Letters papers of this year. 7 papers are added to this citation list per month.
The 193 parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity have called upon IOC/OBIS to further facilitate availability and inter-operability of the best available marine and coastal biodiversity data sets and information across global, regional and national scales. The Convention is using data from OBIS for the identification of Ecologically or Biologically Significant marine Areas. This map shows the areas identified so far.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN is using data from OBIS for the identification of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems.
increasing institutional and professional capacity in marine biodiversity and ecosystem data collection, management, analysis and reporting tools, as part of IOC-UNESCOs International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE)’s Ocean Teacher Academy.
Provide a global platform for international collaboration between national and regional marine biodiversity and ecosystem monitoring programmes, enhancing Member States and global contributions to the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS).
OBIS was one of the first associate partners of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and is recognized by GBIF as its marine sister network
OBIS is recognized as a data core component of GEOSS, the Global Earth Observation System of Systems
This recognition gives OBIS an important position to coordinate the marine biodiversity data and information flow as a contribution to the newly established Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, or IPBES, for which UNESCO is cohosting the secretariat.
Last May, the technical experts of the UN Working Group on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction recognized IOC’s role in data and information sharing, and considered OBIS as an appropriate mechanism for the management of biodiversity data in areas beyond national jurisdiction.