Post on 14-Apr-2017
A global data sharing and clearinghouse for marine biodiversity data through the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)
Sky Bristol & Abby Benson – USGS/OBIS-USAWard Appeltans & Pieter Provoost – IODE-OBISEduardo Klein – Universidad Simón Bolívar
October 27, 2016
• History and structure of OBIS• How OBIS operates and what it contributes• Applications of OBIS• ABNJ and capacity building
A short history of OBIS…
• 2000 - 2010: created as data repository and information dissemination system
for the Census of Marine Life
• 2009: adopted by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of
UNESCO, under the IODE programme (IOC Resolution XXV-4)
• 2011: secretariat moved from Rutgers University to Ostend, Belgium
AntOBISArctic OBIS
ArOBIS
OBIS Australia
OBIS Canada
Caribbean OBIS
OBIS China
IndOBIS
OBIS Japan
KOBIS
MedOBIS
PEGO-OBIS
OBIS Senegal
South Western Pacific OBIS
AfrOBISESPOBIS WSAOBIS
Black Sea OBISOBIS USA
Oceans Past
FishBase
OBIS SEAMAP
MicrOBIS
Seamounts Online
OBIS HAB
OTN EurOBIS
"To build and maintain a global alliance that collaborates with scientific communities to facilitate free and open access to, and application of, biodiversity and biogeographic data and information on marine life."
IOBIS
SG-OBIS
8 Task Teams
Science TT
Taxon. TT
Training TT
Data TT
Tech. TT
...
OBIS node I
OBIS node II
OBIS node III
Data providers
Data providers
Data providers
OBIS node III
Data providers
Data providers
OBIS node II
OBIS node III
Data providers
Data providers
IODE Committee
IOC Assembly
UNESCO General Conference
IOBISData ProvidersOBIS Nodes
OBIS contributes to universality and equity, providing open access to data repatriated from originating countries and institutions while maintaining data provenance to support traceable, trustworthy science
Capacity Development
Connecting People
Malaysia
KenyaSouthAfrica
Colombia
Venezuela
USA
Indonesia
Malaysia
TanzaniaData cleaningData formattingData publicationData accessData visualisationData analysis
Argentina
MexicoUkraine
Scientists from 73 countries used OBIS in research publications
Connections of >500 co-authored papers citing OBIS (Web of Science)
North Pacific regional EBSA workshop, Moscow, 25 Feb – 1 March 2013
OBIS contributions to the CBD EBSA process
In 2010, the CBD Conference of the Parties (COP, decision X/29, paragraph 36) asked IOC, through its OBIS, to provide scientific and technical support to the CBD secretariat in convening a series of regional workshops on EBSAs
OBIS – Supporting data system for the First World Ocean Assessment
Atlantic Herring(Clupea harengus)
Global distribution records showing first records appearing in North Atlantic after 2010. OBIS provides an important signal detection capability, indicating needs for further research and investigation.
From Tom Webbunpublished analysisShows the number of genbank sequences plotted against number of records in OBIS for approx. 80,000 species common to both databases. Darker blue indicates a higher intensity of points.
Indicates potential of future work for data association between biogeographic data and genetic data.
All OBIS records47,000,000
Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction7% of all OBIS records64% of ocean surface area
Records: 3,158,551Datasets: 620Contributing institutions: 225Species: 19,206Red List species: 2,075Only observed here: 3,543
all sampling locations47,000,000
> 200 m depth3,200,000
no depth information: 18,000,000
> 1000 m depth600,000
no depth information: 18,000,000
> 4000 m depth25,000
no depth information: 18,000,000
OBIS-USA Data Networkca 2016