Title: MedOBIS Biogeographic Information System for the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea funded by: Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE)
1MedOBISBiogeographic Information System for the
Eastern Mediterranean and Black Seafunded by
Consortium for Oceanographic Research and
Education (CORE)
- Valavanis VD, Arvanitidis C, Eleftheriou A,
Costello M, Faulwetter S, Kitsos MS, Kirmtzoglou
I, Petrov A, Galil B, Papageorgiou N - Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Greece
- Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas,
Ukraine - National Institute of Oceanography, Israel
- University of Auckland, New Zealand
2MedOBIS OBJECTIVESCreation of a new online
data/product dissemination of taxon-based search
marine biological information system(currently
under development, URL will soon be dedicated)
- Secure of historical biological data
- Assembly of current biological data
- Development of online database
- Analysis of data through GIS
- Data and product online dissemination
3MedOBIS 4 MAIN PHASESOF DEVELOPMENT
- DATA ASSEMBLY
- DATA FORMATTING
- DATA ANALYSIS
- DATA DISSEMINATION
4MedOBIS DATA ASSEMBLY
- Currently
- Ionian Sea 100 stations
- Aegean Sea 570 stations
- Black Sea 106 stations
5- 776 stations
- 4500 benthic taxa
- Period covered 1937-2004
6MedOBIS DATA FORMATTING
- Data conversions
- STATION LOCATION/ID in GIS SHAPEFILE
- STATION ATTRIBUTES in MS ACCESS
- AVHRR SST in GEOREF. GIS GRIDS
- SeaWiFS Chl-a in GEOREF. GIS GRIDS
7MedOBIS DATA ANALYSIS
- On-going GIS and Spatial Analyses
- BIOGEOGRAPHY OF BENTHIC TAXA
- MARINE PRODUCTIVITY HOTSPOTS
- MESOSCALE OCEANIC THERMAL FRONTS
- SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MAPS
8MedOBIS DATA DISSEMINATION
- ALOV Map
- Free online GIS shapefile viewer
- Online MS Access connectivity
- Client-server architecture
- MedOBIS-ALOV Map Development
- Taxon-based search
- Predefined zoomin selection
9- Taxon-based search (shown for Abra spp in red)
10- Predefined zoomin selection (user-defined zoomin
area where stations are pre-selected for viewing
and downloading further information)
11MedOBIS Current status/Future works
- On-going data assembly
- Integration of analytical products into the
MedOBIS online data viewer - Identification of species-environment
interactions - Migration to client-server architecture (as more
data becomes available)
12MedOBIS the way forward
EurOBIS
ERMS v2 PROPE-taxon (MARBEF)
Data User
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