About Us

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OBISSEAMAP mapping marine megavertebrates
http//obis.env.duke.edu Andy Read, Pat Halpin,
Larry Crowder, David Hyrenbach, Ben Best, Sloan
Freeman, Christoph Spoerri

• About Us
• Spatial Ecological Analysis of
• Megavertebrate Populations
• Why?
• Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)
  node devoted to large marine vertebrates birds,
  mammals, and turtles
• Objectives
• To augment understanding of marine
  megavertebrates by
• facilitating study of potential impacts on
  threatened species
• enhancing ability to test models about diversity
  and biogeography
• supporting models to predict future responses to
  environmental change
• Who?
• Growing number of international partners led by
  Duke University

• Architecture
• Design a full service provider for a diverse
  array of users
• For Users
• Tools to search, subset, and export data in
  various formats
• For Providers

• Products
• One central data base with multiple distinct
  views
• Search
• Support data searching by species name, location
  and time
• Browse
• Allows users to browse the different data sets
  individually
• Species Profiles

• Applications
• Within a broader scientific, resource management
  and conservation context
• Mapping
• Visualization of biological data, in conjunction
  with oceanographic background.
• Pilot Projects
• Demonstrate utility of system, within context of
  biogeographic and conservation storylines
• Help prioritize data needs and the tool
  development
• Provide synthetic atlas to identify
  information gaps

• Future
• Developing New Tools and Partnerships
• New Technologies
• Synchronization of physical and biological data
  through time
• Use of open standards for distributing more
  complex data such as lines and polygons
• Habitat use / home range analysis
• Automated retrieval of taxonomic hierarchies
• New Partnerships
• TOPPBy increasing interaction with the animal
  tracking and wildlife telemetry communities, a
  more seamless transition between animal data
  collection, analysis and archival processes will
  be created.
• UNEP-WCMC We are
  continuing collaborations with international
  partners to share data and resources.
• Sponsored by

First Annual Data Provider Meeting, May1-2
2003members from SMRU, Cascadia Research, Duke
University, Seaturtle.org, NOAA Biogeography, UNC
Wilmington, Office of Naval Research, NOAA
Sanctuaries, NMFS, Allied Whale, CORE, British
Antarctic Survey, UC Santa Cruz,TOPP, Sir Alister
Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, University of
New England, Allied Whale, and WhaleNet
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Global pelagic longline fishing effort (1990s)
Source Sloan Freeman, Duke Marine Lab