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Current Status of CMarZ

• Web site
• Species Pages
• Nancy Copley
• CMarZ Steering Group Meeting
• March 9-10, 2008
• Orlando, FL

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Web presence

• Redesigned web site
• www.cmarz.org

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Species Pages

• No change 12 pages
• Encyclopedia of Life collaboration?

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CMarZ Network

• 130 members to date
• Working on automatically adding applicants to
  database and web page (R. Groman)

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Education Outreach

• Workshops
• Professional exchanges graduate/professional
  training
• Public education
• Media relations
• Web presence

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Workshops

• of workshops/yr.
• 2004 1
• 2005 5
• 2006 7
• 2007 13

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Media relations

• Inner Space Speciation Project (ISSP) cruise to
  the Celebes Sea (Sept-Oct. 07)
• National Geographic television and magazine
• Many articles but on-line and print.
• Exploring the Deep SE Atlantic, Polarstern
  (Oct-Nov 07)
• Journalist and photographer Geo magazine, audio
  diary/web article

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Scientific Publications

• Census of Marine Life Bibliographic Database
• http//db.coml.org/comlrefbase/
• 117 publications/ 109 viewable at on-line
  database
• 2004 5
• 2005 18
• 2006 28
• 2007 55 (many abstracts)
• 2008 10 (pub., in press, submitted)

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New species

• Total new species at least 85
• Total published new genera 8 Total published
  new families 1 Total published new species 17
  Unpublished new species at least 50
• Please send new species references to N. Copley

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• New Species (published)
• Copepods
• Eucalanus (Goetze and Bradford-Grieve) 2005
  (reinstated species)
• Xantharus (Bradford-Grieve) 2005
• Tortanus (Nishida and Cho) 2005
• Pseudodiaptomus I(Nishida and Rumengan) 2005
• Aetideidae 3 (Ohtsuka, Boxshall, and Shimomura)
  2005
• Acartia (Ueda, H. and A. Bucklin) 2006
• Pseudodiaptomus (Walter and Castillo) 2006
• Alteutha (Veit-Köhler, G., and V. Fuentes) 2007
• Jellies
• Jubanyella (Fuentes, V. and F. Pagès) 2006
• Jeanbouillonia (Pagès, Flood, and Youngbluth)
  2006
• Chaetognaths
• 2 spp. (Nair et al) 2008, in press
• New Genera
• Jubanyella (Fuentes, V. and F. Pagès) 2006