obis introduction-for-i marine
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iMarine-VLIZ-OBIS meeting, 28 August 2012TRANSCRIPT
Introduction to OBIS
Ward AppeltansIOC/UNESCO
iMarine-VLIZ-OBIS Meeting, 28 Augustus 2012 - Oostende
VISION
We make biogeographic data from all over the world freely available to policy makers, environmental managers, researchers and the public at large, in order to increase our knowledge to better manage and protect our oceans.
History in a nutshellMarine spp Datasets Records (M)
1997 1st COML workshop – OBIS concept
1999 Preparatory workshop Washington
2000 OBIS launched, funding Sloan and NSF
2001 1st Int. Comm. Meeting, M.J. Costello chair, 1 staff member (Ph. Zhang)
2002 1st OBIS node (OBIS-SEAMAP)
2004 40,000 38 5.6
2006 75,000 153 10.3
2007 E. Vanden Berghe director, 2-3 staff at Rutgers 79,000 206 13.1
2008 13 OBIS nodes 104,000 492 16.4
2009 OBIS part of UNESCO-IOC/IODE 108,000 725 22.1
2010 Launch new data portal 114,000 912 30.7
2011 Database servers hosted by VLIZ (Ostend) 118,000 1,056 32.3
2012 W. Appeltans manager at IODE (Ostend) 119,000 1,125 33.6
OBIS NetworkOBIS is a strategic alliance of hundreds of scientists and organisations who contribute data, information and expertise to OBIS.
Dots are projects
Questionaire by EuroMarine in 2012
Results: among 48 data systems (based on 360 reponses –18% response rate), OBIS is listed in the:
– Top 5 best-known data systems– Top 10 best searched and downloaded systems– Top 10 systems were people have contributed data to– Top 10 most consulted systems on a monthly basis
LINK to report
Funding resources for the OBIS Secretariat• Current:
– European Commission• iMarine EU FP7 project
– UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (UNESCO-IOC)
• IOC Member States: Flanders, Brazil, Canada, USA, Australia
• Past:– Alfred P. Sloan Foundation– Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation– National Science Foundation (NSF)– European Commisson (EMODNET)– National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP)– National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Data System Architecture
assemblyassembly
nodenode nodenode nodenode
stagingstaging
productionproduction
portal
marboundmarbound
WOD/ODPWOD/ODP
GEBCOGEBCO
QueriesMappingExtraction
-Excel, DiGIR, IPT-OBIS (extended DwC) schema
WoRMSWoRMS
ITIS, CoL, IRMNGITIS, CoL, IRMNG
EOLEOL
GEOGEO
iMarineiMarine
LifeWatchLifeWatch
GBIFGBIF
GCMDGCMD
Association of observation points with oceanography
Observation data associated with Bottom depth Temperature Salinity Nitrogen / Oxygen Phosphate / Silicate
Visualized through interactive graphs Time-series graphs Histograms
Observation data associated with Bottom depth Temperature Salinity Nitrogen / Oxygen Phosphate / Silicate
Visualized through interactive graphs Time-series graphs Histograms
Environmental attributes from World Ocean Atlas
WOA09, http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOA09/pr_woa09.html
Example map #1Cetacean species observations in LME region ‘Celtic-Biscay Shelf’(no environmental conditions set)
Example map #2Cetacean species observations in LME region ‘Celtic-Biscay Shelf’ filtered by a temperature range of 13 to 15 degrees
OBIS allows extraction of observations based on environmental conditions
Summary stats: very little historical data
Summary stats: number of records and species per year
Summary stats: growth of data in OBIS
#spp *100#datasets # distribution records
Summary stats: it is becoming more difficult to add more species to OBIS
Summary stats: it is becoming more difficult to add more species to OBIS (1950-2005)
species
records
Number of species observed in OBIS and described as new in WoRMS
The Unknown Ocean: A sliceRed = many records, dark blue none
The vast midwaters,Earth’s largesthabitat by volume,mostly unexplored(~95%)
Source: CoML OBISWebb, O’Dor, Vanden Berghe
Coastal areas > open waters; Surface areas > the deep sea; Vertebrates and other large animals > smaller invertebrates; Northern hemisphere > southern.
OBIS assists in identifying global patterns in the distribution of biodiversity
(a) Total records in OBIS, corrected for the difference in surface area between squares on different latitude; (b) total number of species, corrected for surface area; (c) Shannon Index; (d) Hurlbert’s index, es(50)
An altered ocean: changes in composition and abundance (90% declines in some groups)
2007
1950s
1980s
McClenachen (2009) Cons. Biol.
CBD-COP10 listed OBIS as a key source of information for the identification of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs) part of CBD
Areas of high biodiversity
Areas of special importance for the life history of a
species
Areas of significant naturalness
Areas of uniqueness or rarity
OBIS feeds models of species distributions and species richness
‘Aquamaps’ uses environmental envelope modelling to extrapolate species distributions beyond the actual observations (www.aquamaps.org)
Many research papers are based on OBIS data
Social media
IMarine• iMarine is a new EU project to establish a global e-
infrastructure to share data & knowledge for sustainable fisheries management and conservation policies. In iMarine, IOC/OBIS coordinates the biodiversity cluster and is involved in the creation of a Community of Practice.
http://www.i-marine.eu
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OBIS’ role in iMarine
Efforts:
•WP3 (18 person months)
– setting up an Ecosystem Approach Community of Practice (EA-CoP) through:
• iMarine Board meetings, data and metadata harmonisation and standardisation
• Business Cases/Clusters (e.g. Biodiversity)
•WP6 (6 person months)
– Virtual Research Environments Deployment and Operation
Occurrence Data from GBIF
Occurrence Data from OBIS
Occurrence Data from WoRMS
∩Intersection
-Difference
ᴜUnion
A Data Set centric view will be adopted
Set Operations – Algebraic Operations
Advantage for OBIS
• Data analysis:– Scientists (or group of scientists) can set up a Virtual
Research Environment– Access to many data sources, statistical and geospatial
tools
• Policy level:– Supporting establishment of VMEs and EBSAs
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Advantage for OBIS
• Data quality and enrichment– QC tools– Identify outliers– Gap analysis– Taxon name reconciliation– Environmental envelopes
• Export tools, OGC-webservices• Man- and computing power
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