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HISTORY It originated in an idea and prototype system developed at Rutgers University by a team led by Dr. J. Frederick Grassle that included Yunqing (Phoebe) Zhang, Karen Stocks, and Carolyn Flanders. Later, it was funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and other sources to become the information management component of the Census Of Marine Life . According to the official OBIS web site, the OBIS Portal "accesses data content, information infrastructure, and informatics tools - maps, visualizations, and models – to provide a dynamic, global facility in four dimensions (the three dimensions of space plus time). Potential uses are to reveal new spatial/temporal patterns; to generate new hypotheses about the global marine ecosystem; and to guide future field expeditions." The initial OBIS Portal at Rutgers University has been online since 2002, with accessible data growing from about 500,000 observations and data points when first launched, to over 10 million as at mid-2006, from a growing network of over 140 data providers in more than 50 countries worldwide. Available data cover all groups of organisms that have any association with marine or Estuarine habitats, also including shorelines and the atmosphere above the ocean, such as marine Vertebrates (fishes, marine mammals, turtles, seabirds, etc.); marine Invertebrates (including Zooplankton ); marine Bacteria ; and marine Plants (e.g. phytoplankton, seaweeds, mangroves). OBIS PORTAL The OBIS Portal also hosts, or provides links to, a variety of software tools that can operate on OBIS data to provide mapping, analysis, or data modelling services, including the KGS Mapper , the c-squares mapper , and the ACON mapper , and this number is expected to grow significantly in scope and capabilities through time. REGIONAL OBIS NODES Over the period 2004-present, an international network of Regional OBIS Nodes has also been established, that are facilitating the connection of data sources in their region to the master OBIS data network and also increasingly provide specialised services or views of OBIS data to users in their particular region.
:Hosted by Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Brussels and by Flanders Marine Institute, Oostende. Managed by Bruno Danis.
:Hosted by National Oceans Office and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - Marine and Atmospheric Research. Managed by Alicja Mosbauer.
:Hosted by Centre of Marine Biodiversity and Bedford Institute of Oceanography. Managed by Bob Branton.
:Hosted by Institute of Oceanology. Managed by Sun Song.
:Hosted by Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee. Managed by Edward Vanden Berghe.
:Hosted by National Chemical Laboratory and National Institute of Oceanography . Managed by Vishwas Chavan.
:Hosted by National Institute for Environmental Studies. Managed by Junko Shimura.
:Hosted by National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research. Managed by Don Robertson.
:Hosted by University of Concepcion. Centro Nacional Patagónico - (CENPAT) - CONICET, University of São Paulo (USP) and Reference Center on Environmental Information (CRIA). Managed by Ruben Escribano, Mirtha Lewis and Fabio Lang da Silveira.
:Hosted by Southern African Data Centre for Oceanography. Managed by Marten Grundlingh.
:Hosted by National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII). Managed by Mark Fornwall. SEE ALSO SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ABOUT OBIS
EXTERNAL LINKS OBIS International Portal Regional OBIS nodes
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