Iodc-iii, call for abstracts - join forces with obis to showcase the importance of fit-for-purpose and actionable data for ocean biodiversity january 3, 2025 - obis actionable data community capacity development iodc-iii policy organized by the international oceanographic data and information exchange (iode)—a programme of unesco's intergovernmental oceanographic commission—the international ocean data conference (iodc) is the not-to-be-missed meeting point for the global ocean data community. the conference is an active collaboration platform that drives progress on critical marine data-related issues and facilitates connections between scientists and decision-makers. the third edition of the iodc (iodc-iii) will take place on march 10–11, 2025, online and in santa marta, colombia, under the theme "the data we need for the ocean we want", focusing on marine data actionability and developing capacity in ocean science through improved data-, information-, and knowledge-sharing. opening the iodc-iii program, obis will host a session titled "ocean biodiversity: how we can collectively contribute to the needs of the convention on biological diversity's global biodiversity framework (gbf) and the un convention on the law of the sea's biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction (bbnj)", chaired by katherine tattersall and dan lear, the obis steering group and data coordination group co-chairs, with support from ward appeltans, obis programme manager. at a time when ocean biodiversity data is at the heart of marine conservation evidence-based decision-making processes—such as en...
Report of the 8th session of the obis steering group, 5-8 november 2019, santa marta, colombia january 31, 2020 - obis obis steering group meeting report 30 participants from 21 countries (representing 21 obis nodes) participated in the 8th session of the iode steering group for-obis (sg-obis), 5-8 november 2019, in santa marta, colombia, hosted by the marine and coastal research institute (invemar). in 2019, 5.4 million presence records were added to obis from 439 new datasets, providing 5,170 new marine species to obis. in total, obis now has 57.5 million occurrences of 126,570 species from 2,972 datasets (69.5 million total occurrences of which 10 million absence records and 2 million dropped records). a milestone in 2019 was the switch to the new obis infrastructure and technology stack (obis2.0). this new obis system supports continuous data harvesting from obis nodes for near-real time updates. the new system does automated processing (qc) of ingested data and completes the data integration routines within minutes to an hour. the system is now also fully aligned with the world register of marine species (worms), which means that records are dropped when species names that are not in worms or listed as non-marine. the information portal also provides details on quality issues and a more powerful mapper allows the users to visualize, filter, explore and download millions of records. during the sg session, participants evaluated current and future value propositions provided or aspired to by the obis community and the associated demands for work activity if the highest p...
Iodc-iii, call for abstracts - join forces with obis to showcase the importance of fit-for-purpose and actionable data for ocean biodiversity january 3, 2025 - obis actionable data community capacity development iodc-iii policy organized by the international oceanographic data and information exchange (iode)—a programme of unesco’s intergovernmental oceanographic commission—the international ocean data conference (iodc) is the not-to-be-missed meeting point for the global ocean data community. the conference is an active collaboration platform that drives progress on critical marine data-related issues and facilitates connections between scientists and decision-makers. the third edition of the iodc (iodc-iii) will take place on march 10–11, 2025, online and in santa marta, colombia, under the theme “the data we need for the ocean we want”, focusing on marine data actionability and developing capacity in ocean science through improved data-, information-, and knowledge-sharing. opening the iodc-iii program, obis will host a session titled “ocean biodiversity: how we can collectively contribute to the needs of the convention on biological diversity’s global biodiversity framework (gbf) and the un convention on the law of the sea’s biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction (bbnj)”, chaired by katherine tattersall and dan lear, the obis steering group and data coordination group co-chairs, with support from ward appeltans, obis programme manager. at a time when ocean biodiversity data is at the heart of marine conservation evidence-based decision-making processes—such as enviro...
October 28, 2024 - obis secretariat obis otga training obis colombia, obis caribe, and esp-obis have joined together to launch a self-paced course in spanish on the ocean teacher global academy (otga) platform. this course, “fundamentos para la publicación de datos de biodiversidad marina en obis”, is tailored for those who want to learn how to publish data through the obis, particularly those in latin america. the course, spanning five modules, covers obis data standards, data table formats and structures, basic quality control, data publication, and data visualization tools. for more details on the course, click here . the obis secretariat thanks the following instructors for leading this effort: erika montoya-cadavid (obis colombia) the course is freely accessible through the otga platform: https://classroom.oceanteacher.org/course/view.php?id=948 by logging in with an oceanexpert account and using the enrollment key invemar**obis2024. course completion will take approximately 20 hours. this course is also based on the previously released english obis/otga course, contributing and publishing datasets to obis . #j-18808-ljbffr...
Breaking barriers in ocean science - a conversation with martha patricia vides casado march 8, 2025 - obis international women's day community capacity development gender balance for international women’s day, we had the privilege of (virtually) conversing with martha patricia vides casado, a marine biologist with nearly 30 years of experience in ocean biodiversity, geoinformation science, and environmental planning. as a former co-chair of obis (2019-2024) and the current obis colombia node manager, martha has played an essential role in ocean science. in this interview, she shares her journey, the challenges she faced in her career and her vision for a more inclusive future. obis: martha, we are honoured to have that conversation with you! could you introduce yourself? martha vides: i’m glad to be here! my name is martha patricia vides. i’m a marine biologist with a master’s degree in geoinformation science and a specialization in planning and coordination from itc in the netherlands. i started my career as a benthic taxonomist nearly 30 years ago, crisscrossing the central caribbean sea of colombia. later, i participated in colombia’s first national exercise for integrated coastal zone management. we wanted to identify colombia’s vulnerability to the potential risk of sea level rise due to climate change. then, in 2013, i moved to marine mapping–the baseline study of the sea–to support sustainable management and map the exploration areas for the national hydrocarbon agency, which i have been leading for almost seven years, among other projects. since february 2019, i hav...
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