We have some good news during Oceans Month: we have partnered with NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information & U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System to make sure that ocean data submitted to the US node of the Ocean Biodiversity Information System will be preserved & accessible for decades to come: http://ow.ly/gI3I50JzkXv (link also in profile)
The Ocean Biodiversity Information System is one way that marine biodiversity information is being shared in web-accessible ways. OBIS, created as part of the 80-nation Census of Marine Life, is an international network of data providers and data managers that have been integrating and sharing key information on marine species for over 20 years.
Image shows a healthy coral reef in the Tumon Bay Marine Preserve off Tumon, Guam, showing a number of different species of fish swimming over a high coral cover reef composed of a number of hard and soft coral species.
Image Credit: Curt Storlazzi, USGS
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