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Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON)
Biodiversity is critical from the perspective of ecosystem services such as food, oxygen, and socio-economic benefits that support human livelihoods. The , which concluded in 2010, greatly enhanced our understanding ...
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AGU Ocean Sciences 2016: New Orleans
The city of Jazz and Mardi Gras, New Orleans, was the site of the meeting. The multiple concurrent sessions, plenaries, town halls, exhibits, and thousands of posters can make your ...
Hidden Diversity: Researcher describes four new sp...
UC Santa Barbara’s Thomas Turner has published a paper in the journal Zootaxa describing four new species of sponges. These novel specimens weren’t dredged from the murky depths or found ...
IOOS launches Marine Life Portal
! The new page connects all of IOOS’ existing Marine Life related web pages, portals, use cases, and guidelines, which have all been recently updated, and provides a single succinct ...
MBON finds new lessons in underwater forests
The Santa Barbara Channel MBON team's latest publication takes a closer look at the role of kelp structure in the underwater forest ...
New agreement to coordinate a global marine biodiv...
GOOS BioEco, OBIS and GEOBON MBON today signed a new agreement to coordinate on the establishment of a global MBON ...
New Marine Life projects support conservation, hea...
Credit: Jeff Hester / Ocean Image Bank On behalf of the , NOAA and partner agencies, including , the , and the have awarded several new proposals that: Build upon ...
New Webinar on Global MBON Initiative
Assessing biological variables is a relative newcomer to the field of ocean observing, and an increasingly critical component of a comprehensive, sustainable system. In this , recorded on May 8, ...
Request for Information (RFI): National Strategy f...
Manini or convict tangs amongst finger coral in shallow water. Photo credit: NOAA/Claire Fackler The National Science Foundation, on behalf of the National Science and Technology Council Subcommittee on Ocean ...
The First U.S. IOOS Biological Data Training Works...
The inaugural Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Biological Data Training Workshop was held February 8-9, 2018 in Seattle, WA. The workshop built on the successful partnership between IOOS and the ...
U.S. MBON Releases First Project Update
In Fall 2014, three approved Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) pilot projects launched in Alaska, California, and Florida, each working to develop an operational MBON that can be launched at ...
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