The joint ASFA-AquaDocs Conference: Aquatic Science Professional Supporting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), will take place on 15th September at 13:00-17:00 Rome time /GMT+1.
The Conference is open to all and free to attend.
You need to register in advance which you can do using this link:
https://fao.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvf-GrrjIsHdKuxsrPmGd04bhInI5mhNPg
The Ocean InfoHub (OIH) Project is seeking for a contractor to develop an effective mechanism to improve data sharing between the Pacific Environment Portals (PEP) and the Pacific Data Hub (PDH) and develop the interoperability capacity of the 2 platform with the ODIS architecture.
More information HERE
Deadline to apply: 05 September 2022
GOOS has officially announced the public launch of the BioEco portal! Follow this link to the announcement by GOOS.
The BioEco Portal is a freely available, open access platform that provides metadata and information on global ocean observing programmes that monitor Biological and Ecosystem (BioEco) Essential Ocean Variables (EOV’s).
The Portal is developed to be the go-to online resource for all the available information about where ocean observation is being done; what is the status and trends of ocean observation or specific programs; what are the standardisations and specifications being used; and of course, what organisms are being observed/ monitored. The aim of the portal is to aid in the coordination and collaboration of networks, programme managers and institutes to access and share information and metadata among global observing communities and allow the GOOS BioEco panel to build on its community of practice.
The GOOS BioEco Portal is a product of the GOOS BioEco panel and developed in collaboration with the secretariat of the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) of the IOC Project Office for IODE and the data centre of the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ).
We are proud to announce that our Decade Action: An Ocean Data and Information System supporting the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development is officially registered as a UN Decade Programme!
More info on the ODIS project: https://www.odis.org/ & https://oceaninfohub.org/ and on the Decade forum.
Three new Associate Data Units (ADU) joined the IODE network of data centres today: (i) Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) - México: it manages geospatial data corresponding to the undersea relief referring to bathymetric cartography, digital bathymetric models, coastline as part of the Regional Projects International Bathymetric Chart (IBC) Mapping Project, which are regional cartographic projects sponsored by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); (ii) Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Germany. The division’s main research focuses on the research areas Biodiversity, Systematics and Evolution, Biodiversity and Climate and Biodiversity and Environment and they run the Deep-Sea node for OBIS; and (iii) Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology (CMLRE), Cochin, India: CMLRE runs the Indian OBIS node (IndOBIS). IndOBIS has been conceived in 2011 as a national data archival system for marine biodiversity information and services as resource for national reporting requirement to international agreement/conventions and frame works connected to biodiversity and its conservation. We welcome these centres to IODE! More info on https://www.iode.org/adu
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