TY - JOUR T1 - OBIS-SEAMAP The World Data Center for Marine Mammal, Sea Bird, and Sea Turtle Distributions A1 - Halpin,Patrick N. A1 - Read,Andrew J. A1 - Fujioka,Ei A1 - Best,Ben D. A1 - Donnelly,Ben A1 - Hazen,Lucie J. A1 - Kot,Connie A1 - Urian,Kim A1 - Labrecque,Erin A1 - Dimatteo,Andrew A1 - Cleary,Jesse A1 - Good,Caroline A1 - Crowder,Larry B. A1 - Hyrenbach,K. David AD - Duke Univ, Marine Geospatial Ecol Lab, Geospatial Ecol Program, Durham, NC 27706 USA. AD - Duke Univ, Marine Lab, Beaufort, NC 28516 USA. UR - https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00660/77167/ DO - 10.5670/oceanog.2009.42 N2 - The science needed to understand highly migratory marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle species is not adequately addressed by individual data collections developed for a single region or single time period. These data must be brought together into a common, global map based on a coherent, interoperable, and openly accessible information system. This need was clearly articulated by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation when they co-sponsored a new effort to directly address this issue in 2002. The result is OBIS-SEAMAP: the world data-center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle information. OBIS-SEAMAP brings together georeferenced distribution, abundance, and telemetry data with tools to query and assess these species in a dynamic and searchable environment. In a second round of NOPP support that began in 2007, the National Science Foundation is helping expand this effort into new technologies and data types. To date, the OBIS-SEAMAP information system includes more than 2.2 million observation records from over 230 data sets spanning 73 years (1935-2008), and growth of this data archive is accelerating. All of these data are provided by a growing international network of individual and institutional data providers. Y1 - 2009/06 PB - Oceanography Soc JF - Oceanography SN - 1042-8275 VL - 22 IS - 2 SP - 104 EP - 115 ID - 77167 ER -