FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI OBIS-SEAMAP The World Data Center for Marine Mammal, Sea Bird, and Sea Turtle Distributions BT AF HALPIN, Patrick N. READ, Andrew J. FUJIOKA, Ei BEST, Ben D. DONNELLY, Ben HAZEN, Lucie J. KOT, Connie URIAN, Kim LABRECQUE, Erin DIMATTEO, Andrew CLEARY, Jesse GOOD, Caroline CROWDER, Larry B. HYRENBACH, K. David AS 1:1,2;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:2;7:2;8:2;9:2;10:;11:;12:2;13:2;14:2; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:;11:;12:;13:;14:; C1 Duke Univ, Marine Geospatial Ecol Lab, Geospatial Ecol Program, Durham, NC 27706 USA. Duke Univ, Marine Lab, Beaufort, NC 28516 USA. C2 UNIV DUKE, USA UNIV DUKE, USA IN DOAJ IF 2.113 TC 89 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00660/77167/78557.pdf LA English DT Article CR OISO - OCÉAN INDIEN SERVICE D'OBSERVATION AB 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. PY 2009 PD JUL SO Oceanography SN 1042-8275 PU Oceanography Soc VL 22 IS 2 UT 000266964200016 BP 104 EP 115 DI 10.5670/oceanog.2009.42 ID 77167 ER EF