Thematic OBIS Nodes

Last updated on Tue, 2013-02-26 10:17. Originally submitted by amanda on 2010-08-18 16:11.
Thematic OBIS Nodes are organizations that contribute data to OBIS usually based on taxonomic group rather than geographic region. 

Hexacorals, Kansas University 
OBIS-SEAMAP, Duke University - turtles, birds, mammals 
MicrOBIS, Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole
Seamounts Online, University of California San Diego
IOC-UNESCO IODE With in-kind support from: Universidad Simón Bolívar Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University Flanders Marine Institute

OBIS strives to document the ocean's diversity, distribution and abundance of life. Created by the Census of Marine Life, OBIS is now part of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, under its International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) programme