Thematic OBIS Nodes

Last updated on Wed, 2010-09-15 12:05. 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

Census of Marine LifeIODE&IOC Universidad Simón BolívarRutgers

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