Regional OBIS Nodes (RONs) are organizations that have committed to a continued support of OBIS within a geographic and/or national region using resources they have obtained. This includes serving data online and developing a data provider and end-user community. Some RONs provide tools, different language versions of the OBIS website, and/or provide mirror sites for the OBIS portal.
The OBIS Steering Group is composed of the Manager of each OBIS Node. Members include:
- Antarctica: AntOBIS. Bruno Danis, Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Belgium
- Arctic: ArcOD. Russ Hopcroft, University of Alaska Fairbanks - School of Fisheries and Oceans, Alaska
- Argentina: ArOBIS. Mirtha Lewis, Centro Nacional Patagónico (CENPAT) CONICET Argentina
- Australia: OBIS-Australia.Tony Rees, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
- Canada: OBIS-Canada. Mary Kennedy, Centre of Marine Biodiversity, Bedford Institute of Oceanography.
- China: OBIS-China. Xiaoxia Sun, Institute of Oceanology, Qingdao
- Europe: EurOBIS. Leen Vandepitte, Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ) Belgium
- Indian Ocean: IndOBIS. Narayanan Saravanane, Centre for Marine Living Resources and the Environment, Ministry of the environment, India
- Japan: OBIS-Japan. Katsuhiko Tanaka, Japan agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan
- Korea: KOBIS. Sung-Dae Kim, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute, Korea
- Mediterranean: MedOBIS. Sarah Faulwetter, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Greece
- South-West Pacific: South Western Pacific OBIS. Kevin Mackay, National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, New Zealand
- Sub-Saharan Africa: AfrOBIS. Ursula Von St Ange, Southern African Data Centre for Oceanography, South Africa
- Tropical and Subtropical Eastern South Pacific: ESPOBIS. Ruben Escribano, FONDAP COPAS, Chile
- Tropical and Subtropical Western South Atlantic: WSAOBIS. Rubens M. Lopes, University of São Paulo, Brazil
- Ukraine: Volodymyr Vladymyrov, Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
- USA: OBIS-USA. Mark Fornwall, US Geological Survey, USA
Discussions are ongoing with several more organisations to establish a Regional OBIS node:
- Gulf of Aden: Michel Claereboudt, Sultan Qabus University, Oman
- South-East Asia: Christian (Kit) Elloran, ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity, Philippines
- Caribbean Sea: Eduardo Klein, Univ. Simón Bolívar, Venezuela
Former OBIS MC members are:
- Robert Branton, Canada
- Vishwas Chavan, India
- Youn-Ho Lee, Korea
- Alicja Mosbauer, Australia
- Don Robertson, New Zealand
- Junko Shimura, Japan
- Song Sun, China,
- Edward Vanden Berghe, Europe
- Ward Appeltans, Europe
