Ocean Biogeographic Information System

OBIS is a project of:

Sponsored by:

Martin International and Les Grands Explorateurs

With in-kind support from:

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.

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Summary Points Graph

Data Format

	In CSV format (Excel-ready)
	As OGC standard WFS (XML format)
	As OGC standard WMS image
	In KML format (Google Earth ready; View is centered at (180,0) at launch.)

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OBIS Search Interface v3.0

This interface lets you search seamlessly through all datasets that were contributed to OBIS, with criteria based on taxonomy, spatial and temporal extent, or physical/chemical oceanographic environmental conditions. For more information on OBIS check Home page.
For technical details go to About OBIS > Technology.

The Search Interface was made possible thanks to the contributions from Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA; from Instituto de Tecnología y Ciencias Marinas of Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas,Venezuela; from Rutgers University Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA; and from OpenGeo.
The contribution each of these partners made is described in the Technology pages.

Your opinion is important; please use the 'feedback' button in the search interface or the 'Contact' tab of the main menu to help us improve OBIS data and web site.

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