The webinars provide an opportunity for the MBON community members to share ideas, talk about methods and protocols, progress in specific programs or manuscripts, and address issues in developing a community of practice. We invite members of other groups, such as GEO Blue Planet, GEO Wetlands, the Freshwater BON, and any of the various GEO BON Working Groups and Task Forces, etc., to participate, since we all share common problems and goals.
The webinars also provide a forum for seminars and lectures on issues of relevance to the research and applications of marine biodiversity.
| Date | Title | Presenter | Links |
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| 26/10/2020 | The Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network (MARINe) Program At the core of the Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network (MARINe) program is a simple and inexpensive, yet statistically sound approach to collecting long-term monitoring data. This approach has enabled the program to grow into a multi-organization consortium that monitors sites along the entire Pacific Coast of North America, from Alaska to Mexico. Key components to MARINe’s success will be highlighted, including: 1) collaboratively developed, standardized “core” protocols that can be layered with “supplemental” protocols to better capture regional differences, 2) a centralized database that ensures data accessibility and compatibility, 3) a website with data display capabilities that can be utilized by a broad range of users, including researchers, resource managers and the general public, and 4) a diverse funding model that can provide long-term sustainability. |
Melissa Miner / University of California Santa Cruz MARINe Data Manager and WA Regional coordinator |
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| 22/07/2020 | MetaZooGene: Toward a new global view of marine zooplankton biodiversity based on DNA metabarcoding and reference DNA sequence databases Q&A: Metazoogene Webinar | Info 1 | Info 2 |
Ann Bucklin | PDF |
| New camera observations of biodiversity in shallow and deep ocean habitats Fish communities and benthic habitats observed from unbaited underwater video: interest and achievements Observing life in the deep-ocean with National Geographic’s deep-sea camera system; a low-cost and scalable approach |
Dominique Pelletier / Jonathan Giddens | |
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| 09/03/2020 | From the ground to the air: using local and remote observations to understand the patterns and drivers of underwater vegetation in Chesapeake Bay | Jonathan S. Lefcheck | |
| 10/02/2020 | Integrating animal tracking and soundscapes in to biodiversity monitoring | Neil Hammerschlag | |
| 09/12/2019 | Ecological Marine Units More Info about EMUs: Sayre et al., 2017: https://www.esri.com/en-us/about/science/ecological-marine-units/overview Journal of Oceanography Publication AAG Publication Wright et al., 2018: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/372053 |
Keith VanGraafeiland | |
| 09/09/2019 | A Marine Biodiversity Observation Network Pole-to-Pole of the Americas in support of conservation and sustainable use of living resources in the sea | Enrique Montes | |
| 13/05/2019 | Marine data for ecosystem services | Ilse Geijzendorffer | |
| 14/01/2019 | The French Biodiversity data hub and the Galaxy-E project: A web platform for collaborative data analysis in Ecology | Yvan Le Bras | PDF |
| 08/10/2018 | Challenges of creating and using indicators for decision making in public policy | Pia Wiche | |
| 10/09/2018 | Monitoring the environmental dimension of the Agenda 2030 | Francesco Gaetani | |
| 02/2017 | A global data sharing and clearinghouse for marine biodiversity data through the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) | OBIS | |
| 2014-now | Marine BON & the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) | GOOS | Webpage |