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New OTGA/OBIS course in Spanish: Fundamentos para la publicación de datos de biodiversidad marina en OBIS

OBIS Colombia, OBIS Caribe, and ESP-OBIS have joined together to launch a self-paced course in Spanish on the Ocean Teacher Global Academy (OTGA) platform. This course, “Fundamentos para la publicación de datos de biodiversidad marina en OBIS”, is tailored for those who want to learn how to publish data through the OBIS, particularly those in Latin America. The course, spanning five modules, covers OBIS data standards, data table formats and structures, basic quality control, data publication, and data visualization tools. For more details on the course, click here.

The OBIS Secretariat thanks the following instructors for leading this effort:

• Erika Montoya-Cadavid (OBIS Colombia)
• Martha Vides Casado (OBIS Colombia)
• Carolina Peralta Brichtova (OBIS Caribe)
• Jeannette Pérez (OBIS Caribe)
• Joxmer Scott-Frías (OBIS Caribe)
• Pamela Hidalgo Díaz (ESP-OBIS)
• Pedro Aros-Mardones (ESP-OBIS)
• Braulio Fernández (ESP OBIS) - OBIS certified
• Ignacio Ibáñez Lara (ESP-OBIS) - OBIS certified

The course is freely accessible through the OTGA platform: https://classroom.oceanteacher.org/course/view.php?id=948 by logging in with an OceanExpert account and using the enrollment key INVEMAR**OBIS2024. Course completion will take approximately 20 hours. This course is also based on the previously released English OBIS/OTGA course, Contributing and publishing datasets to OBIS.

For more information please contact:

• ioc.training@unesco.org (OTGA Coordinator)
• erika.montoya@invemar.org.co (INVEMAR)