The Marine and Coastal Research Institute of Colombia (INVEMAR) is a national institution in charge of marine research, the generation of data and establishing data management systems to share environmental data. INVEMAR was already involved as a data provider to OBIS during the Census of Marine Life project, which ended in 2010. INVEMAR joined IODE as an Associate Data Unit in 2015, and now become the official OBIS node of Colombia. They wish to make available their technical capacity, infrastructure and experience in marine sciences. We are delighted to welcoming INVEMAR to the OBIS network!
OBIS training course in Colombia completed successfully. This is one of several training courses on marine biodiversity data management that will be organized in Latin America in 2017, making use of OceanTeacher learning platform.