Posts tagged with "eDNA"
UNESCO eDNA Expeditions - Successfully transforming innovative eDNA sampling into actionable data with OBIS expertise
Decoding the Ocean - UNESCO eDNA Expeditions Unveil Ocean Biodiversity
PacMAN Fiji achieves "Marine Invasive Species Monitoring-Ready" status as project is completed
Suva, Fiji, 20 November 2024 – The Pacific Islands Marine Bioinvasions Alert Network (PacMAN) has concluded with resounding success, positioning Fiji as the first island nation recognised by UNESCO as "marine invasive species monitoring ready." Supported by the Flanders Government (Kingdom of Belgium), the four-year IOC-UNESCO project has significantly strengthened Fiji's ability to address the growing challenge of marine invasive species.
OBIS eDNA services, expertise and data publication
OBIS is actively engaged in eDNA research and the eDNA research community. Through its many projects, OBIS develops monitoring studies as well as tools for the bioinformatic processing and analysis of eDNA data, and works on the development of community-approved metadata standards. As a data publication platform, OBIS enables research teams, authors, and monitoring projects to publish occurrence data derived from quantitative (qPCR/ddPCR) or community-level (metabarcoding) eDNA approaches to make ocean biodiversity data globally accessible.
MARCO-BOLO Data Analysis Challenge for eDNA biodiversity monitoring
OBIS is joining forces with VLIZ and UiT to organise the MARCO-BOLO Data Analysis Challenge to improve recommendations for eDNA metabarcoding pipeline choice and develop indicator workflows to report on biodiversity monitoring. Already 43 participants have registered their interest to participate and add their pipeline to the comparison.
OBIS partners with marine World Heritage sites in a global project to study biodiversity.
UNESCO launches an ambitious global citizen science project to assess the diversity of fish and endangered species at marine World Heritage sites. Environmental DNA analyses across a selection of these sites will also provide information to enable global analyses on the vulnerability of flagship marine protected areas to climate change. The project called: "eDNA expeditions in marine World Heritage Sites" is also endorsed as a project of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.