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Laurent Chmiel joined the OBIS secretariat
We are glad to announce that Mr Laurent Chmiel has joined our OBIS secretariat. Laurent will contribute to enhance the OBIS team's capabilities in community engagement, partnerships, and outreach.
OBIS secretariat now has two experts in eDNA
OBIS has a key role in several new projects that use eDNA or aim to further improve this technology for biological monitoring and we are glad to announce that we now have two knowledgeable staff members in our OBIS secretariat who are experts in eDNA - Dr Emilie Boulanger (consultant) and Dr Saara Suominen (project appointment).
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OBIS 2030 - The biodiversity data hub for the Ocean Decade Actions
The UN Ocean Decade recently endorsed the OBIS2030 project, which brings OBIS in the forefront of supporting the Decade actions in providing standardised, quality controlled and managed data to create information tailored for decision makers to help them protect and restore marine ecosystems and protect life in the ocean.
Silas Principe joined the OBIS secretariat
We are glad to announce that Mr Silas Principe (Brazil) has joined our OBIS secretariat on 11 April 2023. He is based at the IOC Project Office for IODE in Oostende (Belgium). Silas will be supporting the MPA Europe project, an EU co-funded project which aims to map the optimal locations for Marine Protected Areas in European seas.
Lisa Benedetti joined the OBIS secretariat
We are glad to announce that Ms Lisa Benedetti has joined our OBIS secretariat on 6 March 2023. Lisa will be supporting a new 4-year EU-funded project, MARCO-BOLO (MARine COastal BiOdiversity Long-term Observations) which aims to structure and strengthen European coastal and marine biodiversity observation capabilities.
Elizabeth Lawrence joined the OBIS secretariat
We are glad to announce that Dr Elizabeth Lawrence has joined our OBIS secretariat on 16 March 2022. In the coming year she will develop training resources to support researchers and data managers to manage and publish data from biological observing systems into OBIS following internationally agreed standards and best practices.
Serita Van Der Wal joined the OBIS secretariat
We welcome Ms Serita Van Der Wal (South Africa) at the OBIS secretariat based at the IOC Project Office for IODE in Oostende (Belgium). She will support us in (i) managing the information about observing systems, networks, and data assets provided via a portal for the Global Ocean Observing System, Biology and Ecosystems Panel (GOOS BioEco) and (ii) provide coordination with the observing systems, networks, and data-producing projects contributing to biological and ecosystem Essential Ocean Variables (EOV) with the aim to bring more of the data from these facilities fully online through OBIS, and become interoperable and reusable as part of an integrated global ocean observing system.
OBIS partners with the University of the South Pacific for a Marine Invasive Species Project
OBIS has partnered with the University of the South Pacific on a new marine invasives research pilot project called the Pacific Islands Marine Bioinvasions Alert Network (PacMAN). The project's overall goal is to build ocean science capacity for the early detection and rapid response to marine bioinvasions in Pacific Small Island Development State (PSIDS) using a range of different and novel molecular technologies.
Saara Suominen joined the OBIS secretariat
We welcome Ms Saara Suominen (Finland) at the OBIS secretariat. She will support us in setting up a monitoring plan for early detection of invasive species, utilizing eDNA analysis, as part of the PacMAN Project (Pacific Islands Marine Bioinvasions Alert Network), funded by the Government of Flanders, as well as providing helpdesk support to OBIS nodes and users.