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The Census of Marine Life Jesse H. Ausubel Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Census of Marine Life research program to assess explain diversity, distribution, abundance of marine organisms an international program involving experts in a variety of fields around the globe feasibility studies initiated in 1997 with potential users, funders, performers: resource managers, fishers, environmentalists, navies, scientists to culminate in 2010 can prototype global ocean observing system for marine life The Census of Marine LifeWhy Now? Environmental obligations UN Convention on Biodiversity - requires signatories to collect information on living resources Marine Protected Areas Sustainable Fisheries Habitat Loss and Pollution Global Climate Change Census of Marine LifeWhy Now - New Technologies Technologies Active passive acoustics: “Every fish is a submarine” Optical sensors Tags (animals doing surveys themselves) Vehicles: unmanned, remotely operated Genetics Data Management Communication Satellite communications for real-time observations from fixed and floating platforms Data Analysis On-line image libraries, recognition Modeling simulation for population estimates Tag about 10 species Total of 5000 animals Follow for 1-2 years North Pacific prototype TOPP Bioprobe Coverage The Census of Marine Life History of Marine Animal Populations What did live in the oceans? New Field Projects What does live in the oceans? Future of Marine Animal Populations What will live in the oceans? Data assimilation framework Ocean Biogeographic Information System Salmon Monitoring Lines: Fish “EZ Pass” Ocean Biogeographical Information System Vision: Click on maps of the ocean bring up data on what has been reported to live there Goal: Next generation info infrastructure for marine biology living marine resource mgmt Technical progress: Portal, interoperable databases on growing list of