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Transforming 150 years of scientific observations of the Woods Hole Marine Region into a platform for new inquiry
• Why here?• Why now?• Why MBL?• For what?• For whom?
• Consolidate 150 years of data into a knowledge platform
• Extend with a new generation of scientific surveys
Thousands of papers, surveys, specimens, inventories from 1825 through 2015. View here.
Over 150 years and 800+ publications (and growing)
Long Term Physical and Chemical data
Physical data
Buzzards Bay Coalition-MBL Water Quality Measurement Stations
Asynchronous maturity across domains
Organizational domains in biology and their associated informatics disciplines.
“This is not an easy endeavor because any such synthesis needs to be broadly multidisciplinary and integrative (Whitham et al., 2006). And yet the potential pay offs are large given that genetic variation across plant and animal systems can have extended consequences at the population, community and ecosystem levels. “
This emergent capacity allows new questions to be asked and addressed
Integrated
This presents new opportunities for the MBL
Integrated informatics supports a new generation of multi-disciplinary science and leverages our rich legacy. Not possible 10 years ago. It’s new
and we know how to do it!
Interoperability Beyond Biology = Opportunity
Access to services, data, and expertise at scale and across distancesInteroperable across disciplines
Interoperability Beyond Biology = Opportunity
Not just a time-sensitive list of species but an atlas showing known distributions and ranges. Not just a nice to have. The basis for “we need to get better at this” – Stevens 11 July
A biodiversity atlas for the Woods Hole region
1 publication 25K records2500 species
Assist identifying new model species; supports refined ecological modeling. Example: Phenology profiles support climate change inquiry through time-dependent seasonal changes. Currently a focus of a WHOI 2015 proposal.
Rich Ecological Species Profiles
Extracted physical, intra- and inter-species interactions support refined ecological models and the identification of novel model marine species.
Rich Ecological Graph