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A compendium of publications celebrating the 5th anniversary for the Census of Marine Life / Ron O'Dor and Colin Reed

File includes a program-level overview of the CoML research plan, as well as a compilation of all of the CoML published research papers from the Human Edges (NaGISA, CReefs, GoMA, POST), Hidden Boundaries (CoMargE, CeDAMar), Active Geology (ChEs, CenSeam), Central Waters (TOPP, CMarZ, MAR-ECO), Ice Oceans (ArcOD, CAML), and Microscopic Ocean (ICoMM) ocean realm projects.

File also includes reports from the following national and regional implementation committees: Australia, Top Predators, Canada, PICES, Caribe, China, Europe, Indian Ocean, Japan, South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, United States, and Regional Ecosystems (GoMx).

Census of Marine Life (CoML)

Abstracts and presentation drafts from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2002 Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition, held February 2002 in Boston, MS

File largely includes records from the Challenges in Biodiversity afternoon symposium, "The Census of Marine Life: Progress and Prospects," which featured presentations by O'Dor and others. File also includes correspondence between Ron O'Dor, Cynthia Decker, Fred Grassle, Jesse Ausubel and many others.

ArcOD: Arctic Ocean Diversity

Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee, Arctic Ocean Diversity (ArcOD). The Arctic Ocean Diversity project was designed to catalogue animal species and microbes found in the Arctic region—on, in and under the sea ice, in deep basins and along the continental shelves. The project was led by American scientists Bodil Bluhm, Rolf Gradinger and Russ Hopcroft, who sought to document the northward extensions of ranges of Arctic fish and invertebrates.

Australia and New Zealand Subcommittee 2001-2002

File includes conference materials and correspondence related to the establishment of an Australia and New Zealand regional subcommittee for the Census of Marine Life. File includes the slides of Ron O'Dor and Cynthia Decker's CoML presentation at the 2001 AMSA NZMSS Conference, CoML poster reproductions by Ron O'Dor, Cynthia Decker and Fred Grassle, and a proposal to the meeting of the CoML Scientific Steering Committee for an Australian Census of Marine Life National Program (written by Ian Poiner and Kim Finney). File includes correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Russ Babcock, Robin Rigby, George Jackson, Micehlle Waycott, Jesse Ausubel, Teresa Lush, Ian Poiner, Bryony Bennett, among others.

Baseline report of the Census of Marine Life, 2003 / compiled by Ron O'Dor

File contains draft manuscript material related to Ron O'Dor's compilation of the Baseline Report of the Census of Marine Life, later published as The Unknown Ocean and A Decade of Discovery. File includes heavily edited manuscript drafts and correspondence between Ron O'Dor, Rainer Froese, George Boehlert, Alasdair MacIntyre, among others.

CAML: Census of Antarctic Marine Life

Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee, Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML). The Census of Antarctic Marine Life project was designed to monitor changes in marine fish and invertebrate populations as a result of depletion in the ice shelves. The project was led by Australian scientists Michael Stoddart and Victoria Wadley, who documented more than 16,000 species, of which several hundred were previously unknown.

Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico Subcommittee 2002-2004

File contains correspondence and draft funding proposals related to the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico subcommittee of the Census of Marine Life, from 2002 to 2004.

File includes drafts of Fred Grassle's paper "The Development and Management of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System into a Self-sustaining Global Network: A Proposal to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation", Eduardo Klein's draft proposal to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to convene a workshop entitled "Caribbean Marine Biodiversity: the Known and the Unknown", Patricia Miloslavich's proposal to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support a Caribbean Regional Implementation Committee (CRIC) entitled "To Strengthen the Caribbean Implementation Committee for the Census of Marine Life", and a letter of intent regarding a "South American Scientific Steering Committee for the Census of Marine Life" by Mirian Fernandez.

File includes information related to the OBIS, NaGISA, HMAP, CReefs projects. File also includes information related to the Coral Reef USNC-CoML Workshop (August 2004, Oahu, Hawaii), the First Caribbean Workshop of the Census of Marine Life (June 2004, Isla Margarita, Venezuela), and the CARICOMP (Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity) network.

File includes correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Jesse Ausubel, Giselle Firme, Matthew S. Edwards, Michel Boudrias, Eduardo Klein, Cynthia Decker, among others.

Caribbean Large Marine Ecosystem project 2007

File contains draft manuscripts of projects and papers as well as correspondence related to the Caribbean Large Marine Ecosystem (CLME) project, managed under the auspices of the Census of Marine Life. File includes a draft manuscript of the paper "The Conceptual Basis for and Structure of the Caribbean Large Marine Ecosystem (CLME) Project", and slides for the presentation "The Caribbean Large Marine Ecosystem (CLME) Project: Engaging Partners for Effective Transboundary Living Marine Resource Governance". File also includes information related to the MAR-ECO project, as well as the relationship between the Ocean Tracking Network and the Census of Marine Life. File includes correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Jesse Ausubel, Kirsten Martin, Kristen Yarincik, Lucia M. Fanning, and Patricia Miloslavich.

CeDAMar: Census of the Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life

Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee, Census of the Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life (CeDAMar). The Census of the Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life examined the feeding patterns and distribution ranges of life in the abyssal plains and larger oceanic basins in the Southern Atlantic and Southern Pacific oceans, ranging from single-celled organisms to larger cephalopods. The project, led by scientists Pedro Martinez Arbizu and Craig Smith, catalogued more than 500 new species and examined the causes of change to abyssal life far removed from the ocean floor (in the form of climate change, pollution and mining efforts).

CenSeam: Global Census of Marine Life on Seamounts

Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee Global Census of Marine Life on Seamounts (CenSeam). The Global Census of Marine Life on Seamounts project examined life on more than 100,000 seamounts that rose more than 1000 metres from the ocean floor, discovering new species and ecosystems similar to those on neighbouring slopes. The project, led by New Zealanders Malcolm Clark, Mireille Consalvey and Ashley Rowden, and American Karen Stocks, examined the perilous nature of these isolated communities when subject to changes such as damage caused by nearby fishing.

Census of Marine Life charter and correspondence

File contains several drafts of the Census of Marine Life Charter, as well as correspondence between Ron O'Dor, Fred Grassle, Jesse Ausubel, Christina Chiu, Victor Ariel Gallardo, among others. File also includes information related to PICES and CoML grants through the Sloan Foundation.

Census of Marine Life (CoML)

Series contains research files, correspondence, conference meeting minutes and notes compiled by Ron O'Dor and other members of the Census of Marine Life steering committee and subcommittees.

Census of Marine Life publications

Subseries contains textual records related to the publications created by the Census of Marine Life. Subseries includes papers, books, and reports.

Centre for Marine Biodiversity Workshop, Spring 2001, Halifax, Nova Scotia

File also includes materials and correspondence related to a 2000 meeting, as well as the draft proceedings from the 2002 meeting and correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Jesse Ausubel, Kees Zwanenburg, Kirsten Querbach, Yvan Simard, Serge Labonte, Kenneth G. Foote, Ellen Kenchington, among others.

ChESS: Biogeography of Deep Water Chemosynthetic Ecosystems

Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee Biogeography of Deep Water Chemosynthetic Ecosystems (ChESS). The Biogeography of Deep Water Chemosynthetic Ecosystems project explored life in the hostile, acidic, oftentimes hot and corrosive deep-sea seeps and hydrothermal vents, where life thrives away from any sunlight. The project, led by British scientists Paul Tyler and Maria Baker, American scientist Chris German, and Spanish scientist Eva Ramirez-Llodr, examined more than 1000 species and expanded ranges further north, south, and deeper than had previously been explored.

Chinese Subcommittee 2002-2004

File contains records related to the Chinese regional subcommittee for the Census of Marine Life. File includes information related to meetings in Qingdao in 2003 (the 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Algal Biotechnology) and 2004 (First China Workshop on Census of Marine Life). File also includes proposals submitted to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in support of a Chinese National Implementation Committee for the Census of Marine Life submitted by Yunqing Zhang and Song Sun. File also includes correspondence related to the conferences, and developing Chinese CoML activities. File includes correspondence from between Ron O'Dor, Qisheng Tang, Phoebe Zhang, Shuhei Nishida, Ximing Guo, Fred Grassle, Jesse Ausubel, Kristen Yarincik, and others.

CMarZ: Census of Marine Zooplankton

Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ). The Census of Marine Zooplankton project examined the diversity and distribution of ocean current-residing invertebrates. The project, led by American scientist Ann Bucklin, Japanese scientist Shuhei Nishida and German scientist Sigrid Schiels, collected more than 10,000 samples from locations around the world’s oceans, discovering nearly 100 new species.

COMARGE: Continental Margin Ecosystems on a Worldwide Scale

Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee Continental Margin Ecosystems on a Worldwide Scale (COMARGE). The Continental Margin Ecosystem on a Worldwide Scale project examined life on the continental slopes, over the course of 60 expeditions. The project, led by French scientists Myrian Sibuet and Lenaick Menot and American scientist Robert Carney, discovered stretches of life flourishing on these marginal spaces (including heretofore unknown coral reefs off Africa). The project also examined the threat posed by oil and gas drilling on these sensitive stretches of seafloor.

Correspondence and papers for Launching an Education and Science Communications Agenda for the Census of Marine Life conference

File also includes Penny Dalton, Ron O'Dor and Cynthia Decker's 2002 proposal to the Sloan Foundation — A Secretariat in Support of the Development of a Research Program, the Census of Marine Life — and correspondence between Ron O'Dor, Jesse Ausubel, Sara Hickox, Penny Dalton, Sue Morra, Sarah Schoedinger, Ted Anderson, T. Philip Hicks, among others.

CReefs: Census of Coral Reef Ecosystems

Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee Census of Coral Reef Ecosystems (CReefs). The Census of Coral Reef Ecosystems project conducted a thorough examination of the sorts of life found in the world’s coral reefs, discovering thousands of new species in the process while placing known species in new locales. The project, headed up by Americans Nancy Knowlton and Russell Brainard and Australian scientist Julian Caley, developed a tool called the Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure to provided standardized examination of species distribution, warming temperatures and oceanic acidification at reef locations throughout the world.

Early schedules and timetables for the Census of Marine Life

File also includes a draft science plan — Pilot Census of Marine Life in the Gulf of Maine, by Kenneth G. Foote. File includes information related to MAR-ECO, NaGISA, GOMA and other projects, and correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Jesse Ausubel, Cynthia Decker, Fred Grassle, Alasdair McIntyre, and others.

European Subcommittee of CoML 2002-2003

File contains correspondence, proceedings, notes, and research related to the founding and funding of the European subcommittee of the Census of Marine Life. File includes Ron O'Dor and Penelope Dalton's funding proposal submitted to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, "Strengthening Europe's Participation in the Census of Marine Life." File also includes notes, papers, and preparatory information related to the IASON meeting in Thessaloniki on May 31, 2003 and the Euro-CoML meeting in Amsterdam on September 20, 2003. File includes correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Rainer Froese, Alasdair McIntyre, Tasso Eleftheriou, Carlo Heip, Eva Ramirez-Llodra, Elly de Bruijn, Jill Aitken, and others. File contains information related to EUROCORES, OBIS, ICES, FMAP, and HMAP.

First and second meetings of the US National Committee for the Census of Marine Life, held December 2002 in La Jolla, CA, and 2 April 2003 in Washington, DC

File includes slides from Ron O'Dor's introductory presentation; presentations by Penny Dalton and Daphne Fautin; a draft of the OBIS five-year plan, dated December 2002; and correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Fred Grassle, Peter Jumars, Stephen K. Brown, Margot Bohan, Yoshihisa Shirayama, Penny Dalton, among others.

FMAP: Future of Marine Animal Populations

Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee Future of Marine Animal Populations (FMAP). The Future of Marine Animal Populations project analyzed fishing data and scientific surveys to determine changes in diversity and distribution of marine life. The project, headed by Canadian scientists Ian Jonsen, Heike Lotze, and Boris Worm (and previously by Ransom Myers), identified hot spots of diversity drawn from the Census of Marine Life database and changes in water temperature as one of the most integral determinants in the shaping of marine diversity patterns, while confirming that marine conservation helps to correct the rapid population declines associated with over-exploitation of marine stocks.

Fourth US National Committee Meeting for the Census of Marine Life held 24 June 2004 in Long Beach, CA

File includes excerpts from the draft proposal to make CMarZ a new CoML field project; Mitchell Sogin and J.W. de Leeuw's ICoMM Science Plan; FMAP White Paper related to US CoML activities; OBIS White Paper update; and correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Fred Grassle, Jesse Ausubel, Mirtha Lewis, Daphne Fautin, among others.

GOMA: Gulf of Maine Area

Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee Gulf of Maine Area (GOMA). The GOMA project involved creating a species register of the diverse Gulf of Maine, examining tidal pools, slopes, seamounts, and other underwater landforms. The project, headed by Canadian and American scientists Sara Ellis, Lewis Incze and Peter Lawton, assembled more than 4000 species and microbes native to the area (more than twice the amount previously determined to live in the Gulf). The project used sonar as a means of examining the overall marine ecosystem and species’ interactions, rather than focusing on individual species.

Great Barrier Reef Region Seabed Biodiversity Project

File includes information related to the Great Barrier Reef Region (GBR) Seabed Biodiversity Project related to Census of Marine Life activities in Australia, undertaken by CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Laboratories. File includes a CoML Australia brochure, a CoML survey, and correspondence between C. Roland Pitcher and Ian Cresswell regarding seabed biodiversity off Australia.

HMAP: History of Marine Animal Populations

Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee History of Marine Animal Populations (HMAP). The History of Marine Animal Populations project traces evidence of how human activity and nature have changed marine life in recent years. The project, led by Irish scientist Paul Holm, Danish scientists Brian MacKenzie, Anne Husum Marboe and Bo Poulsen, and American Andrew Rosenberg, examined the prevalence of shell jewellery, evidence found in whaling logs, fishing boats' taxation logs, historical storm records, and numerous other primary and secondary sources, documenting humanity’s destruction of marine habitats, fish stocks and invertebrate populations.

ICoMM: International Census of Marine Microbes

Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee International Census of Marine Microbes (ICoMM). The International Census of Marine Microbes project sought to determine the diversity and distribution of microscopic sea life from hundreds of locations around the world. The project, led by Americans Mitchell Sogin and Linda Amaral-Zettler and Dutch scientist Jan de Leeuw, discovered that initial estimates of ocean-residing microbe species was vastly under previously predicted levels, with numbers of species being at least ten times greater than previous estimates, and many more widely distributed than predicted. They also discovered that thousands of different microbe species live within a single litre of seawater.

Indian Ocean Subcommittee of CoML 2002-2003

File contains correspondence, proceedings, notes, and research related to the Indian Ocean subcommittee of the Census of Marine Life. File includes information and preparatory documentation related to the Conference on the Indian Ocean Observing System (IOGOOS), held in Mauritius in November 2002 and First Indian Ocean Workshop on Marine BIodiversity held in Goa in December 2003. File includes correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Cynthia Decker, Jesse Ausubel, Shubha Sathyendranath, Charles Griffiths, Edward Vanden Berghe, Michael DeLapa, Ian Poiner, Kristen Yarincik, and others.

International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO) 2001

File contains includes planning records for the IAPSO-IABO conference held in Mar del Plata, Argentina, on 26 October 2001, which was important in establishing ties in South America with the Census of Marine Life. File includes annotated minutes, schedules, and Secretariat actions and resolutions, as well as correspondence between Ron O'Dor, Victor Airel Gallardo, Jesse Ausubel, Fred Grassle, Shubha Sathyendranath, Vivian Lutz, Jose Muelbert, Vivian Montecino Banderet, Gerardo Perillo, among others.

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Annual Science Conference, held October 2002 in Copenhagen

File includes records regarding O'Dor's presentation with Kristen Yarincik and C.J. Decker, "The Census of Marine Life: Linking the Oceans' Past, Present and Future." File also includes a report of the Planning Group on Comparing the Structure of Marine Ecosystems in the ICES Area, as well as Euro CoML updates and correspondence between Ron O'Dor and David Griffith, Harry Dooley, Ann Buclin, Fred Grassle, Rainer Froese, Odd Aksel Bergstad, among others.

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) 2001 Annual Science Conference, Oslo

File includes records related to a session convened by Ron O'Dor — The Response of Cephalopod Populations and Fisheries to Changing Environment and Ecosystems — and his presentation, "Counting Cephalopods in the CoML." File also contains reports from the ICES Working Group on Biology and Assessment of Deep-Sea Fisheries Resources, the Steering Group on GOOS, the Planning Group for a Workshop on Ecosystem Models, and the Planning Group on Comparing the Structure of Marine Ecosystems in the ICES Area, held at ICES advisory committee meetings. There is also correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Cynthia Decker, Michael Reeve, Pamela Baker-Masson, Uwe Piatkowski, Görel kjeldsen, Teresa Borges, and others.

International Governmental Commission Western Pacific (IOC-WESTPAC)

File contains records related to two conferences held by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, SubCommission for the Western Pacific (IOC/WESTPAC). Records include a proposal and minutes for the Workshop on the Census of Marine Life in Southeast Asia held in Phuket in October 2001, and conference documentation and correspondence related to the sixth IOC/WESTPAC International Scientific Symposium held in Hangzhou in April 2004. File includes correspondence between Ron O'Dor, Jesse Ausubel, Fred Grassle, Cynthia Decker, and Yoshihisa Shirayama.

Japanese Subcommittee of CoML 2002-2003

File contains records related to the Japanese regional subcommittee for the Census of Marine Life. File includes information related to a meeting of the Oceanographic Society of Japan in Tokyo in March 2002 (where O'Dor attended and presented), at which much discussion regarding the forming of a Japanese CoML committee was undertaken. File includes correspondence between Ron O'Dor, Philip Hicks, Robin Rigby, Satoquo Seino, and Yoshihsa Shirayama. File also includes information related to NaGISA.

Management and administration of the Census of Marine Life

Subseries contains records related to the management of the Census of Marine Life in general. File includes membership rolls, general budgeting information, Loan applications, meeting minutes, and CoML-related news and promotional information.
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