File includes Kees Zwanenburg's funding proposal; Centre for Marine Biodiversity meeting agendas and draft minutes; a draft statement regarding the formation of National/Regional Committees for the Census of Marine Life; and correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Ellen Kenchington, Kees Zwanenburg, Victoria Clayton, among others.
File includes the papers and abstracts for sessions presented by Kees Zwanenburg, Pierre Brunel, Robert Rangeley, Alan Longhurst, John Roff, John Wares, Clyde Murray, Kathleen Martin, Richard Bailey, Lou van Guelpen and Gerald Pohle, Connie Lovejoy, Jake Rice, Kenneth Frank and Nancy Shackell, Paul Bentzen, Paul Hebert, Bob Branton and Jerry Black, Dale Kiefer and Vardis Tsontos, Mark Costello, Ken Minns, Howard Powles, and Jesse Ausubel.
File contains manuscript draft, permissions forms, and information related to CReefs, OBIS, and NaGISA projects. File also includes correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Kristen Yarincik, Darlene Trew Crist, Anne Marboe, Robin Rigby, Suzy Ryan, David Welch, and others.
File contains records related to the African Marine Biodiversity Workshop, and also Census of Marine Life research related to Africa, from 2002 through 2007. File includes a proposal for the founding of the Workshop in 2002 (along the lines of similar Asian and South American workshops), a proposal of a paper by Ron O'Dor and Hassan Moustahfid entitled "Migration Patterns of Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris) Using Automated Acoustic Tracking Telemetry System in South Atlantic Moroccan Shelf," a proposal of a paper by Tony Ribbink entitled "Informing Marine Protected Area Development in Ecosystems that Include Coelacanths. Stage 1. Tanga, Tanzania". File also includes documentation for a conference of The South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity related to the study and protection of coelacanths. File also includes correspondence between Ron O'Dor, Jesse Ausubel, and Tony Ribbink.
File contains records related to the potential forming of a South Pacific regional subcommittee for the Census of Marine Life. File includes information related to the 2003 DEEPSEA conference (including a proposal for major sponsorship by CoML), a presentation on the HUSAC (Humboldt Current/ Sub-Antarctic Convergence) Marine Biodiversity Project, CoML-related correspondence. File includes correspondence between Ron O'Dor, Dennis Gordon, Kristen Yarncik, Ross Shotton, Jesse Ausubel, Ian Poiner, John Annala, Cynthia Decker, Bob Gauldie, and others. File also includes some information related to OBIS and HMAP.
File contains records related to the founding of the South American regional subcommittee for the Census of Marine Life. File includes information the First South American Workshop on Marine Biodiversity held in Concepcion, Chile, in October 2002 (organized by CoML, the Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. File includes drafts of funding proposals, and much correspondence. File includes correspondence between Ron O'Dor, Odd Aksel Bergstad, Cynthia Decker, David Farmer, Yoshihisa Shirayama, Jesse Ausubel, Victor Ariel Gallardo, Shubha Sathyendranath, among others.
File contains records regarding the Census of Marine Life Special Symposium held on the final day of the conference and moderated by Ron O'Dor. Records includes correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Ed Urban, Slava Bizikov, Odd Aksel Bergstad, Jesse Ausubel, Ulf Lie, Andrey Gebruk, Sergei Lappo, Vera Alexander, Mark Costello, Karen Stocks, and others.
File contains drafts of the conference report, Ron O'Dor's notes, and correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Shubha Sathyendranath, Jesse Ausubel, and Cynthia Decker.
File includes a schedule of NOAA CoML seminar presentations, each representing a CoML subcommittee; correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Reginald Beach; and O'Dor's notes from Dirk Steinke's DNA barcoding seminar.
File includes the workshop report; a five-year Canadian National Plan; Paul Snelgrove's grant funding application, and related Centre for Marine Biodiversity meeting agendas and minutes. File also includes correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Paul Snelgrove, Jesse Ausubel, Kees Zwanenburg, Michale Sinclair, Ellen Kenchington, among others.
File includes a meeting agenda and Ron O'Dor's notes, as well as correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Peter Lawton, Michele DuRand, and Colette Beaulne.
File includes a May 2002 financial exercise and budgeting information, as well as correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Kenneth Foote, Barbara Block, David Welch, Yoshihisa Shirayama, Aileen Lee, among others.
File includes slides of Ron O'Dor's and Cynthia Decker's presentation, a photograph of the attendees, information related to nominations for Pew Fellowships submitted by Ron O'Dor, and correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Cynthia Robinson, Frederika Moser, Stephen Hall, Debie Meck, and others.
File contains draft articles and correspondence related to the Pelagic Fisheries Research Program, a subcommittee of the Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project, under the auspices of the Census of Marine Life. File includes draft articles and conference presentation proposals by Laurent Dagorn and Kim Holland, John Sibert, Michael Musyl and Richard Brill. File includes correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Dodie Lau, Laurent Dagorn, Cynthia Decker, N. Coineau, and Kim Holland.
File contains travel information, agendas, schedules and correspondence regarding Myers' travel to participate in Census of Marine life, Future of Marine Animal Populations, Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC), History of Marine Animal Populations, Lenfest, Aldo Leopold Leadership Program, Mote workshop, workshop in Sweden and more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
File includes correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Kristen Yarincik, Penny Dalton, Daphne Fautin, Wes Tunnell, Shelagh Wolfe, Jerry R. Schubel, among others.
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.
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.
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.
File includes a bibliography of Smithsonian marine publications created between 2002 and 2005 as well as correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Michael Lang.
File contains correspondence between Myers and Sean Cox and Jennifer Cox regarding lobster research, involvement in Census of Marine Life and Future of Marine Populations. Datasets and manuscripts are also included as attachments.
File contains correspondence regarding the Census of Marine Life steering committee. File also contains essay regarding the framework being used for the census written by Ralph Gomory.