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 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 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 includes correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Kristen Yarincik, Penny Dalton, Daphne Fautin, Wes Tunnell, Shelagh Wolfe, Jerry R. Schubel, among others.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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 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 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 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.
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.
Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee Patterns and Processes of the Ecosystem of the Northern Mid-Atlantic (MAR-ECO). The Patterns and Processes of the Ecosystems of the Northern Mid-Atlantic project documented marine life along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The project, led by Norwegian scientist Odd Aksel Bergstad, documented about a thousand species, from the smallest invertebrates to various species of whales, in deep basins and along the slopes of the underwater mountains.
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.
Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee Natural Geography in Shore Areas (NaGISA). The Natural Geography in Shore Areas project sought to produce a worldwide near-shore biodiversity inventory, examining marine life in seagrass beds and along rock shores. The project, led by an international contingent of scientists from Japan (Yoshihisa Shirayama), United States (Brenda Konar and Katrin Iken), Venezuela (Patricia Miloslavich and Juan José Cruz Motta), Italy (Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi), Kenya (Edward Kimani) and Canada (Gerhard Pohle), sampled data from 200 short-term sites and 40 long-terms sites, discovering new species and recording the habits and habitats of other species in new areas.
Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life affiliate program, the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS). The Ocean Biogeographic Information System project, compiled alongside the Census of Marine Life, serves as the world's largest online repository of spatially referenced marine life data, containing millions of records created from hundreds of CoML datasets. The project, led by American scientists Edward Vanden Berghe and J. Frederick Grassle (previously by New Zealander Mark J. Costello), locates all oceanic species in a permanent, evolving repository, identifying oceanic points of high diversity, tracking species dispersion, and integrating species locales with variables such as temperature, salinity, and depth.
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 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.
Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project (POST). The Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking project provided the first continent-wide research to acoustically track the migratory patterns of 18 species of marine life familiar to the Pacific coast. The project, led by American-Canadian scientist James Bolger, examined the migratory patterns of salmon, jumbo squid, sturgeon, and other coastal marine life, gathering data on roughly 16,000 individuals. The project served as a smaller-scale precursor of the Ocean Tracking Network.
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.
Fonds consists of records pertaining primarily to the professional activities of Ransom Myers and the major organizations and projects with which he was affiliated during his career as Killam Oceans Chair at Dalhousie University; there are also records created during his doctoral studies and his tenure as a research scientist at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. The collection includes correspondence, draft manuscripts, offprints, conference and association materials, presentations, course and teaching materials, litigation and consultancy records (including affidavits and invoices), photographs, annotated research materials, press collected about Myers’ work or pertaining to his research, student files, datasets and web content.
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 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 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 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.
Subseries contains correspondence, conference notes, and research articles related to regional subcommittees operating under the Census of Marine Life umbrella.
Fonds contains records created and collected by Ronald O'Dor in the course of his work as a marine biologist based at Dalhousie University, predominantly materials generated by the two major research projects: Census of Marine Life (CoML) and Ocean Tracking Network (OTN). Record types include research data, teaching materials, publications, manuscripts, correspondence, and committee and meeting minutes.
Subseries contains records related to Ron O'Dor's attendance at conferences, symposiums and meetings under the auspices of the Census of Marine Life, but not specifically related to any of the CoML subcommittees.
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 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 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 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.
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