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 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.
Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP). The Tagging of Pacific Predators project electronically tagged and tracked 4300 different marine predators, including sharks, seals and seabirds, tracing routes taken by these species in their search for ocean prey. The project, headed by American scientists Barbara Black, Steven Bograd, Daniel Costa and Randy Kochevar, discovered that many animals travel entire oceans at a variety of depths, from the poles to the tropics, continent to continent, in the search for food. It was also discovered that many predatory marine creatures migrate along the same oceanic corridors, congregating along their feeding routes.
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.
