The city of Jazz and Mardi Gras, New Orleans, was the site of the meeting. The multiple concurrent sessions, plenaries, town halls, exhibits, and thousands of posters can make your ...

UC Santa Barbara’s Thomas Turner has published a paper in the journal Zootaxa describing four new species of sponges. These novel specimens weren’t dredged from the murky depths or found ...

The Santa Barbara Channel MBON team's latest publication takes a closer look at the role of kelp structure in the underwater forest ...

GOOS BioEco, OBIS and GEOBON MBON today signed a new agreement to coordinate on the establishment of a global MBON ...

Assessing biological variables is a relative newcomer to the field of ocean observing, and an increasingly critical component of a comprehensive, sustainable system. In this , recorded on May 8, ...

The inaugural Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Biological Data Training Workshop was held February 8-9, 2018 in Seattle, WA. The workshop built on the successful partnership between IOOS and the ...

In Fall 2014, three approved Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) pilot projects launched in Alaska, California, and Florida, each working to develop an operational MBON that can be launched at ...

Sea Ice on the Chukchi Sea. Photo Credit: NASA/Kathryn Hansen In August 2015, the Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (AMBON) set out for their first field cruise. Led by chief ...