Laboratory of Oceanic Techonology of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
The brazillian Ocean Basin – LabOceano – belongs to the Ocean Engineering Department at COPPE/UFRJ, the Rio de Janeiro Federal University Engineering Post Graduation Program. Since its beginnning, COPPE has done more than 10.000 agreements and contracts with national and international companies, public and private organisations, and governmental and non-governmental institutions. In the offshore oil […]
Lamont-Doherty Core Repository
The Lamont-Doherty Core Repository (LDCR) contains one of the world’s most unique and important collection of scientific samples from the deep sea. Sediment cores from every major ocean and sea are archived at the Core Repository. The collection contains approximately 72,000 meters of core composed of 9,700 piston cores; 7,000 trigger weight cores; and 2,000 […]
L’Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer
The Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER) conduct and promote basic and applied research as well as expert assessments and technological and industrial developments to study, assess and develop the ocean’s resources and their sustainable use; to improve methods to monitor, forecast and build stewardship to protect the oceans and enhance […]
IOC Ocean Data and Information System
The ODIS “Catalogue of Sources” aims to be an online browsable and searchable catalogue of existing ocean related web-based sources/systems of data and information as well as products and services. It will also provide information on products and visualize the landscape (entities and their connections) of ocean data and information sources. The Catalogue is not […]
IOC Ocean Literacy Portal
The Ocean Literacy Portal serves as a one-stop shop, providing resources and content available to all, with the goal of creating an ocean-literate society able to make informed and responsible decisions on ocean resources and ocean sustainability. Here you will find the necessary Ocean Literacy resources to develop knowledge, skills, values and behaviours needed to […]
IODP Gulf Coast Repository
The International Ocean Discovery Program’s (IODP) Gulf Coast Repository (GCR) is located in the Research Park on the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas. This repository stores DSDP, ODP, and IODP cores from the Pacific Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, and the Southern Ocean. The GCR houses over 100 kilometers […]
IOW Data Portal
Data are the key to successful scientific work. A sophisticated data management will guarantee the long-term availability of observational data and metadata, and will allow for an easy data search and retrieval, to supplement the international data exchange and to provide data products for scientific, political, industrial and public stakeholders. The Leibniz Institute for Baltic […]
Joint European Research Infrastructure Network for Coastal Observatories
The JERICO-RI is a long-term framework providing high-quality marine data, expertise and infrastructures for Europe’s coastal seas. The data are multidisciplinary, standardised, quality controlled, sustained, interoperable and free to access and use. The vision is to improve and innovate the cooperation in coastal observatories in Europe by implementing the coastal part of a European Ocean […]
Joint European Research Infrastructure of Coastal Observatories: Science, Service, Sustainability
The coastal environment is a major provider of goods and services, such as food, fossil fuels, construction materials, transport and recreation. It also hosts an invaluable biodiversity that forms complex ecosystems which are threatened by human activities such as agriculture, fisheries, aquaculture, shipping, urbanisation and tourism. Dedicated to the observation and monitoring of the European […]
Joint Global Ocean Flux Study Data System
Contains data collected by participants of U.S. JGOFS (Joint Global Ocean Flux Study) to study the ocean carbon cycle. Data are listed by individual project, region, and cruise.
Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance
The Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance (IEDA) is a community-based facility that serves to support, sustain, and advance the geosciences by providing data services for observational Geoscience data from the Ocean, Earth, and Polar Sciences. IEDA welcomes and encourages investigators to contribute their data to the IEDA collections so that the data can be discovered and […]
International Centre for Education, Marine and Atmospheric Sciences over Africa
The International Centre for Education, Marine and Atmospheric Sciences over Africa (ICEMASA) is a scientific joint venture established between South African and French institutions focusing on marine and atmospheric sciences. ICEMASA aims at promoting cooperation in various research topics, ocean circulation, ocean-atmosphere exchanges, marine biogeochemistry, marine ecosystems and fisheries, along the margins of Southern Africa […]
International Ocean Discovery Program Core Repositories
ODP cores – physical samples drilled from the seafloor – are stored and curated at core repositories funded by the platform providers. Cores are assigned to specific repositories based on their ocean of origin as shown below. After the expedition moratorium period, core samples may be requested for scientific research. A Curatorial Advisory Board makes […]
International Quality Controlled Ocean Database
The IQuOD (International Quality-controlled Ocean Database) effort is being organized by the oceanographic community, and includes experts in data quality and management, climate modellers and the broader climate-related community. The primary focus of IQuOD is to produce and freely distribute the highest quality and complete single ocean profile repository along with (intelligent) metadata and assigned […]
Integrated Climate Data Center
The Integrated Climate Data Center (ICDC) allows easy access to climate relevant data from in-situ measurements and satellite remote sensing. These data are important to determine the status and the changes in the climate system. Additionally some relevant re-analysis data are included, which are modeled on the basis of observational data.
Integrated Marine Observing System
Since 2006, the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) has been routinely operating a wide range of observing equipment throughout Australia’s coastal and open oceans, making all of its data accessible to the marine and climate science community, other stakeholders and users, and international collaborators. IMOS is one of the national research infrastructure capabilities currently supported […]
INSPIRE Implementing Rule, Version 3
INSPIRE Implementing Rule, Version 3 is the proposed metadata implementation required by the INSPIRE directive. It is important that any metadata standard recommended by IODE/JCOMM meets the requirements of this directive. The INSPIRE Directive aims to create a European Union spatial data infrastructure for the purposes of EU environmental policies and policies or activities which […]
Institute of Marine Research
The Institute of Marine Research (IMR) is one of the biggest marine research institutes in Europe, with about 1,000 employees. Our main activities are research, advisory work and monitoring. In January 2018, the IMR was merged with NIFES – the National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research. The new institute will be a leading supplier […]
Instituto Español de Oceanografía
The Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) is a public research organization dedicated to research in marine science, especially in relation to scientific knowledge of the oceans, sustainability of fishing resources and the marine environment. The IEO is not limited to carrying out basic and applied research, it also provides scientific and technological advice to administrations […]
Halocarbons in the Ocean and Atmosphere database project
The HalOcAt (Halocarbons in the Ocean and Atmosphere) database project has been initiated to work with the research community to bring together global oceanic and atmospheric halocarbon data with an emphasis on short-lived brominated and iodinated trace gases from the surface ocean and lower atmosphere. The project aims to utilise data collected during numerous cruises […]
Historical Hydrographic Data from BSH
Thousands of temperature and salinity profiles obtained by means of Nansen hydrographic casts and available earlier only as station sheets have been digitized at the German Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH). In a cooperative effort between the KlimaCampus of the University of Hamburg and the German Oceanographic Data Centre (DOD, Hamburg) about 7500 hydrographic profiles […]
Hustedt Diatom Collection Database
Since 2003, data concerning material, slides and taxa, existing within the Friedrich Hustedt Diatom centre, are being entered in a database. In 2014, all data from the initial collection database have been transferred into a new system using the EarthCape platform. The web interface of this new system is now on-line but is incomplete. The […]
HYDRALAB+ Adapting to climate change
The Infrastructure Network HYDRALAB started in 1997 as a Concerted Action (1997-2000) and continued as a network HYDRALAB-II (2000-2004). Both focus on the hydraulics, geophysical fluid dynamics, ship dynamics and ice engineering facilities and were supported by the European Commission in FP4 and FP5 respectively. After March 2004 HYDRALAB continued as an Infrastructure Network at […]
Implementation of the Strategy to Ensure the EMSO ERIC’s Long-term Sustainability
EMSO-Link is a 3-year project underpinning the long-term sustainability of EMSO ERIC, the pan-European distributed Research Infrastructure (RI) composed of fixed point open ocean observatories for the study and monitoring of European seas. EMSO pursues the long-term objective to be part of the upcoming European Ocean Observing System (EOOS), which is expected to integrate multiple […]
Index to Marine & Lacustrine Geological Samples
The Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples (IMLGS) is a tool to help scientists locate and obtain geologic material from sea floor and lakebed cores, grabs, and dredges archived by participating institutions around the world. Data and images related to the samples are prepared and contributed by the institutions for access via the IMLGS […]
Global Ocean Acidification Observation Network Data Portal
GOA-ON works to improve our understanding of global ocean acidification conditions and ecosystem responses by making ocean acidification data easily accessible. The GOA-ON Data Explorer provides access and visualization to ocean acidification data and data synthesis products being collected around the world from a wide range of sources, including moorings, research cruises, and fixed time […]
Global Sea Level Observing System Africa
A survey of the status of the African Sea level network was undertaken in 2005 in order to select potential locations for installation of new tide gauges, and also to assess which existing equipment required upgrade. This was done on the basis of a questionnaire sent to national contacts, as well as reports from previous […]
Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center
the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) s one of the twelve NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Data Centers. It provide Earth science data, information, and services to research scientists, applications scientists, applications users, and students. The GES DISC is the home (archive) of NASA Precipitation and Hydrology, as well as […]
Hakai Institute
The Hakai Institute conducts long-term scientific research at remote locations on the coastal margin of British Columbia. The Hakai Institute represents what happens when the elements of funding, infrastructure, science programs, skilled staff, and partners are integrated into one organization. The Hakai Institute is a set of interlocking programs that blend technology and science to […]
Gliders for Research, Ocean Observation and Management
The objective of the GROOM project is to design a new European Research Infrastructure that uses underwater gliders for collecting oceanographic data. This new infrastructure shall be beneficial for a large number of marine activities and societal applications, which can be related to climate change, marine ecosystems, resources, or security and which rely on academic […]
Global Geodetic Observing System
GGOS is the Global Geodetic Observing System and was initiated in July 2003. It is a component of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), which is the organization responsible for the advancement of Geodesy. The IAG and therefore GGOS are parts of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). GGOS works together with the […]
Global Multi-Resolution Topography Data Portal
The Global Multi-Resolution Topography (GMRT) synthesis is a multi-resolutional compilation of edited multibeam sonar data collected by scientists and institutions worldwide, that is reviewed, processed and gridded by the GMRT Team and merged into a single continuously updated compilation of global elevation data. The synthesis began in 1992 as the Ridge Multibeam Synthesis (RMBS), was […]
