OBIS
@obis.org
We provide open access to global ocean biodiversity data.
#OBISCommunity
#OBISCommunity
#OBISNodeSpotlight 🧊 Dive under the ice and discover how Antarctic OBIS has been connecting marine biodiversity data from the region to global science for two decades.
➡️ Read more: obis.org/2025/12/14/o...
➡️ Read more: obis.org/2025/12/14/o...
December 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
#OBISNodeSpotlight 🧊 Dive under the ice and discover how Antarctic OBIS has been connecting marine biodiversity data from the region to global science for two decades.
➡️ Read more: obis.org/2025/12/14/o...
➡️ Read more: obis.org/2025/12/14/o...
#OBISDataSuperPowers 💫 Did you know that the OBIS Mapper lets you filter records by a time window of your choice, letting you build historical baselines?
You can generate a dataset to explore long-term trends and change over time.
✅ Try it! mapper.obis.org
You can generate a dataset to explore long-term trends and change over time.
✅ Try it! mapper.obis.org
December 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
#OBISDataSuperPowers 💫 Did you know that the OBIS Mapper lets you filter records by a time window of your choice, letting you build historical baselines?
You can generate a dataset to explore long-term trends and change over time.
✅ Try it! mapper.obis.org
You can generate a dataset to explore long-term trends and change over time.
✅ Try it! mapper.obis.org
OBIS joined the @gbif.org Technical Support Hour for a session on interoperability, data quality, & why publishing marine biodiversity data to OBIS and GBIF matters for science & policy.
👉 The main takeaway: GBIF-ready datasets are a click away from being added to OBIS!
obis.org/2025/10/23/o...
👉 The main takeaway: GBIF-ready datasets are a click away from being added to OBIS!
obis.org/2025/10/23/o...
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
OBIS joined the @gbif.org Technical Support Hour for a session on interoperability, data quality, & why publishing marine biodiversity data to OBIS and GBIF matters for science & policy.
👉 The main takeaway: GBIF-ready datasets are a click away from being added to OBIS!
obis.org/2025/10/23/o...
👉 The main takeaway: GBIF-ready datasets are a click away from being added to OBIS!
obis.org/2025/10/23/o...
#OBISDataSuperPowers 💫 Did you know that OBIS lets you filter your data & view it in the OBIS Mapper, an interactive tool that displays your selection on a zoomable map?
You can then download the records as a CSV, ready to use 🦀 > 📌 > 💾 !
🔗 Learn how: manual.obis.org/access
You can then download the records as a CSV, ready to use 🦀 > 📌 > 💾 !
🔗 Learn how: manual.obis.org/access
November 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
#OBISDataSuperPowers 💫 Did you know that OBIS lets you filter your data & view it in the OBIS Mapper, an interactive tool that displays your selection on a zoomable map?
You can then download the records as a CSV, ready to use 🦀 > 📌 > 💾 !
🔗 Learn how: manual.obis.org/access
You can then download the records as a CSV, ready to use 🦀 > 📌 > 💾 !
🔗 Learn how: manual.obis.org/access
As a fast-developing technology for biodiversity observation, eDNA requires strong community alignment and coordinated approaches. The OBIS Secretariat joined a recent 3-day @gbif.org workshop to help unlock eDNA’s full observing potential! @ednaquaplan.bsky.social @dtobioflow.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
As a fast-developing technology for biodiversity observation, eDNA requires strong community alignment and coordinated approaches. The OBIS Secretariat joined a recent 3-day @gbif.org workshop to help unlock eDNA’s full observing potential! @ednaquaplan.bsky.social @dtobioflow.bsky.social
#OBISDataSuperPowers 💫 Did you know OBIS documents the full dataset structure (Occurrence Core + optional extensions like eMoF, Sampling Effort, Tracking, and DNA) to add context to records?
🔗 More about the OBIS dataset structure: manual.obis.org/formatting.h...
🔗 More about the OBIS dataset structure: manual.obis.org/formatting.h...
November 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
#OBISDataSuperPowers 💫 Did you know OBIS documents the full dataset structure (Occurrence Core + optional extensions like eMoF, Sampling Effort, Tracking, and DNA) to add context to records?
🔗 More about the OBIS dataset structure: manual.obis.org/formatting.h...
🔗 More about the OBIS dataset structure: manual.obis.org/formatting.h...
Time to reflect on #LivingData2025! 👀 With 1,000+ participants and 4 days of discussions, debates, and inspiration, the conference was a milestone for the biodiversity data community.
We brought back 5 key takeaways on the future of biodiversity data: obis.org/2025/11/20/o...
We brought back 5 key takeaways on the future of biodiversity data: obis.org/2025/11/20/o...
November 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Time to reflect on #LivingData2025! 👀 With 1,000+ participants and 4 days of discussions, debates, and inspiration, the conference was a milestone for the biodiversity data community.
We brought back 5 key takeaways on the future of biodiversity data: obis.org/2025/11/20/o...
We brought back 5 key takeaways on the future of biodiversity data: obis.org/2025/11/20/o...
#OBISDataSuperPowers 💫 Did you know OBIS applies automatic data quality control flags (on-land coordinates, depth beyond bathymetry, event-time issues, non-marine taxa) to filter artifacts before skewing maps and models?
🔗 Check out how the flags work manual.obis.org/dataquality....
🔗 Check out how the flags work manual.obis.org/dataquality....
November 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
#OBISDataSuperPowers 💫 Did you know OBIS applies automatic data quality control flags (on-land coordinates, depth beyond bathymetry, event-time issues, non-marine taxa) to filter artifacts before skewing maps and models?
🔗 Check out how the flags work manual.obis.org/dataquality....
🔗 Check out how the flags work manual.obis.org/dataquality....
Explore how OBIS can provide the trusted data, tools, and expertise needed to support the digital foundation of the BBNJ Agreement and its four pillars.
Read more: obis.org/2025/11/13/o...
Read more: obis.org/2025/11/13/o...
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Explore how OBIS can provide the trusted data, tools, and expertise needed to support the digital foundation of the BBNJ Agreement and its four pillars.
Read more: obis.org/2025/11/13/o...
Read more: obis.org/2025/11/13/o...
#OBISDataSuperPowers 💫 Did you know you can search multiple taxa at once on OBIS?
Multi-taxon filtering lets you compare microbes to macrofauna using the same map, flags, and downloads.
🔗 Learn more about multi-taxon filtering in the OBIS manual: manual.obis.org/access
Multi-taxon filtering lets you compare microbes to macrofauna using the same map, flags, and downloads.
🔗 Learn more about multi-taxon filtering in the OBIS manual: manual.obis.org/access
November 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
#OBISDataSuperPowers 💫 Did you know you can search multiple taxa at once on OBIS?
Multi-taxon filtering lets you compare microbes to macrofauna using the same map, flags, and downloads.
🔗 Learn more about multi-taxon filtering in the OBIS manual: manual.obis.org/access
Multi-taxon filtering lets you compare microbes to macrofauna using the same map, flags, and downloads.
🔗 Learn more about multi-taxon filtering in the OBIS manual: manual.obis.org/access
We are proud and delighted to announce the signing of a renewed partnership between OBIS and @gbif.org at #LivingData2025
With this, we strengthen our shared commitment to make marine biodiversity data more interoperable, accessible, and actionable!
⤵️ Read more
obis.org/2025/10/23/o...
With this, we strengthen our shared commitment to make marine biodiversity data more interoperable, accessible, and actionable!
⤵️ Read more
obis.org/2025/10/23/o...
October 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
We are proud and delighted to announce the signing of a renewed partnership between OBIS and @gbif.org at #LivingData2025
With this, we strengthen our shared commitment to make marine biodiversity data more interoperable, accessible, and actionable!
⤵️ Read more
obis.org/2025/10/23/o...
With this, we strengthen our shared commitment to make marine biodiversity data more interoperable, accessible, and actionable!
⤵️ Read more
obis.org/2025/10/23/o...
Following the #LivingData2025 session gathering OBIS, GOOS, MBON & @gbif.org, dive deeper into the collaboration between GOOS & OBIS and explore how they advance together the BioEco EOVs.
Read more obis.org/2025/10/22/o...
Read more obis.org/2025/10/22/o...
October 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Following the #LivingData2025 session gathering OBIS, GOOS, MBON & @gbif.org, dive deeper into the collaboration between GOOS & OBIS and explore how they advance together the BioEco EOVs.
Read more obis.org/2025/10/22/o...
Read more obis.org/2025/10/22/o...
This is it! 🥳The first global biodiversity data conference is starting in Bogotá!
If you could not attend, you can still make your voice heard 🔊 Learn how & check our sessions obis.org/2025/09/29/o...
If you could not attend, you can still make your voice heard 🔊 Learn how & check our sessions obis.org/2025/09/29/o...
October 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is it! 🥳The first global biodiversity data conference is starting in Bogotá!
If you could not attend, you can still make your voice heard 🔊 Learn how & check our sessions obis.org/2025/09/29/o...
If you could not attend, you can still make your voice heard 🔊 Learn how & check our sessions obis.org/2025/09/29/o...
Get your daily dose of marine data at #LivingData2025!
Join our Lunch Talks:
🪼 Every day
🐠 12:45-14:00
🐟 Free & open to all
🦈 Hop on, hop off
⚓️ Booth 3a, main floor.
👀 All our sessions obis.org/2025/09/29/o...
Join our Lunch Talks:
🪼 Every day
🐠 12:45-14:00
🐟 Free & open to all
🦈 Hop on, hop off
⚓️ Booth 3a, main floor.
👀 All our sessions obis.org/2025/09/29/o...
October 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Get your daily dose of marine data at #LivingData2025!
Join our Lunch Talks:
🪼 Every day
🐠 12:45-14:00
🐟 Free & open to all
🦈 Hop on, hop off
⚓️ Booth 3a, main floor.
👀 All our sessions obis.org/2025/09/29/o...
Join our Lunch Talks:
🪼 Every day
🐠 12:45-14:00
🐟 Free & open to all
🦈 Hop on, hop off
⚓️ Booth 3a, main floor.
👀 All our sessions obis.org/2025/09/29/o...
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The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO is looking for a Digital Communications Consultant to help amplify ocean science for a sustainable future.
Apply now 👉🏻 t.co/T4vJ6aplbs
Apply now 👉🏻 t.co/T4vJ6aplbs
October 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO is looking for a Digital Communications Consultant to help amplify ocean science for a sustainable future.
Apply now 👉🏻 t.co/T4vJ6aplbs
Apply now 👉🏻 t.co/T4vJ6aplbs
We're happy to contribute @gbif.org ! Well done, to our Eastern South Pacific OBIS Node (ESP-OBIS Chile)!
🦀 A crab-ulous new dataset just dropped!
A new dataset of >1,800 occurrence records of freshwater and marine decapods compiled by Marcos Retamal from 1969 to 2019 has been made available on GBIF via Eastern South Pacific OBIS node (ESP-OBIS Chile)💙
🔗gbif.link/chile_crus...
@obis.org
A new dataset of >1,800 occurrence records of freshwater and marine decapods compiled by Marcos Retamal from 1969 to 2019 has been made available on GBIF via Eastern South Pacific OBIS node (ESP-OBIS Chile)💙
🔗gbif.link/chile_crus...
@obis.org
October 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We're happy to contribute @gbif.org ! Well done, to our Eastern South Pacific OBIS Node (ESP-OBIS Chile)!
📣 Bring your voice to #LivingData2025! We give you the opportunity to bring out your questions directly to the OBIS sessions co-leads up to 24 hours before each session⏱️
👉 Check the sessions and submit: obis.org/2025/09/29/o...
#OneOceanManyVoices
#OBISDataSuperPowers
👉 Check the sessions and submit: obis.org/2025/09/29/o...
#OneOceanManyVoices
#OBISDataSuperPowers
October 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
📣 Bring your voice to #LivingData2025! We give you the opportunity to bring out your questions directly to the OBIS sessions co-leads up to 24 hours before each session⏱️
👉 Check the sessions and submit: obis.org/2025/09/29/o...
#OneOceanManyVoices
#OBISDataSuperPowers
👉 Check the sessions and submit: obis.org/2025/09/29/o...
#OneOceanManyVoices
#OBISDataSuperPowers
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO is looking for a Digital Communications Consultant to help amplify ocean science for a sustainable future.
Apply now 👉🏻 t.co/T4vJ6aplbs
Apply now 👉🏻 t.co/T4vJ6aplbs
October 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO is looking for a Digital Communications Consultant to help amplify ocean science for a sustainable future.
Apply now 👉🏻 t.co/T4vJ6aplbs
Apply now 👉🏻 t.co/T4vJ6aplbs
There is still (a little bit of) time to register for #LivingData2025, the first global conference on biodiversity data taking place in Bogotá, from 21-24 October 2025.
🔎Explore the programme
🧺Pick your topics
👥Join www.livingdata2025.com/registration...
🔎Explore the programme
🧺Pick your topics
👥Join www.livingdata2025.com/registration...
October 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
There is still (a little bit of) time to register for #LivingData2025, the first global conference on biodiversity data taking place in Bogotá, from 21-24 October 2025.
🔎Explore the programme
🧺Pick your topics
👥Join www.livingdata2025.com/registration...
🔎Explore the programme
🧺Pick your topics
👥Join www.livingdata2025.com/registration...
Reposted by OBIS
🌊 Join us for the third episode of the #GOOS #BioEco #EOVs webinar series to discuss Coral cover and composition, and Microbe biomass and diversity!
🗓️ October 10th, 2025
⏰ 1:00 - 2:00 PM UTC
Please register now: aircent.re/4nrJNlA
🗓️ October 10th, 2025
⏰ 1:00 - 2:00 PM UTC
Please register now: aircent.re/4nrJNlA
October 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🌊 Join us for the third episode of the #GOOS #BioEco #EOVs webinar series to discuss Coral cover and composition, and Microbe biomass and diversity!
🗓️ October 10th, 2025
⏰ 1:00 - 2:00 PM UTC
Please register now: aircent.re/4nrJNlA
🗓️ October 10th, 2025
⏰ 1:00 - 2:00 PM UTC
Please register now: aircent.re/4nrJNlA
#OBISDataSuperPowers Did you know every OBIS dataset page lists license, citation, contacts, and metadata to credit providers correctly and maintain FAIRness traceability, and citability throughout the entire data chain.
🔗 Explore obis.org/datasets
🔗 Explore obis.org/datasets
October 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
#OBISDataSuperPowers Did you know every OBIS dataset page lists license, citation, contacts, and metadata to credit providers correctly and maintain FAIRness traceability, and citability throughout the entire data chain.
🔗 Explore obis.org/datasets
🔗 Explore obis.org/datasets
📆 3 weeks to go before #LivingData2025!
🎤 Presenters, send in your files before 14 October.
➡️ Check the guidelines www.livingdata2025.com/guidelines.h...
🎤 Presenters, send in your files before 14 October.
➡️ Check the guidelines www.livingdata2025.com/guidelines.h...
October 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
📆 3 weeks to go before #LivingData2025!
🎤 Presenters, send in your files before 14 October.
➡️ Check the guidelines www.livingdata2025.com/guidelines.h...
🎤 Presenters, send in your files before 14 October.
➡️ Check the guidelines www.livingdata2025.com/guidelines.h...
Deadline extended🐬
Join the remote Marine Biodiversity Data Mobilization Workshop to learn how to bring your marine biodiversity datasets into OBIS!
📅 Workshop dates: 4-6 November 2025, 17:00-21:00 UTC
↪️ Apply by 30.9.25! docs.google.com/forms/d/1SpW...
Join the remote Marine Biodiversity Data Mobilization Workshop to learn how to bring your marine biodiversity datasets into OBIS!
📅 Workshop dates: 4-6 November 2025, 17:00-21:00 UTC
↪️ Apply by 30.9.25! docs.google.com/forms/d/1SpW...
September 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Deadline extended🐬
Join the remote Marine Biodiversity Data Mobilization Workshop to learn how to bring your marine biodiversity datasets into OBIS!
📅 Workshop dates: 4-6 November 2025, 17:00-21:00 UTC
↪️ Apply by 30.9.25! docs.google.com/forms/d/1SpW...
Join the remote Marine Biodiversity Data Mobilization Workshop to learn how to bring your marine biodiversity datasets into OBIS!
📅 Workshop dates: 4-6 November 2025, 17:00-21:00 UTC
↪️ Apply by 30.9.25! docs.google.com/forms/d/1SpW...
📣 📣 📣 Last call, #LivingData2025 presenters! The deadline to register is today, 24 September 2025 at 23:59 UTC-5
✅ If you are not registered by this date, your presentation will be removed 😱
⤵️ Don't wait, register now! ⤵️
www.livingdata2025.com/registration...
✅ If you are not registered by this date, your presentation will be removed 😱
⤵️ Don't wait, register now! ⤵️
www.livingdata2025.com/registration...
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
📣 📣 📣 Last call, #LivingData2025 presenters! The deadline to register is today, 24 September 2025 at 23:59 UTC-5
✅ If you are not registered by this date, your presentation will be removed 😱
⤵️ Don't wait, register now! ⤵️
www.livingdata2025.com/registration...
✅ If you are not registered by this date, your presentation will be removed 😱
⤵️ Don't wait, register now! ⤵️
www.livingdata2025.com/registration...
@vliz.be is hiring a Biodiversity Data Scientist – Data Manager in Belgium! Manage & optimise marine biodiversity data, support projects & training, and engage with global initiatives like OBIS!
➡️ Read more & apply www.vliz.be/en/jobs/vliz...
➡️ Read more & apply www.vliz.be/en/jobs/vliz...
🌊 Working at VLIZ = teamwork, discovery & impact. 🤩
We’re hiring 2 data heroes to shape the future of marine biodiversity! More info 👉 www.vliz.be/en/jobs
#JobsAtVLIZ #VLIZisHiring #MarineScience #Biodiversity #DataScience #WoRMS
We’re hiring 2 data heroes to shape the future of marine biodiversity! More info 👉 www.vliz.be/en/jobs
#JobsAtVLIZ #VLIZisHiring #MarineScience #Biodiversity #DataScience #WoRMS
September 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
@vliz.be is hiring a Biodiversity Data Scientist – Data Manager in Belgium! Manage & optimise marine biodiversity data, support projects & training, and engage with global initiatives like OBIS!
➡️ Read more & apply www.vliz.be/en/jobs/vliz...
➡️ Read more & apply www.vliz.be/en/jobs/vliz...