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Oceans of Biodiversity

Useful marine environmental data sources

  • APDRC: Asia-Pacific Data-Research Center
  • APRDC: In-situ oceanographic or atmospheric data from a Dapper OpenDap server
  • ARGOS: Worldwide tracking and environmental monitoring by satellite
  • BCCVL: Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory– enables the use of multiple Species Distribution Models
  • Bio-Oracle: Ocean Rasters for Analysis of Climate Environment
  • CCCMA: Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis
  • CliMond: Global climatologies for bioclimatic modelling
  • Copernicus a primary source of global marine environmental data at high resolution
  • Earth System Grid Federation
  • Ecological Marine Units in 3D  and data layers are here. 
    • Download EMU package here
    • EMU Story Map
  • ERDDAP coastal scientific datasets including plankton, chemical (chlorophyll), physical (waves), whale sounds
  • European seabed habitat maps and environmental data EMODNet
  • Global Islands Explorer and details here
  • Glovis: USGS Earth Resource Observation and Science Center Data Portal
  • GMED: Global Marine Environment Datasets
  • GOOS: Global Ocean Observing System
  • NODC: NOAA Oceanographic Data Center
  • NSIDC: National Snow & Ice Data Center
  • OceanColor: NASA Oceancolor Portal
  • WorldClim: Global Climate Data

Oceans of Biodiversity

By Professor Mark John Costello