Data sources and other resources

Free data for research projects

With recent limitations on access to laboratories and fieldwork due to covid19, there is renewed interest in doing research that can be done anywhere with an internet link and/or computer access. There is a rapidly increasing amount of scientific data freely available to researchers. So before going to the trouble of doing more laboratory and

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MPA resources on the web

Marine Reserves on Facebook International Key Biodiversity Areas Bill Ballantine’s website on no-take marine reserves marine-reserves.org.nz MPA News http://depts.washington.edu/mpanews/ Global MPA database http://www.protectedplanet.net MPA Atlas http://www.mpatlas.org/ IUCN marine programme http://www.iucn.org/themes/wcpa/biome/marine/marineprogramme.html IUCN Red List https://www.iucnredlist.org/ Key Biodiversity Areas http://www.keybiodiversityareas.org/home High Seas conservation http://www.savethehighseas.org/ Deep sea conservation (UK-Atlantic emphasis) http://www.deepseaconservation.org/index.php World Bank http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/environment/brief/global-partnership-for-oceans-gpo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihCxdf73dG4 MPA in Mediterranean

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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:

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Useful biological data sources

Amphibiaweb: Amphibia databsae ANTWEB: Ants Database Aquamaps: Online Computer-generated Maps for large Scale Species Distributions ARCTOS: Multi-Institution, Multi-Collection Museum Database Avibase: The World Bird Database Facts about the environmental, economic and societal sustainability of Norwegian aquaculture. BHL: Biodiversity Heritage Library consortium of natural history and botanical libraries BirdLife Data Zone BoL: Barcode of Life CITES

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Looking for job in science or academia?

  Here are some links http://physicaloxy.com/ – focus on physical and Earth sciences https://www.higheredjobs.com/search/ – the leading site in USA http://www.jobs.ac.uk/ – leading site in UK, with some positions in Ireland as well  https://www.universityaffairs.ca/search-job – leading site in Canada ResearchGate is increasingly popular because it is free. You can also set up automatic notices with journals

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..: GMED – Global Marine Environment Datasets :..

Free and ready to use global marine environmental data GMED is a global marine environment dataset. Publicly available climatic, biological and geophysical environmental layers of both present day, past and future environmental conditions. Layers were compiled together into a uniform Geographic Informations System ready dataset having similar extent and spatial resolution. The GMED dataset is

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