Working group to establish data standards and practices for taxon-resolved phytoplankton observations - PIs: Heidi Sosik (WHOI), Christopher Proctor (NASA GSFC/SSAI), Aimee Neeley (NASA GSFC/SSAI), Ivona Cetinić (NASA GSFC/USRA)
Objective: In an effort to facilitate community-wide access to phytoplankton data products that support critical satellite algorithm development and validation, this working group will convene relevant expertise (e.g., phytoplankton ecology and taxonomy, data systems, informatics, etc.) to develop a set of standards and best practices for phytoplankton taxonomy data.
The OCB Phytoplankton Taxonomy Working Group has been working to establish standards and best practices for submitting taxonomic and morphological information for plankton and other particles from images collected by imaging instruments, such as the Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB), FlowCAM and Underwater Vision Profiler (UVP), to data repositories (e.g., NASA’s SeaWiFS Bio-optical Archive and Storage System (SeaBASS) and the National Science Foundation’s Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)). The working group, which combined expertise in phytoplankton ecology and taxonomy, data systems, and informatics, has just published a new Technical Manual entitled "Standards and practices for reporting plankton and other particle observations from images" that includes detailed guidance on the creation of a data table and the submission of the data, metadata and accompanying documentation to a repository.
Neeley, A., Beaulieu, S., Proctor, C., Cetinić, I., Futrelle, J., Soto Ramos, I., Sosik, H., Devred, E., Karp-Boss, L., Picheral, M., Poulton, N., Roesler, C., and Shepherd, A.. 2021: Standards and practices for reporting plankton and other particle observations from images. 38pp. DOI: 10.1575/1912/27377.
Stace Beaulieu - Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.
Ivona Cetinić - NASA GSFC/USRA
Susanne Craig - Ocean Ecology Lab/NASA Goddard
Emmanuel Devred - Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Joe Futrelle - Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.
Lee Karp-Boss - Univ. of Maine
Aimee Neeley - NASA GSFC/SSAI
Marc Picheral - CNRS
Nicole Poulton - Bigelow Labs
Chris Proctor -NASA GSFC/SSAI
Collin Roesler - Bowdoin College
Adam Shepherd - Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.
Heidi Sosik - Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.
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