MedOBIS

The MedOBIS vLab provides reliable and quality controlled marine species and habitats datasets from all over the Mediterranean Sea. It disseminates valuable historical and current occurrence records and environmental information.

MedOBIS facilitates data gathering, storage, analysis, sharing and visualizing. This information gives the ability to predict distribution changes and an opportunity of better management on regional and global scale. It is available after registration through LifeWatchgreece portal.

MedOBIS vLab

MedOBIS is the Mediterranean node of Ocean Biogeographic Information System. It consists of a relational postgreSQl database for cleaning and storing the datasets, the MedOBIS IPT (Integrated Publishing Toolkit- http://ipt.medobis.eu/ ) which is available for sharing data and metadata and Medobis viewer(vLab) as a geodata tool, developed by open layers for visualization. It also provides WMS and WFS services through a Geoserver which is connected to the visualization tool and to the database. OBIS and GBIF harvests all the datasets through IPT.

MedOBIS supports 51 datasets at present, 71928 occurrences with individual counts, biomasses, body lengths, etc, plus environmental values and 1108 stations. The data cover the period between 1898 – to 2012.

Inmaculada Figueroa's Bio

Inmaculada is an electrical engineer with more than 17 years’ experience in the Space domain (Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial), being responsible for the Assembly and integration of scientific satellite payloads. 

Since 2009, she has been working in the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain and its predecessors in the field of Research Infrastructures and e-Infrastructures. Currently, she is the Deputy Vice Director General for Internationalization of Science & Innovation in the Spanish Ministry of Science & Innovation and ESFRI Vice Chair.