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U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Biological Data Training Workshop

February 8 – 9, 2018

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Organized by IOOS, NANOOS, OBIS-USA, and OceanTeacher Global Academy

Final Agenda

Note: These presentations and related materials are also available at the Ocean Teacher workshop site.

Day One - Thursday February 8

  • 8:30 - 9:30 Introductions and Workshop Overview
    • Jan Newton: Welcome to the U. W., NANOOS
    • Gabrielle Canonico, Jennifer Bosch (Powerpoint)
  • 9:30 - 10:00 The Global Context: OBIS, GOOS, & Essential Ocean Variables (Ward Appeltans)
  • 10:00 - 10:15 Break
  • 10:15 - 11:30 Applications of Biological Data
  • 11:30 - 12:00 Discussion with the RA Directors
  • 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch (Catered)
  • 1:00 - 1:45 OBIS Data, Taxonomic and Metadata Standards (Ward Appeltans)
  • 1:45 - 2:00 Break
  • 2:00 - 2:45 Darwin Core (DwC) - More than Occurrence and Abundance (Abby Benson (Powerpoint))
  • 2:45 - 3:15 DwC Alignment data demonstration (Marion Stoessel (pdf) & Lynn DeWitt (pdf))
  • 3:15 - 5:00 Hands on work: Align your dataset to DwC

Day Two - Friday February 9

  • 8:30 - 9:00 Configuring Biological Data for ERDDAP (Kevin O’Brien (Powerpoint))
  • 9:00 - 10:30 More Hands on
  • 10:30 - 10:45 Break
  • 10:45 - 11:30 Data Wrangling
  • 11:30 - 12:00 More Hands on
  • 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch (Catered)
  • 1:00 - 3:00 Data Access, Visualization, and Publication
  • 1:00 - 2:00 MBON Portal Demonstration (Luc Mehl, Stacey Buckelew, Brian Stone)
  • 2:00 - 3:00 OBIS Portal User Interface Demonstration (Abby Benson & Samuel Bosch (R notebook as HTML))
  • 3:00 - 3:15 Break
  • 3:15 - 4:30 Hands-On and Wrap-Up
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