Open source biodiversity indicator development from open data. Initial ideas for this topic found here

Team

• Tylar Murray, USF-IMaRS, MBON
• Ben Best, EcoQuants
• Sonja Giardina, PacIOOS
• Hassan Moustahfid, IOOS
• Abby Benson, USGS, OBIS-USA

The group identified several avenues for investigation:

• Analyzing ES50 globally at decade time steps on a subset small enough for GitHub actions vignette
• Detecting Range Shifts for an Individual Taxa using OBIS data
• MPAs ES50 using OBIS data

A huge amount of work went into developing the R package obisindicators by Ben Best to provide us a great foundation to work from and build on.

If you’re interested to get involved please see the issues we have here obis2index github issues tracker and add issues yourself.

Future directions

• Continue to meet and further development of the R package and vignette
• Consider continuing this work at OceanHackWeek 2022

Relevant links:

• https://github.com/marinebon/obis2index
• https://marinebon.org/obisindicators/