New Task: Develop inventory of biological measurements across IOOS regions

[laurabrenskelle]

Who is requesting this?

IOOS Advisory Committee

What is being requested?

Develop an inventory of what types of biological data are being collected, by whom, and where it is being stored.

What is the timeline for the completion of this task?

Summer 2024?

Provide a description or any other important information.

This should include information about specific measurements, their latency, precision, sensitivity, methods, post-processing. This can be used to standardize biological measurements and to enable comparisons across spatial & temporal scales. We should try to draw parallels to EOVs and incorporate the GOOS framework as much as possible.

[MathewBiddle]

This should include defining a controlled vocabulary for observing methods. We've discussed this at the MBON all hands meeting and folks from GBIF are interested in using that as a way to filter for data.

[laurabrenskelle]

If we go about doing this via GCMD, here is the governance document that details how to add new terms to GCMD. NASA also has some information about this on their wiki. I'm not really sure if this would be a fast-track or full review scenario.

Alternatively, if GBIF/TDWG are interested in expanding standards like this for filtering, would they use the GCMD keywords? Is there an existing standard somewhere else that could be used? Or is there a need to put these into DwC? From what I understand about the new GBIF data model, maybe they could use GCMD? That part seems like a bigger conversation.

But we also need to decide what level/how detailed are we categorizing different observing methods? And build out the controlled vocabulary that might be envisioned based on that.

Updating to add: I think this information could possibly go in dwc:eventType, but having a community-developed controlled vocab there might be the best way to enable standardized filtering. Once we have our list of desired observing method types, we could add them to GCMD and also put those in eventType.

[MathewBiddle]

could be related to ioos/mbon-docs#44 where we guide folks in using the GOOS BioEco portal.

[MathewBiddle]

• identify a list of observing methods
• Maybe we should take a stab at doing an observing method to EOV mapping. https://goosocean.org/what-we-do/framework/essential-ocean-variables/

[MathewBiddle]

@MathewBiddle will test sankey mermaid diagram for mapping observing method to EOV.

[MathewBiddle]

Starting mermaid diagram with the following observing methods:

• diver survey
• fisheries independent monitoring
• metabarcoding
• photo plot
• transect survey
• trawl survey
• bongo net
• quadrat survey

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config:
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    showValues: false
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sankey-beta

metabarcoding,Phytoplankton biomass and diversity,1
bongo net,Phytoplankton biomass and diversity,1

metabarcoding,Zooplankton biomass and diversity,1
bongo net,Zooplankton biomass and diversity,1

diver survey,Fish abundance and distribution,1
fisheries independent monitoring,Fish abundance and distribution,1
metabarcoding,Fish abundance and distribution,1
photo plot,Fish abundance and distribution,1
transect survey,Fish abundance and distribution,1
trawl survey,Fish abundance and distribution,1
bongo net,Fish abundance and distribution,1
quadrat survey,Fish abundance and distribution,1

diver survey,Marine turtles birds mammals abundance and distribution,1
fisheries independent monitoring, Marine turtles birds mammals abundance and distribution,1
metabarcoding, Marine turtles birds mammals abundance and distribution,1
transect survey, Marine turtles birds mammals abundance and distribution,1

diver survey,Hard coral cover and composition,1
metabarcoding, Hard coral cover and composition,1
photo plot,Hard coral cover and composition,1
transect survey,Hard coral cover and composition,1
quadrat survey, Hard coral cover and composition,1

diver survey, Seagrass cover and composition,1
metabarcoding, Seagrass cover and composition,1
photo plot,Seagrass cover and composition,1
transect survey,Seagrass cover and composition,1
quadrat survey,Seagrass cover and composition,1

diver survey,Macroalgal canopy cover and composition,1
metabarcoding,Macroalgal canopy cover and composition,1
photo plot,Macroalgal canopy cover and composition,1
transect survey,Macroalgal canopy cover and composition,1
trawl survey,Macroalgal canopy cover and composition,1
quadrat survey,Macroalgal canopy cover and composition,1

diver survey,Mangrove cover and composition,1
metabarcoding,Mangrove cover and composition,1
photo plot,Mangrove cover and composition,1
transect survey,Mangrove cover and composition,1
trawl survey,Mangrove cover and composition,1
quadrat survey,Mangrove cover and composition,1

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[MathewBiddle]

@laurabrenskelle approximately every 6 months IOOS receives a progress report from each of the Regional Associations. I think it would be beneficial to review one batch of those reports and see what level of information we already have. For example, we are starting to receive the July reports now, there is another batch in January.

We can work together to identify a pathway for collecting this information in a systematic way.