1. Data Centre Overview Email: otndc@dal.caotndc@dal.ca OTN Data Portal: http://members.oceantrack.orghttp://members.oceantrack.org March 2015: OTN accepted as the 1st Canadian Associate Data Unit (ADU) of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE), a programme of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC). And became an Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node (Tier 3). July 2015: Lenore Bajona and Jon Pye

2. Mission: to foster conservation and sustainability of valued species by generating knowledge on the movement patterns of aquatic species in their changing environment  Global research and technology dev. platform  $160-million for ocean research

3. receivers 1 and mooring assemblies 2 acoustic tags 1 and surgeries 2 satellite tags 3 Photo Credits: 1 www.vemco.com 2 Global.OceanTrack.org/galleries 3 www.wildlifecomputers.com www.vemco.com Global.OceanTrack.org/galleries www.wildlifecomputers.com Global.OceanTrack.org/about/ocean How OTN works

4. Ever-expanding global network of acoustic receivers listening for over 90 different key animal species Collaborations with over 100 research projects implanting acoustic pingers ‘tags’ in animals Global Data

5. Standard’s Based/Best Practices IOOS/NERACOOS/IMOS/OT N developed and implemented Marine Metadata Initiative (MMI) Registered Animal Acoustic Telemetry (AAT) Exchange standard AAT will facilitate ingestion for modelers (netcdf) OTN follows internationally accepted standards including: *OBIS (DarwinCore) Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Geoserver open-source: PostgreSQL/postGIS, Plone CMS, R, python *Ocean Biogeographic Information System: http://www.iobis.orghttp://www.iobis.org

6. Scientific Names If species names on new data cannot be verified against (a) known valid names in OTN, and/or (b) WoRMs the Data Provider will be notified so they can check they are correct. Names that cannot be placed after checking with WoRMS are, where possible, placed on the basis of other authoritative sources, such as the Fishbase or ITIS; and once completely verified a request will be sent to WoRMS for addition of the verified species name. OTN species names are verified using the World Register of Marine Species (http://www.marinespecies.org/) API.http://www.marinespecies.org/

7. OTN Data Policy OTN Data Policy link: http://members.oceantrack.org/policies/otn-data-policy-ver-11-oct-30 Data Policy Highlights PDF download: http://members.oceantrack.org/data/data-collection/policyhighlights/view OTN’s data policy very simply is: all receiver metadata (deployments, offloads, recoveries) are immediately public. Animal tagging metadata and associated detections are by default placed under 2 year embargo, i.e. will be kept private (PI access and designates only) until 2 years following the expiration of the tag (based on estimated tag life as provided by the vendor). PIs may request embargo extensions, OTN Deployment Committee reviews/approves requests. Of course earlier release is highly desirable and distributed immediately as requested by PI(s).

8. Sustainability CFI required Dalhousie obtain an MOU with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) Integrated Science Data Management (ISDM) for OTN Data Archival

9. OTN Google Earth KMZ members.oceantrack.org

10. Fisheries and Oceans Canada members.oceantrack.org

11. DFO Canada members.oceantrack.org

12. All Public Data All Public Data Links on a single by collectioncode page.

13. WMS getCapabilities 1) left-click 2) right-click 3) left-click Copy WMS string into paste buffer for GIS

14. Current status … 130+ million detection records 104 species 14 ocean regions 20 countries 230+ projects 93 institutions 16K receiver deployments * ~85% of data are from non CFI & NSERC funded sources (not OTN) Courtesy Jon Pye

15. http://iobis.org/mapper/ http://members.oceantrack.org/data/discovery/byobis.htm OTN Data on OBIS

16. OTN’s ADCP/Microcat data: three moorings off the Halifax Line, each mooring consists of an ADCP RDI Workhorse and a Seabird SBE 37-SM Microcat. OTN’S Benthic Pod data: 10 on Halifax Line, 2 on Strait of Belle Isle and 1-3 in the Arctic. OTN’s Glider data: two Teledyne Webb Research Slocum electric gliders and a Liquid Robotics wave glider. OTN Oceanographic Data Flow

17. Glider Tracks and Data Visualization Click on a mission from Missions over time graph

18. Benthic Pod Data – Glider Site

19. BIO – OTN Datashops Processes Exchange Meeting Goals Basically, when Shelley mentioned that BIO Datashop was moving toward using R (maybe also python) and github I thought as the OTN Data Centre is already using these tools it would be a great opportunity toward shared resources (hoping to attract university student attention/assistance as well) if we had an exchange regarding how we (OTN Data Centre and Dalhousie Glider data management) are using these tools, how BIO Datashop is using these tools and what each group is hoping to move toward in using these tools. Not only is the hope to foster future collaborations (via git for one) but we could exchange details on issues encountered, solutions tried, successes, etc. OTN Data Team have been converting from matlab to R and python, and actually mostly python with R wrappers…which is why the team that actually does this work is here to talk about it and not myself

20. BIO – OTN Datashops Processes Exchange Future Goals For this year, start move toward working with other datashops so as to hopefully reduce time and duplication of effort while delivering more as a group. And of course, as OTN’s initial funding is up March 2017, anything a can to assist OTN Executive in successful proposal submissions. Next few years, while Jon will get into more details, OTN like Nodes up and running under local management in South Africa, North East Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, Great Lakes, Brazil, and Europe (Flanders Marine Institute – VLIZ). Also, development of a national infrastructure for data sharing interoperability using echo sounder data prototype (MERIDIAN) with development, research using this platform across multiple disciplines and institutes (academic, government, private, ngo). Also looking forward to a full-time OTN resource for researching, developing visualization and analysis tools and products.

21. BIO – OTN Datashops Processes Exchange THANK YOU QUESTIONS? OPEN DATA OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN!