1. ChEssBase Online database for species from deep-water chemosynthetic ecosystems integrated with OBIS Eva Ramirez-Llodra & Maria Baker National Oceanography Centre Southampton, UK

2. Census of Marine Life: global network in over 70 nations engaged in a ten-year initiative (2000 – 2010) to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life in the oceans -- past, present, and future www.coml.orgwww.coml.org Background ChEssBase: ChEss database  vents, seeps, whale & wood falls, OMZs www.noc.soton.ac.uk/chess/database/database.html OBIS: Web-based provider of global geo-referenced information on marine species for the CoML www.iobis.orgwww.iobis.org global study of the biogeography of species from deep-water chemosynthetic habitats ChEss: global study of the biogeography of species from deep-water chemosynthetic habitats: field programme, database, O&E www.noc.soton.ac.uk/chess www.noc.soton.ac.uk/chess

3. ChEssBase development Relational dynamic web-based database built in MySQL Bio and geo-referenced Simple, but we hope it covers some basic uses for biologists Aim: central source of information for biological data from chemosynthetic habitats: which species occur where, from literature & PI sample info – open to all Jan. 2005: online on ChEss web site Aug. 2005: merged with InterRidge biological database Sept. 2005: integrated with OBIS 2005 – onwards: addition of sample data (now) & regular updates

4. area phylum family genus speciesendemicityspecimensamplecruise references photossite region institution habitat ChEssBase design kingdom class order subspecies authority biology habitat Sample info Site info LAT-LON

5. ChEssBase interfase > 700 species from 90 sites, ~1300 references

6. Requests for maintenance of ChEssBase  New published data (new species, new sites, etc)  Sample information (from cruises, in labs, etc)  High resolution photos and video http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/chess/database/database.html Desbruyères (Ifremer) Macdonald (Texas A&M) Smith (Uni. Hawaii)

7. Chair International Committee and Executive Officer: Mark J. Costello m.costello@auckland.ac.nz Leigh Marine Laboratory, University of Auckland, New Zealand OBIS: the legacy of CoML OBIS publishes primary data on distribution of marine species available from over 200 databases www.iobis.org www.iobis.org It facilitates data by: searching by species, higher taxa, time, location, depth, database mapping overlaying species distributions on ocean environments enables data capture for re-use

8. Only 1/3 of total described species available online (Costello & Vanden Berghe, MEPS 316, 2006)

9. Data by depth < 100 m depth 100 – 1000 m depth > 1000 m depth