Robert Branton Dalhousie University Global.OceanTrack.org “Open Data and Information for a Changing Planet” GeoNOVA - Spring into Geomatics Conference Best Western Glengarry, Truro NS May 31, 2013 Planet under Pressure: Data Challenges from Local to Global Ocean Tracking Network The Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) is a Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) – International Joint Ventures Fund global research and technology development project headquartered at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Starting in 2008, the OTN began deploying Canadian state-of-the-art acoustic receivers and oceanographic monitoring equipment in key ocean locations around the world to investigate movements and survival of marine animals carrying acoustic tags (pingers) in association with oceanographic conditions. This map which appears on our members website shows the location of 164 data collections currently contained in the OTN data warehouse. OTN deployments are expected occur in all of the world’s five oceans and span all seven continents. OTN currently has guaranteed funding to 2017. Robert Branton Dalhousie University Global.OceanTrack.org

Operating Passive Acoustic Moorings Tracking instruments … Operating Passive Acoustic Moorings Acoustic receivers ~ 800 metre spacing ~ 50-200 metre depth models / battery life VR2W / 1 yr VR3 / 3 yr VR4 / 5 yr The OTN uses both satellite and acoustic telemetry tag data. Oceanographic variables are measured by sensors on tagged animals and other oceanographic instruments and then transmitted to satellites in space, lines of receivers on the ocean floor or to robotic submarines (gliders). -Current practice is for the receivers and associated instruments placed on the ocean floor to be periodically recovered and or downloaded via acoustic modems to research vessels and then loaded to a central database such as at Dalhousie. -Developments are underway to also use robotic submarines to offload the receiver lines. -Receivers are placed at 800 metre intervals at depths of 50 to 200 metres -Life of the receivers depends on the size of the battery and can be up to 5 years. -The Halifax Line, the world’s longest acoustic telemetry line is 156 km long and consists of 265 receivers. Its zig zag shape avoids several active fishing grounds. We can so far identify about 80% of the tags we detect. Species being detected include: Atlantic bluefin tuna, Atlantic cod, Atlantic salmon, Atlantic sturgeon, spiny dogfish, and white shark. www.vemco.com/products/receivers Liquid Robotics Wave Glider OTN’s Halifax Line is world’s longest acoustic telemetry line!

Surgically Implanting Pinger Tags Tracking instruments … Surgically Implanting Pinger Tags VEMCO acoustic tags Optional Sensors Temperature Depth Acceleration Acoustic tags are surgically implanted into fish Life of the tags depends on size of the battery, ranging from 3 months to 5 years. On the left is a salmon smolt and on the right is a bluefin tuna. In addition to an ID, simply saying ‘I am here’, tags can detect and transmit depth, temperature and acceleration, that is movement. Tags can be programmed to transmit at various time intervals. The must however be near a receiver for for the transmission to be detected and recorded. And the receiver has to offloaded for the detections to be used by a scientist. Clearly most transmissions don’t get detected. www.vemco.com/products/transmitters

Principles, Guidelines and Policies 11/12/2018 Principles, Guidelines and Policies OECD CFI / NSERC Develop policies covering responsibilities of various parties involved in data-related activities Negotiate data sharing arrangements at initial proposal stage. Reward initial contributors with temporary exclusive use of data. Develop a secure and easy to use Internet systems. Be explicit about standards and promote / adopt most advanced practices. 2011 Canadian Research Data Summit data from public funded research should be openly available in a timely manner as a condition of funding Exceptions being sought by OTN include: not reporting location information on endangered species as a means of protecting them from illegal harvest, protecting the thesis data for Highly Qualified Personnel who are in training. OTN’s original 2008 data policy (members.oceantrack.org/data/data-collection/otn-data-policy) was modeled on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 2006 Principles and Guidelines for Access to Research Data. Much has changed since 2008, especially with regards to the evolution of national and international standards for data sharing. In 2011 the Canadian Research Data Summit resulted in a unified position of Canadian funding agencies—including OTN’s principal funding agencies Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and Social Sciences and Health Research Council (SSHRC) — to require that all data from publically funded research be made openly available in a timely manner. Meeting this standard will be a condition for all grantees to maintain funding from these agencies. However, it is also anticipated that there may be exceptions to the policy provided in some circumstances that permit investigators to restrict access to data for limited periods. Examples from the OTN context could include refraining from reporting location information on endangered species that network investigators are tracking, in order to protect the animals from illegal harvesting, and protecting thesis data for Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP) who are in training. In anticipation of this, OTN has posted a revised policy at: members.oceantrack.org/data/data-collection/policyhighlights. The POST 2010 policy document can found at: http://www.postprogram.org/files/POST_Data_Access_Policy.pdf.

Members.OceanTrack.org/data/data-collection/otn-data-workflow Data Operations Data warehouse and associated workflow Collaborator’s data are stored in a separate schema (userid) within an open source database. Collaborators can be either a Deployment Collaborator, Tracker Collaborator, or Data Collaborator. Software used includes: RedHat Linux, PLONE CMS, PostgreSQL PostGIS, GeoServer, R and RStudio. Members.OceanTrack.org/data/data-collection/otn-data-workflow

Metadata and Data OTN discovery metadata are hyperlinked. Wide variety of browsing options. Free and open access to public data products. Controlled access to private data products. http://members.oceantrack.org/data/discovery/bycollection.htm

Visualization - GoogleEarth Authoritative, discoverable, accessible and interoperable research data on local, regional and global scales, for example… Use this slide if needed to summarize the major take home points Also use this slide to show your contact info and links to more info about what you do members.oceantrack.org/etc/ge/OceanTrackingNetwork.kmz

External products … Oceanographic data International Oceanographic Data Exchange (IODE) National Oceanographic Data Centers (NODCs) Biological data Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) United States Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) parallel ERDDAP-NETCDF and Geoserver-WMS services OTN’s PostgreSQL based data system was recently accepted by IOOS POST-NANOOS Project as data management template for US Animal Acoustic Telemetry (AAT) Data IOOS/NANOOS Courtesy: Emilio Mayorga, UWash

Current status … Ongoing Challenges: ~53.5 million records 52 species obtaining metadata and data from authoritative sources securing metadata before instrument data are dispersed securing metadata and data before major announcements and new funding allocations identifying resulting publications ~53.5 million records 52 species 15 ocean regions 164 projects 73 institutions 14 countries * 4.1 million of these detections are from CFI funded projects

THANK YOU Some browsing suggestions: Bob.Branton@dal.ca Data management … Supported by: OTN Data Management Team … THANK YOU Bob Branton, Marta Mihoff, Brian Jones, Lenore Bajona, Susan Dufault Some browsing suggestions: oceantrackingnetwork.org members.oceantrack.org/data global.oceantrack.org/docs/2012-otn-annual-report Bob.Branton@dal.ca