1. Current Status of CMarZ
Web site
Species Pages
Nancy Copley
CMarZ Steering Group Meeting
March 9-10, 2008
Orlando, FL

2. Web presence www.cmarz.org Redesigned web site
Quick tour of the site; ask for recommendations

3. Species Pages No change – 12 pages Encyclopedia of Life collaboration?
EOL just launched on Feb. 28, I

4. CMarZ Network ~130 members to date
Working on automatically adding applicants to database and web page (R. Groman)

5. Education & Outreach Workshops
Professional exchanges & graduate/professional training
Public education
Media relations
Web presence
I keep track of all these things, plus cruises.

6. Workshops
# of workshops/yr.
2004: 1
2005: 5
2006: 7
2007: 13

7. Media relations
Inner Space Speciation Project (ISSP) cruise to the Celebes Sea (Sept-Oct. 07)
National Geographic television and magazine
Many articles but on-line and print.
Exploring the Deep SE Atlantic, Polarstern (Oct-Nov 07)
Journalist and photographer: Geo magazine, audio diary/web article

8. Scientific Publications
Census of Marine Life Bibliographic Database
117 publications/ 109 viewable at on-line database
2004: 5
2005: 18
2006: 28
2007: 55 (many abstracts)
2008: 10 (pub., in press, submitted)

9. New species Total new species: at least 85
Total published new genera: 8 Total published new families: 1 Total published new species: 17+ Unpublished new species: at least 50
Please send new species references to N. Copley

10. New Species (published)
Copepods:
Eucalanus (Goetze and Bradford-Grieve) 2005 (reinstated species)
Xantharus (Bradford-Grieve) 2005
Tortanus (Nishida and Cho) 2005
Pseudodiaptomus I(Nishida and Rumengan) 2005
Aetideidae – 3 (Ohtsuka, Boxshall, and Shimomura) 2005
Acartia (Ueda, H. and A. Bucklin) 2006
Pseudodiaptomus (Walter and Castillo) 2006
Alteutha (Veit-Köhler, G., and V. Fuentes) 2007
Jellies:
Jubanyella (Fuentes, V. and F. Pagès) 2006
Jeanbouillonia (Pagès, Flood, and Youngbluth) 2006
Chaetognaths:
2 spp. (Nair et al) 2008, in press
New Genera:
Jubanyella (Fuentes, V. and F. Pagès) 2006
New Families:
Jeanbouilloniidae