1. Towards an Atlas for All Marine Species Rainer Froese Institute of Marine Science Kiel, Germany rfroese@ifm.uni-kiel.de

2. Overview The Vision Components and Proponents Players and Tools What are the Problems? Discussion

3. The Vision Vision: Mapping Life in the Oceans –Standardized electronic maps for all marine species –Automatic generation of maps, with probability of occurrence –Option to get species lists for any area –Various other maps and scenarios –Available for free in the Internet How did I get there? >>>>

4. Components and Proponents Catalogue of Life >>>> Census of Marine Life >>>> OBIS >>>> FishBase >>>> Niche modelling

5. Players and Tools Arthur Chapman et al. and ERIN >>>> Dave Vieglais et al. and DiGIR >>>> Ed Wiley et al. and GARP >>>> Jim Beach et al. and LifeMapper >>>> Ricardo Scachetti and DesktopGARP >>>> David Stockwell and WhyWhere >>>> Bod Buddemeier and LoiczView >>>> Jeremy Bartley and KGS Mapper >>>> Tony Rees and C-Squares >> >>>>

6. What are the Problems? Point data: Species, locality, date, source Species issues: identification, synonyms, life stage Locality issues: errors, no coordinates, too broad descriptors, depth missing Date issues: missing, or year only, time wanted Source issues: credit, reliabilty indicator People!

7. Thank You Discussion?