1. Census of Marine Life A decade-long program (2000-2010) to assess and explain marine life’s diversity, distribution & abundance - past, present & future The Known, the Unknown, the Unknowable The Census of Marine Life: Making ocean life count

2. CNN International Public Service Announcement COML’s strong outreach program CNN International Public Service Announcement COML’s strong outreach program

3. Global Collaboration Arabian Sea (Oman, 2007) Stars indicate National or Regional Activity Headquarters 80 countries Over 2000 scientists

4. CoML Components Grand Challenge Questions Oceans Past What did live in the oceans? History of Marine Animal Populations (HMAP) Oceans Present What does live in the oceans? Ocean Realm Field Projects Oceans Future What will live in the oceans? Future of Marine Animal Populations (FMAP) Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Web-based provider of global geo-referenced information on marine species

5. Salem Beverly Ship Logs 150 Year Old Cod Fishery Rosenberg, Bolster, Alexander, Leavenworth, Cooper, McKenzie et al. 2005 Cod Biomass Scotian Shelf Now <1% Chapman-DeLury Catch Per Unit Effort 50% decline

6. 50 top hotspots for large fish Big Fish Diversity Worm et al., Science 2005

7. Shannon Biodiversity 13M OBIS Records 13.2 million records of 81000 species from 210 databases

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12. Ocean Realm Projects Human Edges NaGISA - Natural Geography In Shore Areas CReefs - Coral Reef Ecosystems GOMA - Gulf of Maine Area Census (Regional Ecosystem) POST - Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Central Waters TOPP - Tagging of Pacific Pelagics (Top Predators) CMarZ - Census of Marine Zooplankton MAR-ECO - Mid-Atlantic Ridge Ecosystems Hidden Boundaries CoMargE - Continental Margins Ecosystems CeDAMar - Census of Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life CenSeam - Census of Seamounts ChEss - Chemosynthetic Ecosystems (Vents) Ice Oceans ArcOD - Arctic Ocean Diversity CAML - Census of Antarctic Marine Life Microscopic Ocean ICOMM - International Census of Marine Microbes

13. Ocean Realms

15. Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) A Sloan Foundation ‘sister project’ - Works on land species, works at sea Global Paracalanus copepods

16. Synthesis Microbes Seamounts, Vents 454 DNA sequencing - 100 times expected diversity in ‘Rare Biosphere’

17. Biuw et al. PNAS 2007 Animal Oceanography Depth (m)Change in drift rate (cm·s -1 ·d -1 )

18. Existing 1 st Wave 2 nd Wave 3 rd Wave Global Ocean Tracking Network $160M IOC-GOOS Pilot Project

19. Great Turtle Race inspires Stephen Colbert to US Presidency? Stephanie placed 2nd

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