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The Gulf of Maine Biogeographical Information System (GMBIS) Project A spatial data management framework in support of OBIS Vardis M. Tsontos Dale A. Kiefer University of Southern California [email protected] Atlantic Reference Centre COD Conference Brussels, 25-27/11/2002 The Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System Project (GMBIS) • component of the Census of Marine Life / OBIS initiative - address critical issues of data management / integration • 2 year project funded May 2000 by ONR via NOPP • Partners - University of Southern California (USC) - DFO Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO) - Atlantic Reference Centre (ARC) - System Science Applications (SSA) • Objectives - develop framework & tools for integration, visualisation, dissemination of biogeographic & oceanographic data - demonstrate the viability of the assembled information system via a pilot application for the Gulf of Maine: • use extensive BIO & ARC survey databases • thematic context: structured scientific storylines GMBIS Thematic Approach • Show utility of system in addressing biogeographic questions • Developed by DFO – longstanding research activities in GoM (eg. GLOBEC G.Bank) • Resulted in a form of synthesis (“Atlas” & data gaps) “Distribution of marine populations in relation to environmental variability in the GoM” Subthemes: scales of variability (spatial, temporal, levels of biological organisation) Part I The Setting • • • • Large-Scale Topography, Environment and Ecosystem: Scotian Shelf and Gulf of Maine Climatological seasonal structure of the Gulf of Maine Region Biological Distributions in relation to GOM physical structure Characterization of Species Diversity in the GOM by Aggregated Taxonomic Categories Part II Temporal Variability • Past Examples of Marine Population Changes in relation to Variable Subpolar Influences • Interannual Variability in Drift, Growth & Survival of Browns Bank Haddock Early Life Stages • Recent Interannual Variability in Plankton & Haddock larvae on Western/Central Scotian Shelf Summary of electronically archived data maintained by BIO & ARC • Diverse types of oceanographic & biogeographic data • GMBIS tapped a representative range of data and archival systems DATABASE SURVEY TYPE PERIOD / FREQ. Groundfish Stratified random Research Trawl 1970-1999; 1-3/year Larval SSIP/FEP egg and larval surveys 1976-1999 Herring larval surveys ICNAF/NAFO Canadian National Catch Statistics Fishing Vessel Logbooks 1972-1999 1969-1999; monthly 1960-1999; monthly 1991-1999 Fishing Vessel Port Landings At-Sea Observer records 1947-1999 1977-1999 Biological length/age samples for 37 species Genetic Population Genetics 1993-1999 Climate SST Hydrographic Remote Sensing Data 1920-1999 ODI Ocean Data Inventory 1965-1999 cDNA and microsatellite gene probe data commercially harvested species NW Atlantic temperature/salinity profiles JPL 18 km MCSST (sea surface temperature) SeaWifs Chlorophyll Current meter and thermograph time series BIOCHEM National marine biological and chemical database 1970-1999 GOM/NW Atlantic taxonomic data 1960-1999 1900-1999 Fisheries ARC DATA DESCRIPTION 300 vertebrate and invertebrate species georeferenced catches (total numbers and weight) size-frequency distributions subsample length, weight, age, sex, maturity Temperature-salinity profiles or surface/bottom values Georeferenced egg/larval abundances 487 species Georeferenced herring larval abundances catch statistics for 151 species catch statistics for 158 species geo-referenced catch records for 158 species BIO nutrient data Approximately 100 chemical parameters NW Atlantic Zooplankton samples Continuous Plankton Recorder data (lines E and Z) Ichthyoplankton Deep sea epibenthos Taxonomic reference collection GMBIS Information System Design: Components & Information flow BIS Information System Design: components & information flow GMBIS Client PC GMBIS Data Server & Web Portal External-users project collaborators (developer tools eg. EASy, Matlab etc) scientists, managers, public (Web-Browser) GMBIS Web Server Web Site http://netviewer.usc.edu/web N E T V I E W E R EASy GIS Protocols: FTP/DODS Institutional Data Providers DFO FTP/ DODS Servers BIO MS Access HTTP ODBC DFO rDBMS ARC rDBMS ARC Archive for high volume datasets Satellite Imagery (AVHRR/SeaWifs) Synthetic data products (Climatologies) ODBC ACON Specify rDBMS Museums collections data Oracle rDBMS server node OBIS Portal BIO St.Johns ODBC SQLnet Field survey datasets eg. Groundfish, BioChem, Climate Rutgers server node FishBase CephBase Fishnet XML Museum specimen data & descriptive species information Online Biogeographic Information Sources eg. FishBase LarvalBase GenBank Environmental Analysis System (EASy GIS) • PC/WinNT/XP/00/98 system • 4D (lat/lon/depth/time) internal data representation Time Series plots Depth profile plots Simulation control panel Bubble Plots Transect vertical contour plots Image Browse Toolbar Contour plot False colour plot Species richness relative to bathymetry, water density differentials & bottom temperature AVHRR SST imagery for the Gulf(summer of Maineclimatology) EASy Netviewer – GIS Web Server Remote Clients • Web-enabled EASy GIS applications with Netviewer plug-in • Deploy multiple GIS applications from single server • Clients access with Web-browser (MS I.Explorer) • Client-side Functionality: - full data visualisation - data export/download - conferencing • Netconsole: - administration/monitoring tool PC Server MS IIS EASy Netviewer DLL browser W E B P A G E Internet Mean field Cod & Haddock abundance distributions - Summer Diverse Imagery Supported • Multiple types / formats (eg. HDF, NetCDF, Binary, DOQQ, Shp) • Automated imagery ingestion/georeferencing – FTP , DODS sources [CHL] SEAWIFS, Gulf of Maine SAR Image, Santa Monica Bay SST AVHRR, Gulf of Maine Aerial photography, Malibu Vector Imagery – LA ESRI Shapefiles NOAA Nautical Charts Virtual Database Utility Connectivity to any ODBC compliant data source (eg. Oracle, Excel, ASCII) Maps variably structured relational DB to key fields required by EASy Maps columnar, flat-file data to critical EASy fields Save mapping configurations for reuse/automation Import EASy Project Database EASy Project Database Structure Internet Table Relationships One-to-One (1:1) One-to-Many (1:M) Labels Data Category Link-Field name Voyage Table Sources Table ge ya Vo # Image Format Measurement Type Table Station Table System Table s ea M e p Ty n io at St # Se n T y so pe r Image Format Table Meas Value (+1) Measurement Table Sensor Table Image Format Meas Value Image Table m r Sample Table le te Format Table Fi in # e Po ag pl Im or ns e Se am N e (Image #) Sa Dialog Sequence - Select a data source - Choose data types to import - Map the data fields - Save the configuration Generic relational database Columnar ASCII/Excel flat-file Re c Ty ord pe • • • • Image Data File sample # meas type # time depth value/image # Linking to Online Databases & Webpages • Interactively browse web pages with either static or dynamic content • Context sensitive querying of online biogeographic/species identification databases (eg. OBIS portal, Fishbase, GenBank) GoM Herring distributions and FishBase descriptive species information Conclusions GMBIS has produced a range of products of relevance to CoML/OBIS • Generic approach for biogeographic/oceanographic information system design & implementation • Reusable software tools (EASy & ACON) for the assimilation, integration, visualization & dissemination of the full range of likely CoML data types (biological & environmental) • Assembled information system– precursor to a dynamic, electronic Atlas for the GoM GMBIS – Methods for mapping species distribution patterns in the Gulf of Maine