We are excited to have a paper published in PLOS ONE today: “Aligning marine species range data to better serve science and conservation”. In it we examine global maps of nearly 25,000 marine species ranges that are available publicly from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and AquaMaps. You can read the paper here, or check out our interactive web application where you can explore our results and compare range maps of more than 250 different species.
Hello OHI supporters! We haven’t reached out to you for a while but we haven’t been idle! Here let us update you with a few of our most recent activities:
Open data science is the combination of open science, data science, and team science. We promote and practice this with the Ocean Health Index by using software tools that make our work transparent, reproducible, and shared publicly online. These concepts are being discussed more and more in the news and in the academic literature. There are so many great articles on these topics that we have started this list, along with a quote from the article to give a sense of its content.
If you’re interested in learning more about OHI or leading your own OHI+ assessment, you are in the right place: ohi-science.org has the information you need. It is the technical website accompanying oceanhealthindex.org. Here are some suggestions for getting started.
2017 marks five years since the OHI first launched. With this short biography we reflect on its many achievements thus far as we continue to work for healthy oceans.
Today the Ocean Health Index (OHI) announces the completion of the fifth annual global Ocean Health Index (OHI) assessment at the 17th annual Global Environment Facility Large Marine Ecosystem meeting in Paris. Global OHI scores represent ocean health for 220 coastal nations and territories and are calculated with the same methods and best available information each year. The OHI, established in 2012, is a partnership led by scientists from the National Center for Ecological Synthesis and Analysis (NCEAS) at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Conservation International.
