Region Dataset Description Organisation Web Address
Global Aquatic
Species Maps FAO Aquatic Species maps
Aquatic Species Distribution Map Viewer FAO
http://www.fao.org/figis/geoserver/fa ctsheets/species.html
Bathymetry
& Global Relief
Scientific stewardship, products, and services for ocean depth data and derived digital elevation models
NOAA http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathy metry/relief.html
Caribbean Fisheries Impacts
Characterize the bycatch of marine mammals, seabirds, and sea turtles
Project GloBAL - Global bycatch assessment of long-lived species
http://bycatch.nicholas.duke.edu/
Climate World Climate
Data http://www.worldclim.org/
Climate Change
Shape, txt, KML, JPEG ‘- live services listed on Live Services tab.
National Center for Atmospheric Research Climate Change Datasets
http://www.gis.ucar.edu/atmo_data.js p
Coastal Navigation
Coastal Management (Electronic Navigational Charts)
ENC Charts http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/
mcd/enc/
Continential Shelf
Outer limits of continental shelf; KMZ files available:
www.continentalshelf.org/km z.aspx.
UNEP Shelf Programme Shelf OSDS geophysical data inventory map (ShelfOSDS)
http://continentalshelf.org/onestopdat ashop/4204.aspx
Depth
General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO)
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/products/web _services/gebco_wms/
EcoRegions, Water Bodies
Marine and Terrestrial Ecoregions, hydrosheds, and global lakes and wetlands
World Wildlife Fund
Conservation Science Data Sets
http://worldwildlife.org/pages/conser vation-science-data-and-tools
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Atlantic Real-Time Ocean Forecast System
The Atlantic operational Real Time Ocean Forecasting System (Atlantic RTOFS) is a basin-scale ocean forecast system based on the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM). Atlantic RTOFS is described in the following paper (PDF): "A Real Time Ocean Forecast System for the North Atlantic Ocean" by Mehra and Rivin, Terr.
Atmos. Ocean. Sci., Vol. 21, No. 1, 211-228, February 2010
NOAA - Environmental Modeling Center
http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/ofs/
Exclusive Economic Zones
VLIZ Maritime Boundaries (EEZ)
World Maritime Boundaries
(http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/marbo und/index.php)
Fisheries Fisheries Datasets
Food &
Agriculture Organisation - FAO
http://www.fao.org/fishery/collection /gisfish/en
Fisheries Most US Based fisheries data NOAA http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/gis/data/fi sheries.htm
Fisheries, Ecosystem &
Biodiversity Data
Fisheries, Ecosystem &
Biodiversty Data Sea Around Us http://www.seaaroundus.org/data/
Fisheries &
Ecosystem Data - Various
E-infrastructure for fisheries management and
conservation of living resources
European
Commission http://www.i-marine.eu
GIS Data Portal
GeoNetwork is a catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources.
It provides powerful metadata editing and search functions as well as an embedded interactive web map viewer.
GeoNetwork Opensource
http://geonetwork-opensource.org/index.html
GIS Data Portal
ConserveOnline is a catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources used by The Nature
Conservancy
ConserveOnline http://conserveonline.org/
Human Impacts
Impacts of fishing, shipping, pollution, climate changes and other human impacts on a global scale. Halpern et al.
2008
A Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/globalmar ine/impacts
Hydrography
&
Bathymetry
Combined bathymetry and hydrography
NGA
Hydrographic and Bathymetric Data
https://www1.nga.mil/ProductsServic es/NauticalHydrographicBathymetric Product/Pages/default.aspx
Marine
Speices Marine Species Datasets
Ocean Biogeographic Information Sys.
http://www.iobis.org/
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Marine Speices Maps
Standardized distribution maps for currently 11,500 species of fishes, marine mammals and invertebrates.
AquaMaps http://www.aquamaps.org/
Ocean Health
Index Web app ocean health index Ocean Health Index
http://www.oceanhealthindex.org/Co untries/
Population Raster popoulation density
National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis Global Demography Project
http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/pubs/gdp/
pop.html#GLOBAL
Red List of Threatened Species
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species - Map Viewer
IUCN Red List Maps
http://maps.iucnredlist.org/map.html?
id=3855 Reef Related Variety of Marine and
Reef-Related Global GIS datasets Reefs at Risk http://www.wri.org/publication/conte nt/7911
Transportatio n (Ports)
location and physical characteristics of, and the facilities and services offered by major ports and terminals world-wide (approximately 3700 entries)
NGA World Port Index
http://msi.nga.mil/NGAPortal/MSI.p ortal;jsessionid=hJd1Nv2PTyJF0nfG 5Dy3sMv6QXbqLj0ThPwtgxCBxJZ
pG5611LKT!-1213936983!NONE?_nfpb=true&_p ageLabel=msi_portal_page_62&pub Code=0015
UNEP Data
Emissions, climate, disasters AND other global
environment (forests, freshwater, etc.)
UNEP - GEO
Data Portal http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/
Weather
Data originally collected as part of the Global Surface Summary of Day (GSOD) by the National Climactic Data Center (NCDC).
Daily Global Weather Measurements, 1929-2009
http://aws.amazon.com/datasets/2759 /185-0886336-5629151
Wetlands
wetlands downloadable data; webapp, google earth and pdf versions also available
Ramsar Sites Information Service
http://ramsar.wetlands.org/GISMaps/
DownloadGISdatasets/tabid/769/lang uage/en-US/Default.aspx
World Bank
Economic and demographic growth data for countries around the world; over 2,000 indicators; see also
http://data.worldbank.org/data -catalog
World Bank
Data Catalog http://data.worldbank.org/
World Conservation Monitoring Center
UNEP-WCMC Centre's Interactive Map Service
http://imaps.unep-wcmc.org/imaps_index.htm
Latin Ameri can &
Caribb ean
GIS Data Portal
List of OGC-based services registered with the Portal (WMS, WFS, CSW, topographic) and regional map viewer - in spanish and English
GeoSUR http://www.geosur.info/geosur/
Central South Amer.
Population
Similar to "AfriPop" and
"AsiaPop"; human population distributions
AmeriPop www.ameripop.org
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Central South Amer.
Elevation
MODIS IMagery, 30m DEM, hillshade Landscan 2000 population, earthquakes
USGS Global GIS
ftp://pdsimage2.wr.usgs.gov/pub/pigp en/globalgis
Caribbe an
Hazard &
Vulnerability
Links to PDF maps of hazard and vulnerability assessments
Caribbean Hazard Mitigation Capacity Building Programme (CHAMP)
http://www.cdera.org/projects/champ /mitiplcy/gis.shtml
Mesoa
merica Biodiversity Biodiversity
Belize Biodiversity Clearing House Mechanism
http://www.biodiversity.bz/
Reef Related
Variety of Marine and Reef-Related GIS datasets for the MAR
Healthy Reefs
http://www.healthyreefs.org/cms/
Honduras Biophysical Maps
The map section is organized into three categories:
Administrative Maps, Biophysical Maps, Maps Maritime for the Gulf of Honduras
Data and information management systems Gulf of Honduras
http://www.golfodehonduras.org/
Regional System for South American, MAR &
Caribbean
SERVIR Mesoamerica, America Latina
& Caribe
http://www.servir.net/
Guiana s
Sea Turtle Migration
Guiana Sea Turtle Migration Game
Sea Turtle
Conservancy http://conserveturtles.org/wwf/
Sargass o Sea
Sargasso Sea Marine Conservation
Includes an effort to map the Sargasso Sea, contact person Russ Moffat 707-531 4791 of Marine Conservation Institute
Sargasso Sea Marine Conservation
https://access.foundationsource.com/
project/sargasso-sea-marine-conservation
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