The Southwestern Pacific Regional OBIS Node [SCAR-MarBIN]

A subset of the data described here (Southern Ocean locations) is served by SCAR-MarBIN. NIWA's (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research - New Zealand) MBIS (Marine Biodata Information System) database is a data warehouse of marine data that is used, among other things, to serve South West Pacific (including New Zealand, part of the Southern Ocean and the Ross Sea) regional marine data to OBIS, and to serve the South West Pacific Regional OBIS Node data.

The dataset is, and will continue to be a work in progress because new data are continually being added as they are discovered, provided, integrated or created. The Southwestern Pacific Regional OBIS Node currently contains data that are primarily the results of a series of research trawl surveys carried out as part of New Zealand's MFish (Ministry of Fisheries) data collection to support fisheries management within the NZ EEZ (New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone), plus data from several decades of marine invertebrate research sampling in the NZ EEZ.