Transcript Sea Around Us Project - Wolfram Data Summit 2016

Wolfram data summit 2011
Washington DC, September, 2011
The Sea Around Us:
Seeing our past, present and future
through data in space and time
Impacts of fisheries on the world’s
marine ecosystems
Dirk Zeller
www.seaaroundus.org
Wolfram data summit 2011
Washington DC, September, 2011
Everything you always wanted to
know (or not) about fish &
fisheries
Dirk Zeller
www.seaaroundus.org
Fishbase.org
Fishbase.us
SeaLifeBase.org
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The true precursor to FishBase:
Scientific card index box on fish biology
and population dynamics, initiated in early 1977.
Grew in leaps and bounds: DVD-based…
FishBase went online in October 1998
FishBase in 2011
FishBase search page in 2011
Also, we learnt that fish taxonomy (identification)
remains a problem
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Sorting out valid names and correct spellings
remains a major headache;
The number of species keeps increasing (200500 new fish species per year);
Names keep changing (1% per year);
Knowledge about fishes increases exponentially.
Therefore, ENCODING is important and neverending… core FishBase Encoder Team …
The success of FishBase is clearly illustrated by our
website, which receives monthly:
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33-35 million hits
Over ½ million unique visitors
Hits come from:
All continents
A variety of users:
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Individuals
Universities
Museums
Research Institutes
School children
NGOs
What do our ½ million visitors per month want?
Photos
Common names
Scientific names
References
Info by Country
Eschmeyer
Glossary
Identification
Fish collections
Trophic ecology
FishBase Book
Population dynamics
Reproduction
Physiology
Tools
Ecology
Fish Quiz
Diseases
Genetics
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June – August 2009
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Percent of visitors accessing this topic
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FishBase Users by Continent
Oceania
Australia
Africa
South America
North America
Asia
Europe
Based on 2122 entries in the FishBase Guestbook , June 2004
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Correlates with general internet usage
FishBase usage by country (%)
(July 2004)
USA
10
Brazil
Australia
Greece
1
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Germany
Japan
South Korea
China
India Russia
Peru
Luxembourg
Saudi Arabia
0.01
PNG
Pakistan
Kenya
Belarus
Cuba
0.001
Ghana
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0.0001
0.001
0.01
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Internet usage by country (%)
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Success with FishBase…
what about non-fish marine life?
SeaLifeBase
SeaLifeBase in 2011
~118,000 species, incl. fish
Not as data deep (yet)
… deep-linked to FishBase
FishBase & SeaLifeBase widened the scope of fisheries
science
and provided the opportunity for
global studies, beyond narrow,
single fishery focus of traditional
fisheries scientists
Ecosystem- and global-scale
effects of fishing…
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Named after Rachel Carson’s book
Initiated in 1999
Assess, document and communicate the impact of
fisheries on the world’s marine ecosystems
Why? Fishing is single most important impact factor on
global oceans
Collaboration:
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The University of British Columbia, Vancouver
The Pew Environment Group, Philadelphia
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Sea Around Us Project
Globally unique
 Developed large complex of inter-linked, global
databases that allow inferences on the global
oceans
 Combine fisheries with biology, economics,
history and policy
 Work in ‘ecologically meaningful space’…
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Global spatial grid
½ x ½ degree cells
Use a rule-based
procedure
> 99.9% assignability
180,000 cells @ 1,500
species @ 66 years @ 180
countries @ 20 fishing
gears
> 50 trillion data points @
catch, fishing effort,
economic value
Sea Around Us Project
Allows truly global analyses...
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Climate change: Intensity of local extinctions by 2050
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Climate change: Change in catch potential by 2050
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For USA: $1.5 billion/year
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And much more, all allocated to the spatial
entity chosen…..
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Future…
Sea Around Us Project
Future:
 Strategic, long-term funding model
Consortium (FishBase)?
 Multi-year partnerships?
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User-defined customization of data queries
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2012-2013
World Atlas of Fisheries (a book!)
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2013-2014
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Acknowledgements…
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Thanks to the Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia;
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Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia;
Rainer Froese and FishBase;
Deng Palomares and SeaLifeBase;
Members of the Sea Around Us project;
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and many others...
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