Three new Associate Data Units (ADU) joined the IODE network of data centres today: (i) Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) - México: it manages geospatial data corresponding to the undersea relief referring to bathymetric cartography, digital bathymetric models, coastline as part of the Regional Projects International Bathymetric Chart (IBC) Mapping Project, which are regional cartographic projects sponsored by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); (ii) Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Germany. The division’s main research focuses on the research areas Biodiversity, Systematics and Evolution, Biodiversity and Climate and Biodiversity and Environment and they run the Deep-Sea node for OBIS; and (iii) Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology (CMLRE), Cochin, India: CMLRE runs the Indian OBIS node (IndOBIS). IndOBIS has been conceived in 2011 as a national data archival system for marine biodiversity information and services as resource for national reporting requirement to international agreement/conventions and frame works connected to biodiversity and its conservation. We welcome these centres to IODE! More info on https://www.iode.org/adu
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