[ECOLOG-L] ESA Data Registry for Gulf, your help requested

[Nadine Lymn]

The British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will 
impact the northeastern Gulf of Mexico and larger regions of Earth's ecosystem 
in an unprecedented way. The scientific community can contribute invaluable 
information regarding the conditions of affected ecosystems prior the spill. 
This information will be crucial to ongoing and future damage assessment, clean 
up, mitigation and restoration over the coming weeks, months, years, and 
decades. 

The Ecological Society of America has set up a data registry system  
http://www.esa.org/mdc/in which anyone with information about ecological or 
environmental conditions along the coastal ecosystems of the four affected 
states (LA, MS, AL, and FL) ) can upload metadata and help build a database 
documenting ecological states and conditions before the spill. This database 
will be searchable by place and time, taxa or physico-chemical variables 
monitored, ecosystem type, etc. Those scientists contributing their metadata 
and their contact information will agree to share their information with 
scientists and managers on the front line of assessment, mitigation, or 
restoration efforts.  ESA graduate student leaders Jorge Ramos and Rob 
Salguero-Gomez will follow up with the contact person for more information, if 
needed. 

Please help us by submitting your information and notifying colleagues about 
this effort. If you would like to submit photographs, please upload them to the 
ESAStudentSection picasa photo account 
(http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/view?q=ESAStudentSection&psc=G&filter=1#5478442790476145826).

 
Link to data registry website: http://www.esa.org/mdc/


For more information please contact:
Jorge Ramos and Rob Salguero-Gomez at esastudentsect...@gmail.com or Nadine 
Lymn (nad...@esa.org)


ESA is grateful to the following individuals who made this initiative possible: 
 Rob Salguero-Gomez (Chair, ESA Student Section), Jorge Ramos (Leader, ESA 
SEEDS Network), Zaw Aung, ESA Webmaster, and Mark Stromberg and the UC Natural 
Reserve System, which provided ESA with a database template for this effort.



Nadine Lymn
Director of Public Affairs
Ecological Society of America
1990 M Street, NW
Suite 700
Washington DC  20036
202.833.8773 ext. 205
202.833.8775 Fax
 Please consider the environment before printing this email. Thank you.

Re: [ECOLOG-L] ESA Data Registry for Gulf, your help requested

[Jorge Ramos]

Hello all,

Corrected link for data registry system: http://www.esa.org/mdc

ESAStudentSection OilSpill_Response Web Photo Album:

http://picasaweb.google.com/ESAStudentSection/OilSpill_Response#


Please contribute with as much information as you have and help us
distribute this message to other colleagues.


Thank you and have a great weekend,

Jorge

--
Jorge Ramos
College of the Environment
University of Washington
http://www.ecojorgeramos.com/
jramo...@u.washington.edu


On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Nadine Lymn  wrote:

> The British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
> will impact the northeastern Gulf of Mexico and larger regions of Earth's
> ecosystem in an unprecedented way. The scientific community can contribute
> invaluable information regarding the conditions of affected ecosystems prior
> the spill. This information will be crucial to ongoing and future damage
> assessment, clean up, mitigation and restoration over the coming weeks,
> months, years, and decades.
>
> The Ecological Society of America has set up a data registry system
> http://www.esa.org/mdc/in which anyone with information about ecological
> or environmental conditions along the coastal ecosystems of the four
> affected states (LA, MS, AL, and FL) ) can upload metadata and help build a
> database documenting ecological states and conditions before the spill. This
> database will be searchable by place and time, taxa or physico-chemical
> variables monitored, ecosystem type, etc. Those scientists contributing
> their metadata and their contact information will agree to share their
> information with scientists and managers on the front line of assessment,
> mitigation, or restoration efforts.  ESA graduate student leaders Jorge
> Ramos and Rob Salguero-Gomez will follow up with the contact person for more
> information, if needed.
>
> Please help us by submitting your information and notifying colleagues
> about this effort. If you would like to submit photographs, please upload
> them to the ESAStudentSection picasa photo account (
> http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/view?q=ESAStudentSection&psc=G&filter=1#5478442790476145826
> ).
>
>
> Link to data registry website: http://www.esa.org/mdc/
>
>
> For more information please contact:
> Jorge Ramos and Rob Salguero-Gomez at esastudentsect...@gmail.com or
> Nadine Lymn (nad...@esa.org)
>
>
> ESA is grateful to the following individuals who made this initiative
> possible:  Rob Salguero-Gomez (Chair, ESA Student Section), Jorge Ramos
> (Leader, ESA SEEDS Network), Zaw Aung, ESA Webmaster, and Mark Stromberg and
> the UC Natural Reserve System, which provided ESA with a database template
> for this effort.
>
>
>
> Nadine Lymn
> Director of Public Affairs
> Ecological Society of America
> 1990 M Street, NW
> Suite 700
> Washington DC  20036
> 202.833.8773 ext. 205
> 202.833.8775 Fax
>  Please consider the environment before printing this email. Thank you.
>