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#<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/ [email protected] On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Nadine Lymn <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] or > Nadine Lymn ([email protected]) > > > 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. >
