Dynamic learning for a new vision over marine biodiversity

Empowering students by co-creating marine biodiversity education

OBIS is the primary biodiversity platform dedicated to the marine environment, currently hosting over 125 million occurrence records along with a wealth of data related to abundance, environmental information, eDNA, and more. This renders OBIS an exceptional resource for marine researchers. Yet, many students are unaware of the full potential of OBIS capabilities.

The Propagules program want to bridge this gap by enriching higher education programs on marine sciences with OBIS content. Students will have the opportunity to explore, through innovative resources, how they can leverage OBIS data and products to unleash new scientific questions. This will be powered by new tools being developed by OBIS, as part of the recently created virtual laboratory.

Students enrolled in courses with Propagules content will also develop essential skills in data management, learning to navigate in the era of big data on biodiversity research. At the end, we anticipate paving the way for a newly skilled community of ocean scientists that can use OBIS information to address the challenges the oceans are facing.

the Propagules approach

OBIS Propagules will form a community of trainers to co-create educational content designed to empower students with the skills to leverage biodiversity data and products to address the most pressing questions of today.

Thematic classes

Thematic modules exploring key zoology and/or ecology concepts through OBIS data and products.

Courses

Lesson plans and use cases structured to cover various aspects of marine-focused regular courses.

Fieldwork

Fieldwork guides with instructions and ideas for training on biodiversity data management.

Coding clubs

For coding clubs, the program will provide data kits alongside problems to be tackled through programming.

Contact

Want to discover more about our project? Want to support us?

Send an e-mail to helpdesk@obis.org