Fwd: Marine Life Data Workshop for December 11th at 12pm ET (Animal Telemetry Network data standardization to Darwin Core)

[Mathew Biddle - NOAA Federal]

FYI, this is open to all. See the announcement below and in this GitHub discussion.

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From: Mathew Biddle - NOAA Federal <mathew...@noaa.gov>
Date: Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Subject: Marine Life Data Workshop for December 11th at 12pm ET (Animal Telemetry Network data standardization to Darwin Core)

Hi MBON DMAC'ers and Marine Life data enthusiasts! 

Due to scheduling conflicts we are moving the next data workshop to later in the same week.

Our next "data session" will be held on December 11th from 12pm ET - 1pm ET. The topic will be "U.S. Animal Telemetry Network data to DarwinCore" and will be hosted by Dr. Megan McKinzie (Data Coordinator, ATN) and myself, Mathew Biddle (IOOS DMAC). Below is an overview of the session and the connection information.

The meeting is open to others who might have an interest as well.

Summary:

This session will walk through the process of reformatting the U.S. Animal Telemetry Network datasets archived at NCEI (https://doi.org/10.25921/wp4e-ph20) in netCDF format into Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) format.

Movements of marine animals are a fundamental element of ocean ecosystem dynamics. Telemetry, the use of electronic tag technology to study animal movement, is a critical tool for the biological monitoring of marine life. The multi-agency U.S. Animal Telemetry Network (ATN) has been established to provide unity, stability, and continuity to the national infrastructure that facilitates the collection, management, and availability of this marine animal telemetry data. Recently, ATN established an automated pipeline to submit data to NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NOAA NCEI) for long term preservation and access. You can find those datasets through the collection level record at NCEI identified with this dataset Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.25921/wp4e-ph20. 

While archiving data at NCEI meets one of our goals in the Marine Life Data Network Satellite Telemetry data flow, it is still imperative that these data are shared with the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) for integration into global analysis. In order to do so, we must reformat the data to align with the Darwin Core format and provide appropriate metadata. In this session, Megan and I will provide an overview of the U.S. ATN as well as an in-depth review of the process by which we automatically generate Darwin Core-Archive packages and push them to the OBIS-USA Integrated Publishing Toolkit (atn2obis) for harvesting by OBIS and GBIF. At the end of the session, we will demonstrate running the process and actually publish a dataset on-the-spot!

Connection Information:

MBON DMAC working group
Thursday, December 11th 12:00 – 1:50pm
Time zone: America/New_York
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/imf-qrhy-jgx
Or dial: ‪(US) +1 321-351-6755‬ PIN: ‪548 540 777‬#
More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/imf-qrhy-jgx?pin=2704290817714

Tools:

• https://portal.atn.ioos.us/
• Python packages
• xarray
• shapely
• jinja2
• pyobistools - ipt_publishing
• xml
• BeautifulSoup
• https://github.com/MathewBiddle/atn2obis
• Integrated Publishing Toolkit

Thanks,

Matt, Megan, & Laura

P.S. You can follow our workshop announcements by following the Marine Life Data Network DataWorkshop discussions at this link.

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Mathew Biddle, Physical Scientist
NOAA/NOS
US Integrated Ocean Observing System Office
1315 East-West Highway
Silver Spring MD 20910

240-533-9470

ORCiD: 0000-0003-4897-1669

http://www.ioos.noaa.gov/

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Mathew Biddle, Physical Scientist
NOAA/NOS
US Integrated Ocean Observing System Office
1315 East-West Highway
Silver Spring MD 20910

240-533-9470

ORCiD: 0000-0003-4897-1669

http://www.ioos.noaa.gov/