The Pole-to-Pole Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) of the Americas: Building a Regional Community of Practice for Understanding and Conserving Life in the Ocean


Enrique Montes, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, FL, United States, Gabrielle Canonico, NOAA U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System, Silver Spring, United States, Maria T Kavanaugh, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States, Antonio Carlos Marques, Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociencias, São Paulo, Brazil, Benjamin Best, EcoQuants, Santa Barbara, United States, Omar Defeo, Universidad de la Republica, Unidad de Ciencias del Mar, Facultad de Ciencias, Montevideo, Uruguay, Angelica L. Gutierrez, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/ NESDIS International and Interagency Affairs Division (IIAD), Silver Spring, MD, United States, James Emmett Emmett Duffy, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, The Tenenbaum Marine Observatories Network, Edgewater, MD, United States, Elva G Escobar-Briones, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Limnology and Oceanography, Ciudad DE Armería, EM, Mexico, Patricia Miloslavich, Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), Newark, DE, United States, Eduardo Klein, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela, Gregorio Bigatti, Instituto de Biología de Organismos Marinos (IBIOMAR), Puerto Madryn, Argentina, Augusto Flores, Universidade de São Paulo, Centro de Biologia Marinha, São Sebastião, Brazil, Maria Del Pilar Cornejo, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Facultad de Ingeniería Marítima, Ciencias Biológicas, Oceánicas y Recursos Naturales, Guayaquil, Ecuador, Carlos Cardenas, Universidad de Magallanes, Centro de Investigación Gaia-Antártica, Punta Arenas, Chile, Julian Pizarro, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras “José Benito Vives de Andréis”, Santa Marta, Colombia, Alejandro Henao, Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia, Parque Nacional Natural Corales de Profundidad, Cartagena, Colombia, Sergio Cerdeira-Estrada, National Commission for Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO), Ciudad DE México, Mexico, Sennai Habtes, University of the Virgin Islands, Center for Marine and Environmental Studies, St. Thomas, United States, Daniel Brooks Otis, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, IMaRS, St Petersburg, FL, United States, Francisco Chavez, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States and Frank E Muller-Karger, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, IMaRS, St Petersburg, United States
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