Coordination and data management team
The coordination, data and IT management of Marine regions is carried out by the Flanders Marine Institute. You can contact us at info@marineregions.org. People involved are:
- Britt Lonneville: GIS Expert
- Salvador Fernández Bejarano: Data management, GIS Expert
- Lawrence Whatley: Data management, GIS Expert
- Bart Vanhoorne: IT expert
- Lennert Schepers: Project manager
- Lennert Tyberghein: Manager Data Centre
Collaboration Agreement
Marine regions interacts with the user community through the establishment of Collaboration Agreements. Marine Regions depends on data and knowledge sharing from global, European, regional and national data providers and relevant experts. In turn data providers should benefit from belonging to the Marine Regions partnership as they would get increased visibility, gain access to a variety of data analysis services which will benefit from integration of several distributed spatial datasets, as well as enjoying the benefit of the creation of stable unique identifiers. The Collaboration Agreement would also foster a sense of ownership amongst the partners. An example template of a Collaboration Agreement can be found here. Please contact info@marineregions.org if your organisation is interested to explore this collaboration.
Editors
Marine regions works with an editorial board, responsible for the content and quality control of the data. We have editors that are responsible for the content of a specific source and the update of that source within Marine Regions, and regional editors that are in charge of a specific geographic area. You can apply for membership by sending your contact details, interest and proposed contribution
- Mr. Fabio Carocci
Fisheries and Aquaculture Resources Use and Conservation Division
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Quality control EEZ Boundaries & link between the FAO Marine Areas and Marine Regions - Mr. Evan Centanni
Political Geography Now
Quality control by providing feedback on political maritime geography issues - Mr. David Forcucci
US Coast Guard
Quality control of the EEZ boundaries and providing geographic information from the Arctic region to Marine Regions. - Dr. Mario H. Londono-Mesa
University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
Editor for the Colombian part of the Caribbean Sea - Dr. Roy Lowry
British Oceanographic Data Centre, United Kingdom
SeaVoX governance representative - Mr. Deanesh Ramsewak
Institute for Marine Affairs, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Editor for the marine part of Trinidad and Tobago - Mr. Willy Lehmann Weng
Geological Data Centre, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS)
Editor for the marine part of Greenland - Mr. Martin Debenham
Quality control international maritime boundaries
Working groups
- GEBCO-SCUFN
The GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) maintains and makes available a digital gazetteer of the names, generic feature type and geographic position of features on the sea floor. Marine Regions is an external observer of SCUFN, to ensure an operational link between the SCUFN Gazetteer and Marine Regions.
- TDWG Geographical Schemes Interest Group
The purpose of this interest group is to coordinate the development of one or more geographical schemes, including standard names, abbreviations, and boundaries, that are practically useful for managing occurrence data and species distributions. Marine Regions is involved in the development of the marine counterpart of the World Geographic Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), to make its coverage global.