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MiniGrant List: 2006-2007

• Speciation by Deep-sea Arctic Echinoderms
• Benthic Boundary Layer Zooplankton
• Mesozooplankton in Franklin Bay
• Archiving of Specimens, Notes and Photographs from NARL
• Polychaetes and Bivalves of the East Siberian Sea
• Epibenthos in Nearshore Boulder Communities
• Western Arctic Marine Fish Distribution
• Compilation of data sets from Kiel University
• Amphipoda from the Greenlandic Shelf
• Benthic Harpacticoid Copepods from Kongsfjorden
• Zooplankton of the Barents Sea and Nearby Basins
• Phytoplankton and ice-algae of the White & Barents Seas, and Nearby Basins
• Macrophytes from Hornsund Fjord

Title: Compilation of species abundance data sets from sympagic, pelagic, and benthic biota in Arctic seas

Principal Investigators Dieter Piepenburg Michael Spindler Mainz Academy of Sciences, Humanities, and Literature, Institute for Polar Ecology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

Project goals
The purpose of this project is to compile (and validate) data sets that are currently scattered over various sources in the Institute for Polar Ecology of Kiel University and to make these data sets available for input into OBIS.

Results
Current and past scientists working at the Institute for Polar Ecology were contacted in an effort to compile as many as possible data collected on pelagic, sympagic and benthic communities in the history of the institute. In addition, published and unpublished PhD and MS theses were assessed for suitable data to contribute to this effort. Data sets obtained were formatted to meet the OBIS/ArcOD data standards and metadata were generated in FGDG format for each data set. About 3500 records were compiled and formatted.