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United States of America

A GBIF Voting participant from North America

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Progress and plans

GBIF Work Programme

  • contributions for 2019: 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 2a, 2c, 3d, 5b, 5c
  • plans for 2020: 1a, 1b, 1e, 1f, 2c, 3a, 3b, 3d

Mission

The US node to GBIF represents an integral part of the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) activities to collect, organize and share biological information. As part of that role USGS has identified three primary functions:

  1. Assist the US biodiversity community with understanding biological data management and standards that promote data sharing, reuse, and reproducibility (FAIR).
  2. Promote biodiversity data mobilization in the US by educating the US community on the use of data standards and provide a pathway for data providers to make their data accessible via the US Node Integrated Publishing Toolkit.
  3. Encouraging the reuse of the available data to support biodiversity-related science, decision-making for sustainable development, species protections and conservation efforts, and risk analyses.

Funding

Since establishing the node in 2001, USGS has fully funded direct implementation of the US Node to GBIF as a key contribution to its broader biodiversity informatics activities.

The basic financial contribution to the GBIF Secretariat is made by the National Science Foundation, and facilitated by the Smithsonian Institution. In the past, funding was also provided by the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

History

USGS has administered the US Node to GBIF since the US joined GBIF in 2001. The USGS-coordinated National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) served first as the primary implementation vehicle for the node. In 2010, the USGS Science Analytics and Synthesis Program assumed responsibility for the US node. The USGS Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON) project oversaw maintenance of the node until 2020 and included operation of the BISON Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) instance. The US Node is migrating to the shared GBIF infrastructure pilot, gbif.us as part of its intent to closer align and leverage the GBIF infrastructure to provide more timely and streamlined access to data. USGS also oversees two other IPT instances- the OBIS-USA IPT instance and the Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (NAS) IPT instance that will continue to serve data to GBIF.

Structure

While USGS operates the US node to GBIF, the GBIF-US community is broad, multifaceted, and distributed spanning Federal, state, and academia. For access to all the species occurrence data in the US please visit the GBIF-US portal.

Contacts

Simon Malcomber
National Science Foundation
Directorate for Biological Sciences 2415 Eisenhower Avenue Alexandria, VA 22314
United States of America
Abby Benson
United States Geological Survey
Core Science Systems Science Analytics & Synthesis (SAS) Denver Federal Center Lakewood CO 80225
United States of America
Mike Frame
U.S Geological Survey
Core Science Systems Science Analytics & Synthesis (SAS) Building 1916T2, 230 Warehouse Road Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830
United States of America
Thomas M. Orrell
Smithsonian Institution
NMNH Research Informatics Program PO Box 37012 National Museum of Natural History, MRC-180 Washington, DC 20013-7012
United States of America
Leonard Krishtalka
University of Kansas
Biodiversity Institute Dyche Hall, Room 602B 1345 Jayhawk Blvd Lawrence KS 66045-7561
United States of America
Martin Kalfatovic
Smithsonian Institution Libraries and Archives
Natural History Building 1000 Constitution Avenue NW Washington, DC 20560
United States of America
Sharon D. Grant
Field Museum of Natural History
1400 Du Sable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605
United States of America
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