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Project Lead Institute Country (*lead)
A-biome (Observing and Promoting Atlantic Microbiomes) Dept of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada (DFO) – Atlantic Canada*, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, USA
AMT-omics: Atlantic Meridional Transect ‘omics network Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) UK
ANEMONE Global: Advancing eDNA-Based Biodiversity Monitoring Anemone logo Tohoku University Japan*
ATLASea: Atlas of Marine Genomes French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) France
Australian Microbiome Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Australia
Bio-GO-SHIP University of California, Irvine USA*, Denmark, UK, Australia, Japan
Blowomics: Novel perspectives on non-invasive cetacean research using microRNA biomarkers in the exhaled breath NORD NORD University Norway
Citizens of the Sea Citizens of the Sea New Zealand*, Tonga, Fiji, New Caledonia, Australia
DNA-based approaches for fisheries monitoring eDNA for Fisheries Monitoring - logo Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology (CBMA), University of Minho Portugal*, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau
eDNA Expeditions II IOC UNESCO IODE (International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange) Programme and Marine World Heritage Centre of UNESCO OBIS Belgium
EMOBON (European Marine Omics Biodiversity Observing Network) European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC) France*, Belgium, Greece, Israel, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, UK
GOTeDNA (Guidance on Optimal Timing for eDNA) Dept of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada (DFO) – Atlantic Canada*, USA
HERPOPS (Assessing spatiotemporal dynamics in herring population structure under climate change) Norwegian Institute of Marine Research Havforskningsinstituttet (IMR) Norway*, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Faroe Islands, Scotland (UK), Ireland, Iceland, USA
HI-BON (Hakai Institute Biomolecular Observing Network) Hakai Institute Canada*, USA
Making environmental DNA FAIR Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Australia
Marine Biodiversity Library & MPA eDNA monitoring Dept of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada (DFO) – PSEC Canada
Marma-Detox University of Bergen Norway
NBDL (National Biodiversity DNA Library) Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Australia
NEREA (Naples Ecological REsearch Augmented observatory) Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn Italy*, Spain
OceanOmics: Monitoring & Protecting Ocean Life Minderoo Foundation Australia
PASTIME (Present and past climate change impacts on Norwegian fjord ecosystems) NORCE logo NORCE Norwegian Research Centre Norway
PECO (Pacific eDNA Coastal Observatory) McGill University Canada
SEO (Scripps Ecological Observatory) Scripps Institute of Oceanography USA
TechOmics National Oceanography Centre (NOC) UK
WC-OBON (West Coast Ocean Biomolecular Observing Network) Scripps Institute of Oceanography USA
WCO BON (WCO Biomolecular Observing Network) Marine Biological Association (MBA) UK

Emeritus Projects

Emeritus projects were endorsed under the UN Ocean Decade for a set period of time, which has now passed. These projects remain part of the OBON Programme and international community.

Project Lead Institute Country (*lead)
Better Biomolecular Ocean Practices (BeBOP) Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) USA*, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, South Africa, Spain, UK
eDNA Expeditions In Marine World Heritage Sites: Phase I OBIS IOC UNESCO IODE (International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange) Programme and Marine World Heritage Centre of UNESCO Belgium
Mission Ocean Microbiomes (Tara Microbiomes) Tara Ocean Foundation France*, Chile, Brazil, South Africa
Pacific Islands Marine Bioinvasion Alert Network (PacMAN) OBIS IOC UNESCO Belgium*, Fiji, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Samoa
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