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Bio-GO-SHIP

Bio-GO-SHIP is an international collaborative initiative integrating systematic biological observations into the global repeat hydrography network. The project collects standardized metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, pigments, imaging, and optical data alongside traditional physical and chemical oceanographic measurements to quantify pelagic plankton diversity and its feedback on global biogeochemical cycles. Data are managed under open-access, FAIR principles to accelerate basin-scale ecosystem modelling. The biological sampling protocols used in the Bio-GO-SHIP program are designed to support NASA efforts specifically related to the PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) OCI (Ocean Color Instrument) validation.

The project is led by Adam Martiny (University of California Irvine and Technical University Denmark), Luke Thompson (NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory and Mississippi State University), Harriet Alexander (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), Jason Graff (Oregon State University), Nicole Poulton (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences), and Sophie Clayton (UK National Oceanography Centre).

Project information is available at https://biogoship.org/ and https://github.com/biogoship

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Project period

1 January, 2021 – 31 December, 2030 

Joined OBON in April, 2026
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