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Todd D. O'Brien, Oceanographer

National Marine Fisheries Service / Marine Ecosystems Division   (2004 - present)

Contact Info
  • COPEPOD:   project lead and developer (2004 - present)

  • COPEPODITE:   project lead and developer (2009 - present)

  • NAUPLIUS:   project lead and developer (2010 - present)

  • COPEPEDIA:   project lead and developer (2014 - present)

National Oceanographic Data Center - Ocean Climate Laboratory   (1996 - 2004)
  • World Ocean Database plankton data manager and developer (1996-2004)

  •     World Ocean Database 2018, 2013, 2009, 2005   (external co-author/consultant)
        World Ocean Database 2001, 1998   (plankton database developer and lead)

Scientific Working Group Membership:
  • MetaZooGene:   SCOR WG157 Marine zooplankton biodiversity based on
    DNA metabarcoding and reference DNA sequence databases(2019 - present)

  • IGMETS:   IOC-UNESCO International Group for Marine Ecological Time Series (2013 - present)

  • WGZE:   ICES Working Group on Zooplankton Ecology (2002 - present)
  • WGPME:   ICES Working Group on Phytoplankton & Microbial Ecology (2010 - present)
  • WGIMT:   ICES Working Group on Integrated Morphological and Molecular Taxonomy (2013 - present, since SGIMT)

  • TrendsPO:   IOC-UNESCO working group to investigate climate change and
    global Trends of Phytoplankton in the Ocean (2016 - present)

  • WG125:   SCOR Global Comparisons of Zooplankton Time Series (2004 - completion)
  • WG137:   SCOR Global Patterns of Phytoplankton Dynamics in Coastal Ecosystems (2010 - completion)