Todd O'Brien retired from NOAA in April 2025,
but is still active in plankton research.
Updated contact info for Todd is available in the MetaZooGene web page.
NOAA Fisheries / Marine Ecosystems Division (2004 - 2025)
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COPEPOD: project lead and developer (2004 - 2025)
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COPEPODITE: project lead and developer (2009 - 2025)
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NAUPLIUS: project lead and developer (2010 - 2025)
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 - completion+)
- IGMETS: International Group for Marine Ecological Time Series (2013 - completion+)
- 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 global Trends of Phytoplankton in the Ocean (2016 - completion)
- WG125: SCOR Global Comparisons of Zooplankton Time Series (2004 - completion)
- WG137: SCOR Global Patterns of Phytoplankton Dynamics in Coastal Ecosystems (2010 - completion)
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