International Science Programme:
Arctic Census of Marine Life

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Goals of Project

From 2004 the Laboratory of the Marine Research
http://www.zin.ru/labs/marine_lab_e.htm
of the Zoological Institute of RAS
http://www.zin.ru/index_e.htm
participates in one international project of the Census of Marine Life
http://www.coml.org/descrip/aobio.htm -
Arctic Ocean Diversity (ArcOD) or the Arctic Census of Marine Life (ArcCoML) -
http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/research/arcdiv/index.html,
which using a three-step approach:
compilation of existing data, taxonomic identification of existing samples, and new collections focusing on taxonomic and regional gaps.

From 1999 to 2001 the Laboratory of the Marine Research participated in the International project with German colleagues named ArcOD - Computer Network for Arctic Marine Fauna
http://www.zin.ru/projects/ArcOD/index.html.

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