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The Census of Marine Life was a global network of researchers in more than 80 nations engaged in a 10-year scientific initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the oceans.  The world's first comprehensive census of the past, present, and future of life in the oceans was released in October 2010.

 

Upcoming visualization ideas

Link globe with sub-layers (Feb. 2010)
This version shows CoML data in multiple layers, with smaller markers and media displayed. Also a full-screen option (click icon in upper-right corner).
Folder "Story globe" mockups
Some ideas about simplified navigation and thematic/narrative presentation. The focus is on keeping the user oriented and moving easily through a "forest" of themes, regions, and stories.
Link globe draft with placemark
Early globe prototype with test markers, in the preferred, light-colored theme.
Link globe2 (darker theme)
Early prototype with a darker theme.
Link Geodome
A portable "Science in a Sphere" display system. M&V has been in contact with the company which produces it- "The Elumenati". It works like something halfway between a planetarium and an IMAX screen.
Link Oceans film promotional site
Another spinning globe visualization assoicated with the Census.
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