Who's Who - Polar Acronyms

Funded by the Belgian Science Policy Office, biodiversity.aq is building an innovative Antarctic biodiversity information system, giving access to a distributed network of contributing database, according to the principles of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. It is building a new data discovery tool using two complementary networks and will expand these by using an advanced technical architecture, capable of linking with many potential data resources. Biodiversity.aq is recognized as an official SCAR Product and integrates SCAR-MarBIN (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research - Marine Biodiversity Information Network), with the biodiversity databases managed by the Australian Antarctic Division, bringing together data from marine and terrestrial realms. Biodiversity.aq is the data management tool and repository for the biodiversity-related research conducted at the Princess Elisabeth Station.