RAPID: Enhancement of Fishnet2 for Disaster Impact Assessment

为应对墨西哥湾“深地平线”石油泄漏事件，杜兰大学获得了一笔RAPID拨款，用于扩大和加强Fishnet2鱼类收集数据库网络（http://www.fishnet2.net）。他们将扩大和加强网络，以促进墨西哥湾鱼类档案数据的快速搜索和提取。石油泄漏有可能对墨西哥湾近海和近岸地区的物种、群落和食物网产生深远而长期的影响。它发生在许多海洋物种在受漏油影响的墨西哥湾地区产卵的时候，包括极度濒危的物种，如蓝鳍金枪鱼，它们从4月到6月在墨西哥湾产卵。蓝鳍金枪鱼只是墨西哥湾成千上万种海洋鱼类和其他生物中的一种，它们的幼虫目前正暴露在石油衍生的毒素中。科学家评估漏油对墨西哥湾生态系统影响的能力，关键取决于该地区在自然条件下生物群落组成和结构的基线数据的可用性。自然历史博物馆包含了几十年到几百年的海洋资源的丰富数据。在大多数情况下，抽样是由国家海洋自然资源机构进行的，这些机构定期对海洋生物群的各种组成部分进行普查，并定期让科学界的成员参与这项工作。作为科学参与的结果，游船上的标本被送往不同的博物馆进行鉴定、研究和存档。改进后的门户网站将作为研究资源，用于评估目前的石油泄漏和未来其他此类环境灾害的影响。它还将作为增强其他生物群体数据网络的模型。该项目计划的具体增强功能包括一个新的映射界面，基于齿轮类型和用户定义的深度区域进行在线空间查询和搜索的能力。新的地图界面将基于OpenLayers，并将支持Open Street Maps、b谷歌和Bing。Fishnet2门户网站已经支持下载结果。使用谷歌Earth和/或ArcGIS可视化点发生的KML文件。通过提出的增强功能，用户可以在搜索界面地图上绘制多边形或上传图像。描述搜索区域（例如，预计的溢油影响区域）的KML文件，并将其用作从Fishnet2中提取数据的空间过滤器。

In response to the Deep Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Tulane University is awarded a RAPID grant to expand and enhance the Fishnet2 network of fish collection databases (http://www.fishnet2.net). They will expand and enhance the network to facilitate rapid searches and extraction of archived data on Gulf of Mexico fishes. The oil spill has the potential to have far-reaching, long-term impacts on species, communities and food webs in both offshore and near-shore areas of the Gulf of Mexico. It occurred at a time when many oceanic species are spawning in areas of the Gulf of Mexico affected by the spill, including critically endangered species such as the bluefin tuna, which spawns in the gulf from April to June. The bluefin tuna is just one of the thousands of marine fishes and other organisms whose larvae are currently being exposed to oil-derived toxins in the Gulf of Mexico. The ability of scientists to assess the impacts of the spill on the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem depends critically on the availability of baseline data on the composition and structure of biotic communities in the region under natural conditions. Natural history museums contain a wealth of data on marine resources spanning decades to hundreds of years. In most instances, the sampling was conducted by national marine natural resource agencies, which regularly census various components of the marine biota and routinely engage members of the scientific community in this endeavor. As a result of the scientific engagement, specimens from the cruises have made their way to various museums to be identified, studied and archived. The enhanced portal will serve as a research resource for assessing impacts of the current oil spill and other such environmental disasters in the future. It will also serve as a model for enhancing data networks for other groups of organisms. The specific enhancements planned for this project include a new mapping interface, the ability to conduct online spatial queries and searches based on gear-type and user-defined depth zone. The new map interface will be based on OpenLayers and will support Open Street Maps, Google and Bing. The Fishnet2 portal already supports downloading results as .KML files for visualization of point occurrences using Google Earth and/or ArcGIS. With the proposed enhancements, a user could draw polygons on the search interface map or upload a .KML file describing a search area (e.g., the projected spill impact area) and use this as a spatial filter for extracting data from Fishnet2.