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"Promoting the exchange, integration and use of marine data through enhanced data publishing, discovery, documentation and accessibility."

Please note: The site may be briefly down on occasion this July 4 weekend as we transition to the new site.

Watch for our NEW website! We will be transitioning to our new website the first week in July. Interested in what it will look like? Click the image to see a preview!

So, what's going to change on the new site? A LOT! For starters:
A completely new look and feel. We've updated our graphics, and created a whole new color scheme.
New Menus. The web group developed new categories and organization based on user input.
Updated Guides. They have been enlarged, reorganized, edited, and presented in a clean 'book' format.
New Functionality. You can join a "working group", quickly locate references by keyword, easily submit content, and more...

Thank you for your patience! We are actively preparing the site for its move, and can not accept new members at this time. We will process new member requests when the new site is on-line.

Note: Current members might need to reset their passwords once we are on the new site. Instructions will be provided.

Marine scientists face an opportunity and a challenge in the volume of data available from various ocean observing systems. The MMI Project can help make it easier for you to find, access, and use other data sets. If you create marine science data sets, MMI can help make your data easier to advertise, distribute, reuse, and combine with other data sets.

Our goal is to promote collaborative research in the marine science domain, by simplifying the incredibly complex world of metadata into specific, straightforward guidance. MMI hopes to encourage scientists and data managers at all levels to apply good metadata practices from the start of a project, by providing the best advice and resources for data management.

MMI maintains this website to foster communication and collaboration among its hundreds of members, and provides forums for discussion of diverse topics related to marine data management. MMI is also developing web applications and stand-alone tools to enable sophisticated interactions across marine data systems.

Acknowledgements

Ongoing funding for this web site is provided by the National Science Foundation through grant OCE 0607372. Any material on this site represents the understanding of the authors and contributors to the site, and not necessarily of NSF.

We greatly appreciate the contributions of all our supporters and collaborators.

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Did our site help you? Please help us a little in return—it's easy! Help describe us on Wikipedia, or Digg/tag some of our pages—help everyone else get to know about our project. Let us know what you did, and what else you want us to do. Thanks!

Figure copyright: Monterey Ocean Observing System (MUSE) Project.