AMBON is a 5-year research partnership (2015-2020) between university and federal investigators, and integrates with the Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS) as the central data node to provide a publicly accessible and user friendly database. AMBON is funded through the National Ocean Partnership Program, with contributions from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management (BOEM), Shell Exploration and Production Company, and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Through these partnerships, AMBON will make biodiversity data available to a broad audience of users and stakeholders, from local to pan-Arctic to global.
