Professor Tasman Crowe:

There are: all of the above. The Marine Institute does collect a lot of data and it also does a great job of collating information. We are working directly with the Marine Institute on this current project to bring all of the data that are currently available. They are being archived, managed and curated by a team in the Marine Institute and it is making them available to us very efficiently and effectively.

There are also academic researchers who would be better placed to collect some of the information around species and systems on which they have more expert knowledge. There are efforts to bring together networks of people to share resources, infrastructure, effort and expertise. The All-Island Climate and Biodiversity Research Network, AICBRN, has been gaining momentum over the past two or three years. That is the one at a national level which seeks to bring together all of the expertise and develop ways of co-operating, sharing infrastructure and so on to do these kinds of tasks. That would be a place to go.