Todd D. O'Brien - creator of COPEPOD, MZGdb, IGMETS and COPEPEDIA
todd.obrien@copepodproject.org
COPEPOD Project - ongoing collaborations   (2025-present)

NOAA Fisheries - Marine Ecosystems Division   (2004-2025)
  • COPEPOD   project lead and developer (2004-2025)
  • COPEPODITE   project lead and developer (2009-2025)
  • NAUPLIUS   project lead and developer (2010-2025)

National Oceanographic Data Center - Ocean Climate Laboratory   (1996-2004)
( part of the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information )
  • World Ocean Database plankton data lead and database developer (1996-2004)

  •     World Ocean Database 2018, 2013, 2009, 2005   (external plankton co-author/consultant)
        World Ocean Database 2001, 1998   (plankton data lead)

Scientific Working Group Memberships
  • IGMETS   IOC-UNESCO International Group for Marine Ecological Time Series (2013-present)

  • METS-RCN   EarchCube RCN for Marine Ecological Time Series (2021-2026)

  • WGZE   ICES Working Group on Zooplankton Ecology (2002-present)
  • WGPME   ICES Working Group on Phytoplankton & Microbial Ecology (2010-present)
  • WGIMT   ICES Working Group on Integrated Morphological and Molecular Taxonomy (2013-present)

  • SCOR WG157   SCOR WG157 (aka MetaZooGene) Marine zooplankton biodiversity based on
                DNA metabarcoding and reference DNA sequence databases
    (2019-2022)

  • SCOR WG137   SCOR Global Patterns of Phytoplankton Dynamics in Coastal Ecosystems (2010-2016)
  • SCOR WG125   SCOR Global Comparisons of Zooplankton Time Series (2004-2012)

  • TrendsPO   IOC-UNESCO climate change and global Trends of Phytoplankton in the Ocean (2016-2022)