Ocean Sampling Day. The Ocean Sampling Day (OSD) is a massive sampling event planned on summer solstice (June 21st) in the year 2014. This project will provide insights into fundamental rules describing microbial diversity and function. Indeed, these cumulative samples, related in time, space and environmental parameters, will contribute to determine a baseline of marine biodiversity and functions on the molecular level. In preparation of OSD, WP2 -which coordinates this project- is organizing sampling at each solstice until the main event in 2014. Best practices (uniform sampling protocols) and a list of suitable sampling sites are being produced in order to ensure maximum usefulness of the samples and chances of success. All of the information in the sampling sites registry and any xxxxxxxx xxxx generated from the OSD samples will be put into the public domain. This will be through the Micro B3 Catalogue and the Micro B3 Information System (WP5). The initial list of suitable sampling sites is being built and will be reported in the Deliverable
