Michael Shensky is Head of Research Data Services (RDS) within Research Support & Digital Initiatives (RSDI). He has been the GIS and Geospatial Data Coordinator since 2018.
Please continue to contact Michael if you need assistance and schedule a Zoom meeting to discuss the use of geospatial data in your research or applications of GIS in marine science research. Find all of his GIS related resources in one central location: https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/gis and schedule a time to meet or contact him via email regarding any GIS questions you might you have.
Global Names Architecture, Scientific Names Services.
The Global Names Architecture (GNA) is a system of web-services which helps people to register, find, index, check and organize biological scientific names and interconnect on-line information about species.
Global Names Finder
Find scientific names on web pages, PDFs, Microsoft Office documents, images, or in freeform text. Encrypted or image-based PDFs should first pass through an OCR process GNfinder. Found names can be optionally verified against a number of resources.
Find the Full Text of Original Marine Species Authorities, Marine Resources Library, College of Charleston Libraries.
The Facts on File Dictionary of Marine Science by The followng books are held at the Marine Science Library. Search within the library catalog for materials at other locations.
Florida's Hurricane History by 
Hurricane Harvey : hell & high water : August 25-26, 2017 by 
Hurricane Elena, Gulf Coast by 
Hurricane Hugo, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Charleston, South Carolina, Sept. 17-22, 1989 by Preprints are preliminary versions of scientific manuscripts that researchers share by posting to preprint servers before peer-review and publication in an academic journal. Preprint servers are publicly available online archives that host preprints and their associated data. (Google, Jan 31, 2021)
For more information >> List of preprint servers, from ASAPbio (Accelerating Science and Publication in biology)
Where to Find Preprints and other great resources, from Bernard Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
Preprints - multidisciplinary preprint platform.
Few examples of preprint repositories:
arXiv is a preprint server for physics, math, computer sciences, quantitative biology and statistics.
Authorea is a platform for publishing articles, data, figures and preprints.
bioRxiv is a preprint server for biology.
ChemRxiv is a preprint repository for chemistry.
Figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner.
medRxiv is a preprint server for the health sciences.
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