Funding for the creation of OSIS was provided by NOAA Fisheries through the Species Recovery Grants to States program (award number NA13NMF4720046). The funding from this program was essential to support the inventory of in-water sea turtle research, the database containing the inventory, and OSIS - the website to serve this information to the sea turtle community.
OSIS was developed and is maintained by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Marine Turtle Research Program.