IEDA
Project Information
GLOBEC: WinDSSOck: Winter Distribution and Success of Southern Ocean Krill
Start Date:
2000-09-15
End Date:
2003-08-31
Description/Abstract
The U.S. Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (U.S. GLOBEC) program has the goal of understanding and ultimately predicting how populations of marine animal species respond to natural and anthropogenic changes in climate. Research in the Southern Ocean (SO) indicates strong coupling between climatic processes and ecosystem dynamics via the annual formation and destruction of sea ice. The Southern Ocean GLOBEC Program (SO GLOBEC) will investigate the dynamic relationship between physical processes and ecosystem responses through identification of critical parameters that affect the distribution, abundance and population dynamics of target species. The overall goals of the SO GLOBEC program are to elucidate shelf circulation processes and their effect on sea ice formation and krill distribution, and to examine the factors which govern krill survivorship and availability to higher trophic levels, including penguins, seals and whales. The focus of the U.S. contribution to the international SO GLOBEC program will be on winter processes. This component will focus on the large-scale distribution, abundance and habitat of seabirds. This will be accomplished using strip-transect surveys and spatial analysis software and models to examine the large-scale data. This research will be coordinated with seabird studies which focus on seabird diet composition and small scale foraging behavior. The result of the integrated SO GLOBEC program will be to improve the predictability of living marine resources, especially with respect to local and global climatic shifts.
Personnel
Person Role
Ribic, Christine Investigator
Funding
Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems Award # 9910096
Deployment
Deployment Type
NBP0103 ship expedition
NBP0104 ship expedition
NBP0204 ship expedition
Data Management Plan
None in the Database
Product Level:
Not provided
Datasets
Repository Title (link) Format(s) Status
R2R Expedition data of NBP0103 None exists
R2R Expedition data of NBP0103 None exists
R2R Expedition data of NBP0104 None exists
R2R Expedition data of NBP0204 None exists
R2R Expedition data of NBP0204 None exists
R2R Expedition data of NBP0104 None exists
Publications
  1. Chapman, E. (2003). Seabird Survey Observations from RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer during cruises NBP0103, NBP0104, NBP0202, and NBP0204 in the Southern Ocean from 2001-2002 (SOGLOBEC project). Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office. (doi:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.2353.1)
  2. Ribic, C., & Chapman, E. (2003). Seabird Survey Effort Log from the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer NBP0103, NBP0104, NBP0202, NBP0204 from the Southern Ocean, 2001-2002 (SOGLOBEC project). Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office. (doi:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.2352.1)
Platforms and Instruments

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