LEAD PARTNER
INSTAAR, Univ. Colorado,
Boulder
(email)
PROJECT NEWS
*Large pointwise dataset - North Carolina to Mexico - for MARINE TOOLS and NOAA Fisheries to compute new fisheries habitat mappings.
*World griddings of sediment texture values supplied to Cornell U CALS, for estimating global seafloor disturbance from fishing
*New publications
on application in hurricane effects at seafloor, Falklands fisheries,
LGM loess geochemistry, UXO movements under storms. See the
Bibliography.
*Supplying NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center Seattle with a full set of seabed substrates maps for the Alaska region Aug 2020
*Release of new worldwide interactive mapping for seabed composition Google Earth HERE. Nov 2019
*ChukchiSea seabed character into EFT study of the Arctic cod and crab fisheries, Alaska; NOAA Fisheries. Oct 2019
*Assisting ROMS modeling of radionucleide dispersal, WestPacific, with gridded seabed compositions data to Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA). Nov 2019
*Formation of non-profit foundation to hold and serve the IP for dbSEABED: "Floor of the Ocean", Colorado USA.
*Bering Sea Catch Grid statistics for NOAA-NMFS: better prediction of trawl behaviour on bottom and catch sizes for the Bristol Bay red king crab. May 2019
*Barents, Bering and Chukchi Seas, Seabed Character Maps for Sustainable Fisheries, IMR, Norway. Sep 2019
*Entire US Atlantic Margin gridded for seafloor parameters, NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS). Jan 2019
*Sediment distribution for Gladstone Harbour and Central Queensland Shelf, Qld Department of Environment and Science
*UXO Stability, German North Sea, with University of Rostock
*Seabed textures and drag, Tasmania tidal energy plans Australian Maritime College, Univ Tasmania
*Where is anthropogenic CO2 dissolving carbonate sediment in the deep-sea ? McGill Univ
*North Atlantic sediments and organic carbon reservoir CEFAS, UK
*SE Pacific Chile-Peru-Ecuador deep-sea fisheries habitats UNESCO
*Falkland Is deep-sea fisheries protection Shallow Marine Surveys
*Queensland - sediment / habitat mapping between the coast and Great Barrier Reef Qld Env Heritage
*New Zealand - total EEZ sediment charting NIWA
*German North Sea for safe windpower cables: sediment physics, temporal seabed stability, UXO pullout for TenneT / UnivRostock.
*US
Gulf of Mexico bottom types as input
to agent-based models of fisheries at Arizona
State Univ
*Data layers to support
habitat assessments on the phosphate rich Chatham Rise, NIWA
New Zealand.
*Specialists'
meeting The Ocean's
Seafloor: One Bio-Geo System Hannover, Germany 12-14
October. VWS event, costs met, request
invitation.
*Earth
Sciences' linguistics software (incl. ML &
NLP) ClearEarth
Hackathon Jan 9-13th 2017 in Boulder. NSF event, costs met,
enrol now.
*Sediment
carbonate values for the shallow Red Sea, supporting ocean
acidification studies, CNRS, Villefranche,
FR
*Seafloor data for ROMS / CSTMS and
TURBINS models
of hurricane-linked
turbidity currents, Gulf
of Mexico (BOEM)
*Sediment/rock
mappings in the seagrass-dugong
environments of HerveyBay, for Queensland Parks
& Wildlife,
Australia
*New
large NSF project is applying Biomedical
NLP Semantics Technology to text datasets that describe
ocean-floor materials
*The TrawlingBestPractices
program is
now using global dbSEABED seabed mappings to improve the world's
national fisheries.
*Multi-year German Navy project now completed, supporting
missions like UXO
control and international
rescue.
*African Continental Shelves
Seafloor
mappings for Wildlife
Conservation Society help marine
resources planning in Gabon
* Ocean Carbon Inventory
dbSEABED will contribute to
the Deep
Carbon
Observatory
programs
*Deep Fisheries
Protection
Working with NIWA
NZ
mapping substrates for
the
distant, deep S Pacific Ocean
*Ocean Energy
Platforms
Supporting WavEC
with
data for feasibility studies
19 Apr 2021