Multidisciplinary Observing in the World Ocean’s Oxygen Minimum Zone Regions: From Climate to Fish — The VOICE Initiative

Garçon, Véronique; Karstensen, Johannes; Palacz, Artur; Telszewski, Maciej; Lara, Tony Aparco; Breitburg, Denise L.; Chávez, Francisco P.; Coelho, Paulo; Cornejo-D’Ottone, Marcela; Santos, Carmen I.; Fiedler, Björn; Gallo, Natalya D.; Grégoire, Marilaure; Gutiérrez, Dimitri; Hernandez-Ayon, J. Martin; Isensee, Kirsten; Koslow, Tony; Levin, Lisa A.; Marsac, Francis; Maske, Helmut; Mbaye, Baye Cheikh; Montès, Ivonne; Naqvi, Wajih; Pearlman, Jay; Pinto, Edwin; Pitcher, Grant C.; Pizarro, Óscar; Rose, Kenneth A.; Shenoy, Damodar M.; Plas, Anja van der; Vito, Melo R.; Weng, Kevin C.

doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00722

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“…These data contribute to the essential ocean variable “zooplankton biomass and biodiversity”, which is still relatively poorly documented, in particular in the Cape Verde region despite it being a hotspot of oxygen minimum expansion 88 . Due to its ecological relevance, the upper oxycline has been recognized as a useful proxy for ecosystem monitoring objectives in eastern boundary systems close to oxygen minimum zones 89 , and here we link this parameter with faunal distributions. Future efforts should focus on increasing the taxonomic resolution of the in situ observations.…”

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In situ observations show vertical community structure of pelagic fauna in the eastern tropical North Atlantic off Cape Verde

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Distribution patterns of fragile gelatinous fauna in the open ocean remain scarcely documented. Using epi-and mesopelagic video transects in the eastern tropical North Atlantic, which features a mild but intensifying midwater oxygen minimum zone (OMZ), we established one of the first regional observations of diversity and abundance of large gelatinous zooplankton. We quantified the day and night vertical distribution of 46 taxa in relation to environmental conditions. While distribution may be driven by multiple factors, abundance peaks of individual taxa were observed in the OMZ core, both above and below the OMZ, only above, or only below the OMZ whereas some taxa did not have an obvious distribution pattern. In the eastern eropical North Atlantic, OMZ expansion in the course of global climate change may detrimentally impact taxa that avoid low oxygen concentrations (Beroe, doliolids), but favour taxa that occur in the OMZ (Lilyopsis, phaeodarians, Cydippida, Colobonema, Haliscera conica and Halitrephes) as their habitat volume might increase. While future efforts need to focus on physiology and taxonomy of pelagic fauna in the study region, our study presents biodiversity and distribution data for the regional epi- and mesopelagic zones of Cape Verde providing a regional baseline to monitor how climate change may impact the largest habitat on the planet, the deep pelagic realm.

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In situ observations show vertical community structure of pelagic fauna in the eastern tropical North Atlantic off Cape Verde

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“…GO 2 DAT will be a key element, a tool to support assessments and decision-making leading to mitigation strategies for climate change and its impacts, maintaining ocean health and biodiversity preservation, and sustainable fisheries management (Garçon et al, 2019;Laffoley and Baxter, 2019;Limburg et al, 2020). Declining O 2 is a stressor that covaries with warming and ocean acidification (Zhai et al, 2009;Gobler and Baumann, 2016;Breitburg et al, 2018) and now there is opportunity to ready the scientific and management communities for the next set of analyses and applications.…”

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A Global Ocean Oxygen Database and Atlas for Assessing and Predicting Deoxygenation and Ocean Health in the Open and Coastal Ocean

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In this paper, we outline the need for a coordinated international effort toward the building of an open-access Global Ocean Oxygen Database and ATlas (GO2DAT) complying with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). GO2DAT will combine data from the coastal and open ocean, as measured by the chemical Winkler titration method or by sensors (e.g., optodes, electrodes) from Eulerian and Lagrangian platforms (e.g., ships, moorings, profiling floats, gliders, ships of opportunities, marine mammals, cabled observatories). GO2DAT will further adopt a community-agreed, fully documented metadata format and a consistent quality control (QC) procedure and quality flagging (QF) system. GO2DAT will serve to support the development of advanced data analysis and biogeochemical models for improving our mapping, understanding and forecasting capabilities for ocean O2 changes and deoxygenation trends. It will offer the opportunity to develop quality-controlled data synthesis products with unprecedented spatial (vertical and horizontal) and temporal (sub-seasonal to multi-decadal) resolution. These products will support model assessment, improvement and evaluation as well as the development of climate and ocean health indicators. They will further support the decision-making processes associated with the emerging blue economy, the conservation of marine resources and their associated ecosystem services and the development of management tools required by a diverse community of users (e.g., environmental agencies, aquaculture, and fishing sectors). A better knowledge base of the spatial and temporal variations of marine O2 will improve our understanding of the ocean O2 budget, and allow better quantification of the Earth’s carbon and heat budgets. With the ever-increasing need to protect and sustainably manage ocean services, GO2DAT will allow scientists to fully harness the increasing volumes of O2 data already delivered by the expanding global ocean observing system and enable smooth incorporation of much higher quantities of data from autonomous platforms in the open ocean and coastal areas into comprehensive data products in the years to come. This paper aims at engaging the community (e.g., scientists, data managers, policy makers, service users) toward the development of GO2DAT within the framework of the UN Global Ocean Oxygen Decade (GOOD) program recently endorsed by IOC-UNESCO. A roadmap toward GO2DAT is proposed highlighting the efforts needed (e.g., in terms of human resources).

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“…The value chain is a concept adopted from economics which allows to organize a system (in this case "ocean observing") into subsystems, each adding value with inputs, transformation procedures, and outputs, in a continual and iterative process (Bahurel et al, 2010;Garçon et al, 2019;Pinardi et al, 2019). The term "ocean observing" thus refers to the whole value chain, from the initial stakeholder/societal/scientific engagement that identifies the requirements for observations and establishes the design of multi-platform observations to the process of collecting/calibrating/validating data to the creation and delivery of products and services, often through data assimilation in numerical models.…”

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Ocean Integration: The Needs and Challenges of Effective Coordination Within the Ocean Observing System

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Understanding and sustainably managing complex environments such as marine ecosystems benefits from an integrated approach to ensure that information about all relevant components and their interactions at multiple and nested spatiotemporal scales are considered. This information is based on a wide range of ocean observations using different systems and approaches. An integrated approach thus requires effective collaboration between areas of expertise in order to improve coordination at each step of the ocean observing value chain, from the design and deployment of multi-platform observations to their analysis and the delivery of products, sometimes through data assimilation in numerical models. Despite significant advances over the last two decades in more cooperation across the ocean observing activities, this integrated approach has not yet been fully realized. The ocean observing system still suffers from organizational silos due to independent and often disconnected initiatives, the strong and sometimes destructive competition across disciplines and among scientists, and the absence of a well-established overall governance framework. Here, we address the need for enhanced organizational integration among all the actors of ocean observing, focusing on the occidental systems. We advocate for a major evolution in the way we collaborate, calling for transformative scientific, cultural, behavioral, and management changes. This is timely because we now have the scientific and technical capabilities as well as urgent societal and political drivers. The ambition of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) and the various efforts to grow a sustainable ocean economy and effective ocean protection efforts all require a more integrated approach to ocean observing. After analyzing the barriers that currently prevent this full integration within the occidental systems, we suggest nine approaches for breaking down the silos and promoting better coordination and sharing. These recommendations are related to the organizational framework, the ocean science culture, the system of recognition and rewards, the data management system, the ocean governance structure, and the ocean observing drivers and funding. These reflections are intended to provide food for thought for further dialogue between all parties involved and trigger concrete actions to foster a real transformational change in ocean observing.

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Multidisciplinary Observing in the World Ocean’s Oxygen Minimum Zone Regions: From Climate to Fish — The VOICE Initiative

Cited by 25 publications

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In situ observations show vertical community structure of pelagic fauna in the eastern tropical North Atlantic off Cape Verde

In situ observations show vertical community structure of pelagic fauna in the eastern tropical North Atlantic off Cape Verde

A Global Ocean Oxygen Database and Atlas for Assessing and Predicting Deoxygenation and Ocean Health in the Open and Coastal Ocean

Ocean Integration: The Needs and Challenges of Effective Coordination Within the Ocean Observing System

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