The project prospectus and workshops plan for the Global Seamounts Project (GSP) are currently being updated.
Please see our website at www.global-oceans.org for more information and for the latest updates. Updated science plan documents, workshop schedules, research assets, and discussion forum will be posted here on the Open Science Framework soon.
For an overview of the GSP, see the video (link below) of GSP Science Co-Chair Malcolm R. Clark, PhD, talking about the project:
## Global Seamounts Project (GSP) ##
The project prospectus and workshops plan for the Global Seamounts Project (GSP) are currently being updated.
Please see our website at www.global-oceans.org for more information and for the latest updates. Updated science plan documents, workshop schedules, research assets, and discussion forum will be posted here on the Open Science Framework soon.
For an overview of the GSP, see the video (link below) of GSP Science Co-Chair Malcolm R. Clark, PhD, talking about the project:
[Malcolm R. Clark, PhD: On the Global Seamounts Project (Video)][2]
[Malcolm R. Clark, PhD: On the Global Seamounts Project (Video)][1]
**GSP Project Summary:**
The Global Seamounts Project (GSP) is an international scientific initiative that will explore and model one of the ocean’s largest , most productive, and least understood biomes: oceanic seamounts.
The project proposes to mount a major series of deep-sea expeditions over the next six years to conduct intensive, standardized surveys of representative seamount ecosystems in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean basins. Teams of ecosystem modelers will concurrently populate leading ecosystem models augmented with emerging modeling frameworks, with GSP field campaign datasets.
This project will accelerate the science of seamounts from what has historically been a descriptive approach toward an understanding of complex ecosystem function and behavioral responses to environmental stressors. One that can explore feedbacks, synergies, resilience, and potential tipping points from multiple factors driven by climate change, resource extraction, pollution, and other impacts.
The development of next-generation biophysical models for oceanic ecosystems will ultimately be crucial to understanding and influencing the course of potential impacts from human-driven stressors and climate change.
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*"The intention with the GSP is to leverage the collaborative, organizational and scientific framework developed and put into practice by the recently completed CenSeam initiative; focusing on lessons learned from that study to design an integrated set of sampling and analytical strategies that will more effectively fill key spatial, ecological, taxonomic and disciplinary data gaps; across geographically representative and understudied regions.*
*The operational framework being developed by Global Oceans will also facilitate an administratively lean and cost-efficient organizational structure for the project."*
Alex Rogers, Ph.D., GSP Science Co-Chair; Professor, Conservation Biology, University of Oxford, UK.
*"Normally we develop a network analysis for ecosystems with existing data sets, many of which are estimates. The Global Seamounts Project takes an approach that brings these two activities together at the planning phase. This strategy, to align data gathered from the project from the outset, at sufficient resolution and scale, with collaborative modelling efforts focused on answering key questions, is very unique and will be extremely valuable for considerably increasing our predictive capability and understanding of these systems."*
Ursula Scharler, Ph.D., GSP Modeling Chair; Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
[1]: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ak2Y45Koep5CkwIL7A0YrWAQz3Sp?e=obQ2zb
[2]: https://www.global-oceans.org/highlights/malcolm-r.-clark,-phd:-on-the-global-seamounts-project-%28video%29 [1]: https://www.global-oceans.org/highlights/malcolm-r.-clark,-phd:-on-the-global-seamounts-project-%28video%29
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