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Portfolio of Research Projects and Events

A partial list of past projects to illustrate the scope of applications of dbSEABED - especially when collaborations focus on tasks

Recent

  • Marine Substrates Mappings for the Entire Australian EEZ (progressive) - Geosciences Australia

  • Bass Strait Benthic Materials for Ecology Background Studies related to Wind Power - CSIRO Data69 Office, Australia

  • Benthic Substrates textures and rock presence for 12 Marginal Enclosed Seas having Human Impacts - Baltic Earth, Working Group “Marginal Seas – Humans and Environment”, Poland and Germany

  • Seabed properties and the Fate of Bottom Objects near Shipping Lanes, North Sea - DISCIMBA Project (Belgium)

  • Public, open distribution of global 0.1dg resolution seafloor materials mappings through Ocean Data Platform - HUB Ocean, Norway

  • Extend the data capabilities to New Seafloor Penetrometer Technologies – Corvus-Works GmbH (Baltic Sea, Germany)

  • Compute 1/120° (~1km) Resolution Tiled Map for the entire Global Seafloor - Properties for Sonar Simulations – for Corvus-Works GmbH

  • Integrate Fur-Seal GoPro data set for Bass Strait and investigate Feeding-Track ecology - DEAKIN UNIVERSITY (Australia)

  • Deep Sargasso Sea bottom sediments and rock presence - National Oceanography Centre, (UK)

  • Python-Jupyter BMI Data Component created for US NSF Community Earth Surface Dynamics Modelling System (CSDMS) Univ. Colorado

  • Tiled 1km-Resolution Mapping of Indo-Austral-Asian Seafloor – various regional governments

Compiled to 2023
  • Supplied Fisheries and Oceans, Canada (DFO) with detailed mappings of seabed hardness to help understand human impacts along the Canadian eastern margin: Nova Scotia to  Hudson Strait.
  • Entire world coverage of seabed substrates at 1km resolution for use with seabed hydrodynamics - Corvus Works, Germany
  • Seafloor habitat mappings to support fisheries research and conservation - Oceans Research Institute (ORI), South Africa.
  • Benthic Hard/Soft Substrates mappings for the WIO (Western Indian Ocean) for the Swedish Symphony Program and the Nairobi Convention
  • Large pointwise dataset - North Carolina to Mexico - for NOAA Fisheries to compute new fisheries habitat mappings - NOAA Fisheries under MARFIN grant 19-MFIH005.
  • World griddings of sediment texture values supplied to Cornell U CALS, for estimating global seafloor disturbance from fishing
  • Chemical weathering of loess in the Last Glacial Maximum -   Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), University of Hamburg
  • Blue carbon resources in the US National Marine Sanctuaries, Greater Farallones and Cordell Bank - NOAA Office for Coastal Management

  • Supply NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center Seattle with a full set of seabed substrates maps for the Alaska region Aug 2020

  • Chukchi Sea seabed character into EFT study of the Arctic cod  and crab fisheries, Alaska - NOAA Fisheries. Oct 2019

  • Assisting ROMS modeling of radionucleides dispersal, West Pacific, with gridded seabed compositions data - 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 the 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 - Queensland Gov. Env. Heritage Dept
  • New Zealand - total EEZ sediment charting NIWA
  • German North Sea for safety of wind power 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
  • Earth Sciences' linguistics software (incl. ML & NLP) ClearEarth Hackathon Jan 9-13th 2017 in Boulder. NSF event
  • 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 Hervey Bay, for Queensland Parks & Wildlife, Australia
  • New large NSF project is applying Biomedical NLP Semantics Technology to text datasets that describe ocean-floor  materials
  • The Trawling Best Practices 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

Compilation up to 2015

 

  • Worldwide trawl-mitigation mappings (2015)

  • North Sea tidal modeling bottom drag (2013)

  • Global sand-mud transition (George et al 2008)

  • Geoacoustic modeling - Australian and German navies (2009-)

  • Permeability and contaminants in shelf sands (Wiberg & Jenkins 2003)

  • Littoral carbonate reserves and ocean acidification (Gattuso et al in prep)

  • Sediment mobility (Porter-Smith et al 2004)

  • Florida pink shrimp habitat suitability & conservation (Rubec et al 2005)

  • Modelling seafloor global change and infrastructure risks (Li et al 2005)

  • Deep cold coral habitat suitability (Leverette 2004, NOAA 2012)

  • Mine burial prediction (Wever et al 2006)

  • Demersal shark habitat analysis, Adriatic Sea (Ferretti et al 2012)

  • Global hard substrates distribution (The Nature Conservancy 2004)

  • US Gulf of Mexico hard substrates for Grouper stocks conservation (GSMFC 2005-)

  • Validation of spatial statistical resampling method (Goff et al 2007)

  • National bioregionalization, Australia (Burne et al 2003)

  • Great Barrier Reef bioregionalization (RAP) leading to fisheries exclusions (Day et al 2000)

  • Marine aggregates estimation (Williams et al, 2006-)

  • Search and rescue, Alaska Airlines 261 crash (2002)

  • Great Barrier Reef resurvey design (Pitcher 2002)

  • Naval mines and MLO detectability in sea-lanes (RAN METOC)

  • Marine parks pre-commissioning survey, Victoria and NSW (1999, 2001)

  • National marine sanctuary surveys, California (Cochrane 2003, 2005)

  • Essential fish habitat (EFH) delineations, New England (2007)

  • Sealevel ‘Genetic pump’ for SE Asian bats (Hughes 2010)

  • Navy environmental management (USN, Terralogic, 2012)

  • Expedition on-the-fly seabed sampling design, Baltic Sea (NATO NEST 2006)

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