Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-2018
Publication Title
Oceanography
ISSN
1042-8275
Volume
31
Issue/No.
3
First Page
76
Last Page
89
Abstract
Approaches to measuring marine biological parameters remain almost as diverse as the researchers who measure them. However, understanding the patterns of diversity in ocean life over different temporal and geographic scales requires consistent data and information on the potential environmental drivers. As a group of marine scientists from different disciplines, we suggest a formalized, consistent framework of 20 biological, chemical, physical, and socioeconomic parameters that we consider the most important for describing environmental and biological variability. We call our proposed framework the General Ocean Survey and Sampling Iterative Protocol (GOSSIP). We hope that this framework will establish a consistent approach to data collection, enabling further collaboration between marine scientists from different disciplines to advance knowledge of the ocean (deep-sea and mesophotic coral ecosystems).
Additional Comments
NERC Deep Links grant #: NE/K011855/1; ERC Starting Grant project CODEMAP grant #: 258482; European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program grant agreement #: 678760 (ATLAS)
Creative Commons License
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NSUWorks Citation
Lucy C. Woodall, Dominic A. Andradi-Brown, Andrew S. Brierley, Malcolm R. Clark, Douglas Connelly, Rob A. Hall, Kerry L. Howell, Veerle A. I. Huvenne, Katrin Linse, Rebecca E. Ross, Paul Snelgrove, Paris V. Stefanoudis, Tracey Sutton, Michelle Taylor, Thomas F. Thornton, and Alex D. Rogers. 2018. A Multidisciplinary Approach for Generating Globally Consistent Data on Mesophotic, Deep-Pelagic, and Bathyal Biological Communities .Oceanography , (3) : 76 -89. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/1057.
ORCID ID
0000-0002-5280-7071
DOI
10.5670/oceanog.2018.301
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