Publication Date:
2023-08-09
Description:
The deep ocean (below 200 m) is a vast repository for biodiversity, provides critical climate regulation, and houses a wealth of hydrocarbon, mineral, fishery, and genetic resources. Observing the deep ocean at a level required to inform sustainable development and management faces massive technical and logistical challenges, such that no one country, community, network, or agency can do it alone. The Deep Ocean Observing Strategy (DOOS), a UN Ocean Decade-endorsed programme, is a community-driven, international initiative strategically aligning the deep ocean observing community toward collective solution-based science. DOOS represents an interconnected network of deep ocean observing, mapping, exploration, and modelling efforts. It focuses on building bridges across the gaps between these disciplines and communities; connecting observers and modelers, researchers and data managers, science and policy. DOOS is organized along a number of working groups, which will be highlighted in this presentation. These working groups facilitate discussions between people, communities, networks, and agencies already working toward the same aim to leverage existing research efforts and resources to address a global deep-sea challenge. Across working groups, DOOS engages in developing workflows and standards for improved access of deep ocean data. It promotes the development of early career researchers to become future leaders in deep sea observing. The bright star of DOOS is its network of Deep Ocean Early-career Researchers (DOERs), drawing from collaborating networks, the broader deep-ocean observing community, as well as from developing countries and indigenous communities.
Language:
English
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
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