Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem Indicator Taxa recorded by submarine as evidence of the presence of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems, Antarctic Peninsula - data

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Hocevar J, Meller L, Lockhart S (2022): Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem Indicator Taxa recorded by submarine as evidence of the presence of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems, Antarctic Peninsula - data. v1.3. SCAR - AntOBIS. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=greenpeace_2018-2022&v=1.3

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Keywords

Occurrence; VULNERABLE MARINE ECOSYSTEM; VME; CCAMLR; ANTARCTICA; SPONGES; SEA FANS/SEA WHIPS; CORALS; INDICATOR TAXA

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Antarctic Peninsula

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

The purpose of this series of expeditions is to explore the accessible seabed around Antarctica via submarine and to record evidence of the presence of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs) as defined by the U.N. and by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR). The images included in the dataset are taken from edited-for-analysis footage (as explained below) and used to extract relative percent abundance data of VME Indicator Taxa versus taxa not considered indicative of a VME and bare substrate.

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

The seabed was surveyed by video/photographic imagery using a Dual DeepWorker 2000 submarine (Nuytco Research Ltd.). Research submarine video survey and sampling was conducted aboard the dutch vessel M/Y Arctic Sunrise in January 2018 and between 25 February to 6 March 2022 within Subarea 48.1.

Method step description:

1. The seabed was surveyed by video/photographic imagery using a Dual DeepWorker 2000 submarine (Nuytco Research Ltd.). As described on Nuytco’s website “The Dual DeepWorker 2000 is a two-person, one atmosphere submersible that can operate in depths up to 2000 feet. Each person has a 24-inch diameter acrylic viewing dome, which gives an expansive field of view and is used to enter/exit the submersible. The Dual DeepWorker 2000 has a favorable weight to power ratio and six thrusters”. It was equipped with an HD (H.264, Blu-Ray Codec) camera in 2018 and with a Sony PXW-Z90 (PXWZ90) XDCAM Compact 4K Camcorder with Exmor RS CMOS Sensor and 12x Zoom Lens in 2022. For both expeditions the camera was mounted with a 2-point laser measurement system set at 20 cm. Benthic invertebrate samples for taxonomic determinations were collected using a HydroNewt Manipulator arm controlled by the pilot via a joystick. All attempts were made to maintain a consistent speed, distance off-bottom and camera angle.
2. The video footage was edited using Final Cut Pro X (www.apple.com) in 2018 and using DaVince Resolve 17 (www.blackmagicdesign.com) in 2022.
3. Footage clean-up methodology to remove unusable sequences was similar for both datasets. Edited out of the footage were sequences that were considered off-transect or that were in some way unsuitable for analysis. For example, descent/ascent, pauses to relay vitals Topside, pauses to film assemblages of interest, close-up footage of live and in situ invertebrates for aiding taxonomic determinations and times spent collecting specimens. Also edited out are sequences where the submarine was traveling too fast or too far from the substrate, silt obscured the view or anytime we veered off the heading given to us from Topside, or where filming was deemed off-transect. The analysis methodology was also similar both years and within the associated peer-review (Lockhart & Hocevar, 2021). Determinations/identifications of organisms in the still images are always supplemented/aided by the original video footage (which can be clearer than the frame grabs and which also contains non-transect zoomed-in footage) as well as specimen collections deposited with the California Academy of Sciences (Acquisition #1330).

Bibliographic Citations

1. WG-EMM-18/35. Lockhart, S. & Hocevar, J. (2018) Evidence of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems documented via submarine in the Antarctic Sound and Gerlache Strait (Subarea 48.1). CCAMLR. Hobart, Australia.
2. WG-EMM-22/34. Lockhart, S. and Izendooren, R. (2022) Evidence of a Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem documented by tourist submarine off Cape Well-Met, Vega Island, Eastern Antarctic Peninsula (Subarea 48.1). CCAMLR. Hobart, Australia.
3. WG-EMM-22/46. Lockhart, S., Downey, R., Garcia-Roa, R., Hocevar, J. and Meller L. (2022) Vulerable marine ecosystems documented via submarine in the Bransfield Stait and the Eastern Antarctic Peninsula (Subarea 48.1). CCAMLR. Hobart, Australia
4. Lockhart, Susanne J., and John Hocevar. "Combined Abundance of All Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem Indicator Taxa Inadequate as Sole Determiner of Vulnerability, Antarctic Peninsula." Frontiers in Marine Science (2021): 1238. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.577761
5. Lockhart, Susanne, Hocevar, John, & Meller, Laura. (2022). Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem Indicator Taxa recorded by submarine as evidence of the presence of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems, Antarctic Peninsula - images (1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6760064

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