B21A:
The Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON): Building Partnerships Toward a Better Understanding of Life in the Sea I


Session ID#: 36905

Session Description:
Marine biodiversity and ecosystem processes remain major frontiers in ocean observing. Yet, implementing operational and sustained programs that observe biodiversity is increasingly critical to understanding changing patterns of biodiversity given myriad stressors and changing ecosystems, and to determining the impacts on dependent ecosystem services. The Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) is a global initiative to observe and characterize changes in marine biodiversity and ecosystem function. This session seeks presentations of successful examples of comparative, collaborative research across habitats, latitudes, basins, and time. MBON invites existing networks of scientists, ocean observing practitioners, resource managers, and end-users to showcase these examples to build a broader community of practice. We seek presentations about use of standardized measurements, novel approaches, and sustained data collection to tackle issues of global change along environmental and anthropogenic gradients and put local observations in regional and global contexts. Presentations that explore steps to link observations of biodiversity with ocean observing systems in a sustainable manner are also invited. The session is an opportunity to identify additional partnerships among groups that seek to understand life in the sea and the broader impacts of changes in marine ecosystems, including those that are societally relevant. The information will help further develop the MBON in the context of international programs, including the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO).
Primary Chair:  Gabrielle Canonico, U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Co-chairs:  Abigail Benson, USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States, J. Emmett Duffy, Smithsonian Institution, Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, Washington, DC, United States and Frank E Muller-Karger, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, IMaRS, St Petersburg, FL, United States
Moderators:  J. Emmett Duffy, Smithsonian Institution, Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, Washington, DC, United States and Frank E Muller-Karger, University of South Florida, IMaRS, St Petersburg, FL, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Gabrielle Canonico, U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4262 Ocean observing systems [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • EP - Ecology and Physical Interactions
  • ES - Ecology and Social Interactions
  • OD - Ocean Data Management

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Local bioacoustic soundscapes reflect coral reef community complexity (323870)
Max Kaplan1, T Aran Mooney2, Marc Lammers3 and Eden Zang3, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Oceanwide Science Institute, HI, United States
Functional diversity descriptors are valuable tools to track spatiotemporal changes in the functional integrity of diverse habitats across the seascape (304953)
Martha Rincón-Díaz1,2, Simon J Pittman3, Ivan Arismendi1 and Selina S Heppell1, (1)Oregon State University, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation of Colombia, Bogota, Colombia, (3)U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Biogeography Branch, Silver Spring, MD, United States
New Songs in the Deep: A Passive Acoustic Analysis of the Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Omura’s Whales (Balaenoptera omurai) Off the Coast of Northwest Madagascar (309182)
Bridget Elizabeth Mueller-Brennan, NOAA Fisheries Woods Hole Laboratory, Protected Species Branch and Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship Program, Woods Hole, MA, United States; University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Mathematics, Urbana, IL, United States, Salvatore Cerchio, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States; New England Aquarium, Boston, MA, United States and Danielle Cholewiak, NOAA Fisheries Woods Hole Laboratory, Protected Species Branch, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Monitoring ecosystem function in the Florida Keys from an ecosystem modeling perspective (312670)
Lucas McEachron, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), St. Petersburg, FL, United States
Monitoring and Understanding Pelagic Ecosystem Change Through a Hierarchical Multiplatform Seascape Framework (307537)
Maria T Kavanaugh, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Daniel Brooks Otis, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, IMaRS, St Petersburg, FL, United States, Enrique Montes, University of South Florida, St Petersburg, FL, United States, Jarrod A Santora, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Isaac D Schroeder, ERD, SWFSC, NOAA, Pacific Grove, CA, United States, Kathyrn Shulzitski, University of Miami, United States, Anni Djurhuus, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St Petersburg, FL, United States, Monique Messié, MBARI, Moss Landing, CA, United States, Jennifer Brown, NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries, United States, Francisco Chavez, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States, Scott C Doney, University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Frank E Muller-Karger, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, FL, United States
CEOS Ocean Variables Enabling Research and Applications for GEO (COVERAGE) (305979)
Jorge Vazquez, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Vardis M Tsontos, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Eric J Lindstrom, NASA Headquarters, Washington D.C., United States
Implementation of Multi-Disciplinary Sustained Ocean Observations - Specific Opportunities (314991)
Jay Pearlman, IEEE, Paris, France, Artur P Palacz, IOCCP, Sopot, Poland, Maciej Telszewski, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland and Samantha Elisabeth Simmons, US Marine Mammal Commission, Science Program, Bethesda, MD, United States
Biodiversity is as important as climate to functioning ecosystems (325115)
James Emmett Duffy1, Casey M. Godwin2 and Bradley J. Cardinale2, (1)Smithsonian Institution, Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, Washington, DC, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

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