Data acquisition to construct habitat map for ecosystem management

Fiscal Year

2015

Title

Data acquisition to construct habitat map for ecosystem management

Project and Theme

Project 3. Research on factors controlling open ocean benthopelagic ecosystem dynamics
Representative Organization: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Theme3. Habitat and ecosystem mapping
Representative personHiroshi Kitazato
OrganizationJapan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
DepartmentEastern Japan Marine Ecosystems Dynamics Project team

Research Information

Period and Interval
2015/04/01 - 2016/03/31
Research Area
Coast and off Tohoku, North Pacific
Research Point Table
Polygon
NameOff Sanriku
Coordinates41.316571,141.643066/40.7031,141.599121/39.78065,142.258301/39.101901,142.148438/38.67433,141.818848/38.24419,141.599121/37.898234,141.75293/37.846199,142.478027/38.879885,142.807617/39.89875,142.741699/40.653109,142.697754/41.349569,142.368164
Category
Others
Overview
This team aims to determine the situation of ecosystem based on the spatial data set including occurrence record of marine organisms and environment conditions. GIS tool, ArcMarine geodatabase, is applied for the data management, and we analysis the data to assess the tsunami impact in Tohoku neritic zone and deep sea. The various data, not only on geography, oceanography, biology, but also tsunami-debris are collecting intensively, from the direct field surveys conducted by TEAMS, data archives of the institutes, and the contribution from other research programs. This year we especially focus on brittle star communities.

Investigation Item and Data Acquisition

Investigation ItemData Acquisition
Environment dataTemperature, Bottom types, Geomorphology, Water quality, Tsunami-debris data
FishDistribution, Species composition
Benthic organismsPresence absence, Size distribution

Person in charge of Investigation

Representative personTakehisa Yamakita
OrganizationJapan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
DepartmentEastern Japan Marine Ecosystems Dynamics Project team
Representative personHiroyuki Yamamoto
OrganizationJapan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
DepartmentEastern Japan Marine Ecosystems Dynamics Project team
Representative personRyota Nakajima
OrganizationJapan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
DepartmentEastern Japan Marine Ecosystems Dynamics Project team

Contact person about data & samples

Representative personYumiko Yara
OrganizationJapan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
DepartmentEastern Japan Marine Ecosystems Dynamics Project team

Keywords

Fiscal Year2015
OrganizationJapan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
CategoryOthers
Research AreaNorth Sanriku
South Sanriku
Off Tohoku
Ishinomaki Bay
DisciplineOcean physics -> Others
Ocean chemistry -> Others
Ocean environment -> Others
Ocean biology / Ocean ecology -> Fishes
Ocean biology / Ocean ecology -> Mollusks
Ocean biology / Ocean ecology -> Others
Marine meteorology -> Others
Topography / Geology / Geophysics -> Others