Data acquisition to construct habitat map for ecosystem management

Fiscal Year

2014

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 personTakehisa Yamakita
OrganizationJapan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
DepartmentThe Eastern Japan Marine Ecosystems Dynamics Project Team, Research Unit for Habitat Mapping

Research Information

Period and Interval
2014/04/01 - 2015/03/31
Research Area
Coast and off Tohoku, North Pacific
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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.

Overview of the Observation

Research Point Table
Polygon
Coordinates40.919295,141.411133/37.306362,140.708008/37.515795,142.993164/41.250525,143.168945
Results and Future Plan
We especially corrected distribution of brittle stars, seasonal ocean color data. We also create new map images using 3D rendering system.

Investigation Item and Data Acquisition

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

Reference

Related Observation Plan
FY2014 Data acquisition to construct habitat map for ecosystem management
Related Observation Data
Predicted debris on the coast

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

Keywords

Fiscal Year2014
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 -> Others
Marine meteorology -> Others
Topography / Geology / Geophysics -> Others