Data acquisition to construct habitat map for ecosystem management

Fiscal Year

2016

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
Research on factors controlling open ocean benthopelagic ecosystem dynamics
Representative personYoshihiro Fujiwara
OrganizationJapan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
DepartmentEastern Japan Marine Ecosystems Dynamics Project team

Research Information

Period and Interval
2016/04/01 - 2017/03/31
Research Area
Coast and off Tohoku, North Pacific
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 analyze 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 focused on obtaining fishery data.

Overview of the Observation

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
Results and Future Plan
We collected trawl fishery census data and stored in GIS. We also updated environmental data set.

Investigation Item and Data Acquisition

Investigation ItemData Acquisition
Environment dataTemperature, Bottom types, Geomorphology, Water quality, Tsunami-debris data
FishDistribution, Species composition

Reference

Related Observation Plan
FY2016 Data acquisition to construct habitat map for ecosystem management
Related Observation Data
fine resolution basin database provides basin model over 10 ha sub basins of the Sanriku coastal area, Japan (watershed boundary, flow path data)

Person in charge of Investigation

Representative personTakehisa Yamakita
OrganizationJapan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
DepartmentThe Eastern Japan Marine Ecosystems Dynamics Project Team, Research Unit for Habitat Mapping
Representative personHiroyuki Yamamoto
OrganizationJapan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
DepartmentResearch and Development (R&D) Center for Submarine Resources

Contact person about data & samples

Representative personYumiko Yara
OrganizationJapan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
DepartmentProject Team for Analyses of Changes in East Japan Marine Ecosystems, Research Unit for Habitat Mapping
Representative personMisako Matsuba
OrganizationJapan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
DepartmentProject Team for Analyses of Changes in East Japan Marine Ecosystems, Research Unit for Habitat Mapping

Keywords

Fiscal Year2016
OrganizationJapan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
CategoryOthers
Research AreaNorth Sanriku
South Sanriku
Ishinomaki Bay
Shimokita
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