Transcript Folie 1 - FishBase

The Future Ocean Atlas
Research, Visualization, Outreach
Proponents: Rainer Froese, Martin Visbeck, Wilhelm Weinrebe
Partners: Till Requate, Alexander Proelß, Thorsten Reusch, Frank Melzner, all other PIs
A challenge for the Future Ocean Cluster of Excellence
is the ‘bringing together’ of its many components in a
unifying framework, the presentation of the results in
an easily understood interface, and the detection of
new knowledge from combination of independent
results. Here we propose to address these challenges
by a new cross-cutting platform which will combine the
results of all Cluster projects in standardized global
maps.
The Atlas will contain the current and future global
maps produced by our oceanographers, geologists and
meteorologists. It will show current and future species
distribution maps for over 10,000 species including
algae, molluscs, fish, marine mammals and sea birds.
Economists will provide maps that show profitability of
fishing based on the value of the exploited species and
the cost of fishing at a certain locality.
First global species richness map, for >9,000 species. www.aquamaps.org
Lawyers will show the laws, conventions, and
management regimes applicable to the various parts of
the ocean; the risk experts will show predictions of sea
level rise, probability of volcanic activities or exposure
to tsunamis; the geneticists will map parasite-host
interactions and the occurrence of certain genes; and
marine medicine will map the occurrence of their target
organisms and of certain traits.
Because the various maps will follow common
standards, they can be combined to derive new
insights. For example, one result can be an improved
and extended ‘Global Map of Human Impacts on the
Oceans’.
For the interested public, the Atlas will provide a novel
intuitive interface to scientific information: just click
anywhere in the Ocean and see temperature, waveheight, wind, depth, species with pictures, fishing
activities, ship-traffic, risks, minerals, rules and
regulations.
Result of ‚click‘ in the North Sea: list of 307 species, here sorted by popularity
Map showing the polward extension of the ditributional range for Atlantic cod in 2050
NCEAS Map showing human impacts on marine ecosystems, Science 2008
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