International cooperation for participating the Marine Global Earth Observatory (Marine-GEO) project and its fundamental application in Jeju

Abstract

The Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO), directed by the Smithsonian Institution’s Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network (TMON), is the first long-term, worldwide research program to focus on understanding coastal marine life and its role in maintaining resilient ecosystems around the world. MarineGEO is a growing global partnership committed to cataloguing nearshore marine biodiversity, documenting how and why it is changing, and understanding the consequences of that change for ecosystem functioning and resilience using the Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS). The ARMS were developed during the Census of Marine Life (CoML) international initiative. Since the Census of Marine Life, the ARMS project has expanded on a global scale and the ARMS have been adopted as a key biodiversity assessment tool by NOAAs National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) and Ocean Acidification Programs climate monitoring stations in the Pacific. Therefore, through this project, we will introduce the MarineGEO program to marine scientists in Korea. In addition, we will gather Korean and foreign experts will be associated to provide an opportunity to diagnose the ecosystem of Jeju waters. The results obtained by installing ARMS in Jeju waters are expected to use good basic data to understand the changes in marine ecosystem about the ongoing effects of climate change in Jeju waters in the future. its role in maintaining resilient ecosystems around the world. MarineGEO is a growing global partnership committed to cataloguing nearshore marine biodiversity, documenting how and why it is changing, and understanding the consequences of that change for ecosystem functioning and resilience using the Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS). The ARMS were developed during the Census of Marine Life (CoML) international initiative. Since the Census of Marine Life, the ARMS project has expanded on a global scale and the ARMS have been adopted as a key biodiversity assessment tool by NOAAs National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) and Ocean Acidification Programs climate monitoring stations in the Pacific. Therefore, through this project, we will introduce the MarineGEO program to marine scientists in Korea. In addition, we will gather Korean and foreign experts will be associated to provide an opportunity to diagnose the ecosystem of Jeju waters. The results obtained by installing ARMS in Jeju waters are expected to use good basic data to understand the changes in marine ecosystem about the ongoing effects of climate change in Jeju waters in the future.