Periodic Reporting for period 2 - CoastCarb (Coastal ecosystem carbon balance in times of rapid glacier melt)
Período documentado: 2022-09-01 hasta 2025-07-31
CoastCarb is an international Research Network that follows an interdisciplinary approach to understand the consequences of Climate Change in the Beagle Channel and the coastal Western Antarctic, a region of recent rapid aerial warming. The CoastCarb Network for Staff Exchange and Training is funded by the Marie Curie Action RISE (Research and Innovation Staff Exchange) of the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union (H2020-MCSA-RISE 872690). The activity brings European, South American, US and Canadian scientists together to advance climate and (eco-) system change research.
Climate change and intensifying human resource use are causing massive changes to Subantarctic coastal systems and carbon cycling. At the same time, these systems house benthic communities of highest biomass and biodiversity, which sustain important ecosystem services and require strategic observation and management plans. Although they are just beginning to be appreciated by scientists and public, natural (climate mitigation) and cultural ecosystem services (e.g. local fisheries, tourism, sustainable aquaculture) are already jeopardized by the massive scale and velocity of the regional change in Southern Patagonia and at the West Antarctic Peninsula (SP/WAP).
The multidisciplinary network CoastCarb joins more than 100 experts in Subantarctic coastal system ecology and ecological modelling to create a knowledge information system with open access data portal and produce dynamic ecosystem models for fjordic and estuarine environments. Using data on carbon budgets and flow (including benthic and pelagic food webs, microbes to megafauna) from across the network, specialists will analyse the relationships between ecosystem services, local stakeholders and communities, to identify barriers and enablers of the sustainable use of marine resources. Study areas along the fragmented SP/WAP coastline are intensively investigated.
Data sets from more than 10 recent interdisciplinary research projects of CoastCarb participants, and from the scientific core programmes at coastal stations (AR-DE Carlini-Dallmann, US Palmer, UK Rothera, PL Arctowski) will be used for knowledge compilation. CoastCarb secondments foster capacity building in research and observation for a better understanding of complex ecosystem processes and major hazard scenarios (e.g. harmful algal blooms), and in targeted science stakeholder interaction events.
Climate change and intensifying human resource use are causing massive changes to Subantarctic coastal systems and carbon cycling. At the same time, these systems house benthic communities of highest biomass and biodiversity, which sustain important ecosystem services and require strategic observation and management plans. Although they are just beginning to be appreciated by scientists and public, natural (climate mitigation) and cultural ecosystem services (e.g. local fisheries, tourism, sustainable aquaculture) are already jeopardized by the massive scale and velocity of the regional change in Southern Patagonia and at the West Antarctic Peninsula (SP/WAP).
The multidisciplinary network CoastCarb joins more than 100 experts in Subantarctic coastal system ecology and ecological modelling to create a knowledge information system with open access data portal and produce dynamic ecosystem models for fjordic and estuarine environments. Using data on carbon budgets and flow (including benthic and pelagic food webs, microbes to megafauna) from across the network, specialists will analyse the relationships between ecosystem services, local stakeholders and communities, to identify barriers and enablers of the sustainable use of marine resources. Study areas along the fragmented SP/WAP coastline are intensively investigated.
Data sets from more than 10 recent interdisciplinary research projects of CoastCarb participants, and from the scientific core programmes at coastal stations (AR-DE Carlini-Dallmann, US Palmer, UK Rothera, PL Arctowski) will be used for knowledge compilation. CoastCarb secondments foster capacity building in research and observation for a better understanding of complex ecosystem processes and major hazard scenarios (e.g. harmful algal blooms), and in targeted science stakeholder interaction events.
The main achievement of the CoastCarb Marie Curie Staff Exchange project is the creation and maintenance of an international, interdisciplinary staff exchange network that covers research institutes both within the EU as well outside of it.
Scientific results from the staff exchanges are collected in CoastCarb Zenodo community at https://zenodo.org/communities/coastcarb/(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)
Dissemination towards the public take the form of an educational children’s book called Antarctica Sonora, which provides the young, an older, audience an auditory journey into the depths of the southern ocean, where science and creativity meet to explore the sounds of Antarctica.
The book can be accessed online free of charge at https://antarticasonora.cl/en/(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)
Scientific results from the staff exchanges are collected in CoastCarb Zenodo community at https://zenodo.org/communities/coastcarb/(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)
Dissemination towards the public take the form of an educational children’s book called Antarctica Sonora, which provides the young, an older, audience an auditory journey into the depths of the southern ocean, where science and creativity meet to explore the sounds of Antarctica.
The book can be accessed online free of charge at https://antarticasonora.cl/en/(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)
In total, 310 out of 385 Secondment months available in the project were successfully carried out. These months were divided into 163 separate secondments with 84 people going on secondments within the project. Most secondees headed either to Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany or to IAA, IDEAL or to UGent in Belgium. Altogether, AWI hosted over 11 years worth of secondments, while IAA, IDEAL and UGenth each hosted over three years worth of secondments.
The CoastCarb project aimed at creating a long-lasting impact on the research landscape of the participating institutes by enhancing the future career prospects of its staff members, especially its ESRs, (1) by creating an international, interdisciplinary staff exchange network and (2) by providing workshops and training courses to enhance scientific and transferable skills of participating ESRs.
During the 5 years of the project lifetime, including a break during the global pandemic, the CoastCarb has been able to establish an impressive staff exchange network, especially between the European beneficiaries and the South-American partner institutes and provide workshops and training opportunities for early career researchers that without the project would have no been possible.
The CoastCarb project aimed at creating a long-lasting impact on the research landscape of the participating institutes by enhancing the future career prospects of its staff members, especially its ESRs, (1) by creating an international, interdisciplinary staff exchange network and (2) by providing workshops and training courses to enhance scientific and transferable skills of participating ESRs.
During the 5 years of the project lifetime, including a break during the global pandemic, the CoastCarb has been able to establish an impressive staff exchange network, especially between the European beneficiaries and the South-American partner institutes and provide workshops and training opportunities for early career researchers that without the project would have no been possible.