TY - JOUR
T1 - Animal Borne Ocean Sensors – AniBOS – An Essential Component of the Global Ocean Observing System
AU - McMahon, Clive R.
AU - Roquet, Fabien
AU - Baudel, Sophie
AU - Belbeoch, Mathieu
AU - Bestley, Sophie
AU - Blight, Clint
AU - Boehme, Lars
AU - Carse, Fiona
AU - Costa, Daniel P.
AU - Fedak, Michael A.
AU - Guinet, Christophe
AU - Harcourt, Robert
AU - Heslop, Emma
AU - Hindell, Mark A.
AU - Hoenner, Xavier
AU - Holland, Kim
AU - Holland, Mellinda
AU - Jaine, Fabrice R.A.
AU - Jeanniard du Dot, Tiphaine
AU - Jonsen, Ian
AU - Keates, Theresa R.
AU - Kovacs, Kit M.
AU - Labrousse, Sara
AU - Lovell, Philip
AU - Lydersen, Christian
AU - March, David
AU - Mazloff, Matthew
AU - McKinzie, Megan K.
AU - Muelbert, Mônica M.C.
AU - O’Brien, Kevin
AU - Phillips, Lachlan
AU - Portela, Esther
AU - Pye, Jonathan
AU - Rintoul, Stephen
AU - Sato, Katsufumi
AU - Sequeira, Ana M.M.
AU - Simmons, Samantha E.
AU - Tsontos, Vardis M.
AU - Turpin, Victor
AU - van Wijk, Esmee
AU - Vo, Danny
AU - Wege, Mia
AU - Whoriskey, Frederick Gilbert
AU - Wilson, Kenady
AU - Woodward, Bill
PY - 2021/11/5
Y1 - 2021/11/5
N2 - Marine animals equipped with biological and physical electronic sensors have produced long-term data streams on key marine environmental variables, hydrography, animal behavior and ecology. These data are an essential component of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS). The Animal Borne Ocean Sensors (AniBOS) network aims to coordinate the long-term collection and delivery of marine data streams, providing a complementary capability to other GOOS networks that monitor Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs), essential climate variables (ECVs) and essential biodiversity variables (EBVs). AniBOS augments observations of temperature and salinity within the upper ocean, in areas that are under-sampled, providing information that is urgently needed for an improved understanding of climate and ocean variability and for forecasting. Additionally, measurements of chlorophyll fluorescence and dissolved oxygen concentrations are emerging. The observations AniBOS provides are used widely across the research, modeling and operational oceanographic communities. High latitude, shallow coastal shelves and tropical seas have historically been sampled poorly with traditional observing platforms for many reasons including sea ice presence, limited satellite coverage and logistical costs. Animal-borne sensors are helping to fill that gap by collecting and transmitting in near real time an average of 500 temperature-salinity-depth profiles per animal annually and, when instruments are recovered (∼30% of instruments deployed annually, n = 103 ± 34), up to 1,000 profiles per month in these regions. Increased observations from under-sampled regions greatly improve the accuracy and confidence in estimates of ocean state and improve studies of climate variability by delivering data that refine climate prediction estimates at regional and global scales. The GOOS Observations Coordination Group (OCG) reviews, advises on and coordinates activities across the global ocean observing networks to strengthen the effective implementation of the system. AniBOS was formally recognized in 2020 as a GOOS network. This improves our ability to observe the ocean’s structure and animals that live in them more comprehensively, concomitantly improving our understanding of global ocean and climate processes for societal benefit consistent with the UN Sustainability Goals 13 and 14: Climate and Life below Water. Working within the GOOS OCG framework ensures that AniBOS is an essential component of an integrated Global Ocean Observing System.
AB - Marine animals equipped with biological and physical electronic sensors have produced long-term data streams on key marine environmental variables, hydrography, animal behavior and ecology. These data are an essential component of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS). The Animal Borne Ocean Sensors (AniBOS) network aims to coordinate the long-term collection and delivery of marine data streams, providing a complementary capability to other GOOS networks that monitor Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs), essential climate variables (ECVs) and essential biodiversity variables (EBVs). AniBOS augments observations of temperature and salinity within the upper ocean, in areas that are under-sampled, providing information that is urgently needed for an improved understanding of climate and ocean variability and for forecasting. Additionally, measurements of chlorophyll fluorescence and dissolved oxygen concentrations are emerging. The observations AniBOS provides are used widely across the research, modeling and operational oceanographic communities. High latitude, shallow coastal shelves and tropical seas have historically been sampled poorly with traditional observing platforms for many reasons including sea ice presence, limited satellite coverage and logistical costs. Animal-borne sensors are helping to fill that gap by collecting and transmitting in near real time an average of 500 temperature-salinity-depth profiles per animal annually and, when instruments are recovered (∼30% of instruments deployed annually, n = 103 ± 34), up to 1,000 profiles per month in these regions. Increased observations from under-sampled regions greatly improve the accuracy and confidence in estimates of ocean state and improve studies of climate variability by delivering data that refine climate prediction estimates at regional and global scales. The GOOS Observations Coordination Group (OCG) reviews, advises on and coordinates activities across the global ocean observing networks to strengthen the effective implementation of the system. AniBOS was formally recognized in 2020 as a GOOS network. This improves our ability to observe the ocean’s structure and animals that live in them more comprehensively, concomitantly improving our understanding of global ocean and climate processes for societal benefit consistent with the UN Sustainability Goals 13 and 14: Climate and Life below Water. Working within the GOOS OCG framework ensures that AniBOS is an essential component of an integrated Global Ocean Observing System.
KW - animal behavior
KW - climate change
KW - Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs)
KW - marine animals
KW - physical oceanography
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U2 - 10.3389/fmars.2021.751840
DO - 10.3389/fmars.2021.751840
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85119455835
SN - 2296-7745
VL - 8
JO - Frontiers in Marine Science
JF - Frontiers in Marine Science
M1 - 751840
ER -