Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Archive of Project Documentation - CAML_Project_Archive.Ships

• Other Authors: WADLEY, VICTORIA A (hasPrincipalInvestigator), STODDART, MICHAEL (hasPrincipalInvestigator), SPARROW, MICHAEL (hasPrincipalInvestigator), CARLE, DARIA O (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: biota; environment; oceans; BIODIVERSITY FUNCTIONS; EARTH SCIENCE; BIOSPHERE; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS; AQUATIC SCIENCES; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS; Biodiversity; International Polar Year; Biogeography; CAML; NOT APPLICABLE; SHIPS; IPY > CAML > CENSUS OF ANTARCTIC MARINE LIFE; COML > CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE; EBA > Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Antarctic; Antarctic Ocean; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; IPY; SCAR; Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/census-antarctic-marine-documentation-camlprojectarchiveships/700689; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/CAML_Project_Archive.Ships; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

The Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Project Archive is a collection of scanned documents, maps, videos, and other related material that comprise the organisation and management documentation associated with a major research project of international significance. CAML measured the distribution and abundance of life in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica so that future impacts of climate change and human activities can be better understood. CAML coordinated the largest-ever survey of the Southern Ocean with 18 voyages in Antarctic waters, and inventoried over 16,000 marine species with hundreds new to science, provided DNA barcodes for 1,500 species, and has so far produced more than 600 scientific publications. CAML is a key activity of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR); a subproject of the Census of Marine Life (CoML); and was a major initiative of the 2007-2009 International Polar Year (IPY).