Integrated Ecosystem Programme: Southern Benguela (IEP:SB) on the Algoa Voyage 279, February 2022 ...

• Main Authors: Keshnee Pillay, Marco Worship
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment 2022
• Subjects: Algoa; Algoa 279; sailing orders; SDG Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development; SDG 14.1.1 a Index of coastal eutrophication; and b plastic debris density; SDG 14.3.1 Average marine acidity pH measured at agreed suite of representative sampling stations; Scarborough; St. Helena; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.21112022; https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/MIMS/go/10.15493/DEA.MIMS.21112022

This Integrated Ecosystem Programme: Southern Benguela (IEP:SB) cruise was conducted on the Algoa Voyage 279 in February 2022. This is a long-term monitoring line conducted off the coast of Kleinsee, Namaqualand, Elands/St Helena Bay and Scarborough on the west coast of South Africa. The IEP:SB in 2013 consolidated a long-term, multi-decadal time-series (from 1951 onward) of information for this important region and has continued monitoring in the form of the IEP:SB. The programme is a multi-disciplinary, collaborative and capacity building platform undertaking relevant science, including updating technology, with the aim to develop ecosystem indicators that can be used to effectively monitor and understand the Southern Benguela. These include physical, chemical, planktonic, microbial, seabird, marine mammal, benthic and pollution (plastic) ecosystem indicators as required by ecosystem-based management regarding the following priorities: ocean warming, ocean acidification, trophic functioning, pollution and ...