Status and future recommendations for recording and monitoring litter on the Arctic seafloor
Marine litter in the Arctic Basin is influenced by transport from Atlantic and Pacific waters. This highlights the need for harmonization of guidelines across regions. Monitoring can be used to assess temporal and spatial trends but can also be used to assess if environmental objectives are reached,...
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ftsintef:oai:sintef.brage.unit.no:11250/3055178 2023-05-15T14:20:49+02:00 Status and future recommendations for recording and monitoring litter on the Arctic seafloor Grøsvik, Bjørn Einar Buhl-Mortensen, Lene Bergmann, Melanie Booth, Andy Gomiero, Alessio Galgani, Francois 2022 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3055178 https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2022-0017 eng eng Canadian Science Publishing Norges forskningsråd: 315402 Norges forskningsråd: 287939 Arctic Science. 2022, 1-11. urn:issn:2368-7460 https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3055178 https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2022-0017 cristin:2069111 Navngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no © 2022 The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. CC-BY 1-11 Arctic Science harmonization standardization sea bed plastic pollution circumpolar Peer reviewed Journal article 2022 ftsintef https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2022-0017 2023-03-08T23:45:06Z Marine litter in the Arctic Basin is influenced by transport from Atlantic and Pacific waters. This highlights the need for harmonization of guidelines across regions. Monitoring can be used to assess temporal and spatial trends but can also be used to assess if environmental objectives are reached, for example, to evaluate the effectiveness of mitigation measures. Seafloor monitoring by trawling needs substantial resources and specific sampling strategies to be sufficiently robust to demonstrate changes over time. Observation and visual evaluation in shallow and deep waters using towed camera systems, remotely operated underwater vehicles, and submersibles are well suited for the Arctic environment. The use of imagery still needs to be adjusted through automation and image analyses, including deep learning approaches and data management, but will also serve to monitor areas with a rocky seafloor. We recommend developing a monitoring plan for seafloor litter by selecting representative sites for visual inspection that cover different depths and substrata in marine landscapes, and recording the litter collected or observed across all forms of seafloor sampling or imaging. We need better coverage and knowledge of status of seafloor litter for the whole Arctic and recommend initiatives to be taken for regions where such knowledge is lacking. publishedVersion Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Basin Arctic SINTEF Open (Brage) Arctic Pacific Arctic Science |
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Marine litter in the Arctic Basin is influenced by transport from Atlantic and Pacific waters. This highlights the need for harmonization of guidelines across regions. Monitoring can be used to assess temporal and spatial trends but can also be used to assess if environmental objectives are reached, for example, to evaluate the effectiveness of mitigation measures. Seafloor monitoring by trawling needs substantial resources and specific sampling strategies to be sufficiently robust to demonstrate changes over time. Observation and visual evaluation in shallow and deep waters using towed camera systems, remotely operated underwater vehicles, and submersibles are well suited for the Arctic environment. The use of imagery still needs to be adjusted through automation and image analyses, including deep learning approaches and data management, but will also serve to monitor areas with a rocky seafloor. We recommend developing a monitoring plan for seafloor litter by selecting representative sites for visual inspection that cover different depths and substrata in marine landscapes, and recording the litter collected or observed across all forms of seafloor sampling or imaging. We need better coverage and knowledge of status of seafloor litter for the whole Arctic and recommend initiatives to be taken for regions where such knowledge is lacking. publishedVersion |
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Status and future recommendations for recording and monitoring litter on the Arctic seafloor |
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Status and future recommendations for recording and monitoring litter on the Arctic seafloor |
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