Projet CoastCarb (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

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 (SP) and at the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP). The multidisciplinary network CoastCarb joins 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 (ARG-GER Carlini-Dallmann, US Palmer, UK Rothera, PL Arctowski) will be used for knowledge compilation. The established network is based on German, Belgian, Dutch, British, Argentine, Chilean and US participants with new Polish and Canadian partners included. 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.

Mots clés : climate change, sub, antarctic coastal ecosystems, environmental knowledge system, ecological modelling, organismal adaptation, coastal carbon cycling, marine ecosystem services

Participants :
- Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 1062600.0 €
- Ghent University (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 255300.0 €
- UK Research and Innovation (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 59800.0 €
- Ministerio de relaciones exteriores y culto (Argentine) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Dutch Research Council (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 121900.0 €
- National University of General Sarmiento (Argentine) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Argentine) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- State University System of Florida (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Los Lagos (Chili) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 101200.0 €
- Polish Academy of Sciences (Pologne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 170200.0 €
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Hawaii System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Alabama System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Austral University of Chile (Chili) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Greencoast media inc (Canada) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €