CenSeam, an International Program on Seamounts Table 1. CenSeam Committees and Membership. CenSeam Secretariat CenSeam Steering Committee Malcolm Clark, New Zealand (Principle Investigator); Mireille Consalvey, New Zealand (Project Coordinator); Ashley Rowden, New Zealand (Principle Investigator); Karen Stocks, United States (Principle Investigator) Amy Baco-Taylor, United States; John Dower, Canada; Baban Ingole, India; Tony Koslow, Australia (former); Gui Menezes, Portugal; Tina Molodtsova, Russia; Bertrand Richer de Forges, New Caledonia; Alex Rogers, United Kingdom; Thomas Schlacher, Australia; Timothy Shank, United States; Shinji Tsuchida, Japan; Martin White, Ireland; Alan Williams, Australia; Ian Wright, United Kingdom; CenSeam Data Analysis Working Group (DAWG) CenSeam Standardisation Working Group (SWG) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0032031.t001 Amy Baco-Taylor, United States; Paul Brewin, United States (former), Malcolm Clark, New Zealand; Timothy O’Hara, Australia; Ashley Rowden, New Zealand (DAWG Facilitator); Alex Rogers, United Kingdom; Thomas Schlacher, Australia; Karen Stocks, United States; Derek Tittensor, Canada Malcolm Clark, New Zealand (SWG Facilitator); Mireille Consalvey, New Zealand (SWG Facilitator); John Dower, Canada; Gui Menezes, Portugal; Bertrand Richer de Forges, New Caledonia; Alex Rogers, United Kingdom; Thomas Schlacher, Australia; Timothy Shank, United States; Alan Williams, Australia Proposals submitted in response to the annual solicitations were reviewed and voted upon by Steering Committee members; discretionary fund requests were reviewed by the secretariat. Mini-grant projects included digitization and quality control of previously-inaccessible historic data, travel for scientists to join otherwise-funded expeditions, salary or travel for taxonomists to Table 2. Primary CenSeam research publications. Books Reviews and Book Chapters Life on Seamounts [43] Special Issues Seamounts: Ecology, Fisheries and Conservation [33] Biological Sampling in the Deep Sea, in preparation for Wiley Blackwell by M. R. Clark and M. Consalvey The ecology of seamounts: structure, function and human impacts [22] Mountains in the Sea, Oceanography 23(1) 2010. CenSeam collaborated with the Seamount Biogeociences Network to produce this issue Recent Advances in Seamount Ecology, Marine Ecology 31(S1) 2010 The CenSeam Collection, PLoS ONE 2011 Data Analysis Papers* Deep-sea coral collection protocols [46] Seamounts, deep-sea corals and fisheries: vulnerability of deep-sea corals to fishing on seamounts beyond areas of national jurisdiction [47] Historical deep-sea coral distribution on seamount, oceanic island and continental shelf-slope habitats in the NE Atlantic [48] Cold-water coral habitats on seamounts: Do they have a specialist fauna? [41] Are deep-sea demersal fish assemblages globally homogenous? Insights from seamounts [49] Assemblage structure, but not diversity or density, change with depth on a northeast Pacific seamount [50] Conflicting estimates of connectivity among deep-sea coral populations [51] Environmental drivers of ophiuroid species richness on seamounts [52] Paradigms in seamount ecology: fact, fiction and future [18] Seamount megabenthic assemblages fail to recover from trawling impacts [26] The global distribution of seamounts based on 30 arc seconds bathymetry data [42] Predicting global habitat suitability for stony corals on seamounts [44] A test of the seamount oasis hypothesis: seamounts support higher epibenthic megafaunal biomass than adjacent slopes [53] Squat lobster assemblages on seamounts differ from some, but not all, deep-sea habitats of comparable depth [54] Effect of deepwater trawling on the macro-invertebrate assemblages of seamounts on the Chatham Rise, New Zealand [55] Impacts of bottom trawling on deep-coral ecosystems of seamounts are long-lasting disturbance [24] An index to assess the risk to stony corals from bottom trawling on seamounts [28] Incongruent patterns of genetic connectivity among four ophiuroid species with differing coral host specificity on North Atlantic seamounts [56] A global seamount classification to aid the scientific design of marine protected area networks [45] *These publications were either supported by CenSeam minigrants, came out of Data Analysis Working Group activities, or acknowledged CenSeam inputs. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0032031.t002 PLoS ONE | www.plosone.org 3 February 2012 | Volume 7 | Issue 2 |