JPIO Pilot Action “Ecological aspects of deep-sea mining”: Assessing the impact of potential mining activities on deep-sea ecosystems - Environmental status of polymetallic nodule habitats in the DISCOL Experimental Area, SE Pacific, and implications for future nodule mining activities in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, NE Pacific
ACRONYM
JPIO Mining Impact
Title
JPIO Pilot Action “Ecological aspects of deep-sea mining”: Assessing the impact of potential mining activities on deep-sea ecosystems - Environmental status of polymetallic nodule habitats in the DISCOL Experimental Area, SE Pacific, and implications for future nodule mining activities in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, NE Pacific
General information
Activities of deep-sea mining will indisputably affect the status of the environment by disturbing the seafloor and the overlying water column. The habitats of unique benthic and pelagic communities may be affected depending on the technologies used as well as on the size of the area impacted directly by mining and indirectly by the dispersion of sediment plumes and mining debris.
The JPI Oceans Pilot Action "Ecological Aspects of Deep-Sea Mining" assesses the ecological impacts which could arise from commercial mining activities in the deep-sea. Core of the project are three expeditions visiting several nodule license areas and a protected area in the Clarion Clipperton Zone as well as the disturbance and recolonization experiment (DISCOL) in the Peru Basin, which was conducted 26 years ago.
Start
January, 2015
End
July, 2018
Funding (total)
9600000
Funding (GEOMAR)
2117000
Funding body / Programme
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BMBF
/ JPI Oceans Pilot Action 'Ecological Aspects of Deep-Sea Mining'
Coordination
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel (GEOMAR), Germany
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