The Jang Bogo Long-term Ecological Research 2020-2025 (JB-LTER 2020-2025)

- Studies on Coastal Marine Biodiversity and Changing Ecosystems around Jang Bogo Station, Ross Sea, Antarctica

 

We have been planed to determine biodiversity and the present ecosystem status/change of Antarctic coastal environments, especially around Jang Bogo Station (JBS) by quantifying spatial/temporal variability on a regular basis, to investigate and understand the present adaptation of Antarctic organisms and status of ecosystem using multi-level approaches, and further to predict future impacts in this project JB-LTER 2020-2022.

 

The main goal is to address how coastal marine biodiversity and ecosystem around JBS responds to environmental change. We are focusing on the following sub-goals:

○ Observation and analysis of spatiotemporal changes in glacier, sea ice, and polynya around JBS using satellite remote sensing

○ Oceanographic survey around JBS coastal region to investigate the interaction of glacier, sea ice, and coastal ecosystem

  - Investigation of physical and biogeochemical properties of marine environments under sea ice and around Campbell glacier

  - Long-term monitoring of physical and biogeochemical properties at the super station near JBS

  - Application of a simple ecosystem model to quantify the interaction between glacier, sea ice and coastal ecosystem

○ Ecosystem response to environmental change

  - Study on population dynamics of Antarctic scallop and south polar skua and its long-term change in JBS coastal region

 - Development of a model for prediction of Interaction between the environmental variations and the coastal ecosystems around JBS and Campbell glacier by climate change