Deep sea mining

Marine Chemistry and Biogeochemistry

Deep sea mining

 

From Deep Sea Mining Pilot page

Environmental aspects of deep sea mining

  • Deep-sea mining is an emerging human activity potentially having an impact on biogeochemical and ecological processes on the seafloor. One project aims at developing a conceptual model on sediment-water interactions in SMS zones, as well as at improving and adapting existing biogeochemical models of benthic interactions under deep-sea mining conditions.
  • The other project focuses on another major environmental concern being the generation of plumes near the seabed and in the water column. Sediment from these plumes may accumulate on the seabed, choking suspension feeders and burying seabed animals. This project aims to estimate the impacts of such plumes on the benthos. The results may be used in future environmental impact assessments for deep-sea mining, and in the development of policy for environmental management.
  • Both studies will contribute to the establishment of guidelines for exploration and exploiting activities at deep-sea mineral deposits.

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Contacts

Projects

Projects

 

  • DiverSea (Coordinator) EU-Horizon 
  • Nexus-Monarc -EU-Horizon
  • The Nansen Legacy / Arven etter Nansen (external website)
  • Best-SIBERIAN (Bio-essential and toxic elements transformation and transport in the Arctic under pressure of Siberian Continental Shelf permafrost thawing 

     

  • ANTARCTICA; Sophy-CO2 (Southern Ocean phytoplankton community characteristics, primary production, CO2 flux and the effects of climate change  (SANOCEAN)
  • i-CRYME (Impact of CRYosphere Melting on Southern Ocean Ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles (I-CRYME)
  • Coast-LAB (SANOCEAN) 
  • Salt-MINE (Belmont forum)
  • AWAS (Autonomous water sampling with real-time in situ data analysis for ocean environmental monitoring)
  • HYPSCI (Large-scale Interdisciplinary Researcher Project Observational Pyramid with Hyperspectral Nano-Satellites for Ocean Science)
  • Breeze (Sustainable Aquaculture), The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) project
  • Lake Mjøsa Project
  • JPI-O; Deep sea mining -- environmental impact
  • TrykkCO2 
  • CO2 acidification
  • Iron, evolution and photosynthesis
  • Ocean certain (external website)
  • C cycle
  • Sailing 4 Science Empowering STUDENTS and Citizen Science (external website)
     

     

Master Projects