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Ecosystem Restoration in Deep Waters
EU-MERCES webinar series
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This webinar series, focussed on marine ecosystem restoration, provides fresh perspectives on how we can benefit from better planning for a healthy marine environment.
GRID-Arendal and the Marine Ecosystem Service Partnership (MESP) is hosting a 5-part webinar series from MERCES (Marine Ecosystem Restoration in Changing European Seas). MERCES is a Horizon 2020 project for Blue Growth funded by the European Commission, focussed on the restoration of degraded marine habitats from the coast to the deep sea. This webinar series will be of interest to a wide variety of stakeholders from academia to businesses, economists and decision makers.
The first MERCES Project webinar, "Getting Better Value from Our Coasts," can be viewed online here: Getting Better Value from Our Coasts webinar.
The second webinar, "Private Finance in Marine Ecosystem Restoration," can be viewed online here: Private Finance in Marine Ecosystem Restoration webinar.
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The third webinar, "Ecosystem Restoration in Deep Waters," will take place on Thursday, 27 June, from 15:00-16:00 CET (Brussels time) and will focus on two important topics:
Environmental impacts of decommissioning obsolete oil and gas platforms from our oceans
Speaker: Anne-Mette M. Jørgensen
The removal of thousands of obsolete oil and gas platforms from our oceans has already begun, yet the environmental impacts of this decommissioning policy are largely unknown. In recent years a growing number of scientists are pleading for more serious consideration of alternative decommissioning options such as partial removal and reefing. Such options could simultaneously reduce negative environmental impacts and decommissioning costs.
Anne-Mette M. Jørgensen is an independent consultant with more than 20 years of experience in managing high-impact, multi-stakeholder projects relating to sustainability. Since 2010, she has focused her work on the relationship between (decommissioning of) offshore structures and marine ecosystems. She led the Living North Sea Initiative (LiNSI) and founded North Sea Futures.
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Impact of mining activities
Speaker: Daphne Cuvelier
While little is still known about the impacts of actual mining activities, it is clear that they will affect all deep-sea communities. Effective environmental management plans, including mitigation actions to potentially minimise impacts and avoid exceeding tipping points as well as restoration actions to aid in the ecosystem’s recovery, are needed. In this talk, mitigation and restoration actions that could play a role in preserving both biodiversity and functioning ecosystems are discussed.
Daphne Cuvelier is a postdoctoral researcher at the MARE-Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre/IMAR – Instituto do Mar, based in Horta, Azores. She studies the temporal variation of deep-sea communities in disturbed and undisturbed environments, mostly based on imagery analysis, hence acquiring knowledge of communities’ natural variation, resilience and (non)recovery.
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