Title Integrated Ecosystem Programme: Southern Benguela (IEP:SB) on the Algoa Voyage 287, November 2022
Authors

Keshnee Pillay
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DFFE), South Africa

Marco Worship
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DFFE), South Africa

Publisher Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (2022)
Contributors

Contact Person: Keshnee Pillay
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), email: KePillay@environment.gov.za

Abstract This Integrated Ecosystem Programme: Southern Benguela (IEP:SB) November 2022 cruise was conducted on the Algoa Voyage 287 in November 2022. This is a long-term monitoring line conducted off the coast of Kleinsee, Namaqualand, Elands/St Helena Bay and Scarborough on the west coast of South Africa. The IEP:SB in 2013 consolidated a long-term, multi-decadal time-series (from 1951 onward) of information for this important region and has continued monitoring in the form of the IEP:SB. The programme is a multi-disciplinary, collaborative and capacity building platform undertaking relevant science, including updating technology, with the aim to develop ecosystem indicators that can be used to effectively monitor and understand the Southern Benguela. These include physical, chemical, planktonic, microbial, seabird, marine mammal, benthic and pollution (plastic) ecosystem indicators as required by ecosystem-based management regarding the following priorities: ocean warming, ocean acidification, trophic functioning, pollution and water quality. It is on-going monitoring programme.
Data
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Temporal extent 21 Nov 2022 – 30 Nov 2022
Geographic extent

North: -29.384
South: -34.56
West: 14.222
East: 18.31167

Keywords Algoa, Algoa 287, sailing orders, SDG 14.1.1 (a) Index of coastal eutrophication; and (b) plastic debris density, SDG 14.3.1 Average marine acidity (pH) measured at agreed suite of representative sampling stations, SDG Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
Related resources
  • Digital objects included in this collection:
    • Processed underway Thermosalinograph (TSG) observations from the Integrated Ecosystem Programme: Southern Benguela (IEP: SB) on the Algoa Voyage 287, November 2022 (10.15493/DEA.MIMS.10582023)
    • Raw underway Thermosalinograph (TSG) observations from the Integrated Ecosystem Programme: Southern Benguela (IEP: SB) on the Algoa Voyage 287, November 2022 (10.15493/DEA.MIMS.10592023)