Title Integrated Ecosystem Programme: Southern Benguela (IEP:SB) on the Algoa Voyage 255, November 2018
Authors

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

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

Publisher Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (2021)
Contributors

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

Project Leader: Keshnee Pillay
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE)

Project Leader: Marco Worship
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE)

Abstract This Integrated Ecosystem Programme: Southern Benguela (IEP:SB) cruise was conducted on the Algoa Voyage 255 in November 2018. 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 20 Nov 2018 – 30 Nov 2018
Geographic extent

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

Keywords Algoa, Algoa 255, IEP:SB, integrated ecosystem programme, Kleinsee Monitoring Line, KML, Namaqua Monitoring Line, NML, Scarborough Monitoring Line, 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, SHBML, SML, southern benguela, St Helena Bay Monitoring Line
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 255, November 2018 (10.15493/DEA.MIMS.10542023)
    • Raw underway Thermosalinograph (TSG) observations from the Integrated Ecosystem Programme: Southern Benguela (IEP: SB) on the Algoa Voyage 255, November 2018 (10.15493/DEA.MIMS.10552023)