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REDRESS - Restoration of Deep-sea habitats to Rebuild European Seas

Research project
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Project owner
Department of Marine Sciences
Financier
EU HORIZON CL6
Area
Sustainability and environment Science and Information Technology Society and economy
Topic
Marine Engineering Marine ecology

Short description

REDRESS aims to provide a key contribution to the EU commitments towards restoring degraded ecosystems, especially in the deep sea. REDRESS will provide solutions to prioritize future restoration actions, extend deep-sea restoration to previously neglected habitat types, and demonstrate the feasibility, potential, and value for success of deep-sea ecosystem restoration.

More about the reserach

REDRESS will map degraded deep-sea habitats and identify habitat refugia to prioritize restoration efforts that will adapt to future scenarios of climate change. Areas selected for restoration include coral reefs, soft sediment communities and cold seeps. The project will focus on habitats that have great potential to contribute to carbon sequestration and climate mitigation but have been degraded by deep-sea fishing, especially trawling, but also drilling, mining and dredging.

REDRESS partner University of Gothenburg will focus on robotic monitoring of the impact of resuspended particle loads (plumes). Kristineberg Center will act as a hub for research vessels as well as host for laboratory studies and summerschools. Seafloor robots will be modified to initiate precise deep sea restoration with the Marine Protected Area Bratten near Kristineberg as major study site.

More about the Experimental Sedimentology and Seafloor Robot Laboratory at Kristineberg Center.

Researchers in the project

Laurenz Thomsen, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg  
E-mail: laurenz.thomsen@gu.se

Azizul Hakim, Department of Marine Sciences, Kristineberg Center, University of Gothenburg
E-mail: azizul.hakim@gu.se

REDRESS partners

  1. Università Politecnica delle Marche – UNIVPM (Italy)
  2. Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas – CSIC (Spain)
  3. Institut francais de recherche pour l’exploitation de la mer – Ifremer (France)
  4. Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel – GEOMAR (Germany)
  5. Stichting Nederlandse Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Instituten – NWO-I (NIOZ) (Netherlands)
  6. Hellenic Centre for Marine Research – HCMR (Greece)
  7. National Oceanography Centre – NOC (UK)
  8. National University of Ireland Galway – NUI Galway (Ireland)
  9. Universidade de Aveiro – UAveiro (Portugal)
  10. Goteborgs Universitet – UGOT (Sweden)
  11. University of Haifa – UH (Israel)
  12. REV Ocean AS- REV Ocean (Norway)
  13. Marine and Freshwater Research Institute – MFRI (Iceland)
  14. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – CNR (Italy)
  15. University of Edinburgh – UEDIN (UK)
  16. Sorbonne University – SU (France)
  17. Stazione Zoologica di Napoli Anton Dohrn – SZN (Italy)
  18. Engitec Systems International-Ltd – ESI (Cyprus)
  19. Distributed Ecological and Environmental Subsea Sensing – DEESS (France)
  20. ECOREACH SME-Ltd – ECOREACH (Italy)
  21. Society for Ecological Restoration – SERE (Belgium)
  22. Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research – IOLR (Israel)
  23. Wageningen University – WU (Netherlands)
  24. University of Azores – UAc (Portugal)
  25. Institute of Marine Research – IMAR (Portugal)
  26. Plymouth Marine Laboratory – PML (UK)
  27. Deep Sea Biology Society – DSBS (UK)
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