Scientific Goals
Research and Exploration
- Assess biodiversity and better understand its functional roles in maintaining ecosystems.
- Foster the development, adaptation, and application of biosensor technologies that identify the abundance, distribution, movement, and diversity of marine species.
- Improve public understanding of ocean exploration as a driver of discovery, technology, and scientific collaboration.
Tools and Technologies for Monitoring and Projecting Ecosystem Change
- Establish and maintain a marine biodiversity data management system that is geo- and time-referenced and interoperable with ocean observing systems.
- Develop improved tools to apply marine species data to marine biodiversity research.
- Use historical records, baseline information, and predictive models to explain long-term and future changes in marine ecosystems through retrospective analyses.
Educational Information
- Increase public awareness about the oceans by incorporating marine biodiversity information into formal and informal education.
- Engage the scientific community to advance ocean literacy.
- Disseminate information on marine species to support resource management and policy development.
