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: Received: 30 December 2023 / Approved: 3 January 2024 / Online: 3 January 2024 (09:20:15 CET)
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Gaglioti, M. Integrating Field and Ashore Knowledge to Fill the Gaps of Habitat Mapping in Unexplored Edges of the Pacific Ocean. Preprints2024, 2024010164. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0164.v1
Gaglioti, M. Integrating Field and Ashore Knowledge to Fill the Gaps of Habitat Mapping in Unexplored Edges of the Pacific Ocean. Preprints 2024, 2024010164. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0164.v1
Gaglioti, M. Integrating Field and Ashore Knowledge to Fill the Gaps of Habitat Mapping in Unexplored Edges of the Pacific Ocean. Preprints2024, 2024010164. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0164.v1
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Gaglioti, M. (2024). Integrating Field and Ashore Knowledge to Fill the Gaps of Habitat Mapping in Unexplored Edges of the Pacific Ocean. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0164.v1
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Abstract
Seafloor mapping is crucial for sustainable Ocean management, but the distribution, drivers and origins of deep-sea biodiversity remain uncharted at global scales. The deep ocean is the largest and least-explored ecosystem on Earth, and the greatest source of unknown lifeforms. This con-tribution is firstly the story of a merge between exploration, science, education and technology for humankind cultural heritage advancement in one of the formally recognized protected areas of the Pacific Ocean. The data herein described are the outcome of a series of underwater surveys fi-nalized during the 2023 Exploration Campaign onboard E/V Nautilus, led by the Ocean Explo-ration Trust within the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, which is the largest conservation area established in the U.S. and one of the largest marine protected areas of the world. Our findings provide an advanced approach to scientific research combining the tradi-tional approach of marine sciences to the cultural and social dimension of local traditions, in or-der to empower the indigenous people in the underwater cultural heritage knowledge advance-ment process, aimed at deep-sea biodiversity detection and unexplored seafloor surveying. Be-side the high potential for this human dimension inclusion, the indigenous voices allowed to in-tegrate the mere scientific aspects commonly shared in every at-sea exploration, with the cultural values and practices respected from the local people who traditionally lived in sync with the Ocean for millennia. As a result, this approach allowed to enforce a trust relationship between the science world and some local representatives who joined the exploration onboard, providing an added value to the extant expertise.
Keywords
Habitat mapping; Underwater Cultural Heritage; Ocean Exploration; UN Decade Challenges; Marine biodiversity; UN Ocean Decade; Indigenous knowledge
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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