Joint Exploration of the Twilight Zone Ocean Network (JETZON)

Joint Exploration of the Twilight Zone Ocean Network (JETZON)

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Lead institution:

National Oceanography Centre – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK)

JETZON focuses on the ocean region spanning 200m to 1000m depth. This contains the largest and least exploited fish stocks of the world’s oceans.

The Twilight Zone also plays a major role in global biogeochemical cycles and the sequestration of carbon dioxide. However, it is poorly understood. This ignorance is dangerous. The Twilight Zone is under multiple stresses, including fishing, deep-sea mining, climate change and proposed CO2 mitigation methods. With the majority of the Twilight Zone outside national boundaries, its size and inaccessibility means that its study is only possible through coordinated international action. This is the aim of JETZON.

Start Date: 01/01/2021
End Date: 31/12/2030

Lead Contact: Adrian Martin (adrian.martin@noc.ac.uk)

This Programme hosts the following Ocean Decade Projects:

challenges:

1- Marine pollution

2- Protect and restore ecosystems

3- Sustainable blue food

4- Sustainable ocean economy

5- Ocean-climate nexus

7- Ocean observations

ocean_basins:

All Ocean Basins

type_of_action:

Programme

Joint Exploration of the Twilight Zone Ocean Network (JETZON)