Background Reading

Ross Sea region Marine Protected Area Background Materials

• Compilation of Member Activity Reports related to The Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area, 2022. Delegations of the USA, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea and Italy. 
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• A Summary of United States Research and Monitoring in Support of the Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area ​Cassandra M. Brooks and David G. Ainley December 2022

• Workshop report and synthesis: United States research and monitoring in support of the Ross Sea region Marine Protected Area  David Ainley and Cassandra Brooks April 2021

• Report of Member research and monitoring activities related to the Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area (2022)​. Delegation of the United States

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• Conservation Measure 91-05 (2016)

• Ross Sea region MPA Research and Monitoring Plan (2017)
  

• Report on US research and monitoring in support of the Ross Sea region MPA (2020)

• Candidate baseline data for ecosystem indicators in the Ross Sea region. Part A: Brief presentation of data (2018)

• Candidate baseline data for ecosystem indicators in the Ross Sea region. Part B: Discussion of the data (2018)

• Chronology of previously submitted scientific documents, and updated maps and analyses supporting MPA planning in the Ross Sea region (2014)
  

Ross Sea research Summaries

• Ross Sea Bioregionalization Part I

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• ​Ross Sea Bioregionalization Part II
  

• The Ross Sea Continental Shelf: Regional Biogeochemical Cycles, Trophic Interactions, and Potential Future Changes (2012)

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• The Oceanography and Ecology of the Ross Sea Walker O. Smith et al. August 2013