Recent Publications & Reports

Ross Sea region Marine Protected Area Background Materials

Ross Sea region marine protected area Research Coordination Network inaugural meeting report (2025). Download HERE.

Building a coordinated framework for research and monitoring in large-scale international marine protected areas: The Ross Sea region as a model system Brooks, Stammerjohn et al. 2024. Conservation Letters. 

2024 SCAR OSC Workshop on a Research Coordination Network for the Ross Sea region MPA Report: Download HERE. 

2022 Ross Sea Research Planning Meeting Workshop Report: Download HERE​​

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. 

A Summary of United States Research and Monitoring in Support of the Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area ​Brooks and Ainley. 2022. Diversity.   

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 ​

• Conservation Measure 91-05 (2016)

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

• CCAMLR MPA Information Repository, Ross Sea region MPA. 


• 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)

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• Analysis of potential threats from fishing to the objectives of a proposed Ross Sea region MPA (2013).
  
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• Marine Protected Area planning by New Zealand and the United States in the Ross Sea region (2011).
  
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• A research and monitoring plan to accompany the Ross Sea region marine protected area (2017).  

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