Recent Publications & Reports

Ross Sea region Marine Protected Area Background Materials

Ross Sea region marine protected area Research Coordination Network annual meeting report (2026). Download HERE.

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