COMARGE

About

Field projects on continental margins worldwide

Highlights

The COMARGE project came up with the acknowledgement that the biodiversity of continental margins can not be assessed nor understood without considering their structural and functional complexity. Indeed, during the past few decades, our understanding of deep continental-margin habitats has changed more than for any other large area of Earth. Once envisioned as monotonous landscapes, continental margins are now acknowledged to have a high degree of complexity and diversity. Fundamental patterns of species distribution first observed and explained in the context of monotonous slopes must now be re-evaluated in light of the newly recognized heterogeneity.

Visit the COMARGE network worldwide (click on the map)

INSPIRE Cuise: Follow the exploration of the Chile triple junction on NOAA website.

Report: Research on deep-sea biodiversity at Ifremer broadcasted on France 24, watch the trailer

Field project: Report from the CCROCKS research cruise - methane seeps, oxygen minimum zone, cold corals and sunken wood habitats, all nearly in the same place off Costa Rica...more

Education: Want to know more about continental margin ecology? Visit COMARGE lectures by Robert Carney.

Data management: COMARGIS, the COMARGE Information System, is now fully functional for data upload. More....

Workshops

New species

In Press

Workshop on large scale patterns in bathyal free-living nematodes...Report (pdf)

Workshop on Marine Squat Lobsters at NIWA, Wellington, New-Zealand ...Report (pdf)

"Habitat Classification and Mapping on deep Continental Margins" at National Oceanography Center, Southampton, UK...programme (pdf)

"Towards a globalization of the project" at the Institut Oceanographique, Paris ...read more

Callianassid

Exploration in the deep Gulf of Cadiz reveals new species of shrimp and hydroid associated with mud volcanoes

Life in the Mid Atlantic written by Peter Boyle, this book provides background information, accounts of goals, plans, and technologies, and a final summary of results to date of the Census of Marine Life project MAR-ECO (2001-2010). More...
Deep-Sea Benthic Ecosystems of the Equatorial African Margin: The Multidisciplinary BIOZAIRE Program - A Contribution to Census of Marine Life. A special issue of Deep Sea Research II edited by Myriam Sibuet and Annick Vangriesheim.
	"Deeper Than Light" - A collaborative book of the deep-sea field projects of the Census of Marine Life to enlighten all publics on deep-sea life. For sale on the EuroCoML website.

Ampelisca mississippiana was discovered at the head of mississippi canyon in the Gulf of Mexico