This collection contains presentations, documents and other output from the iAtlantic project partners. The project addresses vulnerability and management of Atlantic deep sea and open ocean ecosystems on multiple scales and using a multitude of in situ, experimental and modelling approaches to provide data and tools for a sustainable use of Atlantic resources.

This collection contains presentations, documents and other output from the iAtlantic project partners.iAtlantic is a research project funded under H2020 which will assess the risks and vulnerabilities of Atlantic deep-sea and open ocean ecosystems to climate change and multiple stressors in order to identify where and when improved management measures are needed most for healthy Atlantic ecosystems and socioeconomies. To work at this vast scale, iAtlantic capitalises on existing ocean-scale monitoring programmes and enhances these with new sensors to better align North-South capacity for observations, yielding unprecedented ocean-scale climate-based predictions of areas under greatest change. 3D-mapping of the biodiversity and functioning in ecosystems in the water column to the deep seafloor using acoustics, environmental DNA, and trait-based approaches will be enhanced by empirical studies on drivers of ecosystem change at 12 areas in the Atlantic and both in situ and ex situ experimental studies to ground-truth the concept of ecosystem tipping points and critical threshold values. With EMODnet, iAtlantic will develop FAIR, open-access GIS tools to develop management and protection plans considering both biodiversity and socioeconomic factors for the whole Atlantic and to inform the rapidly evolving international, regional and national policies for the Atlantic. Joint North-South scientific initiatives extending from the Arctic to the Southern Ocean will study and highlight priority areas for policy and governance interventions to ensure sustainability of crucial basin resources. By bridging observational systems, exchanging data, researchers and equipment across South to North and East to West axes a new era of all-Atlantic collaboration will emerge.