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Ocean Census: New initiative aims to unite maritime partners in quest to
discover 100,000 new species in a decade

27 April 2023

A global and collaborative initiative to discover more of our ocean
life, Ocean Census, has been launched at the National Institute in
London today (April 27). With less than 10 per cent of marine life
identified and more than two million species still to be discovered, an
open network of science, business, media, and civil society
organisations have taken on the task, combining efforts to create the
largest programme of its kind.

Founded by UK-based marine science and conversation institute, Nekton,
and The Nippon Foundation, the largest non-profit foundation in Japan,
the initiative will bring together vessels from various sectors to
facilitate its mission. It will also use advanced subsea technology,
divers and deep-sea robots, plus global scientists embarking on an
array of expeditions to ocean biodiversity hotspots. The species
discovered will be sent for high-resolution imaging and DNA sequencing.

The programme builds on past legacies of the Challenger Expeditions,
conducted during the beginnings of modern marine science between 1872
and 1876, and The Census of Marine Life from 2000 until 2010. Their
ambitious target stands to find at least 100,000 new marine species in
the first decade of launch.

Speaking at the launch event, the chairman of Nekton, Rupert Grey,
highlighted the importance of having a greater understanding of the
world’s oceans. “It is significant failure of our generation’s
custodianship of the planet to know so little about so much,” he said.
“Ocean Census’s objective is to redeem that failure. If between us all
we fail with the task humanity will die, but the ocean of course will
survive.”

During the launch event, experts explained that since the 1800s the
average rate of discovering new species hasn't accelerated, despite the
advancement in technology. Today, an average of around 2,000 new
marine species are identified annually, but finding and scientifically
describing life continues to be a slow process. However, Ocean Census
aims to change this and hopes to accelerate it up to an average of
10,000 per year.

"Revolutions in technologies such as digital imaging, sequencing and
machine learning now make it possible to discover ocean life at speed
and at scale", said professor Alex Rogers, Ocean Census science
director.

"It currently takes one to two years to several decades to describe a
new species after it is collected by scientists but utilising new
technologies and sharing the knowledge gained using cloud-based
approaches, it will now only take a few months," continued Rogers.

Alongside global partners Ocean Census want to utilise the power of
private vessels over the next decade.

“New technologies that are coming online will make it easier for anyone
that is at sea to participate,” said Dr Jyotika Virmani, executive
director of Schmidt Ocean Institute, an Ocean Census partner. “The
beauty of having all these vessels involved is it is a huge
opportunity. We can’t get everywhere with scientific vessels, so having
that easy-to-use capability to gather that data is enormous.”

Rogers agreed that private vessels could have significant role to play
in the research. “Private vessels involved in Ocean Census will range
from [research] vessels like[89] Falkor (too) and[90] REV Ocean, all
the way down to small, private yachts where they might be dropping
scuba divers into an area where they can take water samples,” he
explained. “We should be able to create standardised sampling kits of
those vessels to collect scientific data for us. There is a large role
for private vessels of all scales in this programme.”

The open-sourced data hopes to revolutionise the understanding of our
planet and map out how to move forward in protecting the oceans – data
will be made accessible to all scientists, decision-makers and the
public.

If you are interested in learning more about the ocean and the role
that the yachting industry can play in its conservation, you can find
out more about Ocean Talks below. Ocean Census director and chief
executive of Nekton, Oliver Steeds, will be speaking about the project
during the evening event.
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