Craig Smith
Title:
Professor
First Name:
Craig
Last Name:
Smith
Gender:
Male
Position:
Professor
Institution:
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Country:
USA
Email:
craigsmi@hawaii.edu
Phone:
808-956-7776
Website:
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/oceanography
Sector:
Organisms specialised in:
Technologies and techniques:
Oceanographic Locations:
Deep Ocean Vertical Zones:
Deep Sea Habitats:
Deep Sea Habitats - Other:
Whale falls, deep Antarctic Shelf
Involvement in policy or management:
Experience with bodies or processes:
- Developing impact assessment guidelines/standards
- Environmental impact assessments (EIAs)
- Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative (GOBI)
- International Seabed Authority (ISA)
- National government advisors
- NGOs (please specify in other below)
- UN Regular Process for Reporting and Assessment of the Marine Environment
- United Nations or UN-based meetings
Experience with bodies or processes - Other:
Pew Foundation
Primary Language:
Anything other contribution:
What will be the synergy of ocean warming, changes on food supply, and ocean acidification in stressing deep-sea communities
Primary Expertise:
Secondary Expertise:
Secondary Expertise - Other:
Impacts of deep-sea mining
Committees:
DOSI Advisory Board
INDEEP Oversight Committee
MIDAS Advisory Committee
3 priority science questions that need to be answered:
1) What are species ranges and rates and scales of gene flow (i.e., what are the rates and patterns of connectivity) in regions targeted for mining and resources exploitation (especially in the abyssal polymetallic nodule provinces) 2) How sensitive are abyssal communities to burial disturbance (e.g., chronic sediment"dusting") that will be associated with polymetallic nodule mining, and over what spatial scales will the mining plume spread? 3) How sensitive is the rate of recovery of deep-sea ecosystems to the spatial scale of disturbance from mining, drill cutting disposal, trawling, etc.