Data in Ocean and Coastal Sustainability

Long-term ocean data, modelling results and observations are needed for taking informed management decisions, which can contribute to achieving the sustainability of ocean activities, e.g. fishing, aquaculture, shipping, infrastructures, dredging, wastewater discharges, etc. This would assist in reducing or mitigating the cumulative pressures coming from these multiple activities, which can produce impacts on different biotic and abiotic ecosystem components, e.g. plankton, benthos, fishes, mammals, seabirds, etc., as well as the physical and biogeochemistry of the ocean. Data for coastal management, marine protected areas and understanding dynamics of the deep ocean and coastal environments is also important.On top of these interactions, climate change is driving dramatic changes in habitats and species, as well as in ecosystem services provided by the ocean.In this context, the use of the new Frontiers FAIR² Data Article type and other data article types is a great opportunity. This could assist managers and policy-makers in having useful monitoring datasets from the ocean (activities, pressures, ecosystem components), to be used in assessing the ocean health and proposing management measures to reduce ocean pressures and achieve good status.The term data has many contexts. For this Research Topic, contributions in observation data, data from analyses and data from development and applications in the ocean environments are invited.Hence, the objectives of this Research Topic are:• Critical analysis, including modelling and re-analyses, of long-term ocean monitoring datasets and observations• Stimulate consistent data quality and interoperability through the use of Essential Climate Variables (ECV), Essential Ocean Variables (EOV) and Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBV)• Applicability of those data in proposing management measures to reduce or mitigate human pressures, contributing to achieving ocean sustainability• Use of such data in presenting successful examples of restoring degraded marine habitats, recovering endangered species or enhancing ecosystem services supply• Applicability of those data for climate change impact assessments and mitigation action examples.More Information on FAIR²:FAIR principles are increasingly being adopted within the field of ocean sustainability and marine science to ensure that data is findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. For too long research datasets have remained siloed, poorly documented and undiscoverable; currently 90% of data is lost because it’s challenging to share data effectively.We have removed barriers to effective data sharing with the launch of FAIR² Data Management.• Your FAIR² Data Article will be published and indexed like any other scientific paper so that citations count and you get recognition for your data.• Frontiers FAIR² Data Management Service organizes, cleans and curates your data so that you don’t have to. A FAIR² Data Article, published alongside an interactive data portal and AI-ready data package, ensures that your data is discoverable, reusable and gains impact. Topic editors: Angel Borja, Jay S Pearlman, Stefania Angela Ciliberti, Jose A. A. Antolínez Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/77867/data-in-ocean-and-coastal-sustainability