ArticleScientific reports2017
Impact of remotely generated eddies on plume dispersion at abyssal mining sites in the Pacific.
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- Monitoring benthic plumes, sediment redeposition and seafloor imprints caused by deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining.Nature communications · 2025Article
- In situ optical measurement of particles in sediment plumes generated by a pre-prototype polymetallic nodule collector.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Deep-sea mining rock-fragment dispersal scenarios associated with submesoscale forcings: A case study in the Atlantic.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Carbonate compensation depth drives abyssal biogeography in the northeast Pacific.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Article
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- An in situ study of abyssal turbidity-current sediment plumes generated by a deep seabed polymetallic nodule mining preprototype collector vehicle.Science advances · 2022Article
- Opinion: Midwater ecosystems must be considered when evaluating environmental risks of deep-sea mining.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- The Red Sea Deep Water is a potent source of atmospheric ethane and propane.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Ecology of a polymetallic nodule occurrence gradient: Implications for deep-sea mining.Limnology and oceanography · 2019Article
- Biological effects 26 years after simulated deep-sea mining.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Megafaunal variation in the abyssal landscape of the Clarion Clipperton Zone.Progress in oceanography · 2019Article
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Abstract
Proposed harvesting of polymetallic nodules in the Central Tropical Pacific will generate plumes of suspended sediment which are anticipated to be ecologically harmful. While the deep sea is low in energy, it also can be highly turbulent, since the vertical density gradient which suppresses turbulence is weak. The ability to predict the impact of deep plumes is limited by scarcity of in-situ observations. Our observations show that the low-energy environment more than four kilometres below the surface ultimately becomes an order of magnitude more energetic for periods of weeks in response to the passage of mesoscale eddies. The source of these eddies is remote in time and space, here identified as the Central American Gap Winds. Abyssal current variability is controlled by comparable contributions from tides, surface winds and passing eddies. During eddy-induced elevated flow periods mining-related plumes, potentially supplemented by natural sediment resuspension, are expected to spread and disperse more widely and rapidly. Predictions are given of the timing, location and scales of impact.
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