https://cdn.earthdata.nasa.gov/conduit/upload/5182/KeywordsCommunityGuide_Baseline_v1_SIGNED_FINAL.pdf 23.7 2026-04-15T10:53:30.610Z https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/KeywordViewer/scheme/projects/1bb16d50-6728-4183-b47e-de8c04ca2cf3 GLOBEC GLOBEC (Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) is one of the core projects of theInternational Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and was initiated by SCORand the IOC of UNESCO in 1991, to understand how global change will affect theabundance, diversity and productivity of marine populations comprising a majorcomponent of oceanic ecosystems.The aim of GLOBEC is to advance our understanding of the structure andfunctioning of the global ocean ecosystem, its major subsystems, and itsresponse to physical forcing so that a capability can be developed to forecastthe responses of the marine ecosystem to global change.GLOBEC considers global change in the broad sense, encompassing the gradualprocesses of climate change and its impacts on marine systems, as well as thoseshorter-term changes resulting from anthropogenic pressures, such as populationgrowth in coastal areas, increased pollution, overfishing, changing fishingpractices and changing human use of the seas.GLOBEC has four primary objectives:1) To better understand how multiscale physical environmental processes forcelarge-scale changes in marine ecosystems.2) To determine the relationships between structure and dynamics in a varietyof oceanic systems which typify significant components of the global oceanecosystem, with emphasis on trophodynamic pathways, their variability and therole of nutrition quality in the food web.3) To determine the impacts of global change on stock dynamics using coupledphysical, biological and chemical models linked to appropriate observationsystems and to develop the capability to predict future impacts.4) To determine how changing marine ecosystems will affect the global earthsystem by identifying and quantifying feedback mechanisms.GLOBEC Homepage: http://www.pml.ac.uk/globec/A listing of all GLOBEC National and Regional Programmes can be found athttp://www.pml.ac.uk/globec/links/glob_prog.htm[This information was adapted from the GLOBEC web pages.]