MANGANESE NODULES
2
Steering Committee
Akuila Tawake (Chair) Secretariat of the Pacific Community/SOPACDivision
Charles Roche Mineral Policy Institute
Elaine Baker GRID-Arendal at the University of Sydney
Yannick Beaudoin GRID-Arendal
Malcolm Clark National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research
Ltd (NIWA)
Daniel Dumas Commonwealth Secretariat
Chuck Fisher Penn State University
James R. Hein United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Robert Heydon Offshore Council
Harry Kore Government of Papua New Guinea
Hannah Lily Secretariat of the Pacific Community/SOPAC Division
Michael Lodge ISA
Linwood Pendleton Duke University, NOAA
Sven Petersen IFM-GEOMAR
Julian Roberts Commonwealth Secretariat
Samantha Smith Nautilus Minerals Inc.
Anne Solgaard GRID-Arendal
Jan Steffen IUCN
Arthur Webb Secretariat of the Pacific Community/SOPAC Division
Editors
Elaine Baker and Yannick Beaudoin
Authors
Malcolm R. Clark National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research
Ltd (NIWA)
Robert Heydon Offshore Council
James R. Hein United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Samantha Smith Nautilus Minerals Inc.
Craig Smith University of Hawai‘i
Sven Petersen IFM-GEOMAR
Elaine Baker GRID Arendal at the University of Sydney
Yannick Beaudoin GRID Arendal
Reviewers
John Feenan IHC Mining
Hiroshi Kitazato Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and
Technology (JAMSTEC)
Gavin Mudd Monash University
Christian Neumann GRID-Arendal
Andrew Thaler Duke University
Cornel de Ronde Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences
Phil Symonds Geoscience Australia
David Cronan Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London
Cartography
Kristina Thygesen GRID-Arendal
Riccardo Pravettoni GRID-Arendal
Front Cover
Alex Mathers
Technical Editors
Claire Eamer
Patrick Daley
Production
GRID-Arendal
Acknowledgments
Special thanks to Dr Michael Wiedicke-Hombach fromBGR, for assistance
with sourcing photographs; and to Akuila Tawake and Hannah Lily from
the Secretariat of the Pacific Community/SOPAC Division and Peter
Harris from Geoscience Australia for final reviews of chapters.
Citation
Secretariat of the Pacific Community (2103)
Deep Sea Minerals: Man-
ganese Nodules, a physical, biological, environmental, and technical
review
. Vol. 1B, SPC
A Centre Collaborating with UNEP
