The EMODnet service is proud to announce that its Data Ingestion service has been integrated into the EMODnet Portal! The migration of this EMODnet component to the Europa domain is a major milestone for EMODnet, with Ingestion joining the seven thematics in the EMODnet one-stop data and services portal. The core functionalities of EMODnet Data Ingestion services remain the same but are now combined and integrated with the other EMODnet services, making it even easier for potential data…
DIVAnd is a software tool designed for gridding oceanographic in situ measurements. It is now widely used within the oceanographic community and across several European projects.
As part of EMODnet Biology, the University of Liège developed guidance on how to call DIVAnd (originally written in Julia) from within the R programming environment. To demonstrate the tool’s capabilities, a seabird distribution interpolation product was also created.
Bottom trawl fisheries are recognised to be a global threat to marine biodiversity and an important driver of sea floor ecosystem change. We provide a toolbox that enables the prediction of trawling impact on benthic organism densities, and to assess the species’ vulnerability to trawling.
The International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO has awarded the Ocean Best Practices System Endorsement Certificate to EMODnet Chemistry’s Guide for the management of microlitter datasets. These data, along with the data on beach and seafloor litter, were used to produce the latest marine litter data collections downloadable from the EMODnet Products Catalogue. The collections in turn are used to create the…
Building on the existing data and web services, EMODnet’s Chemistry offer of aggregated, harmonised and validated datasets on many marine chemistry parameters e.g., eutrophication and ocean acidification (first made available in 2024) are now also available through the Environmental Research Division Data Access Program (ERDDAP™), covering the Baltic Sea, Greater North Sea and Northeast Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, and Arctic Ocean.
EMODnet was out in force at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2025 in Vienna, Austria between 27 April to 2 May 2025.The Secretariat co-chaired a session on EU marine data services for the European Digital Twin Ocean, and other presentations and posters were led by EMODnet Chemistry, Physics and Geology thematics, among others. This annual assembly is a prestigious event for Research and Innovation, typically welcoming over 18,000 global participants.
EMODnet Biology’s latest data product, developed by SMHI, offers a spatial-temporal interpolation of zooplankton biodiversity patterns across the greater Baltic Sea area, including the Skagerrak and Kattegat. Based on observed Shannon diversity indices from Swedish and Finnish environmental monitoring data, the product utilizes the DIVAnd (Data-Interpolating Variational Analysis in n-Dimensions) method to generate a three-dimensional interpolation across longitude, latitude, and seasonal time…
Ocean warming is changing marine species distributions and modifying the structure of coastal communities.In the Southern part of the Bay of Biscay, climate change is affecting canopy-forming macroalgal assemblages which are turning from complex systems holding a wide range of fauna and flora to simpler systems dominated by turf-forming species with warmer affinities. This transition has negative effects on biodiversity, but also in the ecosystem services provided by those organisms with…
The combination of the below information reveals the spatial and temporal changes in marine ecosystem structure and functioning across the Northeast Atlantic shelf seas.
There’s never been a better time to harness the power of Open Data to drive new knowledge. During the EU Open Data Days 2025 event at the European Convention Centre in Luxembourg, EMODnet’s Head of Secretariat Kate Larkin showcased EMODnet as a success story for Open and FAIR data in the marine domain, demonstrating how EMODnet is supporting EU Policy, the Blue Economy, Research, Innovation, and society at large. Recordings and presentations are now available online.
