OSPAR, the Regional Sea Convention for the Northeast Atlantic Ocean is a key user of EMODnet data, data products and services. EMODnet data and data products are regularly used as evidence to support regional sea-basin assessments.
This summer data harvest is very heterogeneous in data content, with a temporal coverage ranging from 1880 until 2020 spread across the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, the Mediterranean, Baltic and North Seas.
Historical biodiversity documents comprise an important link to the long-term data life cycle and provide useful insights into several aspects of biodiversity research and management. By rescuing historical data, we better understand the ocean’s past, and we are able to predict the future of ocean life. Participants will be introduced to scientific practices and concepts such as the workflow for a citizen science project, the data standardization process, and the (meta)data curation. In…
By the time this news reaches you it will be four months since Phase V has started. Various lines of work are already taking shape and some events are being planned for later this year.
From June 7th to 8th, the Biology consortium met in Crete and online to wrap up Phase Iv and kick off Phase V of the project. Those that were able to travel were extremely well received by our colleagues at HCMR in Crete.
Since the proposal of Blue-Cloud 2026, the importance of EMODnet Chemistry for this project and vice versa is crystal clear. Let us find out why together and see what happens.
The consortium was recently informed of the funding approval for Phase V. The start date was May 10th and the project will run for an initial 2-year period until May 2025, after which there is a possibility of an automatic extension for another 2 years.
EMODnet has mobilised significant amounts of data on the spatial distribution of macrobenthic taxa throughout European seas. However, because these communities are not regularly, systematically surveyed at these large spatial scales, understanding how they change through time is challenging.
The project reached its end with more data freely and openly available via the portal. Users will be able to access to more than 40 Million occurrence records on various taxa distributed in European Seas and beyon
The Université Liège has created a product focused on gridded distributions of two copepod species widely distributed in the North Atlantic Ocean, Calanus finmarchicus and Calanus helgolandicus. They are particularly sensitive to environmental variables, in particular the sea water temperature, making them relevant species to analyse in the context of climate change. Thanks to the Continuous Plankton Recorder surveys, we have at our disposal homogeneous datasets of abundance, dating back to the…
