EMODnet was pleased to exhibit at the ICES Annual Science Conference 2023 which took place in Bilbao, Spain on 11-15 September 2023. ICES is a key stakeholder to EMODnet, with ICES being a partner and data provider to multiple EMODnet thematics, including Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Data Ingestion. EMODnet experts are also members of a number of ICES Working Groups. The event also saw the launch of the OSPAR Quality Status Report 2023, to which EMODnet data/data products contributed.
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.
webODV is the online version of the ODV (Ocean Data View) software and provides typical ODV functionality in the form of web services. The idea is to provide clients with user-friendly interfaces in their web-browser and access datasets that are centrally maintained and administered on a server using the full capacity of ODV. webODV can be used from every computer in the world, only an internet connection and a modern browser is needed, no special software installation or operating system is…
In the framework of Back To Blue , the Economist Group and the Nippon Foundation, the initiative co-founders, invited EMODnet Chemistry to share their experience at the invitation-only workshop “Building a federated architecture of interoperable databases”.
The most important results of the questionnaire carried out by EMODnet Chemistry to investigate what quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) procedures are currently adopted by laboratories involved in EMODnet Chemistry are presented below, while the background and structure were explained in the web news ‘New information collected for a better assessment of marine pollution’.
On 27-30 June 2023, EMODnet Physics Coordinating organization, ETT, Italy was a co-organizer of the Ocean Data Week, an event held during The Ocean Race Finale in Genoa, Italy. The event brought together experts from EMODnet Secretariat, Physics, Chemistry and Data Ingestion together with wider stakeholders from the European Commission DG MARE, RTD, IOC-UNESCO, research, civil society and the private sector to exchange on topics spanning European Ocean Observation, the Marine Knowledge Value…
The new data collections for eutrophication and contaminants have just been published. Each collection covers one of the following marine regions: Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Greater North Sea, Northeast Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Black Sea. They can be found on the EMODnet web portal in the section dedicated to EMODnet Chemistry Data and Products and in the central Products Catalogue.
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 European Marine Board (EMB) has released a new report on sustainable management of the offshore renewable sector, titled " Future Science Brief No. 9 European offshore renewable energy: Towards a sustainable future ". While the report highlights the need for increased offshore renewable energy capacity, it also emphasizes the importance of managing the expansion sustainably and responsibly. Furthermore, the report notes that access to industry data remains a significant barrier for offshore…
EMODnet Chemistry's contribution to tackling ocean acidification was presented by Elisabeth Kubin, researcher of the National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, at the 5th International Symposium on Climate Change Impacts on the World Ocean - ECCWO5.
