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…
On 30 March EMODnet Physics together with SMHI, marine sensor developers, citizen science initiatives, TransEurope Marinas and other international organizations and institutes attended Chalmers Filling Coastal Data Gaps - Let's Do it Ourselves!". The activity is a marine citizen science low-code, low-cost sensor course for 110 2nd year Industrial Economics MSc students at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, running throughout spring 2023. Divided into teams the students will design,…
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.
More than ever before, European marine data are working together primarily through a consolidated flow of data from a plethora of different data producers to EMODnet Ingestion and from there to thematic EMODnet Lots. EMODnet Chemistry has 6 success stories, which are detailed below.
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
Late March 2023, EMODnet was officially endorsed as a Decade Implementing Partner of the Ocean Decade, further strengthening its role in supporting Global Ocean Marine Data activities and consolidating its engagement and commitment to the Ocean Decade. As an Implementing Partner, together with its partners, collaborators and network of experts, EMODnet will undertake and support a range of support actions and initiatives to promote the findability, transparency, accessibility and…
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…
The European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) has launched a major update of the EMODnet Bathymetry Digital Terrain Model (DTM), as part of its continuing evolution of services to further improve open access to data, information and knowledge of the marine environment. The 2022 DTM is the result of efforts across the EMODnet Bathymetry Consortium of thematic experts and collaborators, in co-operation with the European SeaDataNet infrastructure. The DTM is available for open and…
Marine and maritime data is an inexhaustible source of innovation. Europe needs connected collecting, observing and processing capacities to understand, benefit from, and respond to the dynamic maritime transport and ocean environment, especially in the face of ongoing climate change and its implications for Europe.
SMHI has developed a new product to assesses changes in phytoplankton alpha diversity over the past two decades in the greater Baltic Sea area. Time series data of biodiversity can indicate the resilience of an ecosystem to environmental stressors, such as climate change or eutrophication. Monitoring phytoplankton biodiversity is crucial for understanding and safeguarding aquatic ecosystems, predicting and mitigating the impacts of climate change, promoting sustainable fisheries management, and…
