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...
Response and effect traits capture essential aspects of species biology and community ecology. Response traits help to understand how species are affected by and respond to environmental changes, while effect traits reveal the impact that species exert on their environment.
The EMOD-network participated in force at the second edition of the International Ocean Data Conference (IODC-II) on 20-21 March 2023 where the recent EMODnet unification of services was presented, together with dialogues on EMODnet’s contribution to FAIR data and the Global Ocean Data Ecosystem, together with its active input to the UN Ocean Decade Data and Information Strategy. EMODnet was also well represented at the 27th session of the International Oceanographic Data and Information...
The Open Sea Lab 3.0 took place in March 2023, with the main goal being for diverse users to test the newly unified EMODnet data services and to innovate solutions and applications using open-source marine data to address the key Ocean challenges.
On 17 March 2023, EMODnet was presented in detail at the Advanced Master in Sustainable Blue Economy during the lecture by Marina Lipizer, researcher at the National Oceanographic Data Centre, managed by the National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS.
The Stakeholder consultation enabled the EMODnet Chemistry Partnership to identify and analyse new needs and gaps. This information serves as the basis for refining and improving the collaboration, resulting in more complete, efficient and user-oriented data, data products and services.
