EMODnet Seabed Habitats took part in the Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping (GEOHAB) 2025 Conference, held from 12–16 May in Key West, Florida. This long-standing international gathering brought together over 150 global experts in marine geology, biology, and spatial analysis to exchange knowledge on benthic habitats and sustainable ocean management. EMODnet contributed to discussions with a talk on EUSeaMap development in the Caribbean and a poster on coastal wetlands, sharing…
Collaboration between Edge Hill University (EHU) and EMODnet Geology has enhanced understanding of coastal hazards, paving the way for sustainable coastal management in Europe. The collaboration, involving EHU student interns and an international team of experts, has developed the new EMODnet Geology coastal resilience/vulnerability map. The students used their digital mapping and data analyses skills to produce the map that underpins the data product. EMODnet Geology has provided valuable work…
On April 7-8, 2025, the EMODnet Steering Committee held its 22nd meeting online. The open session included key updates on EMODnet’s 2025 initiatives, such as global and European partnerships, and updates to the Portal and from the EMODnet thematics. The closed session focused on targeted discussions on operational plans, including communication and user and stakeholder engagement.
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 (Data-Interpolating Variational Analysis in n dimensions) 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…
