emodnet chemistry 2

EMODnet Chemistry 2

2nd Steering Committee

CNR, Piazzale Aldo Moro 7, Roma (Italy),

Aula Golgi (2nd floor),

20-21 January 2014

Project Management (WP0) and administrative issues:

• The Service Contract (signed 16/8/2013), the CA (IFREMER, IMR, ULg, IOF missing) and the Subcontracts (11 sent, 3 to be finalised)

• Mailing lists ([email protected], [email protected]) and extranet (ICES to P01 mapping), web portal

• New institutes connected to the SDN network (ISPRA, SYKE, UkrSCES, SOI, Istanbul University, UHI-MB, YugNIRO). Need training?

• SDN technical contents in the Emodnet extranet (DM)

EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 2nd Steering Committee, 20-21 January 2014

Project Management (WP0) and administrative issues:

• Next plenary meeting

Split: downtown or 4**** hotel on the coast (5 km)

• first day - start in the afternoon - Steering Committee (10-15 people)

• second day - full day - Expert group (25 people)

• third day - full day - Annual Meeting (80 people)

• fourth day - half day, till midday - Annual Meeting (80 people)


EMODnet Secretariat:

Jan-Bart Calewaert, Liesbeth Renders (Seascape Consultants, UK)

Commissioned (MARE/2012/15) to coordinate and support

(i) the monitoring of EMODnet projects,

(ii) the dissemination of their results,

(iii) the analysis of user feedback and statistics.

To organise EMODnet Steering Committee (secretariat, 7 lots, 2 checkpoints, DG MARE). 1st meeting: JPI Oceans,16-17/12/2013

Output: development of Entry Portal, 3 SC meeting per year



Next dates• 19-20/2/2014 21st Meeting of the MODEG, Oostende• May 2014 2nd EMODnet Steering Committee Meeting

New scheduling for bi-monthly reporting

Indicators proposed for the reporting (Dick Schaap)

3 use cases for the Central Portal (interaction among portals):Uc1: combined output from different data productsUc2: Benthic Index Calculation (BEQI)Uc3: coastal data



3rd Progress Report with statistics on

• number of CDI per Discovery Parameter – 1) volume of data

• number of CDI per Partner – 2) organization supplying data

To compute it easily from the CDI User Interface, we need improvements of the C19 vocabulary coverage and descriptions:

• addition of Macaronesia and Iberian coast (shape files needed)

• harmonization of the existing terms with MSFD regional seas (Baltic sea and Celtic sea)



C19 (SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer)

Sub-regional seas of Europe, as specified in the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD DIKE 5/12/08)

Data collection and metadata compilation in sea regions (WP1):

● Overview of the data collection from the regional leaders (10 min. each),

● Proposal for a data central buffer (Dick Schaap),● Parameters (P01 and P02) for extended Chemistry 2 scope

(Dick Schaap),● Sea regions definition (Neil Holdsworth),


Data collection and metadata compilation in sea regions (WP1) - workflow

Role of the Regional Leaders:● To collect bi-monthly updates of available data

Role of the all Partners:● To gather all identified datasets● To convert all gathered data on ODV format and release a copy

to the relevant regional leader● To compile metadata in CDI format and send all CDI entries to

Maris (to populate the CDI data Discovery and Access Service, linked to a local copy of ODV data

Role of the Coordinator: ask bi-monthly (?) progress in data gathering to all partners


CDI Service

Partners

Data collection and metadata compilation in sea regions (WP1):

● Data policy issues highlighted by Julie Gatti, who made data request via SDN CDI Service and was asked to sign an agreement (MERMAN Public Data Supply Agreement)

- data must be made available for products -● River inflow data were asked in the call, what shall we do?

- investigate existing database at national level -


Data Products generation in sea regions (WP2):

● Deadlines as indicated in the kick-off meeting:M6: start with products generation as DIVA maps and TS plotsM9: start with regional products validation with local expertsM12: first Expert workshop

M9: Use of CHASE assessment tool in the North Sea (Martin M. Larsen), to be presented to the Expert workshop

● Implication of data central buffer for product generation and new coastal visualization tools as discussed at the TWG (Dick Schaap)


QA/QC - Validation - MSFD interaction (WP3):

● Validation process with local experts - ask to all partners to identify at least 1 local expert (from M6)

● Expert workshop for data-products validation - 1 full day before the Annual Meeting - M9: circulate draft agenda and invite the Experts

● Identification of the Experts from Regional Conventions, WG DIKE, EEA, DG MARE (?) – collect proposals –

● Report from WG-DIKE and MODEG meetings (Giordano Giorgi)


Portal development and operation (WP4):

Report from the TWG on new developments for the next years (Dick Schaap)

M9: new functionality in the CDI User Interface for searching based on the distance along the coastlineM9: new visualization along (or near) the coastline of a Chemistry data product in OceanBrowserM9: direct link between SEXTANT and Ocean Browser

Planning for the next TWG (open issues?)

Link between EMODnet Chemistry portal and the central portal


Analyses and Recommendations (WP5):

● Analysis of feedback from users and stakeholders (Neil Holdsworth)

● Possible collaborations with SDN User Panel (joint survey !?)


Action List:


emodnet chemistry 2

Documents