Acronym SEAM
Category
Fisheries
Title Towards improved Baltic Sea environmental assessment and monitoring Programme BONUS
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
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Specific Programme (FP7)
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Funding source National-European Coordinator Lindegarth Mats Coordinator email mats.lindegarth@havsmiljoinstitutet.se
Coordinator institution
UGOT - University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
Institutions involved
SYKE - Finnish Environment Institute (Finland) ,
IOW - Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (Germany) ,
TALTECH - Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia) ,
DTU - Technical University of Denmark (Denmark) ,
Start year 2018 End year 2020 Funding (€) € 449,692 Website https://www.era-learn.eu/network-information/networks/bonus-169/bonus-call-2017-synthesis/towards-improved-baltic-sea-environmental-assessment-and-monitoring Summary HELCOM and ICES organize a long-established coordination of monitoring in the Baltic Sea. It supports regular comprehensive environmental assessments and regular advice for fisheries management. European and Baltic Sea policy for the marine environment now presents demands for a variety of information on progress towards a good environmental status and the sustainability of ecosystem services. A key challenge is to ensure that monitoring activity serves the widest range of needs in a streamlined way. New innovations for data collection and interpretation may also offer possibilities for further refining approaches to provide an increased return of information on investments in monitoring. In this project we will identify gaps in relation to policy needs and scientific innovations and set out potential routes for improvement. In particular, we will critically analyse the adequacy of current Baltic Sea monitoring to support assessment requirements under different environmental polices. We will review recent innovative approaches for a more cost-effective collection of data and evaluate their potential application in an operational monitoring programme. These steps will lead to a proposal for a revised monitoring system for the Baltic Sea, which we will test with key policy and technical stakeholders. The analytical part of the project will focus on the offshore sub-basins, which requires particular coordination and cooperation between countries bordering the Baltic Sea.
Keywords
Policy;
Monitoring;
Marine Region
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Bothnian Sea (27.IIId.30)
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Southern Central Baltic-West (27.IIId.25)
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Gulf of Finland (27.IIId.32)
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Southern Central Baltic-East (27.IIId.26)
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Baltic West of Bornholm (27.IIId.24)
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Bothnian Bay (27.IIId.31)
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West of Gotland (27.IIId.27)
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Archipelago Sea (27.IIId. 29)
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East of Gotland or Gulf of Riga (27.IIId.28)
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