Acronym SEAMAN
Category
Fisheries
Title Spatially resolved Ecosystem models and their Application to Marine MANagement Programme International Cooperation
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National-European Coordinator Corinna Schrum Coordinator email Corinna.Schrum@gfi.uib.no
Coordinator institution
UiB - University of Bergen (Norway)
Institutions involved
IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (France) ,
IMR - Institute of Marine Research (Norway) ,
NIERSC - Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre (Russian Federation) ,
NA - National Research Council - Institute of Marine Engineering (Italy) ,
HI - University of Iceland (Iceland) ,
Start year 2013 End year 2016 Funding (€) € 399,849 Website https://anr.fr/Project-ANR-12-SEAS-0004 Summary SEAMAN is a project within the program SEAS-ERA, a partnership of the leading marine RTD Funding Organizations in 18 countries. SEAS-ERA is funded by the European Union Framework Programme 7 (EU FP7) ERA-NET Scheme aiming to strengthen the coordination of national and regional research programmes.
SEAMAN aims to improve ecosystem understanding and modelling and involves 6 institutes in 4 countries.
Hereby, the project brings together experts from different countries in Europe, focusing on different parts of the ecosystem from the physical environment, to plankton, fish, invasive species and pollutants. The collaboration allows to share forces and competences and avoids (uncontrolled) overlap in research foci while stimulating (controlled) complementary and parallel research.
The main objectives of the project are:
To provide new knowledge for a better understanding of the functioning of the marine ecosystem and its spatial-temporal variations to address currently existing challenges in 3-d ecosystem models (e.g. calibration of primary production and regenerated production, trophic coupling).
To develop new and advanced spatially explicit modelling tools capable to resolve the combined influence of multiple ecosystem drivers.
To advance the 3-d modelling tools into suitable management instruments.
To advance the understanding of climatic induced variations in habitats and their implications for fisheries management.
To integrate state of the art understanding of bio-accumulation of pollutants (Brooks et al., 2012) and invasive species into coupled NPZD-fish models and to advance the knowledge base on the risk of spatial variations in exposure to pollutants by theoretical case study simulations.
To provide a new data base on observational based primary production estimates, a new and expanded data base of phyto- and zooplankton size spectra data and a new database compiled from historic fish data and construction of seasonally resolved habitat maps.
Keywords
Climate change;
Fish;
Impacts;
Ecosystem approach;
Alien species;
Marine Region
20
Archipelago Sea (27.IIId. 29)
4
Eastern English Channel (27.VIId)
32
Southwest of Ireland-West (27.VIIk)
36
Iceland Grounds (27.Va)
35
West of Bay of Biscay (27.VIIIe)
41
Norwegian Sea (27.IIa)
26
Northwest Coast of Scotland and North Ireland (27.VIa)
22
Southern Central Baltic-West (27.IIId.25)
7
Irish Sea (27.VIIa)
39
North of Azores (27.XIIa, 27.XIIb, 27.XIIc)
9
Western English Channel (27.VIIe)
18
West of Gotland (27.IIId.27)
8
Bristol Channel (27.VIIf)
27
Bothnian Bay (27.IIId.31)
24
Sound, Belt Sea or Transition Area (27.IIIb,c)
33
Bay of Biscay Southern (27.VIIIc)
10
Celtic Sea North (27.VIIg)
19
Gulf of Finland (27.IIId.32)
25
Faroes Grounds (27.Vb)
13
Northern North Sea (27.IVa)
11
Celtic Sea South (27.VIIh)
31
Southwest of Ireland-East (27.VIIj)
28
Rockall (27.VIb)
62
Aegean Sea (GSA 22)
16
East of Gotland or Gulf of Riga (27.IIId.28)
21
Southern Central Baltic-East (27.IIId.26)
6
Central North Sea (27.IVb)
5
Southern North Sea (27.IVc)
37
Southeast Greenland (27.XIVb)
23
Baltic West of Bornholm (27.IIId.24)
43
Northeast Greenland (27.XIVa)
17
Bothnian Sea (27.IIId.30)
12
Bay of Biscay North (27.VIIIa)
30
Porcupine Bank (27.VIIc)
15
Bay of Biscay Central (27.VIIIb)
44
Spitzbergen and Bear Island (27.IIb)
34
Bay of Biscay offshore (27.VIIId)
29
West of Ireland (27.VIIb)
14
Skagerrak, Kattegat (27.IIIa)
38
Portuguese Waters (27.IXa,27.IXb)
42
Barents Sea (27.I)
41
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