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Welcome to EMECO
The European Marine Ecosystem Observatory (EMECO) is a consortium of European Marine Institutes that aim to integrate marine environmental monitoring, ecosystem modelling and coastal and ocean research.
The EMECO consortium consists of around 20 European marine institutes, representing around 10 countries. Each of the partners operate marine monitoring, modelling and / or research programmes and many have an advisory role in management and policy decisions relating to European marine ecosystems.
By building on this existing infrastructure, EMECO is able to improve knowledge and understanding of marine ecosystem structure and function, strengthen the evidence base for formal environmental assessments, increase uptake of marine data and information and highlight gaps in current marine monitoring, modelling and research programmes.
Products and Projects
- Oyster Grounds Tour
- Take a tour of the platforms monitoring the Dutch Oyster Grounds . View time series data collected by the monitoring systems and Daily measurements in this Prototype demonstration of visualising marine data using Google Earth.
- Watch the 2008 Spring Bloom
- Watch the 2008 North Sea Spring Bloom...
- GKSS ICON
- The Integrated Coastal Observation Network (ICON) aims to consolidate, expand, and integrate GKSS monitoring programmes operating in the Southern German Bight in order to document and describe environmental state and changes.
- Oyster Grounds SmartBuoy
- The Netherlands-UK SmartBuoy programme is a collaboration between the Dutch Rijkswaterstaat and Deltares laboratory (NL) and Cefas (UK) and is a prime example of what EMECO can achieve. A SmartBuoy is currently sited on the Dutch Oystergrounds in the central North Sea and is jointly supported by both partners.
- SEPRISE: Real Time Data
- SEPRISE (Sustained, Efficient Production of Required information Services) is a EuroGOOS project providing real time marine data, including sea temperature, salinity, and wave height.
RSS News & Events
- Scientists revamp open ocean observatory
- The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the UK Met Office have joined forces to revamp the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO) in the northeast Atlantic.
- ODAS buoy fit out and deployment with Cefas Payload
- A combined effort from staff at Cefas and the Marine Institute are temporarily re-fitting a spareODAS (UK Met designed Ocean data Acquisition System) deep field weather buoy to carry an alternative payload to go on trial at the M1 location.
- New Western Shelf Observatory Launched
- The Western Shelf domain encompasses the Western UK and Irish shelf and its adjacent sea areas and catchments.
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