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 to provide a holistic approach to improve
understanding of the status and predict future changes in ecosystem
structure and function.
Collectively, the EMECO partners have hundreds of specialists covering a diverse range of disciplines. It is the considerable range of overlapping expertise, in topics from oceanography to marine mammal science, that enables the consortium to maximise the benefits of a collaborative working approach.
EMECO partners manage large amounts of data gathered over a long periods, as well as working with a range of monitoring and modelling tools. Combined with hundreds of years collective research experience, this huge amount of expertise and resource has countless benefits for Operational Marine Ecosystem Management.
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
- Summary of EMECO-NOOS meeting minutes, Lowestoft
- A summary of the June, 2009 EMECO-NOOS meeting with links to presentations and photos.
- EMECO-NOOS Meeting, 2-3 June, Lowestoft
- EMECO-NOOS meeting to be held 2-3 June 2009, Lowestoft, UK
- WGOOFE 2nd meeting 15th-17th June 2009, Aberdeen
- Second meeting of ICES WGOOFE
- More news & events »
