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New Copernicus capability for trophic ocean networks

Descripción del proyecto

Mejora de la capacidad de Copernicus para vigilar los ecosistemas marinos europeos

La biodiversidad de los océanos sustenta a casi la mitad de la población mundial. Sin embargo, el cambio climático y las actividades humanas ponen en peligro esta biodiversidad, por lo que es necesario vigilarla de forma continua. En Europa, el Servicio de Vigilancia Medioambiental Marina de Copernicus ofrece este tipo de vigilancia marina, pero los modelos y métodos actuales todavía pueden mejorarse. El equipo del proyecto NECCTON, financiado con fondos europeos, fusionará nuevos datos en innovadores modelos de ecosistemas. Esto permitirá al Servicio de Vigilancia Medioambiental Marina de Copernicus ofrecer productos aún más relevantes para la conservación de la biodiversidad marina y la gestión de los recursos alimentarios marinos a escala mundial, con especial atención a los mares regionales europeos.

Objetivo

The ocean’s biodiversity supports the livelihoods of over three billion people, providing vital services, including food and nutrient cycling. However marine policy and resource management do not yet consider the latest scientific advances, even when the state-of-the-art operational models of the European Copernicus Marine Service (CMEMS) are used.
Our objective is to enable CMEMS to deliver novel products that inform marine biodiversity conservation and food resources management, by fusing new data into innovative ecosystem models that integrate biological and abiotic components, habitats, and stressors of marine ecosystems.
NECCTON will inter-link new models in the CMEMS systems, thus building novel capacities to simulate higher-trophic-levels, benthic habitats, pollutants, and deliver projections of climate change impacts. We will develop and exploit new data-processing chains, supporting CMEMS' use of novel ecosystem observations, including new hyperspectral data from satellites, as well as available acoustic, pollution and omics data. We will fuse these new data and models by using innovative machine-learning algorithms to improve models and data assimilation methods. These developments will be applied in thirteen case studies, co-designed with fisheries and conservation managers as part of our pathway-to-impact, resulting in the demonstration of Technological Readiness Level 6 of NECCTON products.
The project objectives will be achieved by a team of twenty-three world-class organizations with track records for all the key project components. It includes the CMEMS Entrusted Entity and core developers, who will promote the final uptake of NECCTON by CMEMS.
On project completion, NECCTON will provide CMEMS with the scientific and technical capabilities to sustain twenty-five new products in their operational portfolio, ultimately enabling users to make informed decisions on the exploitation of marine services, enhancing sustainability and conservation.

Coordinador

MERCATOR OCEAN
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 1 129 125,00
Dirección
2 AVENUE DE L AERODROME DE MONTAUDRAN
31400 Toulouse
Francia

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Región
Occitanie Midi-Pyrénées Haute-Garonne
Tipo de actividad
Research Organisations
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Coste total
€ 1 129 125,00

Participantes (20)

Socios (2)