WP3 Dissemination
Leader
Ecological Consultancy Services Ltd (EcoServe), Dublin, IRELAND
Objectives and input to workpackage
To increase the understanding of how marine environments and
biodiversity in Europe are structured and function, and may differ
between territories, special attention should be payed to actions
reinforcing the dissemination and integration of marine
biodiversity research at more than only the scientific ecological
level. A more public and socio-economic relevant integration
should be pursued. Our objective is to assess the
potentials for an increase at a pan-European scale of:
- dissemination of results by e.g. networking,
newsletters, conferences,
web-site,
- availability of facilities and equipment (e.g. laboratories,
ships),
- training and mobility in the field of marine biodiversity
research,
- application of results of research by end-users,
- integration of available biodiversity data in relation to
socio-economic questions.
Description of work
An overview will be made of:
- possibilities for training and mobility at the member
institutes, including those obtained from the
MARS Network,
- their facilities and equipment for marine biodiversity
research,
- checklists on marine biodiversity information at the member
institutes, and the reference collections that they keep,
- relevant meetings, conferences and networks through an
electronic newsletter.
Moreover, an overview of available databases, used for data on
marine biodiversity or monitoring, will be made, and a protocol
for unification of the different database-formats used will be
drafted. The protocol will include recommendations on how to
improve databases in order to allow for better connection to
socio-economic questions, as on e.g. impact of tourism, fisheries
or environmental degradation, based on available data.
All results (including raw data) will be stored in an electronic
format which the contractor will make sure is well protected and
safely stored ("Electronic time capsule") for the
perusage of future research, even on the long-term (10 years scale
and even longer).
To achieve a wider audience and range of institutes within
Europe the overviews and results will be made available at an
internet web-site, journals for basic as well as applied sciences,
and in specialised journals for the exchange of information
between scientists and the managers involved in socio-economic
questions. Moreover, a close link will be made with the
MARS Network who manage related fields of
interest and reach many institutes, basic and applied researchers,
and managers in Europe. |
