EMODnet Chemistry 2 6 th Steering Committee ISPRA–Venice Lagoon Service (Italy), 3-4 December 2015

EMODnet Chemistry 2

6th Steering CommitteeISPRA–Venice Lagoon Service (Italy),

3-4 December 2015

Project Management (WP0) – Web portal

EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 6th Steering Committee, 3-4 December 2015

Project Management (WP0) – Web portal


Project Management (WP0) – Partnership

EU gave formal agreement to continue collaboration with Crimean partners. OGS signed new subcontract with:

• MHI (50.000 €)• IBSS (40.000 €)

YugNIRO (60.000 €) exit the consortium and I didn’t get any feedback.

Payments for the second year are underway (OGS get EU money on 18/11/2015)


Next meetings

Helsinki (SYKE and FMI)

14-15 June 2016 – Auditorium (120), Final plenary meeting (2 full days),

16 June 2015 – Terra (30), 7th steering committee (1 full day)

Proposal for extra session on the second day (1 hour) as for EMODnet chemistry data users to promote EMODnet data dissemination and networking



Memorandum of Understanding with the Commission on the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution (BSC)

Based of template received by BSC, we edited a first draft with:Activities by EMODnet Chemistry• EMODnet Chemistry will give BSC access to regional products for supporting generation and management of MSFD

indicators; • EMODnet Chemistry will participate in the BSC Advisory Groups meetings (PMA-Pollution Monitoring and

Assessment, LBS-control of pollution from Land Based Sources);

Activities by BSC• BSC will support EMODnet Chemistry project in data uptake by identifying and mobilizing additional data sources in

the Black Sea, where permissible;• BSC will make efforts to contribute to the validation of EMODnet results with regional experts;• BSC will try to participate in EMODnet Experts Workshops, whenever possible;• BSC will consider the possibility to join in EMODnet Phase 3 proposal.

OGS legal office request EU to authorise the transfer of results to third parties

OGS President asked EU for authorisation to conclude MoU with BSC


Report from Expert Workshop and EMODnet Jamboree

Conclusions from minutes:• A video tutorial explaining the way to use the Chemistry Lot portal

could be really helpful

• Further improve the labelling of the product viewing service with a better specification of the products categories (e.g: “concentration maps” for the Diva interpolated fields)

• Provide a more direct labelling of Monitoring and Research data

• Start the discussion of specific access/interfaces to the Regional Data Buffers with specific MoU for MSFD reporting relevant bodies.

Review of the last Action list:


Update of Maris client for deprecated terms in BODC Vocabs (link with “replaced by” terms). e.g. MTSD:http://seadatanet.maris2.nl/v_bodc_vocab_v2/vocab_relations.asp?lib=P02

Update CDI interface to joint deprecated and replaced by terms?


See presentation

Preparation of the 3rd EMODnet-MSFD Coordination Meeting (8-9 December 2015)

Interaction with Marine Pilot for INSPIRE compliance

Marine pilot EMODnet-INSPIRE technical workshop, 7-8 December 2015, Brussels


Interaction with IPChem: definition of layer of data sharing (buffer/CDI/public) based on metadata and data content model specifications

IPChem conceptual model: 21 entities…12 of them mandatory (grey) from Metadata and Data Content proposal:


Metadata and data content proposal for IPCheMhttps://ipchem.jrc.ec.europa.eu/RDSIdiscovery/ipchem/index.html

From an initial analysis the IPChem (mandatory) entities can be described by info coming mainly from CDIs/ODV but also from:

-CDIs (P02, date, lat and lon, matrix…) Entities (Sample,Location, Metadata Info…)

-ODV files (P01…CASnumber of compounds, concentration, units of measurement …) Entities (Source,Analysis, Results…)

-EDMED/EDMERP (Acronym or short name of the dataset, level of aggregation) Entities (Data Collection)

-EDMO Entities (Organisation, Point Of Contact…)


Data collection and metadata compilation in sea regions (WP1):





• Report from Regional Leaders

• Data collection is on-going for contaminants• Cross-check between data inventory and data delivery?

• Robot harvesting (M30-contaminants ?)


Data Products generation in sea regions (WP2):

Diva maps for NO3, NOx, PO4, SiO4, NH4 per seasons are available

On-going for TN, TP, NH4 per seasons

Data validation loopTo follow Chlorophyll-a, bottom Oxygen + Organic matter, pH, AlkalinityPriority: bottom Oxygen with all years per season in Black + Baltic Sea

• Next video-conference mid January 2016?

• Issue: Boundary Atlantic/North Sea

◦ Status of Chase tool and next steps EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 6th Steering Committee, 3-4 December 2015

QA/QC - Validation - MSFD interaction (WP3):

• Status of QA inventory and next implementation

• Survey of Quality Checks of parameters in sediment and biota (OGS)

• MSFD/Marine Convention official boundaries


Quality Checks in sediment and

biota performed by the following

institutes:


Institute acronym contact

AU-DCE Martin Larsen

BMDC Ruth Lagring

BSH Anne C. B.

IFREMER Julie Gatti

IHPT Carlos Borges

IMBK Ana Castelli

IMR Ann Kristin Ostrem

IMS-METU Volodymyr Miroshnichenko

IOF Vlado Dadic/ Slavica Matijevic

MHI Alexey Khaliulin

RIHMI-WDC Evgenii ViazilovTSU-GAMMA Kakhaber Bilashvili

UHI-MB Yuriy ILYIN

Portal development and operation (WP4):

• Status of the services hosted in Cineca cloud (ULg, Deltares, MARIS)

• Performance and maintenance of Deltares OGC services (Deltares)

• Sextant status and link to Data Originators (IFREMER)

• Report from the first EMODnet Technical Working Group (MARIS)


Analyses and Recommendations (WP5):

● MSFD-EMODnet cooperation and input from WGDIKE (ICES)

● User Survey (OGS and ICES)


● Sent the reviewed (new Google form, now 6 topics, Chemistry lot focused…) users

survey the 18/11/2015 to:

• [email protected]

• To share with other colleagues from their institute (we don’t know the total number

of involved people)

• Asked to the Secretariat to share the Survey on Maritime Forum (?)

● The on-line questionnaire will be available until the end of December 2015 at the

following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cf28YQiNN-

FMQcmFWb_JrUB1HI6kaKg36c7meLZCbmM/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=mail_form_link

● For the moment 23 replies


User Survey (OGS and ICES):

Documents

EMODnet Chemistry 2 6 th Steering Committee ISPRA–Venice Lagoon Service (Italy), 3-4 December 2015