Repository of community practices in Ocean Research, Applications and Data/Information Management
Browsing European Union Funded Practices by Issue Date
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Measuring and analysing the directional spectra of ocean waves.
(Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 2005)The importance of directional wave information has been recognised for a long time. However, for decades good measurements of directional spectra were limited almost exclusively to special research campaigns. ... -
Report on the use of Ferrybox data for validation purposes of satellite data. Deliverable D5.4, Revision 2.0.
(GKSS Research Centre, Institute for Coastal Research for European FerryBox Project Consortium, Geesthacht, Germany, 2007)In this report we give detailed comparisons of FerryBox measurements with satellite data for 6 of the FerryBox systems and demonstrate the value of these data for satellite validation -
Best Practices for Fisheries Management.
(Baltic Sea 2020, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009)There is currently a window of opportunity to influence the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) in Europe, as the European Commission will initiate a reform process, beginning in April 2009 with the publication of a Green Paper. ... -
Identification of maritime spatial planning best practices in the Baltic Sea Region and other European Union maritime regions.
(Maritime Institute in Gdańsk, Gdansk, Poland, 2012)This report identifies good practices in implementation of the Baltic Sea Broad-scale Maritime Spatial Planning Principles jointly developed by VASAB and HELCOM. in 2010. The main aim of this exercise is to support planning ... -
Integrated report on design of innovative coastal structures and best practices for coastal defence. Results from numerical, experimental and prototype testing. THESEUS Deliverable OD2.7.
(Italy, 2012)General aim of WP2 was the development of innovative “climate proof” defence methods for mitigation of coastal flooding and erosion hazards in the context of increasing storminess and sea level rise (scenarios defined ... -
Summary of current methods of monitoring and assessment for marine litter.. Deliverable D1.2 report. MARLISCO project.
(MARine Litter in Europe Seas: Social AwarenesS and CO Responsibility, 2013)This report summarises the marine litter issue in relation to monitoring and assessment. It includes a brief summary of current assessment and monitoring techniques within European Seas ... -
Report on Instrumentation Best Practice. WP2: Marine Energy System Testing - Standardisation and Best Practice Deliverable 2.5 EC.
(MARINET: Marine Renewables Infrastructure Network for emerging Energy Technologies, 2013)The present document deals with the specificity of the instrumentation related to wave energy converters. The introduction section summarizes the different development phases of wave energy converters and introduces Froude ... -
Safe to be open: Study on the protection of research data and recommendations for access and usage.
(Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Gottingen, Germany, 2013)This study addresses the most important legal issues when implementing an open access e-infrastructure for research data. It examines the legal requirements for different kinds of usage of research data in an open access ... -
Report on method for improved, gravimetric Winkler titration,
(University of Tartu, Institute of Chemistry,, Tartu, Estonia, 2013)This report presents a high-accuracy Winkler titration method that has been developed for determination of dissolved oxygen concentration. Careful analysis of uncertainty sources relevant to the Winkler method was carried ... -
Identification of new and cross-cutting technologies and solutions to boost blue growth.
(JPI Oceans, Belgium, 2014)The Europe 2020 strategy clearly signalled the importance of industrial competitiveness for growth and jobs as well as for Europe’s ability to address societal challenges. In this context, mastering and deploying "enabling ... -
INTERACT Management planning for Arctic and northern alpine research stations – Examples of good practices.
(Aarhus University, DCE – Danish Centre for Enviroment and Energy, Aarhus, Denmark, 2014)This book is about management of arctic and northern alpine research stations. It has been produced by a group of station managers participating in the EU 7th Framework Programme Infrastructure project called INTERACT. ... -
The MARLISCO Guide for Reducing Marine Litter: Get Inspired and Become Innovative Through Best Practices.
(Isotech Ltd for MARLISCO Project, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2014)This guide does not aim to reinvent the wheel! It is based on a collection of best practices for the reduction of marine litter recorded from across Europe within the project MARLISCO (www.marlisco.eu). This document ... -
Good Practice Guide for Improving Accuracy of Dissolved Oxygen Measurements.
(Finnish Environment Institute, Environmental Measurement and Testing Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland, 2014)Dissolved oxygen concentration is a key parameter for characterizing natural and wastewaters and for assessing the global state of the environment in general. The decrease of dissolved oxygen levels in the world’s oceans, ... -
Best practices for marine litter reduction in the EU.
(VU University, Institute for Environmental Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2015)CleanSea partners catalogued and evaluated the potential of voluntary institutional arrangements, understood here as good and best practices, in reducing marine litter in the four European regional seas. Good practices ... -
Policy brief: Best practice examples of existing economic policy instruments and potential new economic policy instruments to reduce marine litter and eliminate barriers to GES. D. 4.13.
(Ecologic Institute for CleanSea Project, Berlin, Germany, 2015)Marine litter is a complex problem and recognised as a major and growing environmental concern (UNEP, 2009). It threatens marine ecosystems and biodiversity (e.g. through ingestion or entanglement by ... -
Monitoring and assessment guidelines for marine litter in Mediterranean MPAs. Technical report of the Interreg/ MED/AMARE project.
(Ifremer/AMARE, Bastia, France, 2015)As part of the AMARE project, the main purpose of this report is to provide advice and practical guidance, for establishing programmes to monitor and assess the distribution and abundance of marine litter in MPAs. The ... -
A Catalogue of Marine Biodiversity Indicators.
(2016)A Catalogue of Marine Biodiversity Indicators was developed with the aim of providing the basis for assessing the environmental status of the marine ecosystems. Useful for the implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework ... -
Testing indicators for biological impacts of microplastics .
(VU University, Institute for Environmental Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2016)The EU is still far from its goal of achieving healthy seas and part of the problem is due to marine litter (European Commission, 2014). Plastic materials invariably make up the dominant fraction of marine litter and ... -
Handbook of best practices for open ocean fixed observatories.
(European Commission, Fix03 Project, 2016)This handbook collects the “best practices” in all phases of the system covering the entire infrastructural chain of data acquisition. It includes recommendations on how to produce high quality data aiming towards common ... -
Marine Debris: Understanding, Preventing and Mitigating the Significant Adverse Impacts on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity.
(Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2016)Marine debris is recognized as a globally significant stressor on the marine and coastal environment, with impacts on marine biodiversity having been reported over the last four decades. There are also socioeconomic ...
