Research

 

TechWorks Marine have been involved in several research projects funded by European Union Framework Programme (FP6 & FP7) and the European Space Agency (ESA). Partners within these programmes include:

 

MERSEA (EU FP6: 2004-2008) The strategic objective of MERSEA is to provide an integrated service of global and regional ocean monitoring and forecasting to intermediate users and policy makers in support of safe and efficient offshore activities, environmental management, security, and sustainable use of marine resources. TechWorks Marine provided an information management system with search and download tools from multiple data sets. The project involved a total of 39 partners some of which included:

  • Ifremer
  • UK Met Office
  • National Oceanographic Centre Southampton (NOCS)
  • Meteo France

Full partner lists and project information can be found in the following link:

http://www.mersea.eu.org/

 

ECOOP (EU FP6: 2007-2010) The goal of ECOOP is to build up a sustainable pan-European capacity in providing timely, quality assured marine service (including data, information products, knowledge and scientific advices) in European coastal-shelf seas. TechWorks Marine provided in-situ data quality assurance protocols for all ECOOP in-situ data sets and data centres. The project involved a total of 71 partners some of which included:

  • Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI)
  • National Environmental Research Council (NERC)
  • HR Wallingford Ltd
  • Plymouth Marine Laboratory

Full partner lists and project information can be found in the following link:

http://www.ecoop.eu/

 

MY OCEAN (EU FP7: 2009-2012) MyOcean is the implementation project of the GMES Marine Core Service, aiming at deploying the first concerted and integrated pan-European capacity for Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting. TechWorks Marine has been involved in developing, hosting and maintaining the service desk web portal for the GMES Marine Core Service. The project involved a total of 60 partners some of which included:

  • Mercator
  • CEFAS
  • The Nansen Centre (NERSC)
  • Puertos del Estado

Full partner lists and project information can be found in the following link:

http://www.myocean.eu.org/

 

EOJELLY (ESA: 2009) Supported by the European Space Agency (ESA), the EOJELLY project is an Earth Observation program focused on the prediction of jellyfish appearance in European waters. TechWorks Marine was asked to join the EOJELLY consortium because of its extensive expertise in real-time oceanographic data buoys and oceanographic data processing. TechWorks Marine were responsible for in-situ monitoring programme, and provision of validation and training data. The EOJELLY team is made up of TechWorks Marine two other partners:

  • Starlab
  • CMIMA (CSIC)

The project has a core user group consisting of European organisations, some of which include:

  • Marine Harvest
  • Glenarm Salmon
  • Catalan Water Agency
  • Spanish Environmental Department

Further project information can be found in the following link:

http://eojelly.starlab.org/

 

JELLYFOR (Eurostars: 2009-2011) TechWorks Marine are now key contributors of an Earth Observation project to develop a jellyfish forecasting tool. The project, JELLYFOR, is supported by the EU and the European Space Agency (ESA). The project aims to develop a new service to forecast the jellyfish occurrence for a given salinity, temperature and chlorophyll-a. JellyFor integrates optical satellite data, forecasting algorithms and in-situ measurements on a GIS prototype platform. TechWorks Marine were responsible for in-situ monitoring programme, and provision of validation and training data. Partners include:

  • Starlab
  • Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (MUMM)

Further project information can be found in the following link:

http://www.eurostars-eureka.eu/search.do?method=display&id=0