Programme: Horizon Europe
Project title: New Copernicus capability for trophic ocean networks
Acronym: NECCTON
Duration: 1/1/2023 – 31/12/2026
Project budget: € 9.999.373
ISMAR budget: € 208,000
Web site: n.a.
Summary:
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.
Contact person in ISMAR: federica.braga@ismar.cnr.it
Partnership:
- Mercator Ocean (France)
- Plymouth Marine Laboratory Limited (United Kingdom)
- Bolding & Bruggeman Aps (Denmark)
- Stiftelsen Nansen Senter for Miljoog Fjernmaling (Norway)
- Universite de Liege (Belgium)
- Institut Francais de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (France)
- Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (Italy)
- Met Office (United Kingdom)
- Stichting Nederlandse Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Instituten (The Netherlands)
- Bundesamt fur Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (Germany)
- Collecte Localisation Satellites (France)
- Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneosui Cambiamenti Climatici (Italy)
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon Gmbh (Germany)
- Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (Germany)
- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (Greece)
- Lobelia Earth Sl (Spain)
- Ecopath International Initiative Asociacion (Spain)
- Universiteit Utrecht (The Netherlands)
- Minds Technologies Kai Epistimes Perivallontos I.K.E. (Greece)
- Instituto Do Mar IMAR (Portugal)
- Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, CNR (Italy)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS (France)
- Sorbonne Universite (France)
