SUSTAIN Assessing Sustainability and Strengthening Operational Policy
They key objective of SUSTAIN is to have in place, at the end of three years, a fully implementable policy tool, applicable for all 22 coastal states of the EU, which will ensure that the integrated management of coastal issues will be sustainable.
Category / Sub Category: Policy, Socio-Economics and Legal
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WATER Warning of Algal Toxin Events to support aquaculture in the NPP Coastal Zone Region
This project focuses on the provision of new methodologies that will provide: (1) rapid, on site analysis for the presence of toxins in shellfish and (2) the application of simple procedures whereby harmful phytoplankton events can be predicted.
Category / Sub Category: Aquaculture
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NetALGAE
The project NetALGAE aims to create a European network of relevant stakeholders within the marine macroalgae sector. Compilation of information from different regions will result in a wide ranging policy study of existing practice within the macroalgae industry.
Category / Sub Category: Seaweed
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MESH-ATLANTIC
MESH-ATLANTIC sets out to draw on the former INTERREG NW MESH project by extending it to the Atlantic Area (AA) marine space and enhancing some of its outputs
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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AARC - Atlantic Aquatic Resource Conservation
The main aim of AARC is to cooperate intensively to deliver a strategy for Integrated Water Resource Management IWRM), which will be demonstrated across the Atlantic Area, in targeted river basins, networked by regional/river observatories in each member state.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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WAVETRAIN II
The WAVETRAIN II action builds strongly upon the logics of its predecessor the FP6 WAVETRAIN I project. The overall objective is to create a pool of specialised wave energy research professionals to support an emerging industry in a field with a very strong anticipated growth and no dedicated existing training curriculum.
Category / Sub Category: Renewable Ocean Energy
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SUPPORT- Security Upgrade for PORTs
SUPPORT will deliver public formal specifications and open standards based tools that will aid security upgrade in EU ports and will be complementary to and usable by other EU projects and initiatives in this area..
Category / Sub Category: Shipping and Maritime Transport
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Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management
This awards aims to develop research capacity focused on the field of the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management. The research team will turn the available concepts and principles into pragmatic action plans that can be used for the sustainable management of fisheries in the waters around Ireland.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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STANDPOINT
STANDPOINT will seek to demonstrate this WEC technology at full size for a further long term Atlantic Ocean deployment, 18 months of which will occur within the timeframe of the STANDPOINT project.
Category / Sub Category: Renewable Ocean Energy
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SHOAL
The established methods for the detection of pollutants in waters are based on sampling and analysis of discrete water samples. The analysis is performed in laboratories located remotely away from the sampling sites and frequently the chemical analysis is personnel-dependent, time-consuming and expensive. Specific aims within SHOAL are to explore and develop novel chemical sensor subsystems which can be integrated with the overall robot concept being developed.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Technology
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SEAS ERA- Towards integrated European marine research
The SEAS ERA project will establish a European Network of Marine Research Funding Organisations with a view to increased co-operation and the consolidation of the European Research Area (ERA).
Category / Sub Category: Policy, Socio-Economics and Legal
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ORECCA- Off-shore Renewable Energy Conversion platforms- Coordination Action
The ORECCA project aims to create a framework for knowledge sharing and to develop a research roadmap for activities in the context of offshore renewable energy (RE).
Category / Sub Category: Renewable Ocean Energy
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MarineTT- European Marine Research Knowledge Transfer and Uptake of Results
MarineTT will make a real contribution to the call for improved access to EU research results for industry, multipliers, the civil society, and policy-makers.
Category / Sub Category: Knowledge and Information Management
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MARINA Platform- Marine Renewable Integrated Application Platform
The MARINA project is a pan-European project dedicated to bringing offshore renewable energy applications closer to the market by creating new infrastructures for both offshore wind and ocean energy converters.
Category / Sub Category: Renewable Ocean Energy
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GEO-SEAS- Pan-European Infrastructure for Management of Marine and Ocean Geological and Geophysical Data
The overall objective of the GEO-SEAS project is to offer a major and significant improvement in the overview and access to marine geological and geophysical data and data-products from national geological surveys and research institutes in Europe by upgrading and interconnecting their present infrastructures.
Category / Sub Category: Knowledge and Information Management
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EELA-2- E-Science Grid Facility for Europe and Latin America
EELA-2 aims to build, on the FP6 EELA e-Infrastructure, to establish a high capacity, production-quality, scalable Grid Facility providing round-the-clock, worldwide access to distributed computing, storage and network resources for a wide spectrum of applications from European and Latin American scientific communities.
Category / Sub Category: Knowledge and Information Management
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ECOKNOWS- Effective use of ecosystems and biological knowledge in fisheries
The general aim of the ECOKNOWS project is to improve knowledge in fisheries science and management. The lack of appropriate calculus methods and fear of statistical over partitioning in calculations, because of the many biological and environmental influences on stocks, has limited reality in fisheries models.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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COEXIST – Interaction in Coastal Waters
COEXIST will support the new European Integrated Maritime Policy and spatial planning of coastal areas. Case studies, supported by national projects, will be used to provide data for further analysis through the integrated work packages.
Category / Sub Category: Aquaculture
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CLAMER- Climate Change and Marine Ecosystem Research Results
The aim of the CLAMER project is to make a synthesis of EU research results on the impacts of climate change on the marine environment and to make this knowledge and its socio-economic consequences better known to European citizens and society at large.
Category / Sub Category: Rapid Climate Change
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AQUAMED- The future of research on aquaculture in the Mediterranean region
The AQUAMED project will be based on a four-step process consisting of: (1) mapping and setting a database of all relevant information (including policies, research, socio-economics) in each partner country, (2) identifying common situations and constraints between countries,
Category / Sub Category: Aquaculture
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AIRSEA
The scientific objectives of this reintegration grant are to simultaneously measure the fluxes of climatically relevant compounds in both the coastal and oceanic marine atmospheric boundary layer. The proposed species are carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and carbon monoxide.
Category / Sub Category: Rapid Climate Change
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Aqualnnova
The Aqualnnova Project seeks to establish an operational framework for dialogue (based on best governance practices) between the aquaculture industry, the research community and policy makers, focusing on exploiting the potential for innovation and technological development in the European aquaculture value chain.
Category / Sub Category: Aquaculture
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The Ecology of Baleen Whales in Irish Waters - Resolving Migrations - Stock Structure and Trophodynamics using Molecular Genetics and Stable Isotopes
Knowledge on the basic ecology of the three most abundant baleen whale species in Irish waters (Fin, Humpback and Minke whales) is lacking. This PhD project (in partnership with Irish Whale and Dolphin Group and the Marine Institute) will use molecular genetics to investigate population dynamics in collaboration with international whale geneticists
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning Relationships in a Changing Environment: Impacts of Changes in Density, Population Structure and Evenness of key Species
This research seeks to investigate the community and ecosystem level consequence of biodiversity loss due to human impacts on natural ecosystems. Particularly relevant in this context are rocky shores, as they are among the marine systems most threatened by man’s activities and are therefore quite likely to suffer increased rates of local extinction in the coming years.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Quantifying the Functional Components of Biodiversity - Coupling Theory with Experiment
This research aims to combine food web theory with the study of diversity, stability and ecosystem functioning including species interaction with each other in complex ecological networks.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Parsons Award in Ocean Energy
The research team is undertaking world-class research in the area of ocean energy, specifically focusing on:
ocean energy device prototype testing at sea;
electrical issues for devices and farms;
wave farm operations and environmental issues; and
economic issues related to ocean energy development.
Category / Sub Category: Renewable Ocean Energy
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Development of a Greenhouse Gas Ocean-Atmosphere Flux Sensor with MEMS-based Photoacoustic Technology
Accurate measurements of the atmosphere–ocean fluxes of trace gases are important to an improved understanding of the cycling of climatically relevant gases. The direct eddy correlation (EC) method, which is considered to be the benchmark for accurate determination of air–sea fluxes of trace gases, relies on high–frequency measurements of the fluctuations of vertical wind velocity and gas concentration...
Category / Sub Category: Marine Technology
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FLIM: Functioning of Local and Invasive Macroalgae: Carbon and Nitrogen Budgets and Climate Change
This project focuses on the functional and adaptive ability of two macroalgal species, with differential annual growth patterns, that play an important role in marine ecosystems in particular on the Irish west coast.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Ecological Relevance of Biomarkers in Predicting the Impacts of Pollution in Marine Ecosystems
This research is investigating whether the subtle influences of environmental impacts using ‘biomarkers’ - responses to environmental insults by organisms, can be detected. The first direct experimental evidence about whether biomarkers are sensitive enough to predict changes in the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems due to contaminants will be presented.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Tracking Ocean Giants and their Jellyfish Prey
The objective of this project is to examine key ecological and physiological questions pertaining to the largest sea turtle, the largest teleost (bony fish), and a highly venomous jellyfish species. More specifically, the project aims to elucidate the pan-Atlantic movements and diving behaviour of the critically endangered leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) in relation to its jellyfish prey
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Combined Effects of Multiple Disturbances and Environmental Change on Intertidal Ecosystems
This research will establish a framework of parameters to take into account and clarify the relative importance of magnitude, variance and timing of disturbance in different contexts in the marine ecological environment.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Testing Simulations of Relative Sea-level Change: A Marine Geophysical Perspective
Relative sea-level (RSL) histories provide unique insights into the topical issues of ice sheet response to climate change and future sea-level rise. Data from Ireland are particularly instructive due to their location at the former limit of a major ice sheet.
Category / Sub Category: Rapid Climate Change
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BINDING - Barnacle Inspired Design in Glueing Technology
Developing glues that work in wet environments would be extremely useful in surgical applications however this remains an unachievable technology as it is based on different principles than achieving adhesion in air. Stalked barnacles have evolved underwater mechanisms to cement their bases to all sorts of surfaces due to their fouling lifestyle.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Biodiscovery / Biotechnology
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Aerosol Mass Spectrometry Studies in the Marine and Polluted Atmosphere
In this project high resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometry (HR-ToF-MS) is applied to obtain representative seasonal measurements of speciated organic compounds in aerosol collected in coastal air at the Mace Head Atmospheric Research Station in Connemara. Full mass spectral data of organic (and inorganic) compounds in particles separated by size (50 nm - 3400 nm diameter; up to 0.5 Hz resolution) will be used to obtain chemical fingerprints for quantifying contributions from natural and a
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Relationships: The Importance of Functional Diversity, Mechanism and Environmental Context
The efficient functioning of ecosystems apparently depends on the number of species present, but we do not yet understand how. By experimentally modifying diversity of seaweeds in aquaria and natural rock pools, this project will determine whether it is the number of species, their identities or what they do that matters.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Biosafety for Environmental Contaminants using Novel Sensors (Drinking Water and Seafood Toxin Sensors)
This project aims to generate a rapid and inexpensive algal detection system for use in coastal monitoring programs, by developing in situ sensors for the marine environment. The collaboration presents a unique opportunity to produce and apply sensor–based assays for detecting biotoxins and the corresponding toxigenic organisms.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Technology
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Discovery and Application of Novel Bioactive Substances from Marine Sponges for the Control of Major Food Pathogens
The marine environment and marine sponges in particular, have been shown to be a rich source of novel bioactive compounds. Microbial symbionts in the sponge are thought to be the source of many of these bioactive compounds, but the majority of these microbes remain uncultured, making much of the microbial diversity inaccessible to traditional microbiology
Category / Sub Category: Marine Biodiscovery / Biotechnology
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Quantification and evaluation of Submarine Groundwater Discharge to Irish Coastal Waters
The study aims to improve understanding of the pathways and discharge of contaminants via Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) into Irish coastal waters. The specific goal of this research is to develop remote sensing as a tool in the identification, quantification and mapping of SGD.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Identification of Marine Antimicrobials as Effective Solutions to Bio Fouling
The project will focus on the identification of natural marine antimicrobials as effective solutions to biofouling. Millions of Euros are spent annually by marine industries, aquaculture and shipping addressing the problem of biofouling, the settlement of both plants and animals on submerged man-made structures.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Biodiscovery / Biotechnology
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Using Participatory Governance to Adapt to Climate Change (CLAD)
CLAD aims to provide methodological and informational support for decision-makers and stakeholders regarding sustainable adaptation to climate change in Irish coastal areas. The project objectives include analysis and evaluation of the concept of Adaptive Co-management (ACM) as a model for climate governance and capacity building for effective coastal zone management in Ireland...
Category / Sub Category: Rapid Climate Change
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SEAFEED: Unlocking Bioactive Potential of Seaweed for Novel Animal Health Applications
The ‘SEAFEED’ biodiscovery project will mine seaweed for antimicrobial, anti-infective and prebiotic activity and validate the safety and efficacy of the most promising extracts/bio-molecules in pig-feeding trials.
Category / Sub Category: Seaweed
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Pre-Commercialisation Evaluation of Algal Derived Prebiotic Poly- and Oligosaccharides using Phenotype Micro-array Technology
This project aims to further the development of algal derived polysaccharides as novel functional food ingredients.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Functional Foods
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Griffith Award in GeoScience Data
The Griffith Geomatics for GeoScience initiative involves a high level of collaboration between the CMRC and the GSI. The objectives of the project are to facilitate open access to GSI data via web enabled services...
Category / Sub Category: Knowledge and Information Management
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HERMIONE– Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man’s Impact on European Seas
The HERMIONE project is designed to make a major advance in the knowledge of the functioning of deep-sea ecosystems and their contribution to the production of goods and services. This will be achieved through a highly interdisciplinary approach (including biologists, ecologists, microbiologists, biogeochemists, sedimentologists, physical oceanographers, modelers and socio-economists) that will integrate biodiversity,
specific adaptations and biological capacity in the context of a wide range o
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Griffith Award in Marine Petroleum Geology
UCD's Marine & Petroleum Geology Research Group is involved in a broad range of linked research strands with a unifying theme being the understanding of deep water and slope depositional processes and the resulting sedimentary architecture. The overall research objectives of the research programme are to address fundamental scientific issues with regard to gravity flow processes, external forcing of sedimentary systems, reservoir architecture and basin analysis
Category / Sub Category: Offshore Oil and Gas
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Griffith Award in BioGeosciences
The Biogeoscience Group is focused on advancing an understanding of the seabed offshore Ireland and investigating groundwater-seawater interactions in the coastal zones. There are two distinct components to this research:
Understanding coastal aquifers in karst regions
Understanding the seabed:
Category / Sub Category: Offshore Oil and Gas
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The Assessment and Potential Human Impact of Exposure to Environmental Contaminants on Marine and Freshwater Bivalves
This project shall concentrate on developing novel biomarkers in bivalve mussels (Mytilus edulis & Dreissena polymorpha) to investigate chronic effects of exposure to novel environmental contaminants, particularly pharmaceuticals and endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), using recently developed proteomic and genomic techniques. The recent addition of a state of the art liquid chromatography, 2-D Gel ElSctrophoresis and imaging system to the lab will greatly aid this research.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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MABFUEL – Marine Algae as Biomass for Biofuel
The main aim of this project is to investigate the feasibility of using algae (micro and/or macro) as a feedstock for producing bio-fuels in Ireland and Turkey. The yield of oil from algae is estimated to be 7 to 31 times greater than the next best crop (oil of palm) and micro-algae, in particular, have much faster growth-rates than terrestrial crops.
Category / Sub Category: Seaweed
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MyOcean
MyOcean is the implementation of the MARINE CORE SERVICE, one of three GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) “Fast Track Services”. GMES is a joint initiative of the European Commission and the European Space Agency designed to establish a European capacity for the provision and use of operational information for Global Monitoring of Environment and Security.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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CoralFISH
The CoralFISH project will assess the interaction between corals, fish and fisheries, in order to develop monitoring and predictive modeling tools for ecosystem based management in the deep waters of Europe and beyond.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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E-freight - European e-freight capabilities for Co-modal transport
The E-Freight project will facilitate the use of different transport modes on their own and in combination to obtain an optimal and sustainable utilisation of European resources.
Category / Sub Category: Shipping and Maritime Transport
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Euro Argo - Global Ocean Observing Infrastructure
Euro-Argo is a major European component of the world-wide in situ global ocean observing system (GOOS) and, in particular, the global Argo Programme. The main objective of the Euro-Argo preparatory phase is to undertake the work needed to ensure that by 2010 Europe will be able to:
Deploy, maintain and operate an array of 800 floats. This will require Europe to deploy 250 floats per annum worldwide.
Provide a world-class service to the research (climate) and environment monitoring (e.g. GME
Category / Sub Category: Rapid Climate Change
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KnowSeas - Knowledge-based Sustainable Management for Europe's Seas
The KnowSeas consortium will strengthen the science base for managing Europe’s seas through the practical application of systems thinking. It will work at the two scales envisaged for emergent EU policy: the Regional Sea Scale and Member State Economic Exclusive Zones (EEZs). It will develop a new approach of Decision Space Analysis to investigate mismatches of scale. Knowledge created through the FP6 European Lifestyles and Marine Ecosystems project, augmented with necessary new studies of clim
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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MESMA - Monitoring and Evaluation of Spatially Managed Areas
MESMA will supply strategic tools for sustainable development of European seas and coastal areas. The major challenge is to combine an optimized use with a sustained ecosystem of high quality, taking into account ecological and economic differences.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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SUDEVAB
The core of the research work of SUDEVAB is aimed at solving the main technical problems encountered by abalone growers in Europe in the areas of; pathology, genetics, nutrition, and sustainable culture technology. However, for a sustainable abalone sector to develop, producers and regulators must also meet challenges inlegislation, hygiene, food safety and marketing
Category / Sub Category: Aquaculture
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Novel Passive Sampling Devices for the Monitoring of Priority Pollutants
This proposal involves the development of novel passive sampling devices for routine sampling of priority pollutant chemicals. The passive samplers are based on polymer designed to enrich or sample pesticides and hydrocarbons associated with the WFD Priority pollutant list.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Smart Catchment Demonstration: Long-term deployment of sensor monitroing system (DEPLOY)
This demonstration project represents an important collaboration between research centres, SME and local authorities to DEPLOY, maintain and evaluate a series of multi-sensor systems to assess the effects of long-term sensor deployment on water quality monitoring systems and sensor data.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Technology
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Novel Anti-fouling Stategies based on Materials Doped with Nanoparticles for use in New Monitoring Technologies
For further information on the NDP STRIVE Programme see the following link. www.epa.ie
Category / Sub Category: Marine Biodiscovery / Biotechnology
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Juvenile Fish Habitat Requirements in Changing Coastal Ecosystems
A model of juvenile flatfish habitat requirements will be developed using field surveys and controlled experiments.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Alien Invasive Species in Irish Water Bodies
This all-island consortium of experienced researchers from university, SME and government sectors will address the knowledge gap identified under the Water Framework Directive for an alien invasive species in Ireland's River Basin Districts, and produce a monitoring and reporting strategy.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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SADOSE
Sewage effluent in coastal wates used for oyster culture and water-contact recreation poses a risk to human health. The primary poathogen in outbreaks of gastroenteritis following consumption of raw oysters is the Norovirus or "winter vomiting bug".
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Nutrient and Ecosystem Dynamics in Irelands Only Marine Nature Reserve
Lough Hyne was designated as Europe’s first marine nature reserve in 1981. This project aims to address the nutrient and ecosystem dynamics within Ireland’s only statutory marine reserve with a view to the possible long-term effects of nutrient flux on the rich biodiversity within its depths and in surrounding coastal waters.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Anthropogenic Impacts on Marine Biodiversity
This project will quantify the effects of anthropogenically-increased nutrient loads on the biodiversity of coastal ecosystems and identify important mechanisms operating using well replicated experiments.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Air-Sea Exchange Processes (EASI-AQCIS)
Subject Area: Environment, Marine and Natural Resources
Category / Sub Category: Rapid Climate Change
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Assessing the Impact of Waste Water Treatment Plant Effluent on Norovirus Contamination in Shellfisheries
This study will compare Norovirus (NoV) survival during sewage treatment and in seawater alongside indicator organisms. The impact of sewage discharges on NoV contamination in shellfisheries will be assessed.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Assessment of Exposure to Metallic Nanoparticles on Marine and Freshwater Model Organisms at Cellular and Genetic Level
Bioaccumulation, bio-persistence, environmental fate and exposure effects remain to be evaluated. Here, the relationships between physico-chemical properties of metallic NPs and biological effects will be examined using two aquatic (one marine and one freshwater) model organisms
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Biodiversity and Ecological Requirements of Meiofauna and a Typology for Irish Transitional Waters
The focus of this project will be the taxonomic investigation of the biodiversity of the understudied meiofauna within the habitats of Ireland’s estuarine and coastal ecosystems.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Can Geoinforamtics be used to Predict the Coastal Response to 21st Century Climate Change
This PhD Scholarship is hosted at UCC Department of Geography. For further information on this research area please see http://www.ucc.ie/en/geography/research/cccs/ .
Category / Sub Category: Knowledge and Information Management
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SIMBIOSYS - Sectoral Impacts on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
This project will quantify impacts of key sectoral activities on genetic, species and landscape biodiversity and the ecosystem services they provide, including pollination, biological pest control, carbon sequestration and resistance to alien species invasion.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Marine Functional Foods Research Initiative
This project aims to address a major objective within the Seafood Processing Research Programme of the Industry Measure of Sea Change and will help to achieve the vision of the Marine Functional Foods Research Programme of the Discovery Measure.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Functional Foods
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Isolation and Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products from Marine Sources
PhD Scholarship funded by the Marine Institute and managed by IRCSET. The training of a PhD researcher in this field will begin to address the critical gap in expertise in Ireland in the field of natural products chemistry, and in particular in marine natural products chemistry.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Biodiscovery / Biotechnology
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Exploiting marine biodiversity to develop drugs for normalising neural communication in disease
PhD Scholarship funded by the Marine Institute and managed by IRCSET, this project will ensure that the graduate obtains first-rate training in a range of advanced cellular and molecular technologies relevant to the Biopharmaceutical Industry.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Biodiscovery / Biotechnology
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Anti-Inflammatory potential of Marine Extracts
PhD Scholarship funded by the Marine Institute and managed by IRCSET, this study will pinpoint the compounds in marine extracts exhibiting the greatest potential for attenuating inflammatory response and provide evidence of the mechanisms involved
Category / Sub Category: Marine Biodiscovery / Biotechnology
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MATSIS Project
MATSIS Project.
Methods of Assessment of the Trophic Status of the Irish Sea ( MATSIS ). INTERREG IIIa funded project with MI and University of Wales, Bangor (UWB).
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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STRAND 111
STRAND III.
This three-year collaborative project between the Marine Institute (MI) and the Radiation and Environmental Science Centre (RESC) of Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) commenced in June 2004.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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METRIC
METRIC Marine Ecological Tools for Reference, Intercalibration and Classification (Project 2005-S-MS-37.
The projects primary objective is to collect Benthos, Plants and Fish data (historical and new) from transitional and coastal waters and test the tools that have been put forward for determining the quality of water for the Water Framework Directive.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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AquaReg
AquaReg is a Regional Framework Operation funded under the INTERREG IIIC programme North Zone. It involves co-operation between the regions of Galicia in Spain, Border, Midland and Western (BMW) in Ireland, and Trøndelag in Norway.
Category / Sub Category: Aquaculture
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Long-Term Dynamics of Herring Populations
This project aims to describe long-term trends in the biological parameters of herring in the Celtic Sea and herring off the northwest coast of Ireland.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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The Life History, Ecology and Dynamics of the Black Scabbard
This project aims to increase our understanding of the Black Scabbard.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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Rebuilding Depleted Fish Stocks in the Waters Around Ireland
The project aims to develop constructive operational approaches to rebuliding depleted fish stocks in the waters around Ireland.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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Joined-up Thinking from Joined-Up Data
The primary objective of this project is to develop and implement a strategy (following the development of the data repository) which will integrate and enable data interrogation across all data sources used by Marine Institute’s Fisheries Science Services Group.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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Modelling the Ecology, Population Dynamics, Assessment & Managment of Nephrops
This project aims to develop new tools to model Nephrops stock dynamics.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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Impact of Climate Change on Fish Stocks
This project aims to assess the impact of climate change on the dynamics of the NEA mackerel stock and cod stocks in waters around Ireland.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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Application of Signal Detection Methods to the Fisheries Management System
This project aims to explore the current application of signal detectin methods, relevant to fisheries management.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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Data Management for Marine Geological & Geophysical Datasets
This research project aims to produce a reference for the storage and management of geological / goephysical datasts in the Marine Institute, with the goal of making the data easily available for discovery, access and analysis by Marine Institute and external end users.
Category / Sub Category: Knowledge and Information Management
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Biological Effects for the Assessment of Pollution in Irish Waters
This project aims to develop the tools and capability for integrated chemical / biological effects testing and pilot these in an Irish context.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Marine Mammals & Megafauna in Irish Waters
This project will aim to strengthen research in the areas of marine mammal and megafauna distribution, behaviour and tropic interactions.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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EEL-PLAN
This project will support the compilation and analysis of historical eel data along with the river, lake and transitional water habitat based GIS information.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Impacts of Increased Atmospheric CO2 on Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems
This project is intended to increase our understanding of the impact of increased levels of CO2 and to assist in clarifying future research priorities in the area.
Category / Sub Category: Rapid Climate Change
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Climate and Catchment Environment
This project will increase the utilisation of Marine Institute environmental, meteorological and aquatic data sets in making prediction of future changes in the aquatic environment.
Category / Sub Category: Rapid Climate Change
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Making the European Fisheries Ecosystem Operational
MEFEPO will focus on how best to make current institutional frameworks resonsive to an ecosystem appraoch to fisheries management and regional and pan-European levels.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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DeepFishMan
DEEPFISHMAN will develop a range of strategy options for the management of exploitation of deep-water species in the NE Atlantic.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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Prevent-Escape
The Prevent Escape project will conduct and integrate biological and technological research on a pan-European scale to improve recommendations and guidelines for aquaculture technologies that reduce escape events.
Category / Sub Category: Aquaculture
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CORES
CORES will develop new concepts and components for power take-off, control, moorings, risers, data acquisition and instrumentation based on floating Oscillating Water Column systems.
Category / Sub Category: Renewable Ocean Energy
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EquiMAR
Equimar will deliver a suite of protocols for the equitable evaluation of marine energy converters (based on either tidal or wave energy.
Category / Sub Category: Rapid Climate Change
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CoralFISH
CoralFISH brings together a unique consortium who will collaborate to collect data from key European marine regions.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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SALSEA-Merge
SALSEA-Merge will investigate the reasons why Atlantic salmon are dying at sea and the resulting decline in the species.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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EELIAD
The EELIAD project will investigate the ecology and environmental dependencies of European eels during their spawning migration.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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MIDTAL
MIDTAL will support the common fisheries policy to aid the national monitoring agencies by providing new rapid tools for the identification of toxic algae and their toxins.
Category / Sub Category: Aquaculture
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PROPS
The PROPS project will work closely with Short Sea Promotion Centres (SPCs) to develop a workable and reliable methodology that will enhance their practical promotion activities.
Category / Sub Category: Shipping and Maritime Transport
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