Centre of Excellence for Shelf Seas Science I

Centre of Excellence for Shelf Seas Science I n s t i t u t e o f O c e a n o l o g y P o l i s h A c a d e m y o f S c i e n c e s Contract no. : Project duration: Project type: EVK 3 -CT-2002 -80004 Ce. SSS 1 st of Dec 2002 – 30 th of Nov 2005 FP 5 EESD „Accompanying measures” www: http: //www. iopan. gda. pl/Ce. SSS Coordinators: prof. dr hab. Stanisław Massel, e-mail: smas@iopan. gda. pl dr Sławomir Sagan, e-mail: sagan@iopan. gda. pl Institute of Oceanology PAS Powstancow Warszawy 55 81 -712 Sopot, Poland, Tel: +48 58 551 72 81 Fax: +48 58 551 21 30

Centre of Excellence for Shelf Seas Science I n s t i t u t e o f O c e a n o l o g y P o l i s h A c a d e m y o f S c i e n c e s Areas of scientific activity and established fields of expertise • biodiversity with outstanding taxonomy expertise • coastal arctic ecology; mass and heat fluxes in the North Atlantic • hydrology of the Baltic waters - sea experiments and mathematical modelling • remote control of the Baltic Sea ecosystem Other types of activity: • developement and maintanance of the Marine Data Base Centre • partnership in Gdansk Oceanography Centre for Research and Education, • opennig access to r/v „Oceania”

Centre of Excellence for Shelf Seas Science I n s t i t u t e o f O c e a n o l o g y P o l i s h A c a d e m y o f S c i e n c e s Networking and Twinning with European Community Institutions European institutions with the closest links with Ce. SSS: • Baltic Sea Research Institute, Warnemünde, Germany • University of Ghent, Belgium • Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremen, Germany • Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK • Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway • Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromso, Norway • NIOOZ, Holland Events supported by Ce. SSS Conferences. . . . . 24 Research /study /training visits. . . . 29 Meetings. . . . . 11 Research visits to Ce. SSS. . . 17

Centre of Excellence for Shelf Seas Science I n s t i t u t e o f O c e a n o l o g y P o l i s h A c a d e m y o f S c i e n c e s Summary of events organized, 2003 -2005 2003 - 4 workshops, 95 participants, 14 countries Belgium, Czech, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Spain, Poland, Portugal, UK, 2004 – 1 conference and 2 workshops, over 70 participants, 16 countries Belorussia, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Oman, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Tunisia, UK, Ukraine, USA 2005 - 4 workshops, over 100 participants, 9 countries Czech, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Norway, Poland, Sweden, UK, Ukraine

Centre of Excellence for Shelf Seas Science I n s t i t u t e o f O c e a n o l o g y P o l i s h A c a d e m y o f S c i e n c e s Scientific projects, FP 6 Carbo. Ocean - Marine carbon sources and sinks assessment - IP EUR-OCEANS - European Network of Excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis - No. E Marine Genomics - No. E ELME - European Lifestyles and Marine Ecosystems - STREP DAMOCLES – Developing Arctic Modelling and Observing capabilities for Long-term Environmental Studies - IP CARE - Climate of the Arctic and its Role for Europe - IP MARBEF – Network of Excellence in marine biodiversity - No. E

Centre of Excellence for Shelf Seas Science I n s t i t u t e o f O c e a n o l o g y P o l i s h A c a d e m y o f S c i e n c e s Marine Database capacities • database system based on the replicated database servers • software for the automated data input to the database • infrastructure capable to host large datasets, linkage to the TASK Academic Computer Centre • safe and secure storage system • data quality checking and data quality assurance procedures • software developed to generate automatic cruise summary reports (ROSCOP) Further development - Creating mapping tools to adopt external dictionaries (BODC, ITIS etc. ) - Adopting GIS to data visualisation and presentation - Extending capacity to build offline products based on datasets from the Marine Data Bank - Developement of interfaces to exchange data with other data providers and users. Maintaining and developing ties with world datacenters http: //ocean. iopan. gda. pl/db/

Centre of Excellence for Shelf Seas Science I n s t i t u t e o f O c e a n o l o g y P o l i s h A c a d e m y o f S c i e n c e s Close ties with international institutions : International Council for Exploration of the Sea ICES Working Group of Marine Data Management ICES Working Group of Marine XML Eur. Ocean portal: research vessel data base International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange of IOC (IODE)

Centre of Excellence for Shelf Seas Science I n s t i t u t e o f O c e a n o l o g y P o l i s h A c a d e m y o f S c i e n c e s Ce. SSS impact on IOPAS statistics Ce. SSS starts Points count: papers, proposals, applications, workshops, conferences

Centre of Excellence for Shelf Seas Science I n s t i t u t e o f O c e a n o l o g y P o l i s h A c a d e m y o f S c i e n c e s IOPAS integration with world marine institutes – before and after Ce. SSS Index composed of numbers of: • joint research projects • joint papers • joint workshops/conf. • joint proposals submitted • export of knowledge - e. g. guest lecturing • import of knowledge - receiving guest lectures • joint cruises • presence in Steering Committees. . . • participation in Research Councils… • supervision of Ph. D's • revieving of Ph. D's • membership in editorial boards of journals • participation in evaluation panels • visiting students to… • visiting students from… Shorter distance to the center = closer ties