Upgrade Black Sea SCENE News Spot
The project is funded by the EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for research infrastructures.
Final project year
Upgrade Black Sea SCENE (www.blackseascene.net), a three year project supported by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Program (FP7) for research and development 2009—2011. It builds on an existing research infrastructure - the Black Sea SCENE, dedicated to the development of a scientific network of leading environmental and socio-economic research institutes, universities and NGOs from the countries around the Black Sea, contributing to a growing data and information infrastructure. The project consists of a large consortium of Black Sea institutes and European experts comprising over 50 partner organisations. UBSS implements SeaDataNet communication standards and technologies ensuring datacenters interoperability. It provides online access to in-situ and remote sensing data, meta-data and products.
Events of 2011
The project activities aimed to stimulate the scientific cooperation, exchange of knowledge and expertise, and to strengthen the regional capacity and performance of marine environmental data and information management. A training workshop took place in IODE programme office in Ostend – Belgium, from 28th February to 4th March 2011. The workshop focused on further training in the tools and methods for converting, quality control, and analysis of data sets from various disciplines, and getting hands on experience with the tools and procedures. The fifth UBSS meeting - DQC Workshops and Plenary meeting, took place at Rhodes island from 11 to 15 April 2011. It comprised DQC Workshops including members of EMODNet Chemistry for the Black Sea. The workshop discussed the quality of the data sets so far gathered and the kind of products and services for users can be produced from these data sets. In Odessa, Ukraine the third regular Black Sea Bi-Annual Scientific Conference was held from 1—4 November 2011 with support from the Black Sea Commission, the Ukrainian government and the UBSS project. It was entitled “Black Sea Outlook - Drivers, pressures, state, impacts, response and recovery indications towards better governance of Black Sea environmental protection. More information about the conference is available in the brochures and newsletter.
Products and results
The principal outcome of UBSS is the data access service, implemented through the Common Data Index (CDI). Its primary objective is to give users a highly detailed insight in the availability and geographical spread of marine data across the different data centres and institutes across Europe. The CDI provides an index (metadatabase) to individual data sets. Furthermore, it provides direct online data access or direct online requests for data access or file downloads. In the coming years the datacentres will support the infrastructure on national level and will continue to further populate the CDI metadatabase. Other institutes and stakeholders will be encouraged to use the service and provide information about metadatabases.
Partners
The joint effort of Black Sea SCENE has run from 2005 to 2008. The consortium has been continued and extended in Upgrade Black Sea SCENE, 2009—2011, adding 23 new partners to the existing 33.
Partners since 2005
- Marine Information Service (MARIS), Netherlands
- Institute of Fishery Resources (IFR), Bulgaria
- Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, Maritime Branch in Gdynia (IMWM MB), Poland
- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Hellenic National Oceanographic Data Centre (HCMR/HNODC), Greece
- TNO Built Environment and Geosciences, Geological Survey of the Netherlands, Netherlands
- Institute of Limnology RAS, Russian Federation
- All-Russia Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information - World Data Centre (RIHMI-WDC) National Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC), Russian Federation P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS, Russian Federation P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Southern branch, Russian Federation
- Institute of Hydrogeology and engineering geology of Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS), Georgia
- Bulgarian National Oceanographic Data Centre(BGODC), Institute of Oceanology, Bulgaria
- Iv.Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Centre of Relations with UNESCO Oceanological Research Centre and GeoDNA (UNESCO), Georgia
- Scientific-Industrial Center of Research and Governance of Coastal Formation Processes SAKNAPIRDATSVA, Georgia
- Centre of Monitoring of Environmental Pollution of the Department of Hydrometeorology of Georgia, Georgia
- Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
- National Institute for Marine Research and Development Grigore Antipa, Romania
- State Oceanographic Institute of Roshydromet (SOI), Russian Federation
- Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Ukraine
- Karadeniz Technical University, Faculty of Marine Sciences, Turkey
- Sinop University, Fisheries Faculty, Turkey
- Space Research Institute of RAS, Russian Federation
- Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, NAS of Ukraine, Ukraine
- National Institute of Marine Geology and Geoecology - GEOECOMAR, Romania
- Moscow State University, Geography Department Russian Federation
- M. Nodia Institute of Geophysics of Georgian Academy of Science, Georgia
- Technical University Varna, Bulgaria
- Black Sea NGO Network, Bulgaria
- Ukrainian scientific center of Ecology of Sea (UkrSCES), Ukraine
- Scientific Research Institute of Ecological Problems (USRIEP), Ukraine
- Odessa National I.I.Mechnikov University, Ukraine
- Norwegian Institute of Water Research (NIVA), Norway
- International Bureau for Environmental Studies (IBES), Belgium
- Fieldfare International Ecological Development plc. (FIED), United Kingdom
Partners since 2009
- Laboratory of Marine Ecology-Central Laboratory of General Ecology, Bulgaria
- Southern Scientific Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography, Ukraine
- Cyprus Oceanographic Data Center, Oceanography Center, Cyprus
- Dokuz Eylul University, Institute of Marine Science and Technology, Turkey
- Istanbul University, Institute of Marine Science and Management, Turkey
- Marine branch of Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute, Ukraine
- The Centre for Monitoring and Prognostication of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, Georgia
- National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
- Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission - IODE, Belgium
- Scientific - Research Firm "GAMMA", Georgia
- Permanent Secretariat Commission on the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution, Turkey
- Institute of Oceanology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IO-BAS), Bulgaria
- Marine Sampling Holland BV, Netherlands
- Institute of Environmental Geoscience RAS, Russian Federation
- Georgian Institute of Water Management, Georgia
- Ankara University, Turkey
- Balkan Environmental Association (BENA), Greece
- Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Authority, Romania
- Taurida V.I. Vernadsky National University, Ukraine
- Institute of Geological Sciences - IGS, Ukraine
- Center Dynamics of the Nearshore Zone, Russian Federation
- University of Mining and Geology - Saint Ivan Rilski, Bulgaria
- Danube Hydro-meteorological Observatory, Ukraine
- Publications:
- Upgrade Black Sea SCENE 2011
(PDF, 2.72 MB) - Upgrade Black Sea SCENE 2010 (PDF, 1.77 MB)
- Upgrade Black Sea SCENE 2009 (PDF, 2.73 MB)
- Black Sea Scene 3 (PDF, 648 KB)
- Black Sea Scene 2 (PDF, 123 KB)
- Black Sea Scene 1 (PDF, 2.04 MB)
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