Black Sea Scene News Spot 1
Overview:
The Black Sea SCENE is a three year project supported by the European
Commission under the Sixth Framework Program promoting research and
development. The Black Sea SCENE project is undertaken by 25 partners
from Black Sea countries: Ukraine (5), Russia (7), Turkey (3), Romania
(2), Bulgaria (4), Georgia (4), together with 7 partners from EU member
states (6) and (1) Associated State.
It aims to establish a Black Sea Scientific Network of leading environmental and socio-economic research institutes, universities and NGOs from the countries around the Black Sea and to develop a virtual data and information infrastructure.
Activities:
Environmental and socio-economic scientists and technical specialists
of the partners will meet regularly in Workshops.
On the workshops Common Data Quality Control procedures will be explored
and harmonized.
Partners will compile overviews of their marine datasets and data acquisition
activities using established European metadata formats.
Partners will assess the quality of their datasets and include Data
Quality indicators in the metadata.
A virtual data and information infrastructure will be implemented to
facilitate the access to metadata and datasets.
This will include a Black Sea regional portal with central meta-directories,
equipped with dynamic mapping functions, and giving links to distributed
datasets at partners.
Impact:
Black Sea SCENE will mobilize a large number of Black sea institutions
that hold significant quantities of environmental and socio-economic
data and information as well as knowledge and expertise.
It will support the European research community by providing availability overviews and access to marine environmental and socio-economic Black Sea data.
Black Sea SCENE and the Black Sea virtual data and information infrastructure will encourage trans-national and worldwide (IOC, NATO SfP, GEF, UNEP and UNDP projects) use of the available datasets.
It will also improve the compatibility of archiving systems among regional partners.
Partners:
- Marine Information Service, Leidschendam, The Netherlands
- International Bureau of Environmental Studies, Brussels, Belgium
- Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, Maritime Branch, Gdynia, Poland
- Norwegian Institute of Water Research, Oslo, Norway
- Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, National Geological survey, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Fieldware International Ecological Development plc., Newbury, United Kingdom
- Ukrainian Scientific Centre of the Ecology of Sea, Odessa, Ukraine
- Marine Hydro-physical Institute of Ukrainian National Academy of Science, Sevastopol, Ukraine
- Ukrainian Scientific and Research Institute of Ecological Problems, Kharkiv, Ukraine
- Odessa National University, Odessa, Ukraine
- Moscow State University. Moscow, Russian Federation
- State Oceanographic Institute, Russian Federal Service “Rosgidromet”, Moscow, Russian Federation
- Southern Branch of the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology Russian Academy of Science, Gelendzhik, Russian Federation
- P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russian Federation
- Institute of Limnology Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, Russian federation
- Space Research Institute Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russian Federation
- All Russian Research Institute of Hydro-meteorological Information – World Data Centre B, Obninsk, Russian Federation
- Middle East Technical University, Institute of Marine Sciences, Erdemli, Turkey
- Sinop Fisheries Faculty of Ondokuz Mayis University, Sinop, Turkey
- Black Sea Technical University of Marine Sciences, Trabzon, Turkey
- Institute of Oceanology Bulgarian Academy of Science, Varna, Bulgaria
- Technical University Varna, Varna, Bulgaria
- Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Varna, Bulgaria
- National Institute for Marine Research and Development “GRIGORE ANTIPA”, Constanta, Romania