EMODnet-CMEMS Thematic Workshop on Coastal Issues

Date: 16 June 2020 14:00-17:00 CEST (including 2x10 minutes Comfort Break)

Invited Participants:

• EMODnet thematic Coordinators (& 1-2 additional technical experts / thematic area, tbc) & Secretariat (4-5 Management & Technical staff, tbc)
• MOi & CMEMS
• Copernicus Land Service
• EC: DG MARE; DG DEFIS; DG CLIMA; DG ENV; DG RTD; DG JRC
• European Environment Agency (EEA)

Main aims of the workshop: the workshop with a technical focus aims to bring togetherEMODnet, CMEMS, inter-DG representation and the EEA to discuss marine data and data products and information on Coastal behavior. Objectives include assessing existing capabilities and emerging areas for collaboration across EMODnet themes and between EMODnet and CMEMS, in particular with a regional focus.

Draft agenda

• Welcome and scope of the meeting (5’) (Iain Shepherd, DGMARE; Fabienne Jacq, DG DEFIS)
• Introduction of the Speakers (5’) (All)
• CMEMS Introduction (5’) (Fabienne Jacq, DG DEFIS) dgdefis_coastal_workshop_1606.pdf
• Copernicus Marine and Land coastal data and data products (30’) (Pierre-Yves Le Traon, MOi; Matteo Mattiuzi, EEA) copernicus_marine_coastal_data_and_data_products.pdf / mma200616_clms-cz_emodnetcmems.pdf

Comfort Break - 10 min

• Overview of EMODnet coastal data and products : data and data products relevant to the coast; and how these data and products can be used in the CMEMs modeling effort at regional level – 5’ presentation and 5’ Q&A each
  • EMODnet general introduction (Jan-Bart Calewaert, EMODnet Secretariat) emodnet_introductionshort.pdf
  • EMODnet Bathymetry (Thierry Schmitt, SHOM; Dick Schaap, Maris) emod_bathy_cmems.pdf
  • EMODnet Biology (Joana Beja, VLIZ) emodnetbio_cmems.pdf
  • EMODnet Chemistry (Alessandra Giorgetti, INOGS) chemistry_emodnet_coastal_16062020.pdf
  • EMODnet Geology (Henry Valius, GTK; Sytze van Heteren, TNO; Rhys Cooper, BGS, Andrea Fiorentino, ISPRA) cmems_-_emodnet_geology_presentation_16jun2020.pdf

• • EMODnet Human Activities (Alessandro Pittito, Cogea) humanactivities_emodnet_cmems_16_06_20.pdf
  • EMODnet Physics (Antonio Novellino, ETT) 20200615_emodnetphycoastal.pdf
  • EMODnet Seabed Habitats (Eleonora Manca, JNCC) c202006_emodnetseabedhabitats.pdf

Comfort Break - 10 min

• Predicting the global coastal ocean, a UN Decade initiative (5’) (N. Pinardi; University of Bologna) predicting-the-global-coastal-ocean-v9.pdf
• Structured Discussion (30’) identify:
  a) Complementarities and interoperability of both initiatives for coastal behavior information;
  b) Areas for collaboration (e.g. using EMODnet data and data products for CMEMs modelling efforts, at a regional level; CMEMS outputs to validate EMODnet data products etc.
  c) Collaboration across different EMODnet themes
• Final comments and considerations from participants (5’)
• Conclusions and next steps (10’) (Iain Shepherd, DGMARE; Fabienne Jacq, DG Defis

Read the minutes of the meeting 2020_06_16_coastal_workshop_emodnetcopernicus_draftminutesfnl-withoutchat.pdf