Laufende Drittmittelprojekte

VECTORS

The VECTORS project seeks to develop integrated, multidisciplinary research-based understanding of changes taking place in our marine environment, the mechanisms for them and the ecological impacts expected from them.

VECTORS will examine how these changes may affect the range of goods and services provided by the oceans, the ensuing socio-economic impacts and some of the measures that could be developed to reduce or adapt to these changes. This integrative research is conducted by 38 partners within three EU regional seas (Mediterranean, North and Baltic Seas).

For more information               Project homepage: www.marine-vectors.eu

EURO-BASIN

Funding Period: 2014

Funding: European Union, 7^th framework program

Contacts: Prof. Dr. Christian Möllmann, Dr. Linda Holste

EURO-BASIN (EUROpean Basin-scale Analysis, Synthesis & Integration) is designed to advance our understanding on the variability, potential impacts, and feedbacks of global change and anthropogenic forcing on the structure, function and dynamics of the North Atlantic and associated shelf sea ecosystems as well as the key species influencing carbon sequestering and ecosystem functioning.

EURO-BASIN is composed by 24 institutions out of 9 european nations and tries, in collaboration with US and Canadian partners, to better understand the basin-scale processes impacting upon these ecosystems from natural climate change to anthropogenic pressures.

THE CHALLENGE: The North Atlantic Ocean and its contiguous shelf seas are crucial for the ecological, economic, and societal health of both Europe and North America. The basin`s ecosystems support major fisheries, and are important for sequestation of green house gases.

OBJECTIVES: The overarching objectives of the EURO-BASIN initiative are to understand and predict the population structure and dynamics of key plankton and fish species of the North Atlantic and shelf seas, and assess the impacts of climate variability on North Atlantic marine ecosystems and their goods and services.

The project will develop understanding and strategies that will ultimately contribute to improve and advance management of North Atlantic marine ecosystems following the ecosystem approach. It is the European branch of the International BASIN Program and will aim to strengthen collaboration between the EU, Canada and USA to improve basin-scale ocean research and strewardship by the bordering states.

For more information:  www.euro-basin.eu

FACTS

• The FACTS project brings together leading European fisheries and university institutes working on creating the tools for ecosystem based management.


• The active involvement of the institutes in the current management provides a means for the results of the project to feed into management.


• The project furthermore includes a network component which ensures a wider dissemination of methods and results within the marine scientific community.


• The objective of the project is to provide insight and quantitative advice on the ecosystem wide consequences of management actions directly or indirectly related to forage fish.

Project homepage:  www.facts-project.eu

EU MYFISH

Funding Period: 2012 - 2016

Contacts:  Prof. Dr. Christian Möllmann &  Prof. Dr. Axel Temming

The MYFISH project is motivated by the following major challenges to an effective implementation of MSY management today:

• How do we take into account that maximizing yield of one stock will have an impact on other stocks through the multi-fleet nature of the fishery and biological interactions between fish stocks?


• How do we balance potentially conflicting goals in terms of ecosystem, economic and social objectives with due consideration of risk to ensure that fisheries are sustainable in the broadest definition of this term?


• How do we consider variability and trends in environmental, economic and social conditions affecting fish stock productivity and distribution, species interactions, fishing techniques as well as fisheries dynamics and targeting behaviour?


• How should MSY-management be implemented to be acceptable, operational and efficient?

The objectives of the MYFISH project are to deal with the four major challenges identified above and provide an operational framework for the implementation of the MSY concept.
MYFISH will achieve this by systematically addressing the three aspects of MSY, i.e. the “yield”, the “sustainable”, and the “maximization” aspects.



Project homepage:  www.myfishproject.eu

GENUS 2

Geochemistry and Ecology of the Namibian Upwelling System

Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Funding Period: 2012-2015
Website:   www.genus.zmaw.de

GENUS 2 is a joint research programm that aims to clarify relationships between climate change, biogeochemical cycles of nutrient elements, radiatively active gases, and ecosystem structure in a large marine ecosystem, the Upwelling system of the northern Benguela/SE Africa. This will be pursued by empirical studies into processes and rates of ocean circulation, biogeochemical cycling of nutrient elements between water column, biota and sediments, trophic interactions and energy flows, and a hierarchy of numerical models from regional climate, ocean circulation, ecosystems, and energy flows....more

Monitoring und Bewertung von marinen Wirbeltieren
(Cluster 3)

Funding Period: 2012-2014

Contact:  Prof. Dr. Christian Möllmann

Erstellung von Entwürfen für die im Rahmen der laufenden Berichtspflichten erforderlichen Bewertungen von Fischen gem. geltenden internationalen, europäischen und nationalen Naturschutzvorgaben, insbes. FFH-RL und MSRL, für den Bereich der deutschen AWZ.

Erarbeitung eines Anpassungs-bzw. Erweiterungskonzeptes für die bestehenden Surveys der deutschen Fischereiforschung zur besseren Nutzbarkeit der Daten für die europäischen und internationalen Naturschutzberichtspflichten.

Website:  www.bfn.de