CLEANATLANTIC. Tackling Marine Litter in the Atlantic Area. Development of sustainable tools (Database and software) for Marine Litter Data management

The objective of this task 5.1 was to pinpoint partner’s needs in data management for Marine Litter in order to developed adapted tools to enable data storage and handling in a secure and sustainable way that facilitate data management and transmission format into other European databases. A first phase consisted in collecting information on data management practices (storage, conservation, transmission to other international databases) in the different partners institutes of this task: ARDITI, IEO, DRGM, CEFAS, INTECMAR. Once this analysis phase has been completed, a first workshop was organized, in March 2018, with the interested partners in order to deepen their needs, to share with them our experience in terms of data management and to start elaborating solutions that would meet their expectations. The conclusions of the reflection led to the development of a PostGreSQL database and a entering software in english and spanish languages, late 2018 early 2019. The referential administration tool will be developed too mid-2021. A demonstration was realized during a 2nd workshop in May 2019. The integration of dataset provided by the partners and the writing of instructions for their data entry, with a tutorial/screencast to help users for the understanding of the functioning, have been proceeded in 2020. IT Installations on server’s partners Institutions (IEO and ARDITI) as well as trainings on the tools have been realized remotely due to Covid-19 restrictions. Valorization tools to manage connection with European formats (DATRAS, EMODnet) and to to facilitate the automated reporting on marine litter data have been carried out in this phase of the project

PHYTOBS dataset - French National Service of Observation for Phytoplankton in coastal waters

The PHYTOBS dataset includes long-term time series on marine microphytoplankton, since 1987, along the whole French metropolitan coast. Microphytoplankton data cover microscopic taxonomic identifications and counts. The whole dataset is available, it includes 25 sampling locations.PHYTOBS network studies microphytoplankton diversity in the hydrological context along French coasts under gradients of anthropogenic pressures. PHYTOBS network allows to analyse the responses of phytoplankton communities to environmental changes, to assess the quality of the coastal environment through indicators, to define ecological niches, to detect variations in bloom phenology, and to support any scientific question by providing data.The PHYTOBS network provides the scientific community and stakeholders with validated and qualified data, in order to improve knowledge regarding biomass, abundance and composition of marine microphytoplankton in coastal and lagoon waters in their hydrological context.PHYTOBS originates of two networks. The historical REPHY (French Observation and Monitoring program for Phytoplankton and Hydrology in coastal waters) supported by Ifremer since 1984 and the SOMLIT (Service d'observation en milieu littoral) supported by INSU-CNRS since 1995. The monitoring has started in 1987 on some sites and later in others.Hydrological data are provided by REPHY or SOMLIT network as a function of site locations