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Santer, R.

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ISECA INTERREG IVA 2 Seas Project  
‘Information System on the Eutrophication of our Coastal Areas‘ 
Boulogne sur Mer, June 30, 2014 
Project overview 
Richard Santer and the ISECA partners 
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Outlines 
• Context 
• The ISECA objectives 
• The ISECA actions 
  
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ISECA motivations 
Importance of the coastal zone for: 
 - economic activities 
 - for exploitation of resources and food 
 - preferred area for settlement and recreation 
Eutrophication is a major cause of the decreasing Water 
Quality in the 2Seas because of: 
 - agricultural practices (soil nutrients entering the seas 
via rivers) 
 - industrial/traffic human activities (air pollutants 
deposited into waters) 
 
  
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ISECA transborder issues 
-Environmental problems are by nature... 
-Each institution and territory runs its own 
database without real benefit from others 
- Communication and dissemination to inform 
the public and different actors should be 
improved 
  
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Eutrophication or how Science can help? 
• The first objective of ISECA is to develop a 
demonstration prototype of an information system 
for the eutrophication of coastal waters which 
combines in-situ, satellite information and models 
outputs. 
• The second objective  is to contribute to evaluate the 
socio economical impact of eutrophication. 
• Communication is an interreg requirement but it for 
ISECA a key task  
 
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‘Information System on the Eutrophication of our Coastal Areas‘ 
ISECA Team 
  
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ISECA INTERREG IVA 2 Seas Project  
‘Information System on the Eutrophication of our Coastal Areas‘ 
 
 
 
Association pour le Développement 
de la Recherche et de l’Innovation 
dans le Nord-Pas de Calais 
(ADRINORD, Lille) 
 
 
Vlaamse instelling voor 
technologisch onderzoek  
(VITO, Mol) 
 
 
Plymouth Marine Laboratory  
(PML, Plymouth) 
 
 
 
University of Greenwich 
 
 
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 
(VMM, Oostende) 
 
 
 
Centre NAUSICAA  
(Boulogne-sur-Mer) 
 
 
 
Centre for the Economics and 
Management of Aquatic Resources 
(CEMARE, University of 
Portsmouth) 
 
 
Institut Néerlandais de l’Ecologie 
(NIOO, Yerseke) 
 
The Netherlands Institute of Ecology - NL, Yerseke. 
Association pour le Développement de la Recherche et de 
l’Innovation dans le Nord-Pas de Calais – FR, LILLE 
Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek- B, MOL 
Plymouth Marine Laboratory - UK, Plymouth 
University of Greenwich - UK,. 
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee  - B, Oostende 
NAUSICAA, Centre national de la mer – FR, 
Boulogne-sur-Mer. 
Cen  r e conomics and Management of Aquatic 
Resources – UK, Portsmouth. 
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ISECA  objectives  
Improve and share knowledge, expertise and data in the 
fields of: 
 - characterization (in situ measurements and Earth 
observation) 
 -prediction (modelisation) 
 - socio economical 
Made available through 2 web servers the ISECA outputs: 
 - towards the public: WIS 
 - towards the indentified key actors: WAS. 
 
  
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Action 1: THE GREAT INVENTORY  
  
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-Identify actors, agencies and data collectors 
-Collect requirements from these actors 
-Determine the perception of targeted publics 
-Develop concepts of social-economic analysis of  
eutrophication impacts (in the frame of climate change). 
Action 1: Expected results 
  
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. Inventory of the actors and institutions concerned  
with coastal eutrophication. 
. Report describing the end users requirements. 
. Questionnaire and its analysis. 
. Report on the social-economic cost.. 
Action 2: EARTH OBSERVATION AND  
IN-SITU DATA BASE PREPARATION   
. Introduce Earth Observation in monitoring of water 
quality 
. Interact with end users to define specific products and 
indicators 
. Improve EO product based on regional knowledge  of the 
optical properties 
. Improve and harmonize in situ measurements 
 
 
 
  
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Action 2: Expected results 
  
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-Inventory of all the existing databases in the 2Seas area 
-Combination of existing and new in-situ measurements 
 and existing and new EO products. 
-Sharing of existing information by harmonizing the data 
 and the metrology protocols. 
-Improvement and validation at a regional scale of EO 
products. 
-Provide in situ and EO data to the WAS 
Action 3: EARTH OBSERVATION WEB SERVER AND 
ANALYSIS OF EUTROPHICATION (WAS) 
  
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-Make the existing knowledge and data accessible for 
potential users and researchers.  
 
-Design, implement and test reusable model  
concepts at a strategic level.  
 
-Identify the regional impact of global  
change scenarios 
Action 3: Expected results 
  
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Web-based Application Server (WAS) devoted to: 
-Demonstration of the use of EO combined to in-situ 
measurements. 
 -Demonstration of eutrophication problems, analysis of 
selected causes and potential solutions, and exchange 
of reusable model building component. 
-Make the information, knowledge and relevant networks 
of stakeholders and end users transparent.  
NB: restricted access to the WAS to registered users 
 
Communication and dissemination 
  
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-Share and disseminate information on actors and data 
collections 
-Inform  researchers, professionals and stakeholders, 
 information multipliers, public at large. 
-Inform these audiences of the project and its European 
support 
-Ensure a basis for follow-up and future use of the WIS 
Action C&D: Expected results 
  
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• A cross border remote place of collaboration (WIS)  
dedicated to coastal waters quality providing: 
→ The accessibility to the whole existing information 
→ The ability to identify demands and needs 
(questionnaire). 
• Info days to mobilise information multipliers in the 2Seas 
area 
• A final cross border workshop that aims to summarize 
and promote the WIS and ISECA 
• An international conference to share and promote 
 the results of the project. 
Sustainability of ISECA 
 
 
  
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• VLIZ will maintain the WIS  
• VITO will maintain the WAS 
• The WAS is a demonstrator and a prototype, but it 
can be potentially a Data User Element (DUE) of  
GMES 
• The “MyOcean” programme at FP7  aims to prepare 
the operational deployment of first Marine Core 
Services 
 


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