EMODnet Chemistry 2 3 rd Steering Committee Hotel Park, Split (Croatia), 20 June 2014

Project Management (WP0) and administrative issues: The Service Contract (signed 16/8/2013), the CA (signed) and 10 Subcontracts over 14 signed (MHI, UkrSCES, IBSS, YugNIRO missing) 4 m ailing lists: emodnet2- Website under restyling. Data layer for the main page? CDI: zoom to tender parameter groups in the European Seas OceanBrowser: update titles for user friendliness Update banner in the access and viewing services Extranet for the project: continuously updated. More? EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 3 rd Steering Committee, 20 June 2014

Project Management (WP0) and administrative issues: First interim report… Should include summary of work done and what remains to be done, challenged faced, effort spent on data preparing and providing, developing standards (M12, M24, M36). All partners should provide within 6/7/2014 a short summary of their activities, including: Work done in the first year Work expected in the next two years Difficulties encountered Effort spent on data access, data management and standards development How to deal with existing events of non-fulfillment of contractual obligations such as meeting attendance, carrying out of activity, report submission? EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 3 rd Steering Committee, 20 June 2014

How to increase communication and feedback? With partnership mailing lists, extranet (working area), web portal videoconferences and ad hoc meetings next plenary meeting (Istanbul? June 2015?) next Steering Committee (where? December 2014?) With stakeholders (WP5) too difficult to involve DG ENV, EEA, RSCs What else? EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 3 rd Steering Committee, 20 June 2014

EMODnet Secretariat: Jan-Bart Calewaert, Liesbeth Renders ( Seascape Consultants, UK ) was commissioned (MARE/2012/15) to coordinate and support (i) the monitoring of EMODnet projects, (ii) the dissemination of their results, (iii) the analysis of user feedback and statistics. Organised EMODnet Steering Committee (secretariat, 7 lots, 2 checkpoints, DG MARE). 1 st meeting: JPI Oceans,16-17/12/2013 and 2 nd meeting: CNR, 4-5/6/2014 Output: development of Entry Portal, 3 SC meeting per year EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 3 rd Steering Committee, 20 June 2014

Data collection and metadata compilation in sea regions (WP1): ● Overview of the data collection from the regional leaders (10 min. each): progress and difficulties ● Way forward for the data central buffer (Dick Schaap) ● Vocabularies extensions for EMODnet Chemistry scope (P35, tender parameter groups) ● Schedule for the second year (M15 data, M18 harvesting, M20 products) ● Priority list (parameters/matrices): biota is only Mytilus galloprovincialis? EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 3 rd Steering Committee, 20 June 2014

Data Products generation in sea regions (WP2): ● Progress and difficulties for the first set of classic products (DIVA maps and TS plots) ● How to deal with results from the pilot phase? ● DIVA Maps at the appropriate time period: focus to selected areas ● Consolidate work flow to identify appropriate TS ● Use of CHASE assessment tool with EMODnet data in the North sea and eventually selected pilot areas (as WMS layer) to be loaded into OceanBrowser (Martin M. Larsen) ● Products for Regions with more than 1 MSFD region ● Use cases in the Central Portal: how to provide data or data products? EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 3 rd Steering Committee, 20 June 2014

QA/QC - Validation - MSFD interaction (WP3): ● Status in data products validation process with local experts (regional leaders), ● Feedback from Expert WS on data products validation, ● Strategy for the next Expert WS, ● Inventory of QC procedures at NODCs, possible extensions ● Do we have enough data (i.e. local statistics) for the QC of parameters in sediment and biota? ● No MSFD official boundaries but EMODnet sea regions EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 3 rd Steering Committee, 20 June 2014

Portal development and operation (WP4): dynamic Time Series: layer with Stations and Graphics to be integrated into OceanBrowser, how to improve selection vertical sections properly exposed in the OceanBrowser implementation of P35 vocab on Odv and Sextant tender parameters categories (e.g. fertilizers, pesticides and biocides... ) used for data and products Sextant improvement in user-friendliness of services (products search including sea regions) WMS/WFS sharing between Emodnet Physics and Chemistry EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 3 rd Steering Committee, 20 June 2014

Portal development and operation (WP4): cloud hosting for data buffers as offered by Cineca Additional developments as discussed at the first TWG: new functionality in the CDI User Interface for searching based on the distance along the coastline How to add value to coastal stations? Additional data plotting along (or near) the coastline to valorize coastal data (with classes of value) loaded in OceanBrowser New punctual visualizations planned with classes of values EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 3 rd Steering Committee, 20 June 2014

Analyses and Recommendations (WP5): ● Definition of the user panel + questionnaire together with SDN, to collect specific MSFD feedback WP Objectives: To engage with MSFD stakeholders and align/revise chemical portal and products through dialogue To identify key users and report on the effectiveness of the system in meeting the needs of end-users To provide a summary feedback to WP2 (data products) To analyse what further steps need to be taken for improvement, expansion and sustainability: lessons learned, interoperability and cross-comparison To establish efficient tools to obtain users feedback EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 3 rd Steering Committee, 20 June 2014

Action List: EMODnet Chemistry 2 – 3 rd Steering Committee, 20 June 2014