The MEDINA e-infrastructure: indicators and models for marine ecosystem assessment Roberto Pastres Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatic and Statistic

MEDINA: Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa FP7 Collaborative Project Duration: 36 months Start date: 01/10/ Participants from 9 countries Coordinator: Roberto Pastres

1 Università “Ca’ Foscari” Venezia (UNIVE) IT 2 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) ES 3 Universidade Pablo de Olavide (UPO) ES 4 Université Abdelmalek ESSAADI (UAE-FPL) Morocco 5 Joint Research Centre - EC (JRC) EU 6 National Inst. for Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF) Egypt 7 Union International pour la Conservation de la Nature et de ses ressources (IUCN) CH 8 Commissariat National du Littoral (CNL) Algeria 9 Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) GB 10 ACRI Etudes et Conseil (ACRI) Morocco 11 European Space Agency (ESA) FR 12 CNR -IIA Istituto sull’Inquinamento Atmosferico IT

MEDINA Overall objectives (1): -To contribute to the assessment of coastal ecosystem status in North African countries; -To enhance the monitoring capacity for those regions. -To identify major risks due to climate change and suggest adaptation strategies. -To feedback MEDINA’s scientific contribution within the EU regulatory framework.

MEDINA Overall objectives (2): -To ensure the optimal exploitation of the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) capabilities in supporting on-going monitoring&assessment, also through the fusion of satellite Earth Observation and conventional monitoring data. -To promote international cooperation for sharing data and services with on-going EU efforts, with the relevant GEO Community of Practices and with GOOS-Africa

MEDINA’s key features: -Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response conceptual framework for on-going monitoring and assessment. -Use of mechanistic models (biogeochemical, Habitat Suitability, Food Web etc ….) for establishing causal links between Drivers/Pressures and State/Impacts. -Fusion of remotely-sensed and in-situ observation, through modelling, for monitoring optimization.

Ecological indicators Environmental drivers/stressors EO indicators GCOMS model In situ data Model hindcasts and forecasts Regional ecosystem assessment Regional ecosystem assessment FVCOM model Local ecosystem assessment Local ecosystem assessment Pilot cases Habitat model EIA model Foodweb model WP5 WP4 WP3

The e-Infrastructure is the key component of MEDINA The Medina e-Infrastructure is being developed by

The MEI, built in WP3, will act as a tool for discovering, accesing and visualising spatial, indicators and model results. It will be fully compatible in design and usability with GEOSS GCI, and thus accesible through GEOSS website. MEDINA e-infrastructure will guarantee viability, compatibility and sustainability with existing databases. To achieve the goals of MEDINA, a key element is the use and exploitation of existing data and spatial information

What is the MEDINA e-Infrastructure? Infrastructure that supports access to geographic interoperable spatial information. Distributed geographic database, based on standardized protocols to ensure interoperability. A tool to disseminate Medina products.

MeI conceptual model

Main features and components of the MeI FEATURE (i.e. what?) DISCOVERY VISUALIZATION DELIVERY DATA ACCESS COMPONENT (i.e. how?) CATALOG MAP SERVICES (WMS), ONLINE VIEWER, MAP SERVICES (WFS, WCS)

01/02/1314 How will the MeI work Access MEI Download, visualise and use maps Medina e- Infrastructure

The MEDINA e-Infrastructure will be tested at 5 pilot sites.

Chlorophyll a Bathymetry Tests on MEDINA indicators (WP5-UAB) are ongoing: MeI Viewer (

MEDINA will also make available web-based models : Habitat Suitability model for Posidonia oceanica (ACRI+UNIVE)

The model was calibrated at five mediterranean areas and is now being tested on North African sites Model output (green = presence)Observations

We presented the HS model as case study at GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot. Phase-6. The aim of this pilot is to demonstrate the added-value of developing the models in the context of the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI). A new Business process Broker component will be used to extend the current GCI capabilities. Where needed, new interoperability arrangements will be developed to integrate new capacities underpinning MEDINA and this pilot.

MEDINA contribution to GEOSS TaskDescriptionRelevant Area IN-02 C2Earth Data SetsProvide a suite of global datasets based on improved and validated data sources. IN-05 C1GEOSS Design and InteroperabilityExecute and document Architecture Implementation Pilots (AIPs) and related research activities – this is a software test environment SB-01 C1Global Ocean Information Coordination and Access Develop vulnerability and integrated management of coastal zones in order to inventory, protect and monitor coastal lands SB-01 C2Operational Systems for Monitoring of Marine and Coastal Ecosystems Establish a global coastal network of observations and modeling that target sentinel and reference sites for rapid detection of changes in ecosystem states caused by land- based sources of pollution, fishing and climate change SB-01 C3A Global Operational Ocean Forecasting NetworkA Global Operational Ocean Forecasting Network for sustainable fishery and aquaculture Develop and test the next generation of systems extending from open-ocean into shelf- seas and coastal waters, SB-01 C4Applications of Earth Observations and Information Design and implement a suite of ecological indicators. Making available EIA models BI-01 C1Global Biodiversity ObservationDevelop standards for monitoring biodiversity.