1. Fiumicino, Italy November 6, 2006
ECASA SSG Meeting
Fiumicino, Italy
November 6, 2006

2. WorkPackage 5 – status quo, November 2006
Deliverables Due (month)
D8 Selection and description of study sites with
existing background information 15
D9 Handbook of protocols for field studies 15
D15 Report on results of field studies 27

3. WP progress to date
As of the end of October 2006 (Month 24), all groups with study sites have completed field sampling. All groups are in the midst of processing samples and data.

4. b) data category not collected?
ICRAM-Bisceglie
MBS-Piran
UoC-Crete
PML-Plymouth
Zadar-Croatia
APN-Norway
AZTI-Spain
SAMS-Oban
Ifremer-France
Ria Formosa
ICRAM-Chioggia
a) Fieldwork done?
yes
Yes
2/3
Yes, 2 sites
b) data category not collected? no
Yes - ? No
Yes (currents)
Photos, video, bioassays
Water column
Sedimentredox pot
Video, Bioassay
c) finished processing/analyzing
data?
d) complete data analysis
01/07
12/06 ??
11/06
02/07
03/07
e) need help from other partners?
No (maybe macrofauna)
CHN, meiofauna
Sediment samples
Large volume CHN
Meiofauna to Crete
f) do you have historical data?
Currents, CTD, water quality,
chlorophyll), sediment quality,
Macrobenthos
Yes (some historical data sent to Roberto) specify
Fauna, geochemistry, bioassays,
More??
N/A
Currents, water quality
Maybe
Yes - specify
water trajectories, depletion model, growth mortalities oysters mussels, hydrology
IMAR-Germ has database. Currents, Phytoplankton (from OAERRE)
Hydrodynamics, water quality, Mussel growth data

5. Tasks Outstanding
We anticipate that sample processing will be completed by February 2007 and a report summarizing all of the field data will be prepared thereafter. Data will be summarized using EXCEL spreadsheets and will be available to all ECASA partners. Candidate indicators and models described in the List of Indicators and in the Book of Models will be tested using these data, as described in WP4.
Preparation of a Study Site Descriptor. We have drafted the format for a document that will serve as an extended and improved Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) statement, which will include computation of indicators, output from the model and appendices with the raw data obtained from the farm site during the recent field campaign. Each of the ECASA partners that studied a field site will compile a Study Site Descriptor and deliver this to the farmers at the end of the project.

6. WP5: Progress and update
Need speedy analysis of all data by PI’s so that data (and the indicators!) may be tested
Transfer of data from ea of the groups with WP5 data (recent/historical) to the modellers
Preparation of a database in a standardized format (agreeable to all involved) summarizing all of the field data of ea group

7. Socioeconomic Indicators
What is happening in this direction??
Latest update from David Whitmarsh?