1. Norwegian Institute for Water Research
Status of Waterbase TCM (Transitional, Coastal, Marine) Update Presentation for MCM meeting Brest, 31. March - 1. April, 2003 Revised May 19, 2003
Birger Bjerkeng
Norwegian Institute for Water Research

2. Work plan/time schedule
Request with revised Guidelines issued by EEA to country NFPs and conventions 8 November, 2002
Deadline for data deliveries 31 January 2003
Waterbase TCM update February - March ongoing.

3. Requested data to Waterbase TCM according to in EWN Guidelines
Nutrients, oxygen, chorophyll in seawater (raw data)
Contaminant concentrations (raw data):
Seawater (limited set)
Biota
Sediment
Yearly input loads:
Direct
Riverine
Proxy Pressures

4. Conventions:
ICES
Received new dataset to replace previously submitted data on contaminants in biota and nutrients/eutrophication in seawater (recent resubmitted due to discovered errors) - cover OSPAR and HELCOM countries, awaits supplementary information on biota data
OSPAR
Input data from countries for 2001, supplementing previous data - (other data received directly from ICES)
HELCOM
No input data received (status environment report received - Baltic sea )
MEDPOL
Database in test phase, provides site and institution overview already, not yet data access

5. Countries with data delivered by repository or e-mail:
CDR: Central Data Repository
CIRCA: National EIONET CIRCA Server

6. Countries with no marine data in 2002 Update

7. Countries with no information about data delivery in Update 2002
Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Monaco, Russian Federation, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Yugoslavia (Montenegro)
Countries marked in green: participate in MEDPOL Phase III (MEDPOL database)

8. Comments:
Guidelines have been followed to varying degree in submitted data
Even with guidelines, there is considerable work with harmonizing determinand codes, units, and other data descriptors.
Delivery of important data are still pending, and efforts are being made to get more data or supplementary information (UK, ICES)
Semi-automated tools are developed for data check, comparison and import into Waterbase TCM, will make task easier in the future