1. The Baltic Sea Total: 197512 CDIs Örjan Bäck 2014-01-17

2. From 1999 and onwards  93006 CDIs (about 50% of total number)

3. CDI distribution in time 201337019883434196319119231 20124340198738311962159192245 20114392198638061961123192132 2010518819852381196017619072 20095711198419241959147190620 20085086198317791958173190517 200754101982143819571419049 2006771519811642195617190313 2005857919801186195518190220 20048073197912831954618994 2003836919781363195347 200284271977171919526 2001702619761496195112 2000724919751451195041 199970711974923194941 199860241973609194714 199766861972771194610 19967808197168719391 19958168197070919371 19947309196962619355 19936314196860419333 19926200196742419321 19915628196645319305 19906650196539519262 19897056196435219241

4. CDI distribution in time

5. Summary per CDI partner

6. Summary per parameter Parameters to focus the work on for 2013 (first 6 months) with red mark

7. Summary per parameter (continue)

9. Contacts made  As the regional coordinator for the Baltic Sea I contacted all the partners around the Baltic Sea and reminded them to focus on making the following data available in the portal during the first 6 months of the project:  Oxygen, Nutrients, Chl-a, silicate and pH in the water column from the year 1999 and onwards.  I also delivered a data inventory from the Baltic Nest Institute (BNI) to the regional partners if BNI had some data from their country. To check if BNI had some complementary data that the partners didn’t have available at their institute.  I also asked the regional partners to check if ICES had complementary data.

10. Difficulties encountered  Inga Lips from Estonia was a bit unfamiliar with the CDI och ODV standards and construction of the files. We have been in contact by e-mail and I have helped her with some example files. I also had a look at their first created ODV-file and pointed out what was wrong and how to correct it.  With this in mind it could have been good idea to have arranged a training workshop for new partners/members in the autumn last year. Maybe investigate if there are still partners that are unfamiliar with the software/standards to see if there is interest to arrange one in the spring?  It was also unclear how to treat integrated Chl-a samples. We have some data that is collected by hose and that has start_depth = 0m and end_depth = 10m. Roy Lowry has made some suggestions to set primary parameter depth to a mean value, in this case 5m. And to specify the correct start/end depth as other ”secondary” depth parameters. We have not yet had the time to work with this integrated Chl-a data to supply it to the portal. Hopefully we can do this during the first quarter of this year. But our majority of Chl-a data, which are from sampling at discrete depths, are available in the portal.