brain-be belgian research action through interdisciplinary networks

BRAIN-beBelgian Research Action through

Interdisciplinary Networks

4 Decades of Belgian Marine Monitoring: Uplifting historical data to today’s needsBRAIN-be Axis 3 – Cultural, historical and scientific heritage

• Federal heritage resulting from marine scientific expeditions• Paper, excell-files, cruise reports,..• Scattered availability

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4DEMON

• Projet Mer/Projekt Zee (1970-1976)

• Aim:• Digitize, integrate and disseminate• Quality control and intercalibration• Interdisciplinary valorisation

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Partners

RBINS, OD Nature

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• Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences– Operational Directorate Natural

Environment

former MUMM + former scientific groups Freshwater Biology and Biological Evaluation, and the National Focal Point Biodiversity

RBINS, OD NatureBelgian Marine Data Centre

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Monitoring:OSPAR

WFDMSFD

human activities

National andinternational research projects Repository

IDOD

ICES

EMODNETWeb interface

Eurofleets

IODE NODC

SeaDataNet

GeoSeas

ODIP

RBINS, OD NatureBelgian Marine Data Centre

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Ruth Lagring

Francis Strobbe

Serge Scory

Karien De Cauwer

Yvan StojanovMyriam Nemry Mia Devolder

RBINS, OD NatureREMSEM

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Remote Sensing &

Dimitry Van der Zande

Ecosystem modeling

Xavier Desmit

Protistologie & Aquatische Ecologie

Sofie D’Hondt, Tine Verstraeten, Ilse Daveloose, Olga Chepurnova, Renaat Dasseville (lab assistents)

Anja Hondekyn (secretary)

Claas Steigüber Dagmar Obbels

Evelyn Buyze Evelien Van De Vyver

Jolien Fret Junzhuo Liu

Maxime Sweetlove Michiel Matthijs

Sara Moeys Wim Van Nieuwen huyze

An-Sofie D’Hondt Anja Nohe

Willem Stock

Prof. Dr. Wim Vyverman

Prof. Dr. Koen Sabbe

Dr. Dr. Elie Verleyen

Dr. Pieter Vanormelingen

Dr. Marie Huysman

Dr. Karolien Deprez

Céline Allewaert

Lander Blommaert

www.pae.ugent.be

Established 1996

Research themes

(1) Biology & evolution unicellular eukaryotes (protists)(2) Short- and longterm dynamics of freshwater and marine ecosystems(3) Microalgal biotechnology

e.g. biotic interactions in microbial food webs (e.g. microalgae-bacteria, grazing), dynamics of estuarine and marine microplankton and microphytobenthos communities, diversity ecosystem function relationships, role of dispersal and local adaptation for spatial and temporal dynamics microlagal populations, diatom cell and life cycles

Protistologie & Aquatische Ecologie

Persons involved in 4DEMON

PhD student Anja Nohe [April 1st onwards, VLIZ (1/2 yr) & PAE (31/2 yrs)]

Koen Sabbe

Protistologie & Aquatische Ecologie

Chemical Oceanography Unit of the University of Liège

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Number of permanent researchers 2

Number of Ph-D thesis defended 6

Number of Ph-D students 5

Number of post-doctoral researchers 3

Number of technicians and/or logisticians 2

Research topics :Aquatic biogeochemistry with strong focus on greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O) and other climate gases (DMS)Full range of aquatic systems :- rivers and lakes- Estuaries- Continental shelves- Open ocean- Antarctic and Arctic seaice

Chemical Oceanography Unit of the University of Liège

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As been involved in ocean acidification :

Frankignoulle and Gattuso papers the 1990’s papers highlighted the negative effects of ocean acification on coral reef calcification

Delille et al. (2005) paper reports one of the first large scale multidisciplinary mesocom experiments looking into ocean acidification effects on pelagic comunities

Borges & Gypens (2010) paper highlights for the first time specific evolution of ocean acidification in coastal environments