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FP6 - progetto SESAME

Programma: FP 6

Titolo Progetto: Southern European Seas: assessing and Modelling Ecosystem changes

Acronimo: Sesame

Durata: 2006-2010

Budget  Totale : € 14.806.501

Sito Web: www.sesame-ip.eu

Sommario: The general scientific objectives of SESAME IP, supported by the European Commission, are to assess and predict changes in the Mediterranean and Black Sea ecosystems as well as changes in the ability of these ecosystems to provide goods and services. The Mediterranean and Black Sea will be approached as a coupled climatic/ecosystem entity, with links and feedbacks to the world ocean.

The assessment of ecosystem changes will be based on the identification of the major regime shifts in ecosystems that occurred during the last 50 years. Mathematical models, validated and upgraded using existing and new observations, will be used to predict ecosystem responses to changes in climate and anthropogenic forcings during the next five decades. The new data will be gathered during multidisciplinary, multiship oceanographic cruises in the Mediterranean and Black Sea. These will provide an overall picture of the Mediterranean and Black Sea that does not yet exist as well as essential datasets for model validation.

SESAME will also study the effect of the ecosystem variability on key goods and services with high societal importance like tourism, fisheries, ecosystem stability through conservation of biodiversity and mitigation of climate change through carbon sequestration in water and sediments. The innovative character of SESAME is reflected in the close merging of economic and natural sciences to study the changes in the western and eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea within the period from 50 years in the past to 50 years in the future.

Contatto in ISMAR: mariangela.ravaioli@bo.ismar.cnr.it

Partnership:

  1. Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, HCMR - GREECE.
  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS (LOV, CEFREM, LOB, LMGEM, LOBB, LA, Paris) - FRANCE.
  3. P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, SIO-RAS - RUSSIA.
  4. ORTA DOGU TEKNIK UNIVERSITESI Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University, IMS-METU -TURKEY.
  5. University of Liege, MARE Interfacultary Research Centre, UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE, ULg, BELGIUM.
  6. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, CSIC (IMEDEA, ICMAN, CEAB, ICM) - SPAIN.
  7. Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze de Mare, CoNISMa (UniBo, DiSTeBA) - ITALY.
  8. Panepistimion Aigaiou, AEGEAN -  GREECE.
  9. Institute of Oceanology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, IO-BAS - BULGARIA.
  10. Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research Limited, IOLR - ISRAEL.
  1. Athens University of Economics and Business - Research Center, AUEB-RC - GREECE.
  2. Bogazici Universitesi, ECON-BOUN - TURKEY.
  3. National Council for scientific research, CNRSL-CNSM - LEBANON.
  4. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR (IBF, IAMC, ISAC, ISMAR, IRSA) - ITALY.
  5. Sofiiski Universitet "Sveti Kliment Ohridski", Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Sofia, DMG-SU - BULGARIA.
  6. Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente, ENEA - ITALY.
  7. Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, FEEM - ITALY.
  8. National Institute of Marine Geology and Geo-Ecology, GeoEcoMar - ROMANIA.
  9. Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploration de la Mer, IFREMER - FRANCE.
  10. Institute of Biology of Southern Seas A.O.Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, IBSS - UKRAINE.
  11. Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries Institut za Oceanografiju I ribarstvo, IOF- CROATIA.
  12. Istituto Centrale per la Ricerca scientifica e tecnologica Applicata al Mare, ICRAM, ITALY, ICRAM - ITALY.
  13. Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, OGS - ITALY.
  14. Fondazione IMC-Centro Marino Internazional-ONLUS, IMC - ITALY.
  15. Commission of the European Communities, Directorate General Joint Research Centre, EC-DG-JRC - ITALY.
  16. Institut National des Sciences et Techniques de la mer, INSTM - TUNISIA.
  17. Marine Hydrophysical Institute Ukrainian National Academy of Science, MHI - UKRAINE.
  18. National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa" Institutul National de Cercetare-Dezvoltare Marina, NIMRD - ROMANIA.
  19. National Institute of Biology, Marine Biology Station Nacionalni Institutza Biologijo, NIB - SLOVENIA.
  20. National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Climate Dynamics Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, INGV - ITALY.
  21. The National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, NIOF -  EGYPT.
  22. Panepistimio Kyprou, UCY - CYPRUS.
  23. South Scientific Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences, SSC-RAS - RUSSIA.
  24. Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Dohrn', SZN - ITALY.
  25. Tbilisi State University Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, UNITIBLISI - GEORGIA.
  26. Universitat de Barcelona, UB - SPAIN.
  27. Universitat de Huelva, UHU - SPAIN.
  28. Universitaet Bremen, Uni-HB - GERMANY.
  29. University of Crete, UoC - GREECE.
  30. Physical Oceanography Unit, University of Malta, IOI-MOC - MALTA.
  31. Polytechnic University of Marche Universita Politecnica delle Marche, UNIVPM - ITALY.
  32. Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, ULCO - FRANCE.
  33. University of Oldenburg, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet olden burg, ICBM - GERMANY.
  34. University of Plymouth, UoP - UK.
  35. Cyprus International Institute of Management, CIIM - CYPRUS.
  36. CLU srl, CLU - ITALY.
  37. SOPAB BREST SA, OCEANOPOLIS - FRANCE.
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