Programme: FP 5
Project Title: European Margin
Strata Formation
Acronym: EUROSTRATAFORM
Duration: 2002-2005
Total Budget : € 3.500.000
Web site: http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/gg/EUROSTRATAFORM/
Summary: EUROSTRATAFORM
will study marine sediment dispersal from source to sink (river output to
deposit in on the shelf, slope or basin floor) on contrasted European margins,
with the aim of understanding how geological strata are generated. Experimental
work and data analysis will examine the water column and sedimentary processes
involved in moving sediment through the system. Physical, biological and
geochemical processes, which transform that sediment once deposited, will be
equally investigated. To bridge the gap in knowledge from these active
processes to the stratal record we will work on a variety of timescales from
individual flood events to the geological record of the last 500,000 years.
This will greatly improve our ability to forecast and hind cast the response of
the marine system to natural and anthropogenic perturbation. This research is
fundamental to understand matter and energy cycling, and to ensure the safe
management of marine resources.
Contact person in ISMAR: f.trincardi@bo.ismar.cnr.it
Partnership:
1.
Southampton Oceanography Centre, UK
2.
School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of
Southampton, UK
3.
School of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds, UK
4.
Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur
l'Environnement Marin (CEFREM), CNRS, France
5.
CEREGE,Universite de Droit, d'Economie et des
Sciences d'Aix Marseille III (UDESAM),France
6.
Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire
(IRSN),France
7.
Laboratoire d'Aerologie (UPS-LA),Centre National de
la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
8.
Department of Marine Chemistry and Geology,
Stichting Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoekder Zee (NIOZ), Netherlands
9.
Department of Applied Earth Sciences,Delft
University of Technology,Netherlands
10.
GRC Geociencies Marines Departament
d'Estratigrafia, University of Barcelona,Spain
11.
Department of Marine Geology and Physical
Oceanography,Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC),Spain
12.
Istituto di Geologia Marina,Consiglio Nazional
delle Recherche (CNR),Italy
13.
Department of Geology,University of Tromsoe,Norway
14.
Department of Geology,University of Bergen,Norway
15.
Departement Geosciences Marines,
16.
Institut Francais de Recherche pour l'Exploitation
de la Mer (IFREMER),France
17.
Laboratoire "Domaines
Oceaniques",Universite de Bretagne Occidentale,France
18.
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
(GEUS),Denmark
19.
School of Engineering and Science,International
University Bremen,Germany
20.
MARETEC,Instituto Superior Tecnico,Portugal
21.
Division de Oceanografia,Instituto
Hidrografico,Portugal
