EMODnet-Geology MODEG Meeting

Copenhagen, Denmark4-5 July 2013

Alan Stevenson (British Geological Survey) and the project team

EMODnet - Geology 14 partners submitted proposal October 2008

Geological surveys of Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Ireland and the UK.

All partners are members of EuroGeoSurveys Marine Geology Expert Group

Co-ordinated by NERC/BGS

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Main deliverables at 1:1 million scale Sea-bed sediments including rate of accumulation or sedimentation

Sea-floor geology (age, lithology, origin)

Boundaries and faults

Rate of coastal erosion or sedimentation (coastal behaviour)

Geological events and event probabilities (landslides, volcanic activity, earthquake epicentres)

Seismic profiles (access to metadata/data – Geo-Seas)

Minerals (including aggregates, oil and gas)

All map outputs added to One-Geology Europe

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Greater North Sea; Celtic Sea; Baltic Sea

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EMODnet-Geology website

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OneGeology-Europe Portal

Search facility

Sea-bed sediments

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Bedrock lithology

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Bedrock stratigraphy

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EUROSION data used, complemented by data from Norway. Updates of EUROSION have been provided by Lithuania, Belgium and Poland

Coastal behaviour

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Earthquake data

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Courtesy of European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC)

Submarine slides

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Minerals & Aggregates

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1G-E portal: importing WMS services from Geo-Seas

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Next phase

36 partners from 30* countries including all European seas awarded 4.2 million euros

Building on preparatory phase but with more detail (1:250,000 scale) and added information (e.g coastal behaviour, Quaternary geology)

*Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Denmark (and Faroes), Netherlands, Belgium, France, UK, Ireland, Iceland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Turkey, Cyprus and Malta

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EuroGeoSurveys MGEG, Uppsala, November 21-22

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‘The Atlantic – a shared resource’ Galway, Ireland: 23-24 May

Canada-EU-USA trans-Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance

One day of presentations of invited scientists

Second day attended by EC Commissioners (Damanaki & Geoghan-Quinn), US and Canadian Government representatives and Irish Prime Minister who signed ‘Galway Statement on Atlantic Ocean Co-operation’

ECORD/IODP presented in status report on ‘seabed mapping’

www.marine.ie

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Acknowledgements

Anu Kaskela, Aarno Kotilainen, Ulla Alanen, Rhys Cooper, Helen Glaves, Sophie Green, Ingemar Cato, Ola Hallberg, Johan Nyberg, Liv Plassen, Terje Thorsnes, Jørgen Leth, Sten Suuroja, Tatjana Shadrina, Leonora Gelumbauskaite, Algimantas Grigelis, Szymon Uscinowicz, Wojchiech Jeglinski, Regina Kramarska, Kristine Asch, Annemiek Vink, Manfred Zeiler, Sytze Van Heteren, Tamara van de Ven, Vera Van Lancker, Fabien Paquet, Agnes Tellez-Arenas, Koen Verbruggen. Janine Guinan, Maria Judge, Ali Robinson.

The European Commission DG Mare

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http://www.emodnet-geology/eu