This capitalisation activity is conceived and elaborated by Prof. Aldo Drago
(aldo.f.drago@gmail.com)
Web master - Ms. Audrey Zammit
| Offering institution | Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM) - CSIC |
| Name of offer | Building an Early Warning System and Common Data Base on Ostreopsis spp. blooms in the Mediterranean |
| Description | Hands-on training with technical and scientific support in facilities with experience on monitoring and investigating benthic harmful algal blooms |
| Name of responsible | Elisa Berdalet |
| Expected duration of full activity | 1 week |
| Expected duration of visit | 1 week |
| Number of recipients | 2 |
| Persons per recipient | 2 |
| Travel | Yes |
| Offering institution | University of Malta |
| Name of offer | Web interface for CMEMS operational forecast visualisation |
| Description | System for the operational viewing of CMEMS Med forecasts of SST, SSS, currents, MLD and bottom T |
| Name of responsible | Adam Gauci / Aldo Drago |
| Expected duration of full activity | 3 months |
| Expected duration of visit | 1 week |
| Number of recipients | 1 |
| Persons per recipient | 2 |
| Travel | Yes |
| Offering institution | University of Malta |
| Name of offer | SWAN wave model implementation |
| Description | Setting up of a high resolution operational wave forecasting system |
| Name of responsible | Joel Azzopardi / Aldo Drago |
| Expected duration of full activity | 3 months |
| Expected duration of visit | 1 week |
| Number of recipients | 1 |
| Persons per recipient | 2 |
| Travel | Yes |
| Offering institution | Portuguese Institute for the Sea and Atmosphere |
| Name of offer | Integrated identification of harmful phytoplankton in environmental samples and their impacts on marine organisms |
| Description | Multidisciplinary characterization of harmful phytoplankton in environmental samples with taxonomic, molecular, culturing and toxin characterization methods; Quantification of marine and aquatic toxins in environmental samples by chromatographic methodologies and fast-screening methods. |
| Name of responsible | Catarina Churro / Maria João Botelho |
| Expected duration of full activity | 15 working days in situ training and an online workshop previous to the visit (5 hours) |
| Expected duration of visit | 3 weeks in Portugal |
| Number of recipients | 1 |
| Persons per recipient | 2 |
| Travel | Yes |
| Offering institution | LaMMA Consortium |
| Name of offer | Downscaling of CMEMS Reanalysis product |
| Description | Implementation of a modelling chain to downscale CMEMS oceanographic Reanalysis product to a higher resolution by means of the ROMS model with the possibility to add one nested domain on a specific area of interest. |
| Name of responsible | Carlo Brandini / Maria Fattorini |
| Expected duration of full activity | 8 months |
| Expected duration of visit | NA |
| Number of recipients | 1 |
| Persons per recipient | 2 |
| Travel | No |
| Offering institution | LaMMA Consortium |
| Name of offer | Real time Lagrangian oil spill modelling |
| Description | Implementation of a suite of existing modelling tools to perform, on demand, a Lagrangian simulation of oil spill with arbitrary release position, based on the most updated oceanographic and meteorological forecast. |
| Name of responsible | Carlo Brandini / Michele Bendoni |
| Expected duration of full activity | 5 months |
| Expected duration of visit | NA |
| Number of recipients | 1 |
| Persons per recipient | 1 |
| Travel | No |
| Offering institution | Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography |
| Name of offer | Implementing a numerical 3D model based on Ichthyop describing the lagrangian transport of particles including microplastics (MP) |
| Description | Study of particle drift in the coastal area |
| Name of responsible | Cristele Chevalier |
| Expected duration of full activity | 12 months |
| Expected duration of visit | |
| Number of recipients | 2 |
| Persons per recipient | 2 |
| Travel | Yes |
| Offering institution | Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography |
| Name of offer | Development of innovative, low-cost and useful "drifter" buoys to be used in coastal systems |
| Description | These buoys equipped with specific probes (temperature, salinity, oxygen, turbidity, etc .) produced on request or according to recipient needs, are equipped with SPOT geolocalisation beacons capable of real time survey of the sub-surface water column. |
| Name of responsible | Cristele Chevalier |
| Expected duration of full activity | 12 months |
| Expected duration of visit | |
| Number of recipients | 2 |
| Persons per recipient | 2 |
| Travel | Yes |
| Offering institution | National Institute of Biology - Marine Station Piran |
| Name of offer | Meta-barcoding for better understanding marine biodiversity in changing environment |
| Description | The action proposed the analysis of samples from different environments and the establishment of a start-up protocol for regular standardised sampling for meta-barcoding by elaborating sampling procedures, processing of field samples and image data, preparation of community samples for meta-barcoding and preparation of sequencing libraries and protocols for data storage. |
| Name of responsible | Andreja Ramšak |
| Expected duration of full activity | 12 months |
| Expected duration of visit | 4 weeks in Slovenia |
| Number of recipients | 2 |
| Persons per recipient | 2 |
| Travel | Yes |
| Offering institution | Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale |
| Name of offer | Practical introduction course to marine monitoring hardware and procedures for less experience users |
| Description | A one-week training course on physical and biochemical instruments, setup, programming, data download, data conversion for less experienced users of hardware. |
| Name of responsible | Vanessa Cardin |
| Expected duration of full activity | 6 months |
| Expected duration of visit | 1 week |
| Number of recipients | 6 |
| Persons per recipient | 6 |
| Travel | Yes |
| Offering institution | Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale |
| Name of offer | Development of a short-term forecasting system for coastal areas |
| Description | Code availability and technical support/supervision for the site-specific (recipient) implementation of a relocatable modelling system for short-term oceanographic forecasts developed in SHAREMED WP3.1, 4.5 and 5.1. |
| Name of responsible | Stefano Querin |
| Expected duration of full activity | 6 months |
| Expected duration of visit | NA |
| Number of recipients | 1 |
| Persons per recipient | 2 |
| Travel | No |
| Offering institution | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche |
| Name of offer | Operational tailoring of CMEMS Ocean Colour (OC) and Sea Surface Temperature (SST) products |
| Description | Implementation of an operational tool to trim and download CMEMS OC regional Sentnel3-OLCI products at full spatial resolution (300 m) and multisensory SST products at ultra high-spatial resolution (1 km) over specific, coastal Area Of Interest. |
| Name of responsible | Federico Falcini / Vega Forneris |
| Expected duration of full activity | 2 months |
| Expected duration of visit | NA |
| Number of recipients | 2 |
| Persons per recipient | 2 |
| Travel | No |
