Marine thematic presentation sub-project: Relevant information elements

Kari Østervold Toft, Jarle Klungsøyr and Helge Sagen

▶ Norges Fiskeristyrelse established in 1900

Became the Directorate of Fisheries in 1906

A staff of 20 involved in research, two of whom were scientists

In 1989, the Institute of Marine Research was separated from the Directorate of Fisheries to ensure the independence of scientific advises

▶ Today: Norway's largest centre for marine research

Other positions

Research Students 26,9

Post-doctoral researchers 18,8

Associate Chief Scientists 2,0

Cleaning Personnel 5,5

Apprentices 4,4

Sum 57,6

MANLABOUR YEARS: 2007

Bergen Tromsø Flødevigen Matre Austevoll Co-operation

ResearchVessels Dept. Total

Scientists 122,0 18,6 12,0 5,9 12,0 7,3 177,8

Technicians 136,3 11,5 12,9 14,1 17,3 6,7 29,5 228,3

Administrative personnel 62,8 3,7 3,0 1,5 2,0 3,7 76,7

Crew 107 107,0

Total 321,1 33,8 27,9 21,5 31,3 14,0 140,2 589,8

INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCHINSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH

TROMSØ DEPARTEMENTTROMSØ DEPARTEMENT

INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCHINSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH

MATRE RESEARCH STATIONMATRE RESEARCH STATION

INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCHINSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH

AUSTEVOLL RESEARCH STATIONAUSTEVOLL RESEARCH STATIONINSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCHINSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH

FLØDEVIGEN RESEARCH STATIONFLØDEVIGEN RESEARCH STATION

Bergen: the IMR headquarters. Offices and laboratories in several buildings at Nordnes

▶ A national institute

HÅKON MOSBY

BUILT: 1980

701 GRT., L.o.a: 47,2 M

OWNER: UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN

DR. FRIDTJOF NANSEN

BUILT: 1993

1444 GRT.

L.o.a: 56,8 M

OWNER: NORAD

G.M. DANNEVIG

BUILT: 1979

171 BGRT.

L.o.a: 27,9 M

JOHAN HJORT

BUILT: 1990

1828 GRT.

L.o.a: 64,4 M

G.O. SARS

BUILT: 2003

4067 GRT.

L.o.a: 77,5 M

CRUISE ACTIVITY

Vessel Days at Sea

G.O. Sars 301

Johan Hjort 309

Håkon Mosby 304

G.M. Dannevig 195

Dr. Fridtjof Nansen 311

Hans Brattström 231

Fangst 188

Jan Mayen 71

Chartered vessels 999

Total 2 909

Our most important tools for collecting data on the ecosystem

▶ The research vessels

▶ Organisation

▶ Research and advisory for the ecosystems

Establish knowledge as a basis for the management of the marine resources and environment in:

• The Barents Sea• The Norwegian Sea• The North Sea• The coastal zone• Aquaculture

▶ Some of our focus areas

•CLIMATE – FISH PROGRAMME Predict climate change and study its impact on production, distribution and behaviour of marine organisms.

•TROPHIC INTERACTIONS distribution of and interaction between species in the marine ecosystems

• MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY chemical pollution

•OCEANOGRAPHYphysical and climatic processes that

influence marine ecosystems

•THE NORWEGIAN MARINE DATA CENTREa national repository and

dissemination facility for marine data

▶ Examples of data collected

•ENVIRONMENTAL DATA Temperature, salinity, density, currents, nutrients, plankton, chemical contamination

• FISH DATA stock monitoring, recruitment, growth, behaviour, distribution

• BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY DATA mapping of seafloor (MAREANO), biodiversity (coral reefs), introduced species

▶ Data stewardship: Operational data – Fixed coastal stations

▶ Data stewardship: Operational data - Termosalinograph

▶ Data stewardship: Operational data – Climatological transects

▶ Data stewardship: Operational data – Buoys - Presentation

▶ Operational data – Research vessels - ARGO floats

▶ Operational data – Research vessels – ARGO floats

▶ Ecosystem survey in the Barents Sea February – March 2008

▶ Cruise metadata – Search

▶ Special databases - Nutrients

•Catch data •Oceanographic data•Zooplankton data•Nutrients data•Acoustic data

▶ TINDOR The INtegrated Database for Ocean Research

▶ MAREANO Portal

The MAREANO project maps depth, sediments and biodiversity in Norwegian waters in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Norway and the Norwegian Hydrographic Survey

Results are presented as maps on www.mareano.no

▶Web Map Services

• NMD Develops and monitors– MAREANO portal (ArcIMS)– Fish distribution maps (ArcIMS)– Sea mammals (ArcIMS)– SONATE - FFI/MRDB (MapServer)

• ARTSDATABANKEN– GBIF data node

▶ Data requests

Approximately 4-500 datasets/time series

www.imr.no/datakatalog

SEIS compatibility

Features matching SEIS

principles

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Issues/problems in relation

to SEIS principles

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