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Posted 18.07.11
LAST CALL for Transnational Access in 2012
The MESOAQUA network offers European and non-European researchers Transnational Access to a range of mesocosm facilities in contrasting pelagic environments located throughout Europe.
This LAST CALL is now open to apply for TA activities from January to July 2012. The application DEADLINE is 30 SEPTEMBER 2011, 12:00 CET.
See further information on the mesocosm facilities and the web-based application process at: http://mesoaqua.eu.
Please feel free to circulate the MESOAQUA TA flyer (pdf attached) and contact the MESOAQUA Project Office for questions: post@mesoaqua.eu

Posted 13.07.11
Presentations from MEECE Science Meeting 2011 held in San Sebastian now available

Posted 10.06.11
Post-doctoral fellowship in South Africa. Full details

Posted 03.11
MEECE Summer School. Applications for the MEECE Summer school are now being accepted, see website for full details

Posted 20.02.11
Framework for Aquatic Biogeochemical Models (FABM) Download report

Posted 27.02.11
Meeting Report from Copenhagen Workshop

Posted 28.02.11
MESOAQUA - Fourth Call for Transnational Access to European Mesocosm Facilities
The MESOAQUA network now offers European and non-European researchers Transnational Access to a range of mesocosm facilities in contrasting environments located in different pelagic aquatic environments throughout Europe.
THIS CALL is open for TA activities in the second half of 2011 at three mesocosm facilities located in Bergen (Norway), Montpellier/Sete (France), and Heraklion (Greece).
The application DEADLINE is 31 MARCH 2011
Full Details

Posted 28.11.10
Should “Citizen Scientist” play with Climate & Ecosystem Models? E.G.U Newsletter article
A series of recent events has fuelled a hot debate over the transparency and credibility of climate research. While the debate between sceptics and believers may continue, the circumstances have provided good context for “citizen science” to spill over into climate research. Read more

Posted 20.09.10
MEECE Project Brochure, 2010 update. click here

Posted 09.08.10
Job Opportunity: Marine Systems Modeller – CO2 impacts. (PML, UK)
Post aims to tackle one of the principal scientific challenges in current marine ecosystem research: to understand and ultimately predict how marine systems respond to high CO2, in particular ocean acidification (OA) and hypothetical leaks from carbon capture and storage (CCS). The focus will be on ecosystem dynamics and biogeochemical cycles in shelf sea benthic systems.
Closing date 7th September 2010
Further details

Posted 21.07.10
Job Opportunity: Postdoc position in Coupled Biogeochemical-Physical Modelling as part of the EU FP7 EUROBASIN project (IMS-METU, Turkey)
Full details

Posted 09.07.2010
MEECE News: Issue 3

Posted 05.07.2010
Scenarios Definition Workshop, 8-9 June, Bologna
Meeting Report

Posted 11.05.2010
MEECE 18 Month Periodic Report
First period report to the Commission now available. High resolution version available from the Project Office.
Download Report

Posted 28.04.10
Job Opportunity for research associate at University of Washington’s School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Further details

Posted 16.03.10
Inherent Optical Properties (IOP) database, now available.
Series of netCDF data with the monthly IOP of the world oceans in the period 1998-2005
Further details

Posted 16.03.10
WP5 Integrated Assessment Workshop Report
3-5 March 2010, Amsterdam
Working towards establishing a framework for integrated assessment of living marine resources
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Posted 16.02.10
Periodic Report: reporting period has now started click here for tables and guidance

Posted 15.02.10
MEECE Science meeting and workshops, Crete
Meeting Report. Meeting presentations available to download click here

Revised Description of Work; version II contains revisions and the inclusion of a new partner - Welcome UCT to MEECE.
Download DoW.2

Posted February 2010
EU Mesocosm Facilities Access
SECOND call for Transnational Access for 2010 offers researchers access to a range of mesocosm facilities... more info

Posted 07.12.09
12 Month Management Rpt
This 12 month manegement report highlights activites carried out since the last report, gives details of the work undertaken by each institute and progress made towards achievign project deliverables.
Download report

Posted 25.11.09
MEECE Newsletter, Issue 2
MEECE NEWS higlights project activites over recent months, including experiments carried out, research highlights and meetings held and participated in.

Posted 02.11.09
EU Mesocosm Facilities Access – FIRST call for Transnational Access for 2010
Deadline: 30th November 2009; 24:00 CET
The MESOAQUA network offers researchers Transnational Access to a range of mesocosm facilities in contrasting environments located in 6 different facilities throughout Europe, and overlapping well the MEECE geographical focus. The call for access in now open for activities starting between 15 Jan and ending before 15 Dec 2010. Full details

Posted 20.10.09
First report of the MEECE User Advisory Group
Download meeting report
Click here to access full details of the meeting and download presentations.

Posted 30.09.09
An advanced course in economic and ecological modeling drawing on the theory of networks economics
Date: 24/11/2009 to 26/11/2009
Venue: CRH, Sète, France
Further details

Posted 22.09.09
First meeting of MEECE UAG
Tuesday 6th Oct, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
First meeting of the User Advisory Group (UAG), the group meets once a year to provide feedback and advice on the scientific development of the project.
Further information about the User Advisory Group

Posted 24.08.09
MEECE WP2 proposal submitted for Foresite Workshop call 2009-1010.
Based on WP2 D2.1 Report on system key species, WP2 proposed a joint workshop between MEECE and FP7 Infrastructures program MESOAQUA....more details

Posted August 09
CPIB Summer School 2009: Introduction to biological modelling
Click for full details

Posted June 09
New Job opportunites:
Ocean Modelling Postdoc, Brest.
Further details

Posted June 09
MEECE Workshop 2
Joint meeting of WP3 and WP4, hosted by IRD, Sete, France. 11-13 May 2009.
Download Summary Report from meeting in which agreements for future activities of WP3 and WP4 are listed.

Posted May 09
Enumeration Values for linking end-to-end models
MEECE scientists your help is needed to develop list of names and symbols in support of linking models.... More information

Posted May 09
MEECE Project Brochure

Posted May 09
MEECE Newsletter, Issue 1.