The MEECE Project
News Items
- MEECE second periodic report now available
- MEECE Science Meeting 2011 report and presentations now available
- Advances in module coupling workshop, San Sebastian. Workshop Report
- LAST CALL for Transnational Access in 2012. The MESOAQUA network offers European and non-European researchers Transnational Access to a range of mesocosm facilities...full details/ flyer
- Meeting Report from Copenhagen Workshop
- Should “Citizen Scientist” play with Climate & Ecosystem Models? E.G.U Newsletter article
The Science
MEECE is an European FP7 project that uses predictive models to explore the impacts of both climate drivers (acidification, light, circulation and temperature) and human induced drivers (fishing, pollution, invasive species and eutrophication) on marine ecosystems.The implementation of the EU’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) requires the application of an ecosystem-based approach to the management of human activities. Underpinning the delivery of the MSFD is the scientific challenge of investigating and understanding the sensitivities and potential responses of marine ecosystems, to both climatic change and the direct effects of human activity. If we do not understand how the ecosystem will respond to these multiple drivers we will find it very difficult to manage marine ecosystems.
For Stakeholders
Effective knowledge transfer requires communication between MEECE scientists and global users (e.g. policy makers, advisory bodies, research managers, conservation and user groups, management bodies), and results in the production and exchange of existing or new research-based knowledge in decision-making. Key MEECE target groups include, decision makers in both science and policy areas, SME interested in the application of knowledge, and the public as a whole. Find out more about MEECE's KT activities.
