BRAIN-beBelgian Research Action through
Interdisciplinary Networks
4 Decades of Belgian Marine Monitoring: Uplifting historical data to today’s needsBRAIN-be Axis 3 – Cultural, historical and scientific heritage
• Federal heritage resulting from marine scientific expeditions• Paper, excell-files, cruise reports,..• Scattered availability
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4DEMON
• Projet Mer/Projekt Zee (1970-1976)
• Aim:• Digitize, integrate and disseminate• Quality control and intercalibration• Interdisciplinary valorisation
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Partners
RBINS, OD Nature
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• Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences– Operational Directorate Natural
Environment
former MUMM + former scientific groups Freshwater Biology and Biological Evaluation, and the National Focal Point Biodiversity
RBINS, OD NatureBelgian Marine Data Centre
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Monitoring:OSPAR
WFDMSFD
human activities
National andinternational research projects Repository
IDOD
ICES
EMODNETWeb interface
Eurofleets
IODE NODC
SeaDataNet
GeoSeas
ODIP
RBINS, OD NatureBelgian Marine Data Centre
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Ruth Lagring
Francis Strobbe
Serge Scory
Karien De Cauwer
Yvan StojanovMyriam Nemry Mia Devolder
RBINS, OD NatureREMSEM
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Remote Sensing &
Dimitry Van der Zande
Ecosystem modeling
Xavier Desmit
Protistologie & Aquatische Ecologie
Sofie D’Hondt, Tine Verstraeten, Ilse Daveloose, Olga Chepurnova, Renaat Dasseville (lab assistents)
Anja Hondekyn (secretary)
Claas Steigüber Dagmar Obbels
Evelyn Buyze Evelien Van De Vyver
Jolien Fret Junzhuo Liu
Maxime Sweetlove Michiel Matthijs
Sara Moeys Wim Van Nieuwen huyze
An-Sofie D’Hondt Anja Nohe
Willem Stock
Prof. Dr. Wim Vyverman
Prof. Dr. Koen Sabbe
Dr. Dr. Elie Verleyen
Dr. Pieter Vanormelingen
Dr. Marie Huysman
Dr. Karolien Deprez
Céline Allewaert
Lander Blommaert
www.pae.ugent.be
Established 1996
Research themes
(1) Biology & evolution unicellular eukaryotes (protists)(2) Short- and longterm dynamics of freshwater and marine ecosystems(3) Microalgal biotechnology
e.g. biotic interactions in microbial food webs (e.g. microalgae-bacteria, grazing), dynamics of estuarine and marine microplankton and microphytobenthos communities, diversity ecosystem function relationships, role of dispersal and local adaptation for spatial and temporal dynamics microlagal populations, diatom cell and life cycles
Protistologie & Aquatische Ecologie
Persons involved in 4DEMON
PhD student Anja Nohe [April 1st onwards, VLIZ (1/2 yr) & PAE (31/2 yrs)]
Koen Sabbe
Protistologie & Aquatische Ecologie
Chemical Oceanography Unit of the University of Liège
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Number of permanent researchers 2
Number of Ph-D thesis defended 6
Number of Ph-D students 5
Number of post-doctoral researchers 3
Number of technicians and/or logisticians 2
Research topics :Aquatic biogeochemistry with strong focus on greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O) and other climate gases (DMS)Full range of aquatic systems :- rivers and lakes- Estuaries- Continental shelves- Open ocean- Antarctic and Arctic seaice
Chemical Oceanography Unit of the University of Liège
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As been involved in ocean acidification :
Frankignoulle and Gattuso papers the 1990’s papers highlighted the negative effects of ocean acification on coral reef calcification
Delille et al. (2005) paper reports one of the first large scale multidisciplinary mesocom experiments looking into ocean acidification effects on pelagic comunities
Borges & Gypens (2010) paper highlights for the first time specific evolution of ocean acidification in coastal environments