EMBOS Training School

EMBOS Training School

Marine Biodiversity Observation: A system to bring theory and practice together

May 2014 - Santander, Spain.

José A. Juanes (Environmental Hydraulics Institute of the University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain)

& Herman Hummel (Monitor Taskforce, NIOZ-Yerseke, Netherlands)

The ESF COST Action EMBOS ES1003 on the development and implementation of a pan-European Marine Biodiversity Observatory System is organising its second Training School from 12 to 17 May, 2014, in Santander, Spain.

The EMBOS Action is focusing on two major aspects that will form the basis of a Marine Biodiversity Observatory System. Firstly, a pan-European large-scale network of marine biodiversity observatory sites is prepared, and secondly a validated system of indicators is composed which will detect status and change in marine biodiversity including ecosystem health.

Pilots to test the system and training schools are part of the Action.

In the Training Schools students and young researchers can experience how marine biodiversity is observed and biodiversity indicators are calculated and used in science and policy.

During the Training School in Santander in May 2014 the participants will be presented a theoretical and practical overview of the status of biodiversity research in Europe. Participants will take part in field trips and sampling of biota in soft-sediments and on hard-substrates, taxonomic determination of species, lectures on marine biodiversity and biodiversity indicators in use in different regions of Europe, mathematical analyses of biodiversity (indicators), introduction on networking among European biodiversity researchers, and discussion groups on the use of biodiversity indicators as used in the different regions for policy (including the MSFD).

An active input of the students is expected. To this end, students are urged to orientate themselves before coming to the training school on the use of marine biodiversity indicators in science and policy in their own country, and to take copies of relevant literature with them to the Training School.

This element will come most to the foreground on Friday and Saturday morning, in the section on “The process of selection of indicators for marine biodiversity and their application in the MSFD: Are there regional differences in approach?” Towards the last day of the course the feasibility of a joint paper (to be submitted to an international peer reviewed journal) on the use (and degree of) implementation of the GES indicators in the MSFD in the different European countries will be evaluated. We thus expect you to be prepared before coming to the Training School.

Each participant should also prepare (on beforehand) a short Powerpoint presentation (max 5 slides, max 3 minutes) to present the most relevant issues of the last years of their study and/or research.

Interested students and young researchers are invited to apply by means of the EMBOS Training School Application Form (to be requested from Herman Hummel; herman.hummel@nioz.nl).

Deadline for applications is 25 April 2014.

EMBOS Training School

Title: Marine Biodiversity Observation: A system to bring theory and practice together

Programme

Monday 12^th May 2014: Introductions

Morning Fly-in

13:30 – 13:45 Welcome and Programme

José A. Juanes (IH Cantabria, Spain)

Herman Hummel (NIOZ-Yerseke, Netherlands)

13:45 – 14:15 Introduction: EMBOS – the European Marine Biodiversity Observation System

Herman Hummel

14:15 – 15:00 European Directives dealing with Marine Biodiversity

José A. Juanes

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 16:15 The UK Case – a scientific perspective on marine biodiversity and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Matt Frost (MBA; Plymouth, UK)

16:15 – 16:45 Marine Biodiversity in Europe: a historical overview of networking and latest developments

Herman Hummel

16:45 – 17:15 Introduction to the field work: Monitoring of macrozoobenthos in the Cantabria area

17:15 – 18:00 Individual presentations by the Training School Participants (7 presentations, each max 3 minutes)

Tuesday 13^th May 2014: field trip tidal flats – Observations on macrozoobenthos diversity

07:30 Departure from the hotel

08:00 – 14:00 Field trip: Macro-zoobenthos at tidal flats (including lunch)(LW at 10:20)

Araceli Puente, Beatriz Echavarri (IH Cantabria, Spain)

14:00 – 14:30 Introduction to the practical lab work

Beatriz Echavarri

14:30 – 17:00 Practical lab-work: Identification of species and analysis and evaluation of the results of the field trip

Beatriz Echavarri

17:00 – 17:15 Wrapping up first field trip

17:15 – 18:00 Individual presentations by the Training School Participants (7 presentations, each max 3 minutes)

Wednesday 14^th May 2014: field trip rocky shores – Observations on macroalgal diversity

07:30 Departure from the hotel

08:00 – 08:30 Introduction to Monitoring of macro-algae in the Cantabria area

José A. Juanes, Consolación Fernández

08:30 – 14:00 Field trip: Macro-algae on rocky shores (including lunch)(LW at 11:00)

José M Rico, Xabier Guinda

14:00 – 14:30 Introduction to the lab work

José M Rico

14:30 – 17:00 Practical lab-work: Identification of species and analysis and evaluation of the results of the field trip

Consolación Fernández, José M Rico, Xabier Guinda

17:00 – 17:15 Wrapping up second field trip

17:15 – 18:00 Individual presentations by the Training School Participants (7 presentations, each max 3 minutes)

Thursday 15^th May 2014: From observations to descriptors of diversity (data processing)

09:00 – 09:45 Biogeography of the Bay of Biscay: recent changes

Consolación Fernández (University of Oviedo, Spain)

09:45 – 10:30 Indicators of Marine Biodiversity: the importance of control locations

Simonetta Fraschetti (Univ. Salento, Italy)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00 Processing of the data; calculation of biodiversity indices.

José M Rico

12:00 – 12:30 Examples of data processing and presentation of diversity data

Araceli Puente

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:30 – 17:00 Lab-work: Processing and analysis of the obtained data

José M Rico & Araceli Puente

17:00 – 18:00 Student presentations of the results

Friday 16^th May 2014: The implementation of the MSFD descriptors on biodiversity

09:00 – 09:15 Introduction to the programme of the day: Biodiversity Indicators and the MSFD

09:15 – 10:00 Marine Biodiversity and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive: The UK Case – a policy, political and sociological perspective

Matt Frost (MBA; Plymouth, UK)

10:15 – 10:30 Introduction to the subgroup discussions

Herman Hummel

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30 Subgroup discussions (subgroups representing European regions) - The process of selection of indicators for marine biodiversity and their application in the MSFD: Are there regional differences in approach?

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 16:00 Regional subgroup discussions (continued)

16:00 – 17:15 Plenary discussion of the sub-group outcomes (confrontation of the regional opinions)

17:15 – 18:30 Preparation of subgroup presentations

Saturday 17^th May 2014: Conclusions and evaluation

09:00 – 10:30 Presentations by the subgroups on the regional differences in the selection (process) of Marine Biodiversity indicators for the MSFD

10:30 – 11:00 Potential for a joint paper on the implementation of MSFD-GES indicators in European countries

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:00 General discussion and conclusions

12:00 – 12:30 Evaluation of the course

12:30 – … Walk –away lunch

Afternoon Departures

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