Project MORE: Past, present and future

HELCOM MORE

Past, present and future

Manuel FriasMONAS 19Helsinki 19.11.2013

2012 20152013 2014

Monitoring and assessment STRATEGY

Overview of monitoring activities

Monitoring manual

1

2

3

Finland

Sweden

DenmarkGermany

Poland

LatviaLithuania

Estonia

Russia

Hazardous

Biological

Hydrographical

Nutrients

Only coastal

WHO sent WHAT so far?

Only coastal

This was in MONAS

last year!!

Finland

Sweden

Denmark

Germany

Poland

Latvia

Lithuania

Estonia

Russia

Hazardous

Biological Hydrographical Nutrients Marine Litter

The map service http://maps.helcom.fi/website/HelcomMORE/index.html

BALSAM will

use this

data!

The new Monitoring

and Assessment

Strategy

The monitoring

manual

PLC MORSCOMBINE

Monitoring programmesIndicators

David.Asch

HELCOM monitoring

data

The

problem:

Data is

scattered in

different

docs and

databases

1 Coordination is the KEY

Monitoring and

Assessment

Strategy

R/DV/RS

How?

”Monitoring manual”Online system

Monitoring and Assessment Strategy

Other data collection

Seals monitoring guidelines

Coastal fish guidelines

PLC guidelines

MORS

General aspects

Quality assurance

Eutrophication monitoring

Contaminants monitoring

Data and map services

COMBINE manual

Current structure

Proposed structure

Monitoring and Assessment Strategy

Monitoring manual

FrameworkGeneral description of HELCOM monitoring

Programme 3...Programme 2Programme 1

Monitoring fact sheetsHydrography Hydrochemistry Phytoplankton Zooplankton Macrophytes…

Technical guidelines (guidelines, methods, QA...)

Data and map services

Indicator-related assessment products

Summaries of the monitoring programmes

04/13/202317

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Fish and cefalopods

Birds

Mammals and reptiles

Hydrography

Phytoplankton

Macrophytes

Macrobenthos

Concentrations of contaminants

Contaminants in seafood

Morphology substrate and bathymetry

Waterborne inputs of pollutants

Biological disturbance

Litter

Underwater noise

Benthic physical loss and damage

Commercial fish and shellfish

Non indigenous species

Coastal fish

Hydrochemistry

Zooplankton

Airborne inputs of pollutants

Fact sheets

Eutrophication (D5)

Hydrographical changes

Contaminants (D8, D9)

Litter (D10)

Energy, including underwater noise (D11)

Biodiversity (D1, D4, D6)-vertebrates

-pelagic habitats-benthic habitats

Commercial fish (D3)

Non-indigenous species (D2)

Monitoring programmes

General description

of monitoring programme

Next steps

Berlin13-14 January

Robby van Moor

MORE – CORESET II

04/13/202319

GES

indi

cato

rs (i

ncl.

WFD

,HD,

BD,

Red

lists

)

Mon

itore

d va

riabl

es a

nd m

onito

ring

netw

ork

Met

hods

and

gui

delin

es

Indi

cato

rs, c

riter

ia a

nd c

hara

cter

istics

Fish and cefalopods

Birds

Mammals and reptiles

Hydrography

Phytoplankton

Macrophytes

Macrobenthos

Concentrations of contaminants

Contaminants in seafood

Morphology substrate and bathymetry

Waterborne inputs of pollutants

Biological disturbance

Litter

Underwater noise

Benthic physical loss and damage

Commercial fish and shellfish

Non indigenous species

Coastal fish

Hydrochemistry

Zooplankton

Airborne inputs of pollutants

Fact sheets

Eutrophication (D5)

Hydrographical changes

Contaminants (D8, D9)

Litter (D10)

Energy, including underwater noise (D11)

Biodiversity (D1, D4, D6)-vertebrates

-pelagic habitats-benthic habitats

Commercial fish (D3)

Non-indigenous species (D2)

Monitoring programmes

General description

of monitoring programme

Consider technical aspects

Eutrophication (D5)

Hydrographical changes

Contaminants (D8, D9)

Litter (D10)

Energy, including underwater noise (D11)

Biodiversity (D1, D4, D6)-vertebrates

-pelagic habitats-benthic habitats

Commercial fish (D3)

Non-indigenous species (D2)

Monitoring programmes

General description

of monitoring programme

Outline the

general part

Outline of summaries of monitoring

programmes

Fish and cefalopods

Birds

Mammals and reptiles

Hydrography

Phytoplankton

Macrophytes

Macrobenthos

Concentrations of contaminants

Contaminants in seafood

Morphology substrate and bathymetry

Waterborne inputs of pollutants

Biological disturbance

Litter

Underwater noise

Benthic physical loss and damage

Commercial fish and shellfish

Non indigenous species

Coastal fish

Hydrochemistry

Zooplankton

Airborne inputs of pollutants

Fact sheets

Further develop fact

sheet templates

See you (some of

you)

in Berlin!

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