Last week
was held in Brussels the final DEVOTES conference. DEVOTES is a collaborative
project that run from 2012 to 2016 with the overall goal of better
understanding the relationships between pressures from human activities and
climatic influences and their effects on marine ecosystems. Its leaders, Dr.Angel Borja and Dr. Maria C. Uyarra from the Marine Research Division of AZTI-Tecnalia
in Pasaia, Spain coordinated the project to link its work to the management of
European seas to reach and or maintain a “Good Environmental Status”.
The programme reflected efforts to merge the worlds of managers and researchers by
involving presentations from both stakeholders and scientists. Among the works
presented during the event, the NEAT (Nested Environmental status Assessment
Tool) software seems to break the boundaries between research and management of
marine waters as it allows an assessment of biodiversity status and of GES
across regional seas while also indicating the uncertainties related to the
assessment. This tool has far reaching possibilities as it is not restricted to
the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive and can be used for other needs
(e.g. national assessments). More about it here.
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