European Project on Ocean Acidification

EPOCA

Project timeline

Start:
May 2008

Duration:
48 months

End:
April 2012

General Information

The project aims at investigating the impact of ocean acidification on marine ecosystems and its interplay with present and pre-historic oceanic carbonate chemistry. The research, jointly proposed with 28 partners, is anticipated to provide a sound basis for advising political decision makers. Research interest cover climatic, biogeochemical issues on global scale, as well as ecological aspects in coastal regions, e.g. in North Sea and Baltic Sea. The proposal is devised to establish bridges between paleo-reconstruction, large-scale biogeochemistry, and process-oriented research on organisms and habitats. The major GKSS contribution will be to mediate between experiments and large scale, biogeochemical modelling. Observations from mesocosm studies will be assimilated into ecological models that include parameterisations for pH-sensitive processes, such as calcification, carbon acquisition, and nitrogen fixation.

EU-Programme Acronym and Subprogramme Area	FP7-ENV-2007-1
Project Type	Large-scale integrating project
Contract Number	Grant Agreement 211384
Co-ordinator	CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographique de Villefranche (FR)

Total Eligible Costs (€)	Hereon Eligible Costs (€)	EC Funding for Hereon (€)
9.752.200	178.356	133.765

Contact Person at Hereon

Dr. Markus Schartau, Institute for Coastal Research, KOE Phone: +49 4152 87 1540, Fax : +49 4152 87 1565
E-mail contact

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Participants

Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung AWI (DE), Hafrannsoknastofnunin (IS), Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (FR), Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee NIOZ (NL), Laboratoire d'Océanographie, CNRS (FR), Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften an der Universität Kiel IFM-GEOMAR (DE), Marine Biological Association (UK), Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie (DE), Natural Environment Research Council (UK), Philippe Saugier International Educational Projects (FR), Scottish Association for Marine Science (UK), The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge (UK), University of Bern (CH), University of Bristol (UK), University of Plymouth (UK), University of Plymouth (UK), University of Southampton (UK), University of Southampton (UK), Utrecht University (NL), Vereniging Voor Christelijk Hoger Onderwijs, Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek En Patientenzorg (NL), Vereniging voor Hoger Onderwijs Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek en Patientenzorg (NL)

Last Update: 16. April 2021