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Baltic Sea Pilot Project

BALSAM

Testing new concepts for integrated environmental monitoring of the Baltic Sea

Johanna Karhu, Project Coordinator

BALSAM – EU funded ”New Knowledge” pilot project (460 000€)

• ther pilot projects in the North Sea (JMP NS/CS) and in the

Mediterranean and Black Sea (IRIS-SES)

• supports HELCOM work on coordinated monitoring of the

Baltic and the MSFD monitoring work (Art 11) of EU Member States

• Close coordination with MORE needed and asked by HELCOM

GEAR

Joint deliverables:

Cataloguing activity of environmental monitoring, proposals towards integrated monitoring programmes 3 reports to the EC (every 6 months)

Partners

1. Coordinator HELCOM Secretariat 2. Aquabiota, Sweden (non-profit research institute) 3. Baltic Environmental Forum, Latvia (NGO) 4. Estonian Fund For Nature, Estonia (NGO) 5. Estonian Marine Institute, Estonia (public research institute) 6. Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, Germany (public research institute) 7. Finnish Environment Institute, Finland (public research institute) 8. Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute (public research institute) 9. Instytut Meteorologii I Gospodarki Wodnej – PIB, Poland (public research institute)

• 10. Klaipeda University, Lithuania (university)
• 11. Latvian Fund for Nature, Latvia (NGO)
• 12. Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology, Latvia (public research institute)
• 13. Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemuende, Germany (public research

institute)

• 14. Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Sweden (SMHI)
• 15. Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden (public research institute)
• 16. Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia (university)
• 17. University of Gdansk, Poland (university)
• 18. WWF Finland (NGO)
• 19. Århus University, Denmark (university, public research institute)

WP1 Project Coordination and cooperation for integrated monitoring WP lead: HELCOM Secretariat, Project Coordinator Partners: - Aquabiota (Sweden), Baltic Environmental Forum Latvia (BEF LV), Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Estonian Marine Institute (EMI), Klaipeda University (KUCORPI, Lithuania), Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology (LIAE), Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW, Germany), Polish Institute of Meteorology and Water Management from Gdynia (IMGW), Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Tallinn University of Technology (TUT, Estonia), Århus University (AU, Denmark) Stakeholders: Roshydromet, State Oceanographic Institute (SOI)

WP2 Fisheries and environmental monitoring WP lead: HELCOM Secretariat Partners: Institute of Meteorology and Water Management from Gdynia (IMGW), SMHI, SYKE Stakeholders: Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries (TI- OF) External assistance: ICES WP6 Baltic Sea benthic biotopes and habitats, WP Lead: Baltic Environmental Forum Latvia (BEF LV) Partners: Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology (LIAE), AquaBiota Water Research ABWR AB (AquaBiota), Estonian Marine Institute (EMI), Klaipeda University (KUCORPI) WP3 Marine mammals and seabirds WP Lead: Århus University (AU) Partners: Latvian Fund for Nature (LFN), Swedish Museum

• f National History

(SMNH), Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute (FGFRI), WWF Finland, Estonian Fund for Nature (EFN), WP4 Non-indigenous species WP Lead: HELCOM Secretariat Partners: Estonian Marine Institute (EMI), University of Gdansk (UG), Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), Latvian Institute

• f Aquatic Ecology

(LIAE), SYKE External assistance: BSH, HELCOM, UG WP5 coordinated international use

• f research vessels

for monitoring WP Lead: Tallinn University of Technology (TUT) Partners: SYKE, IMGW, Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology (LIAE), SMHI, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW)

WP1: Coordination, facilitation and administration Project Coordinator Johanna Karhu, HELCOM Secretariat

EC and MSFD Project Coordination Group

• input to WG DIKE and GES

WP3: Regional coordination of monitoring of marine mammals and seabirds WP Lead: Aarhus University, Denmark WP2: Promoting resource- efficiency in national monitoring strategies WP Lead: HELCOM Secretariat (BALSAM Project Coordinator) and ICES to contribute WP5: Tools for optimizing coordinated international use

• f research vessels for

monitoring activities WP Lead: Tallinn University of Technology (TUT, Estonia) WP4: Non-indigenous species – multi- disciplinary monitoring schemes to gain synergies for ballast water risk-management and environmental monitoring WP Lead: HELCOM Secretariat (Professional Secretary for HELCOM MARITIME) WP6: A common standard for mapping and monitoring of Baltic Sea benthic biotopes and habitats, and format for data exchange; WP Lead: Baltic Environmental Forum Latvia (BEF, Latvia)

Communication with

• ther sea regions: two
• ther New Knowledge

projects, Baltic2Black

HELCOM GEAR to supervise implementation of BALSAM, MONAS and HABITAT groups informed

Coordination with the HELCOM MORE project for monitoring revision

Coordination with HELCOM SEAL EG Supports ALIENS3

ICES Working Groups

MARMONI project ICES WGITMO

BALSAM Activities

• Kick-off meeting held 14-15 November in Helsinki
• WP1 meeting on 7 May 2014 in Tallinn
• Spring 2014 – collecting information for catalogue by updating

MORE excel files and filling in monitoring topic templates (WP2, WP3, WP4 and WP6)

• November 2014 – proposals for integrated monitoring
• Final report in spring 2015

First progress report to the EC by end of May 2014

• Includes information collected during cataloguing activity
• Contributing to the HELCOM Monitoring Manual
• Final information will be presented in the HELCOM online

Monitoring Manual

MORE BALSAM HELCOM MONITORING MANUAL

In meetings last week

WP1: Planned the first interim report to the EC and the next steps in the project – proposals for integrated Monitoring WP3: First seabird meeting – discussion on establishment

• f a platform for monitoring

WP6: Planned the development of a monitoring manual for benthic habitats

Upcoming outcomes

• Action plan to improve data flows and processes for

environmental and fisheries data + workshop

• Joint methods for seal monitoring + proposals for

further improvements in monitoring, databases

• Platform on seabird monitoring + proposals on how to

coordinate monitoring in the future, metadatabase

• Report on NIS monitoring for MSFD and IMO BWMC
• Online platform on research vessels, planned cruises,

enhanced access

• Manual for monitoring of benthic habitats

Published and presented to HELCOM groups

Challenges

• To bring in added value to the HELCOM Monitoring Manual by

focusing on gaps - DONE

• To ensure continuation of the seabird monitoring platform after

the project – possibility to have a task force under HELCOM?

• To make a concrete action plan with ICES focusing on improving

regional data flows and databases, for e.g. Indicator needs

• To take proposals coming out from BALSAM WPs forward in

HELCOM working groups (seals, seabirds, NIS, benthic habitats, enhanced access to cruises)

Thank you!