Main objective: to explore deep-sea areas of the Azores for which there is currently little or no information available on the composition and diversity of its benthic fauna in order to better understand the distribution of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs) and commer...

This high-level summary brings together the key policy-relevant results of the four-year, European Union Horizon 2020 ATLAS Project: A trans-Atlantic assessment and deep-sea ecosystem-based spatial management plan for Europe (May 2016 – October 2020). The importance of ...

The final edition of the ATLAS newsletter.

The CF metadata conventions (https://cf-trac.llnl.gov/trac) are designed to promote the processing and sharing of files created with the NetCDF API. The conventions define metadata that provide a definitive description of what the data in each variable represents, and t...

Encoding of the SeaDataNet Cruise Summary Report (CSR) metadata profile in XML, by means of both XML schema and Schematron rules definitions, Version 4.0.0, January 2019. This document has been drafted in the context of the EU FP7 SeaDataNet II project and EU H2020 SeaD...

BigDataOcean - Exploiting Oceans of Data for Maritime Applications @EU Project Networking session of the 14th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'17)

International efforts are underway to establish well-connected systems of marine protected areas (MPAs) covering at least 10% of the ocean by 2020. But the nature and dynamics of ocean ecosystem connectivity are poorly understood, with unresolved effects of climate vari...