Š etaliste Ivana Me š trovi ć a 63, 21000 Split;

1. SEA-SEARCH REGIONAL MEETING Istambul 15-17 May, 2003 by Vlado Dadić E-mail: dadic@izor.hr INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES (IOF) Damjana Jude 12, 20000 Dubrovnik Šetaliste Ivana Meštrovića 63, 21000 Split; URL: www.izor.hr

2. Brief History • The IOF is main Croatian institution responsible for oceanographic research of theAdriatic Sea. It was founded in 1930 as multidisciplinary oceanographic institute. • Today, it consists of several laboratories: • physical oceanography, • Chemicaloceanography and sedimentology,biology, • marine ecology, • fisheries, and • aquaculture located in townsof Split and Dubrovnik. • More details on the next slide:

3. INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES AND FISHERIES AND FISHERIES AND FISHERIES DUBROVNIK DUBROVNIK SPLIT SPLIT PLANKTON PLANKTON PLANKTON PLANKTON PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY EDUCATION ACTIVITY SCIENTI F IC PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY ECOLOGY ECOLOGY ECOLOGY ECOLOGY CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY ECOLOGY ECOLOGY AND SEDIMENTOLOGY AND SEDIMENTOLOGY AND MARINE AND MARINE AND SEDIMENTOLOGY AND SEDIMENTOLOGY AND MARINE AND MARINE MARINE FISHERIES ORGANISMS ORGANISMS ORGANISMS ORGANISMS MICROBIOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY BREADING BREADING BREADING BREADING PLANKTON PLANKTON PLANKTON PLANKTON MARINE BIOLOGY & ECOLOGY BENTHOS BENTHOS BENTHOS BENTHOS MEDAS MEDAS R/V BIOS R/V BIOS AQUACULTURE AQUACULTURE AQUACULTURE AQUACULTURE ACTA ADRIATICA ACTA ADRIATICA R/V BIOS R/V BIOS DATABA DATABA SE SE MEDAS MEDAS DATABASE DATABASE ICHTIOLOGY AND ICHTIOLOGY AND ICHTIOLOGY AND ICHTIOLOGY AND LIBRARY LIBRARY COASTAL FISHERIES COASTAL FISHERIES LIBRARY LIBRARY COASTAL FISHERIES COASTAL FISHERIES ACTA ADRIATICA ACTA ADRIATICA FISHERIES SCIENCE AND MANAGEMANT OF FISHERIES SCIENCE AND MANAGEMANT OF FISHERIES SCIENCE AND MANAGEMANT OF FISHERIES SCIENCE AND MANAGEMANT OF R/V BIOS R/V BIOS PELAGIC AND DEMERSAL RESOURCES PELAGIC AND DEMERSAL RESOURCES PELAGIC AND DEMERSAL RESOURCES PELAGIC AND DEMERSAL RESOURCES

4. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND COMMISSIONED RESEARCH • International co-operation has been developed in a variety of ways. From the very beginning, the scientists at the Institute have participated in the work of the International Commission for the Scientific Exploration of the Mediterranean (CIESMM). • The Institute works with various organisations of the United Nations. These include: The General Fisheries Council for the Mediterranean (GFCM), The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the World Health Organisation (WHO), The Organsation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). • Bilateral co-operation on various projects also exists with the following countries: Italy, Greece, Poland, Switzerland, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Norway, England and USA. • The Institute has also prepared a large number of applicative studies and analyses for various national and international organisations, firms, municipalities, and for the Governments. These are primarily studies of the environmental implications of various activities, monitoring of seawater quality and fish stock assessment for commercial purposes.

5. RESEARCH PROGRAMS RELATED MARINE ENVIRONMENT> 250 PROGRAMS in collaboration with UNEP, FAO, IOC, EU, ITALY, USA, NORWAY, GERMANY, GREECE,FRANCE,municipals, counties, investors, ...- MONITORING PROGRAM SPLIT- GARGANO PROFILE (1948 - ....)- MONITORING PROGRAM OF THE ADRIATIC SEA (National oceanographic program (1998- ...) - MONITORING PROGRAM OF MARINE AREAS IN REGION OF DALMATIA (1983- ... )- NATIONAL MONITORING OF WATER QUALITY IN THE COASTAL AREA (1982 - ...)- PLANNING OF ASSIGNEMENT OF MARINE AREASIN THE SPLIT-DALMATIA COUNTY - PLANNING OF ASSIGNEMENT OF MARINE AREAS IN THE DUBROVNIK- NERETVA COUNTY - MEDITS (An international bottom trawl survey in the Mediterranean)

6. Circulation of water masses in the Adriatic Sea Summer Winter

7. INVESTIGATION OF THE COLOR FROM CZCS DATA - THE ADRIATIC, COVERS THE WHOLE VARIETY OF COLORS: FROM THE VERY PRODUCTIVE NORTHERN, TO THE ALMOST OLIGOTROPHIC SOUTHERN ESPECIALLY IN THE NORTHERN ADRIATIC, THERMOHALINE CONDITIONS AND COLOR ARE INFLUENCED BY THE STRONG WIND FORCING AND BY THE PO RIVER RUNOFF

8. ADRICOSM Pilot project that aims to implement an integrated coastalzone management in collaboration with Italy

9. MONITORING PROGRAM SPLIT- GARGANO PROFILE (1948 - ....)

10. MONITORING PROGRAM OF THE ADRIATIC SEA(NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM (1998- ...) Spatial distribution of stations

11. MONITORING PROGRAM OF MARINE AREAS IN REGION OF DALMATIA (1983- ... )

12. ECOLOGICAL RESEARCHES IN WIDE AREA OF THE CITY OF SPLIT (1990-1991)

13. MARINE RESEARCH UNDERTAKEN FOR THE DESIGN OF A SUBMARINE OUTFALL OF THE SPLIT-SOLIN SEWERAGE SYSTEM (CROATIA)

14. PLANNING OF ASSIGNEMENT OF MARINE AREAS IN THE SPLIT-DALMATIA COUNTY

15. PLANNING OF ASSIGNEMENT OF MARINE AREAS IN THE SPLIT-DALMATIA COUNTY Coastal zone of the island of Brač with existing mariculture site, and areas with micro locations suitable for mariculture

16. INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES SPLIT-DUBROVNIK PROTECTED AREA - REGISTRATED PROTECTED AREA - EVIDENTED PROTECTED AREA - PROPOSED ECOLOGICALY IMPORTANT AREA PROTECTED AND ECOLOGICALY VALAUABLE AREAS PLANNING OF ASSIGNEMENT OF MARINE AREAS IN THE DUBROVNIK-NERETVA COUNTY

17. PROTECTED AND ECOLOGICALY VALAUABLE AREAS INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES SPLIT-DUBROVNIK FISHING ACTIVITIES RESTRICTED FISHING WITH THROLLERS (THURSDAY) RESTRICTED FISHING WITH THROLLERS (WENDSDAY AND THURSDAY) FORRBIDEN FISHING WITH TROLLERS INSIDE 1Nm FROM COASTLINE FORRBIDEN FISHING WITH TROLLERS INSIDE 2NM FROM COASTLINE PROTECTED AREA (FORBIDDEN FISHING ACTIVIITIES) FISHING ZONE C - OUTER MIDDLE ADRIATIC FISHING ZONE D - OUTER SOUTH ADRIATIC FISHING ZONE G - INNER SOUTH ADRIATIC FISHING PERMITTED WITH SOME FISHING TOOLS FISHERIES ACTIVITIES PLANNING OF ASSIGNEMENT OF MARINE AREAS IN THE DUBROVNIK-NERETVA COUNTY

18. EAST ADRIATIC CIRCULATION EXPERIMENT (EACE)

19. MEDITSAn international bottom trawl survey in the Mediterranean At the end of each survey, standard analyses are produced on the data. These analyses include the production of biomass and abundance indices (in kg/km2 and in N°/km2) as well length frequency distribution for each of the reference species and each of the strata.

21. INVESTIGATION OF DEMERSAL FISH POPULATION (2000 -)

22. INVESTIGATION OF PELAGIC FISH POPULATION (2001 - )

23. Bivalve biology, ecology and aquculture SPECIES LISTS • Mljet island National Park • Mali Ston Bay

24. European flat oyster larvae - monitoring • Monitoring of larvae in Mali Ston Bay in cooperation with local producers.

25. Publishing activity • The scientific journal "Acta Adriatica" has been published by the Institute since 1932. It publishes original scientific papers on the oceanography of the Adriatic and Mediterranean. Each paper was previously issued as a separate publication; but since 1979, has appeared as two issues within a single annual volume. 593 papers havebeen published in 42 volumes to date.

27. Roles and Responsibilities of the data Centre • Oceanographic Information Centre (OIS) was founded as a technical unit OF iof in 1982 withmain objective to co-ordinate management of oceanographic data collected by variouslaboratories. • Today, OIS has mandate to co-ordinate the management ofoceanographic data collected in the framework of various research activities in Croatia,as well as exchange data on the international level. • Main role is to standardise dataformats and units, collect, validate, archive, exchange and disseminate of data, dataproducts and services to the marine community on the national and international levelsand improve technical level of data management and their presentation usingcomputer technology. • IOF Data Centre represents Designated National Agency of Croatia in the framework of IODE (IOC) System

28. To achieve planned objectives facilities in OIShave beenrecently improved as follow • new SUN SPARC server was installed with firewall and centralantivirus protection system, • two additional servers were installed (for hosting Marineenvironmental database of the Adriatic Sea (MEDAS), and management of on-linemeteo-ocean measuring system (three stations at present time), simulation of twodifferent numerical models (pilot phase), and their presentation on web pages, as wellas pictures from existing two web-cam. • There are more software as ORACLE RDBMS 9i, Arc-GIS 8.3, MATLAB, Mathematica, Statistica, C++, etc. • Local Network with more than 100 PCs, digitizers, scanners, printers and plotters • 10 MB connections to Internet • class-room with local Network consists 12-PCs (WIN2000 op.system), projector, printer and scanner, suitable for education and practices purposes

29. Main Data Centre Projects and Activities: • OIS hastaken a main role in data management concerning the all projects realised by IOF,among them some follows: • JADRAN Project (National oceanographic monitoring system of Croatia) • ADRICOSM Project (Pilot project that aims to implement an integrated coastalzone management in collaboration with Italy) • EACE Project (East Adriatic coastal experiment in collaboration with USA) • SIPAM Project (Information system for promotion of aquaculture of theMediterranean countries in collaboration with FAO and 17 bordering countries • MAMA (Mediterranean Network to assess and upgrade monitoring andforecasting activity in collaboration with EC) • ADRIAMED (FAO corporative project between countries bordering Adriatic Sea to support responsible fisheries) • MEDITS (Mediterranean international bottom trawl-surveys in co-operation with EC) • DEMON (Monitoring and management of demersal resources along the Eastern Adriatic coast - Croatian territorial waters, in collaboration with Norway) • PELMON (Acoustic estimations of distribution and abundance of small pelagic fish populations in the Adriatic Sea (echo-survey), • MEDAR-MEDATLAS-II Project (in collaboration through IODE/IOC), • MEDAS (Marine environmental database of the Adriatic Sea), • OC-ON-LINE (transmitting oceanographic data in real-time trough web)

30. Data Centre Products and Services Developed and/or Made In the framework of the above mentioned and some other projects OIS produced or took part in production of various data products, among them the most important are: • Improved MEADS database implemented GIS tools for data presentation and validation, • Updated inventory of historical oceanographic data based on cast sampling (ROSCOP forms) • Inventory of currents’ measurement in the Adriatic Sea by Croatian institutes • Developed software for data collecting, validation, archive and presentation by web of on-line meteo-ocean stations including various parameters, • Developed web based applications for data management in the framework of the projects:JADRAN (www.izor.hr/jadran), ADRICOSM (www.izor.hr/adricosm), EACE (www.izor.hr/eace), BUOY PROJECT (www.izor.hr/online),SIPAM (www.izor.hr/sipam), MEDITS (www.izor.hr/medits), etc.

31. SEA-SEARCH PROJECTEDMED, EDMERP, and ROSCOP forms filled and sent to responsible centresROSCOP forms developed as part of MEDAS database Segments in MEDAS database have been under development for automatic updated of EDMED, EDMERP forms and transcoding in ACCESS database

32. OIS holds a great amount of various oceanographic data related to physicaloceanography, chemistry, biology, fishery and aquaculture. All data are stored ininternal format and they are validated through quality control procedure included in Marine environmental database of the Adriatic Sea (MEDAS) developed in Institute by Oracle RDBMS following IOC,WDC-A and MEDAR-MEDATLASprocedure. More informations – next slides:

33. SYSTEM FOR ARCHIVING, VISUALISATION AND VALIDATION OF OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA(MEDAS)(Developed by OIS)Main Goals • Simple system for storing and retrieval of data related various oceanographic parameters for end users • Presentation of output results, especially in graphic form • Efficient system for validation of oceanographic data from the Adriatic Sea • Interfaces for data transcoding in different formats

35. Database design

36. ON-LINE DATA via WEB - SAMPLES • Program “Weather” every 10 minutes produces picture containining actual data • every three hours “Weather” starts program “Graph” • Graph starts ORACLE graphic builder and sends to the Internet server 24 hour graphic views • once a day in themidnight “Weather” starts program “Graph” for monthly and yearly statistic views (using ORACLE graph builder), starts form for the HTML generation

37. The graphic survey of the solar and net radiation fluctuations on the day when 90% of the latest solar eclipse was visible. WEB SAMPLES The course of daily temperatures during May 2002 The course of monthly solar radiation in year 2001 REAL TIME DATA

38. Automatic measurements and data elaboration FOR MORE INFO... www.izor.hr

39. Classical oceanographic data -Determination of the area

40. Database survey

42. Spatial distribution of measuring stations All stations (1900-2002) Distribution of all oceanographic measuring stations Spatial distribution of oxygen stations

43. Basic statistics of parameters by season and depth (I - REGION)

44. Square includes: - coastal area - open sea Different number of data in squares Number of salinity profiles per 1*1 degrees squares

45. Definition of areas in the Adriatic Sea for calculation climtologcal ranges of classical oceanographic parameters (I) (III) (II) (IV) 28 one degree squares and 4 sub-regions in the Adriatic Sea

46. Season Season Season a) b) c) Number of data of temperature at 5 different levels by season: a) Original data b) Data in interval of 3sigma of average c) Data inside 1 sigma of average

47. Number of profiles T - Tavg < 1 sigma T - Tavg < 3 sigma Number of stations Number of temperature profiles (original and filtered) and stations per months

48. Errors at sea levels as result of converting from pressure to depth and vice-versa

49. BOT CTD MBT XBT Number of measuring data at different levels

50. Standard depth Max distance between two outer levels Distance between levels (m) Depth (m) Max distance between two inner levels Adriatic Sea: 41 standard levels Number of standard level