Contract no. : EVK3-CT-2002-80004 CeSSS Project duration: 1st of Dec 2002 – 30th of Nov 2005

1. C e n t r e o f E x c e l l e n c e f o r S h e l f S e a s S c i e n c e I n s t i t u t e o f O c e a n o l o g y P o l i s h A c a d e m y o f S c i e n c e s Contract no.: EVK3-CT-2002-80004 CeSSS Project duration: 1st of Dec 2002 – 30th of Nov 2005 Project type: FP5 EESD „Accompanying measures” www: http://www.iopan.gda.pl/CeSSS Coordinators: prof. dr hab. Stanisław Massel, e-mail: smas@iopan.gda.pl dr Sławomir Sagan, e-mail: sagan@iopan.gda.pl Institute of Oceanology PAS Powstancow Warszawy 55 81-712 Sopot, Poland, Tel: +48 58 551 72 81   Fax: +48 58 551 21 30

2. C e n t r e o f E x c e l l e n c e f o r S h e l f S e a s S c i e n c e I n s t i t u t e o f O c e a n o l o g y P o l i s h A c a d e m y o f S c i e n c e s Areas of scientific activity and established fields of expertise • biodiversity with outstanding taxonomy expertise • coastal arctic ecology; mass and heat fluxes in the North Atlantic • hydrology of the Baltic waters - sea experiments and mathematical modelling • remote control of the Baltic Sea ecosystem • Other types of activity: • developement and maintanance of the Marine Data Base Centre • partnership in Gdansk Oceanography Centre for Research and Education, • opennig access to r/v „Oceania”

3. C e n t r e o f E x c e l l e n c e f o r S h e l f S e a s S c i e n c e I n s t i t u t e o f O c e a n o l o g y P o l i s h A c a d e m y o f S c i e n c e s Networking and Twinning with European Community Institutions • European institutions with the closest • links with CeSSS: • Baltic Sea Research Institute, Warnemünde, • Germany • University of Ghent, Belgium • Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremen, Germany • Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK • Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway • Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromso, Norway • NIOOZ, Holland Events supported by CeSSS Conferences...................................24 Research /study /training visits.......29 Meetings.........................................11 Research visits to CeSSS..............17

4. C e n t r e o f E x c e l l e n c e f o r S h e l f S e a s S c i e n c e I n s t i t u t e o f O c e a n o l o g y P o l i s h A c a d e m y o f S c i e n c e s Summary of events organized, 2003-2005 2003 - 4 workshops, 95 participants, 14 countries Belgium, Czech, Estonia,Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Russia,Spain, Poland, Portugal,UK, 2004 – 1 conference and 2 workshops, over 70 participants, 16 countries Belorussia, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany,Italy,Malta,Netherlands,Oman,Poland, Russia, South Africa,Tunisia,UK, Ukraine, USA 2005 - 4 workshops, over 100 participants, 9 countries Czech, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Norway, Poland, Sweden, UK, Ukraine

5. C e n t r e o f E x c e l l e n c e f o r S h e l f S e a s S c i e n c e I n s t i t u t e o f O c e a n o l o g y P o l i s h A c a d e m y o f S c i e n c e s Scientific projects, FP6 CarboOcean - Marine carbon sources and sinks assessment - IP EUR-OCEANS - European Network of Excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis - NoE Marine Genomics - NoE ELME - European Lifestyles and Marine Ecosystems - STREP DAMOCLES – Developing Arctic Modelling and Observing capabilities for Long-term Environmental Studies - IP CARE - Climate of the Arctic and its Role for Europe - IP MARBEF – Network of Excellence in marine biodiversity - NoE

6. C e n t r e o f E x c e l l e n c e f o r S h e l f S e a s S c i e n c e I n s t i t u t e o f O c e a n o l o g y P o l i s h A c a d e m y o f S c i e n c e s Marine Database capacities • database system based on the replicated database servers • software for the automated data input to the database • infrastructure capable to host large datasets, linkage to the TASK Academic Computer Centre • safe and secure storage system • data quality checking and data quality • assurance procedures • software developed to generate automatic • cruise summary reports (ROSCOP) Further development - Creating mapping tools to adopt external dictionaries (BODC, ITIS etc.) - Adopting GIS to data visualisation and presentation - Extending capacity to build offline products based on datasets from the Marine Data Bank - Developement of interfaces to exchange data with other data providers and usersMaintaining and developingties with world datacenters http://ocean.iopan.gda.pl/db/

7. International Council for Exploration of the Sea ICES Working Group of Marine Data Management ICES Working Group of Marine XML EurOcean portal: research vessel data base International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange of IOC (IODE) C e n t r e o f E x c e l l e n c e f o r S h e l f S e a s S c i e n c e I n s t i t u t e o f O c e a n o l o g y P o l i s h A c a d e m y o f S c i e n c e s Close ties with international institutions :

8. CeSSS starts C e n t r e o f E x c e l l e n c e f o r S h e l f S e a s S c i e n c e I n s t i t u t e o f O c e a n o l o g y P o l i s h A c a d e m y o f S c i e n c e s CeSSS impact on IOPAS statistics Points count: papers, proposals, applications, workshops, conferences

9. C e n t r e o f E x c e l l e n c e f o r S h e l f S e a s S c i e n c e I n s t i t u t e o f O c e a n o l o g y P o l i s h A c a d e m y o f S c i e n c e s IOPAS integration with world marine institutes – before and after CeSSS • Index composed of numbers of: • joint research projects • joint papers • joint workshops/conf. • joint proposals submitted • export of knowledge - e.g. guest lecturing • import of knowledge - receiving guest lectures • joint cruises • presence in Steering Committees... • participation in Research Councils… • supervision of PhD's • revieving of PhD's • membership in editorial boards of journals • participation in evaluation panels • visiting students to… • visiting students from… Shorter distance to the center = closer ties