Hours: 24

Contents

Introduction to main EU marine policies

• An overview of the recent main EU marine policies (Marine Strategy Framework Directive, Water Framework D., Maritime Spatial Planning D., Habitat & Bird Directives) and to non-EU Mediterranean initiatives addressing the achievement and conservation of good ecosystem status and connected with the Blue Growth strategy (eg. UNEP/MAP, MED/POL).

Introduction to sustainable blue growth initiatives in the Mediterranean

• Blue economy and environmental sustainability: promoting opportunities to blue jobs and growth while protecting the marine environment.

From data to knowledge for sustainable blue growth

• The efforts at European level in the framework of Marine Knowledge 2020 initiative in order to collect and share data, information and knowledge to improve our understanding of how the seas behave.

Data access and viewing systems

• Discovering European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet), one of the main European infrastructures in charge of collecting, archiving and giving access to data related to the marine environment as well as related to maritime activities in the European basins.

Acquisition and processing of marine geophysical and seismic data

• Understand the aims and applicability of seismic data acquisition and processing.

Importance of marine biodiversity

• How to preserve the ecosystem functioning and change of diversity due to anthropic impact.

Oil spill hazards – a modelling approach

• A brief overview on the oil drilling and shipping activities and related threads and impacts to the marine environment and legislation and risk management measures. Followed by presentations of specific case studies.

Assessment of marine geohazards: a case study in the Ionian Calabrian Margin (Central Mediterranean)

• Concepts of hazard, vulnerability, risk, mitigation, resilience, geohazards assessment.
• Presentation of the different natural marine geohazards.
• Use of integrated acoustic methods to identify marine geohazards and examples of geohazards assessment in the Ionian sea (Central Mediterranean).

Uncovering the Mediterranean salt giant (MEDSALT)

• Study of the unique salt giant is inherently cross-disciplinary, embracing geology, geophysics, geochemistry, microbiology, and paleoclimatology. It is an opportunity for the scientific community to share objectives, data, expertise and tools with industry.