Networks
BALTINET
The increase in anthropogenic activities in the last century has made the Baltic Sea polluted and the most hypoxic area in the world. Our aim is to understand how human and climate change affects phytoplankton diversity, changes in genetic composition and adaptation in the Baltic Sea.
The results will help formulate future projects to understand adaptive evolution in phytoplankton. To enhance the research field and promote networking and capacity building in the Baltic area, the current network aims to invite international collaborators for the exchange of ideas, best practices, data and materials. The envisioned research network was built to maintain and foster interactivity and collaboration between strong groups active in the field and also expand the scope and exchange ideas on the potential of evolutionary adaptation of phytoplankton to changing environments due to human actions and climate change in the Baltic region.
TREC Paleocore consortium
In the frame of the EU BIOcean5D project, Ifremer leads a multidisciplinary research team to assess the effect of human pollution across European coastal ecosystems over the Anthropocene period. Using sediment core bio-geochemical archives, human pollution traces will be associated with inter-site community changes, invasive species dynamics, and emergent risk for human and coastal resources.
