1. 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 prof. dr hab. Stanisław Massel, e-mail: smas@iopan.gda.pl dr Sławomir Sagan, e-mail: sagan@iopan.gda.pl Coordinators: 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 Institute of Oceanology PAS Powstancow Warszawy 55 81-712 Sopot, Poland, Tel: +48 58 551 72 81 Fax: +48 58 551 21 30

2. 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 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 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” Areas of scientific activity and established fields of expertise

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 Events supported by CeSSS Conferences...................................24 Research /study /training visits.......29 Meetings.........................................11 Research visits to CeSSS..............17 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

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 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 Marine Database capacities safe and secure storage system data quality checking and data quality assurance procedures software developed to generate automatic cruise summary reports (ROSCOP) http://ocean.iopan.gda.pl/db/ 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 developing ties with world datacenters

7. 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 : International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange of IOC (IODE) 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

8. 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 CeSSS starts Points count: papers, proposals, applications, workshops, conferences

9. IOPAS integration with world marine institutes – before and after CeSSS 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 Shorter distance to the center = closer ties 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…