MERCW
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- Full name
- Modelling of Ecological Risks related to Sea-dumped Chemical Weapons
- Acronym
- MERCW
- Website
- Keywords
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- Budget
- € 2.8 million euro
- Start date
- 2005/11/01
- End date
- 2008/10/31
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Partners
- G-TEC
- SCIENTIFIC AND PRODUCTION ASSOCIATION "TYPHOON"
- RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT BONN
- SAINT-PETERSBURG SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CENTER OF ECOLOGICAL SAFETY
- SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY - ATLANTIC BRANCH
- DANMARKS MILJOEUNDERSOEGELSER
- UNIVERSITEIT GENT
- UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA
Funding Bodies
- EU FP6
- Action Line: INCO-2003-D1 Environmental protection
- STREP
Contact
- STIPA, Tapani (Dr)
- Tel: +358-9-613941
- FINNISH INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH, Erik Palménin aukio 1, FINLAND,
Objectives
The MERCW proposal focuses on the study of chemical munition dump sites in the Baltic Sea and Skagerrak area. Through focused site investigations an assessment will be made of the ecological risks related to the dumped warfare for the marine ecosystem an d people. The main objectives of the project involve: -To develop and apply innovative, integrated geophysical, geo- and hydrochemical, hydrographical, and hydrobiological site investigations; -To evaluate and model the release, migration and degradation of toxic compounds as well as their degradation products in the environment; -To develop a regional ecological risk assessment model using innovative visualisation. The project workplan involves the implementation of 8 linked workpackages and will (2) ana lyse existing data and integrated geophysical remote sensing investigations including seismics, magnetometry, side-scan sonar, electromagnetic and bathymetric measurements, and (3) acquire hydrographical, geo- and hydrochemical, and hydrobiological info rmation around the dumpsites (seawater structure and motion, general properties of bottom sediments, presence of toxic compounds). The findings are analysed together with (4) 3D models of physical processes that control propagation of toxic compounds in t he bottom sediments seawater system, and (5) a generic model for the trophic enrichment of toxins, to be developed in the project. The models will be applied separately and combined for scenario studies to estimate the risks of bioaccumulation of CW produ cts in the food web. The ecological risk value (ERV) of the modelled risks will be assessed (6) for marine ecosystems and people. Innovative visualisation, Virtual Reality technology and interactive data analysis will be applied (7). The resulting scenario s are crucial to support decision-making, risk analysis, and emergency plans. A documented database will be constructed (8) and project results disseminated towards end-users and the public.
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