Flow & Benthic Ecology 4D (FLOWBEC)
Lead Research Organisation:
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Department Name: Plymouth Marine Lab
Organisations
- Plymouth Marine Laboratory (Lead Research Organisation)
- NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE (Collaboration)
- Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (Collaboration)
- Lancaster University (Collaboration)
- BANGOR UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE (Collaboration)
- Marine Scotland Science (MSS) (Collaboration)
- Scottish Association for Marine Science (Collaboration)
Publications
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(2012)
FVCOM modelling at PML
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(2012)
FVCOM at PML
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(2013)
FVCOM Toolbox, surface heating in FVCOM and the wiki/code repository
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(2014)
Modelling the coastal and nearshore zones with the FVCOM unstructured model
| Description | The main objective of FLOWBEC within PML was to develop and implement coupled hydrodynamic-ecosystem models in areas of marine energy activity to evaluate the potential environmental impacts of marine energy extraction. To that end, PML has implemented the hydrodynamic (e.g. water flow, ocean temperature and salinity) model FVCOM in three different geographical areas: The Irish Sea to evaluate wind farm effects on the regional circulation, Celtic Sea/Bristol Channel, Western Channel and southern North Sea to evaluate marine energy extraction in and around the Wavehub and Bristol Channel, and northern Scotland and the Orkney's. The main results from this work suggest that FVCOM is an appropriate tool for resolving the small-scale impacts of individual marine energy devices (MEDs) like the three dimensional wake effects of wind-farm pylons and that multiple devices can be resolved simultaneously to evaluate cumulative impacts. Our work also indicates that far-field effects (many MED size away) of multiple MED's are not negligible but highly complex. Because they mostly arise from the interaction of the tides with the MED's the impacts need to be evaluated in domains covering a substantially larger area than the area of interest. In our case, this means that the impacts of wind farms planned for the Irish Sea, require a model domain that includes both the Celtic Sea and the south-west of Scotland. The impacts can be found in the slow residual currents that arise from the asymmetry in the tidal currents and therefore will have implications for ecosystem components that rely on these slow currents for their survival like larval dispersion. |
| Exploitation Route | This model framework allows the detailed evaluation of the implication of multiple MED's at both the short and long time scales. The results indicate that much care needs to be put in the design and implementation of fine-scale models as the results will be impacted by factors such as the domain size and boundary conditions. Our approach can be used to investigate the potential benefits arising from MED's farms as de-facto Marine Protected Areas (potential to act as nursery areas), their impact on changes in connectivity between coastal sites and offshore farms and their potential for hosting aquaculture activities within them. These tools will also be applicable to other areas where environmental impacts are hypothesised but require resolving the marine environment in fine detail such as aquaculture activites, coastal anthropogenic interventions (i.e. dredging activities, harbour design, coastal pollution). |
| Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Construction,Energy,Environment,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism |
| URL | http://noc.ac.uk/project/flowbec |
| Description | The coupling of ERSEM, one of the most advanced ecosystem models, to FVCOM, a state of the art hydrodynamic model, opens the possibility of making detailed and comprehensive ecosystem simulations at scales (order of 100m or less) that have never been achievable with any other implementation of ERSEM. This will have direct implications for the biogeochemical modelling of estuaries as well as small scale impacts from marine renewable energy activities. The tools developed here allow for direct simulations and evaluation of ecosystem impacts related to a large variety of stressors like anthropogenic pollution, CO2 leaks arising from CCS activities, diffuse pollution and marine renewable energy activities. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2013 |
| Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Energy,Environment |
| Impact Types | Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | EU H2020 SFS-11b-2015 - Consolidating the environmental sustainability of European aquaculture |
| Amount | € 6,918,512 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | Project ID: 678396 |
| Organisation | European Union |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 03/2016 |
| End | 02/2020 |
| Description | IMMERSE: Improving Models for Marine EnviRonment SErvices |
| Amount | € 4,998,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 821926 |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 12/2018 |
| End | 12/2022 |
| Description | Improving Models for Marine EnviRonment SErvices |
| Amount | € 4,998,942 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 821926 |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 12/2018 |
| End | 11/2022 |
| Description | MyCoast: Coordinated Atlantic Coastal Operational Oceanographic Observatory |
| Amount | € 3,000,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | EAPA_285/2016 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 11/2017 |
| End | 07/2020 |
| Description | PML-UoE research fund |
| Amount | £5,575 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Plymouth Marine Laboratory |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2015 |
| End | 06/2015 |
| Description | PRIMROSE: Predicting Risk and Impact of Harmful Events on the Aquaculture Sector |
| Amount | € 2,000,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | INTERREG IIIC North |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | France |
| Start | 11/2017 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Title | FVCOM implementations. |
| Description | Implementation of FVCOM in the UK wide shelf (3D) as well as regional domains for the EMEC site (Scotland) and the Wavehub site ( Cornwall). Other European regional implementations include the Western Mediterranean (Alboran Sea). New local and high resolution implementations (sub km resolution) include the Plymouth Western Coastal Observatory domain (UK), the Ria de Vigo (North West Spain), as well as the Nador Lagoon in North Morocco. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2013 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The model outputs have been/are currently being used in three PhD projects, one within the FLOWBEC NERC project (James Waggitt, Aberdeen University), and others through NERC studentships (Samantha Cox and Marcus Zanacchi, both at university of Plymouth). Model output have been submitted to a dedicated FP7 project MEDINA GEOSS server (http://www.medinageoportal.eu) for the Nador Lagoon implementation. The UK wide model implementation has been shared with NOCL staff. The Ria de Vigo implementation has contributed to a Spanish funded project (STRAMIX). |
| URL | http://www.medinageoportal.eu |
| Title | FVCOM matlab toolbox |
| Description | Development of an FVCOM (Finite Volumen Coastal Ocean Model) matlab toolbox for the automatic generation of input files for FVCOM and for postprocessing and plotting of FVCOM simulation results. The implementation is domain independent. This toolbox is updated regularly and distributed under MIT license. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2013 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This toolbox is now being distributed together with the FVCOM code by the FVCOM development team. As such, it has given PML, in particular the fine-scale team at PML, world-wide exposure. In our experience, this toolbox has reduced the time required for the implementation of FVCOM in a new domain by more than 70%. It has also reduced the time needed for evaluating and modifying existing FVCOM implementations and it has probably made the process more accessible to new users. We believe the increase in the use of FVCOM in UK science is partly a direct consequence of this toolbox having been made publicly available and continuously updated. |
| URL | https://gitlab.ecosystem-modelling.pml.ac.uk/fvcom/fvcom-toolbox |
| Title | FVCOM model outputs for the UK shelf |
| Description | FVCOM hydrodynamic model output supplied to MERP research programme. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2013 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Paper published using this data. Fieldwork campaigns informed by the outcomes of the model outputs. |
| Title | FVCOM-ERSEM implementation in the Conwy estuary and surrounding coastal areas |
| Description | We have implemented a realistic setup of the hydrodynamic model FVCOM and the biogeochemical model ERSEM in the North Wales area including both Anglesey coastal areas and the Conwy estuary. The model is nested within our Western UK shelf FVCOM-ERSEM model. We have simulated 2005. The results constitute a preliminary version which we will update during 2018. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This is the first time the biogeochemistry of the Conwy has been simulated at the resolution of this model. The main purpose of the model is to evaluate the main processes involved in the processing of terrestrial organic matter which will happen during 2018. The setup is suitable for the study of marine renewable energy impacts on marine biogeochemistry. It could similarly be used to evaluate the potential growth of the mussel farms located near the Menai Straight. |
| Title | Model output in support of MSc Marine Renewable Energy at Plymouth University |
| Description | PML provided hydrodynamic model output (tidal currents and sea surface elevation) from the implementation of FVCOM in the South West UK |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2013 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The students prepared a course work on the economic feasibility of tidal energy extraction in several areas of the South West UK based on 2 months worth of model output prepared by PML. |
| Title | Offline code coupling of FVCOM and ERSEM |
| Description | ERSEM has been coupled offline with the 3D unstructured grid model FVCOM. The model has been tested in a small coastal lagoon. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This computer model is currently in the UK FVCOM Wiki and SVN repository and it is accessible to all UK users of FVCOM who have registered with PML. The new code enables multiple runs of FVCOM-ERSEM at a substantial reduced computer time/power costs. By maintaining the same hydrodynamic solutions, ERSEM can be used to simulate what-if scenarios that are only related to biogeochemical conditions and do not affect the hydrodynamics. The ecosystem model ERSEM is now publicly available through the SSB NERC program. FVCOM-ERSEM code will track future developments of ERSEM taking place within the SSB and MERP programs. |
| Title | Online coupling of FVCOM and ERSEM |
| Description | The 3D unstructured grid model FVCOM has been coupled to the ecosystem model ERSEM. Testing and comparison of results between existing POLCOMS-ERSEM implementations and FVCOM-ERSEM are planned for 2013-2014. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2013 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This developmental tool enables the investigation of the bio-physical interactions that occur at fine time and spatial scales, particularly in the near-shore regions. This tool will have strong applications in marine renewable energy, marine aquaculture, coastal ecology and pollution. |
| Description | Bangor University |
| Organisation | Bangor University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Model results generated by me have been analysed by James Waggit at Bangor to help interpret the behaviour of seabirds. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Paper manuscripts. |
| Impact | Two peer-reviewed papers so far with a third in the works. Multiple conference presentations. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Collaboration with NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (NGLERL) with Dr Mark Rowe's group |
| Organisation | Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We are supporting the implementation, analysis and interpretation of simulations performed with the model system FVCOM-FABM-ERSEM through transference of expertise that exists in my group through a series of shared screen sessions, presentations, example test cases and transfer of python code. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They have shared their experience in modelling freshwater pelagic plankton and their approaches to simulating hypoxia events |
| Impact | The collaboration is in its early stages but involves disciplines such as freshwater ecology, oceanography, chemistry, mathematics and computer sciences. We are preparing a proposal to formalise the collaboration to be submitted to NOAA internal funding. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Establishment of UK FVCOM interest group |
| Organisation | Lancaster University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have set up a UK FVCOM interest group that includes representatives from SAMS, NOCL and Marine Scotland. We held our first meeting at PML in September 2012. Since then, we have setup a wiki and SVN repository for sharing common tools related to FVCOM and model implementations to foster collaborations and enhance our understanding of the model's capabilities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners have contributed with intellectual inputs and shared experiences. |
| Impact | The partnership is mostly focused on the use of FVCOM and associated models (wave, sediment and ecosystem models) and provides a platform for exchange of ideas and experiences. As such, this is a multidisciplinary collaboration involving physical oceanography, ecology and ecosystem modelling and numerical methods. We have produced a Wiki (web based how-to manual) where the partners exchange their experiences and solutions to common problems in detail. Improvements to the code and/or analysis tools are also documented here. We also host an SVN repository (version control software) of the FVCOM code together with each partner's updates to the code. The exchange of information has enabled a more robust and consistent approach to implementations of FVCOM in different regions of the UK. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Establishment of UK FVCOM interest group |
| Organisation | Marine Scotland Science (MSS) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We have set up a UK FVCOM interest group that includes representatives from SAMS, NOCL and Marine Scotland. We held our first meeting at PML in September 2012. Since then, we have setup a wiki and SVN repository for sharing common tools related to FVCOM and model implementations to foster collaborations and enhance our understanding of the model's capabilities. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Establishment of UK FVCOM interest group |
| Organisation | Marine Scotland Science (MSS) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We have set up a UK FVCOM interest group that includes representatives from SAMS, NOCL and Marine Scotland. We held our first meeting at PML in September 2012. Since then, we have setup a wiki and SVN repository for sharing common tools related to FVCOM and model implementations to foster collaborations and enhance our understanding of the model's capabilities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners have contributed with intellectual inputs and shared experiences. |
| Impact | The partnership is mostly focused on the use of FVCOM and associated models (wave, sediment and ecosystem models) and provides a platform for exchange of ideas and experiences. As such, this is a multidisciplinary collaboration involving physical oceanography, ecology and ecosystem modelling and numerical methods. We have produced a Wiki (web based how-to manual) where the partners exchange their experiences and solutions to common problems in detail. Improvements to the code and/or analysis tools are also documented here. We also host an SVN repository (version control software) of the FVCOM code together with each partner's updates to the code. The exchange of information has enabled a more robust and consistent approach to implementations of FVCOM in different regions of the UK. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Establishment of UK FVCOM interest group |
| Organisation | National Oceanography Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have set up a UK FVCOM interest group that includes representatives from SAMS, NOCL and Marine Scotland. We held our first meeting at PML in September 2012. Since then, we have setup a wiki and SVN repository for sharing common tools related to FVCOM and model implementations to foster collaborations and enhance our understanding of the model's capabilities. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Establishment of UK FVCOM interest group |
| Organisation | National Oceanography Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have set up a UK FVCOM interest group that includes representatives from SAMS, NOCL and Marine Scotland. We held our first meeting at PML in September 2012. Since then, we have setup a wiki and SVN repository for sharing common tools related to FVCOM and model implementations to foster collaborations and enhance our understanding of the model's capabilities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners have contributed with intellectual inputs and shared experiences. |
| Impact | The partnership is mostly focused on the use of FVCOM and associated models (wave, sediment and ecosystem models) and provides a platform for exchange of ideas and experiences. As such, this is a multidisciplinary collaboration involving physical oceanography, ecology and ecosystem modelling and numerical methods. We have produced a Wiki (web based how-to manual) where the partners exchange their experiences and solutions to common problems in detail. Improvements to the code and/or analysis tools are also documented here. We also host an SVN repository (version control software) of the FVCOM code together with each partner's updates to the code. The exchange of information has enabled a more robust and consistent approach to implementations of FVCOM in different regions of the UK. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Establishment of UK FVCOM interest group |
| Organisation | Scottish Association For Marine Science |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have set up a UK FVCOM interest group that includes representatives from SAMS, NOCL and Marine Scotland. We held our first meeting at PML in September 2012. Since then, we have setup a wiki and SVN repository for sharing common tools related to FVCOM and model implementations to foster collaborations and enhance our understanding of the model's capabilities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners have contributed with intellectual inputs and shared experiences. |
| Impact | The partnership is mostly focused on the use of FVCOM and associated models (wave, sediment and ecosystem models) and provides a platform for exchange of ideas and experiences. As such, this is a multidisciplinary collaboration involving physical oceanography, ecology and ecosystem modelling and numerical methods. We have produced a Wiki (web based how-to manual) where the partners exchange their experiences and solutions to common problems in detail. Improvements to the code and/or analysis tools are also documented here. We also host an SVN repository (version control software) of the FVCOM code together with each partner's updates to the code. The exchange of information has enabled a more robust and consistent approach to implementations of FVCOM in different regions of the UK. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Establishment of UK FVCOM interest group |
| Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have set up a UK FVCOM interest group that includes representatives from SAMS, NOCL and Marine Scotland. We held our first meeting at PML in September 2012. Since then, we have setup a wiki and SVN repository for sharing common tools related to FVCOM and model implementations to foster collaborations and enhance our understanding of the model's capabilities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners have contributed with intellectual inputs and shared experiences. |
| Impact | The partnership is mostly focused on the use of FVCOM and associated models (wave, sediment and ecosystem models) and provides a platform for exchange of ideas and experiences. As such, this is a multidisciplinary collaboration involving physical oceanography, ecology and ecosystem modelling and numerical methods. We have produced a Wiki (web based how-to manual) where the partners exchange their experiences and solutions to common problems in detail. Improvements to the code and/or analysis tools are also documented here. We also host an SVN repository (version control software) of the FVCOM code together with each partner's updates to the code. The exchange of information has enabled a more robust and consistent approach to implementations of FVCOM in different regions of the UK. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | SAMS |
| Organisation | Scottish Association For Marine Science |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration between us and SAMS for configuration of our common modelling tools. In particular, this has been for the configuration of the atmospheric model we use. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Help setting up and troubleshooting model configurations and data sources. |
| Impact | We have generated a decade of atmospheric model outputs which we use for a range of modelling applications. These results have also been included in a peer-reviewed publication. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Title | FVCOM Python Toolbox |
| Description | Python tools for interrogating FVCOM model data. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Significantly speeds up post-processing model outputs. Also increasing use in parallel processing of outputs and inputs for FVCOM. |
| URL | https://gitlab.ecosystem-modelling.pml.ac.uk/fvcom/pyfvcom |
| Title | FVCOM toolbox |
| Description | Provide pre- and post-processing tools for the FVCOM hydrodynamic model. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | The toolbox has been included in the official release of FVCOM. |
| URL | https://gitlab.ecosystem-modelling.pml.ac.uk/fvcom/fvcom-toolbox |
| Description | 8th UK FVCOM Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave a talk at the 8th UK FVCOM Workshop entitled "PML's approach to FVCOM modelling, set up and validation". Publicising PML's work with FVCOM has meant that, for example, our recent job advert has received interest from people present at the workshop. In addition, I was asked to present PML's modelling work to Marine Scotland Science with a view to exploring potential future colloborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | AMEMR conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented work on the riverine impacts on offshore aquaculture (poster and presentation) at this year's AMEMR conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.amemr.com/ |
| Description | Attended the Offshore Renewable Energy Supergen Hub meeting in London to represent PML's science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attended the Offshore Renewable Energy Supergen Hub meeting in London to represent PML's science |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Contributed to the modelling group's presentation to the ISO9001 assessor |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Contributed to the modelling group's presentation to the ISO9001 assessor |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | FVCOM workshop in Edinburgh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave a talk at the 8th UK FVCOM Workshop entitled "Biogeochemical modelling with FVCOM". The talk exemplified the contributions PML is making to the community model FVCOM and how the additional functionality can help tackle a much wider range of topics than what was previously possible with FVCOM. The talk has instigated the gradual uptake of our biogeochemical model ERSEM by groups in the US. The additions will be part of future regular releases of FVCOM by the UMASSD development team led by Dr. C. Chen at The Marine Ecosystem Dynamics Modelling Laboratory (MEDML) at the School for Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://fvcom.smast.umassd.edu/ |
| Description | Invited seminar to the National Oceanography Centre on Offshore renewable energy device interactions with shelf seas environment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of main findings from FLOWBEC activities to a group of professionals interested in shelf sea modelling and observations. Detail of presentation: Cazenave, P; Torres, R; Allen, JI. 2014 Offshore renewable energy device impacts on seasonally stratified seas around the UK: an unstructured modelling approach. [Lecture] In: National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, Seminar Series, National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, 2014/12/10. (Unpublished) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://plymsea.ac.uk/6851/ |
| Description | MMO evidence gathering meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Participation in a phone conference organised by the MMO with other SW stakeholders under the Marine Planning Summer Engagement workshops on Ports and Coastal development. We reviewed the work done by the MMO so far in terms of identifying and evaluating Issues, Causes and Effects. This was a contribution to their process in setting up the Marine Planning draft for the South West. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Marine Scotland Science's Scottish Shelf Model workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was an invited speak for Marine Scotland Science's Scottish Shelf Model workshop in Edinburgh, where I presented PML's modelling tools and their use, particularly FVCOM-ERSEM and FVCOM-ERSEM-ShellSIM. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://marine.gov.scot/data/scottish-shelf-model-workshop-june-2017 |
| Description | Modelling of the marine environment for Energy resource assessment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Two hour lecture to MSc students of Marine Renewable Energy course from the Unisversity of Plymouth MSc students requested model outputs to use in their end of year project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Offshore wind Challenger society conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of results of our investigations on the impacts of offshore wind farms on the local and regional hydrodynamics. We have highlighted the potential for offshore wind farms using monopole foundations to affect the stratification, local residual velocities and regional residual currents with the potential to impact on the structure of the tides at the shelf scale. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation at FVCOM UK workshop in Oban, Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attendance and presentation of results from PML activities with model FVCOM. This workshops are held regularly and aim at promoting exchange of best practices and resources among UK users of hydrodynamic ocean model FVCOM. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://plymsea.ac.uk/6881/ |
| Description | Presentation at Plymouth Marine Laboratory Seminar series. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited seminar intended to publicise the main findings of our work within FLOWBEC project as well as sharing the new approaches we have taken to evaluate impacts that can occur at a wide range of scales simultaneously. Cazenave, P; Torres, R; Allen, JI. 2015 Offshore wind farm impacts on seasonally stratified seas: an unstructured modelling approach. [Lecture] In: PML Seminar Series, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, 2014/04/08. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://plymsea.ac.uk/6854/ |
| Description | Presented PML's work on modelling of carbon in UK waters to Marine Scotland Science. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave an overview of PML's work on modelling of carbon in UK waters to Marine Scotland Science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presented PML's work on modelling of carbon in UK waters to the Marine Management Organisation. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presented PML's work on modelling of carbon in UK waters to the Marine Management Organisation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Research workshop with East China Normal University, Shanghai |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | During October 24-26, 2016, the Workshop on Modelling coastal ecosystems in China was held in SKLEC-NIVA Centre for Marine and Coastal Research, State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research (SKLEC), East China Normal University, Shanghai. Modeling Scientists from Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), Middle East Technical University (METU), Technical University of Denmark (DTU), along with Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) have participated in the workshop. Discussions focused on Modeling Coastal and Shelf Ecosystems, with three main challenges: 1) Downscaling to local scale and back again, 2) Delivering relevant knowledge for end-users and 3) An integrated international effort towards delivering relevant new knowledge for studies on socio-ecological systems. Free discussions among different themes were also very hot before the end of the workshop. The workshop organisation concluded that future cooperation in projects, research, and papers were needed, and proposed to form an international modeling task team in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Stakeholders meeting in Nador to evaluate potential activities to monitor eutrophication threats to Nador lagoon as a result of climate change and anthropogenic activities. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The stakeholders meeting was organised by the local government of Nador in collaboration with investors behind the MarChica development project. Many local stakeholder groups were also present, from local fisherman organisations to the University of Nador. In addition to presenting results from the EU project MEDINA, scientists and local stakeholders were involved in a Scenario analysis by participatory process. The results of the workshop will be used to better define the monitoring and development strategy for the Nador lagoon. The workshop rose very high interest and was very well attended. We have made contact with the local university to enhance data exchange. All data that were presented at the workshop are publicly available through the MEDINA project geoportal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Tamar tidal energy scheme meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Meeting between local industry representatives and Iridescent Ideas CLC, a social enterprise management firm. The meeting aimed at discussing the steps needed to assess the feasibility of developing a community micro tidal energy project in the Tamar. I presented the resources that PML can offer to support the study as well as a general discussion on the characteristics and dynamics of the Tamar estuary and how these could support tidal energy extraction. We briefly discussed the different commercial technologies available for such a project and what role PML Applications could play in supporting the project. The attendees grew their awareness of the multiple steps needed for developing the project further and of the wide range of skills that PML can provide. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Visit to Cambodia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | During a visit to Cambodia for the ACCORD project, we met with a wide range of people, from government officials keen to utilise the opportunity afforded them by the project to develop a monitoring capability in Cambodia. Their intention is to train and set up a regular marine sampling programme to monitor water quality. We discussed potential approaches within the context of their funding. We also met with an NGO (Marine Conservation Cambodia) with a strong involvement in the protection of the newly create Marine Protected Areas. During the meeting, a preliminary plan was developed for a fieldwork campaign. Modelling and remote sensing data were also demonstrated for subsequent use and planning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Workshop on tidal lagoons (Bangor, Wales) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 50 people attended the event including 30 academics and representatives from industry and third sector and environmental managers. The main objective was to examine the tidal range resource over a variety of timescales, including climate change, and how the resource can best be optimized and the environmental impacts of multiple tidal lagoons within a region. Resulting from discussions three draft review articles have started; one on resource and optimization and two on the impacts of tidal lagoons. It is hoped that these will feed into the forthcoming independent review by the Department of Energy & Climate Change into the feasibility and practicality of tidal lagoons in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |