EMODNET Preparatory Actions Third six-monthly progress meeting for ur-EMODNET preparatory actions, 29 November 2010 Progress Report Chemical Lot Alessandra

EMODNETPreparatory Actions

Third six-monthly progress meeting for ur-EMODNET preparatory actions, 29 November 2010

Progress Report

Chemical Lot

Alessandra Giorgetti

Matteo Vinci

Alberto Brosich (OGS)

Chemical lot – focus on 3 Geographic areas

NORTH SEA

BLACK SEA

MEDITERRANEAN SEA


5 spots

Chemical lot – Parameters

- Choice based on Choice based on MSFDMSFD requirements requirements- Time series, geographically representative datasetsTime series, geographically representative datasets- Selected from Selected from 8 groups8 groups in in 3 matrices3 matrices- 1717 selectedselected for product generation in the three for product generation in the three regionsregions


Parameter selected – water column

water columnEMNC Chemical group Parameter SDN P021 CODE SDN PARAMETERS P021 TERMC1 Pesticides Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) PEWB Pesticide concentrations in water bodiesC2 Pesticides Hexachlorobenzene (HCB) PEWB Pesticide concentrations in water bodiesC3 Antifoulants Tributyltin (TBT) WCOC Concentration of other organic contaminants in the water columnC4 Antifoulants Triphenyltin (TPT) WCOC Concentration of other organic contaminants in the water columnC5 Pharmaceuticals Oxytetracycline (C22H24N2O9) PHWB Pharmaceutical concentrations in water bodiesC6 Heavy metals Mercury (Hg) MTWD Dissolved metal concentrations in the water columnC6 Heavy metals Mercury (Hg) MTWT Total metal concentrations in the water columnC6 Heavy metals Mercury (Hg) MTWP particulate metal concentrations in the water column C7 Heavy metals Cadmium (Cd) MTWD Dissolved metal concentrations in the water columnC7 Heavy metals Cadmium (Cd) MTWT Total metal concentrations in the water columnC7 Heavy metals Cadmium (Cd) MTWP particulate metal concentrations in the water column C8 Heavy metals Lead (Pb) MTWD Dissolved metal concentrations in the water columnC8 Heavy metals Lead (Pb) MTWT Total metal concentrations in the water columnC8 Heavy metals Lead (Pb) MTWP particulate metal concentrations in the water column C9 Hydrocarbons Anthracene (C14H10) PCHW

Concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the water column

C10 Hydrocarbons Fluoranthene (C16H10) PCHWConcentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the water column

C11 Radionuclides Tritium WRAD Radioactivity in the water columnC12 Radionuclides Cesium 137 WRAD Radioactivity in the water columnC13 Radionuclides Plutonium 239 WRAD Radioactivity in the water columnC14 Fertilisers/Nitrogen Nitrate (NO3) NTRA Nitrate concentration parameters in the water columnC15 Fertilisers/Phosphorus Phosphate (PO4) PHOS Phosphate concentration parameters in the water columnC16 Organic matter Organic Carbon (C) CORG Particulate total and organic carbon concentrations in the water columnC17 Organic matter Organic Nitrogen (N) NTOT Particulate total and organic nitrogen concentrations in the water column

dissolved + particulate


Parameter mapping

Parameter selected - sediment

sedimentEMNC Chemical group Parameter SDN P021 CODE SDN PARAMETERS P021 TERMC1 Pesticides Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) PESD Pesticide concentrations in sedimentC2 Pesticides Hexachlorobenzene (HCB) PESD Pesticide concentrations in sedimentC3 Antifoulants Tributyltin (TBT) SCOC Concentration of other organic contaminants in sediment samplesC4 Antifoulants Triphenyltin (TPT) SCOC Concentration of other organic contaminants in sediment samplesC5 Pharmaceuticals Oxytetracycline (C22H24N2O9) PHSE Pharmaceutical concentrations in sedimentsC6 Heavy metals Mercury (Hg) MTSD Metal concentrations in sediment C7 Heavy metals Cadmium (Cd) MTSD Metal concentrations in sediment C8 Heavy metals Lead (Pb) MTSD Metal concentrations in sediment C9 Hydrocarbons Anthracene (C14H10) SCAH

Concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in sediment samples

C10 Hydrocarbons Fluoranthene (C16H10) SCAHConcentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in sediment samples

C11 Radionuclides Tritium SRAD Radioactivity in sedimentC12 Radionuclides Cesium 137 SRAD Radioactivity in sedimentC13 Radionuclides Plutonium 239 SRAD Radioactivity in sedimentC16 Organic matter Organic Carbon (C) CBSD Carbon concentrations in sedimentC17 Organic matter Organic Nitrogen (N) NTSD Nitrogen concentrations in sediment C14 Fertilisers/NitrogenC15 Fertilisers/Phosphorus


Parameter mapping

Parameter selected - biota

biotaEMNC Chemical group Parameter SDN P021 CODE SDN PARAMETERS P021 TERMC1 Pesticides Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) PEBI Pesticide concentrations in biotaC2 Pesticides Hexachlorobenzene (HCB) PEBI Pesticide concentrations in biotaC3 Antifoulants Tributyltin (TBT) BCOC Concentration of other organic contaminants in biotaC4 Antifoulants Triphenyltin (TPT) BCOC Concentration of other organic contaminants in biotaC5 Pharmaceuticals Oxytetracycline (C22H24N2O9) PHBI Pharmaceutical concentrations in biotaC6 Heavy metals Mercury (Hg) BCMT Metal concentrations in biota C7 Heavy metals Cadmium (Cd) BCMT Metal concentrations in biota C8 Heavy metals Lead (Pb) BCMT Metal concentrations in biota C9 Hydrocarbons Anthracene (C14H10) BCAH Concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

(PAHs) in biotaC10 Hydrocarbons Fluoranthene (C16H10) BCAH Concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in biotaC11 Radionuclides Tritium BRAD Radioactivity in biota

C12 Radionuclides Cesium 137 BRAD Radioactivity in biotaC13 Radionuclides Plutonium 239 BRAD Radioactivity in biotaC14 Fertilisers/NitrogenC15 Fertilisers/PhosphorusC16 Organic matterC17 Organic matter

Fixed as target species Mytilus (Edulis/Galloprovincialis)


Parameter mapping

EMODNET Chemical lot uses SeaDataNet V1 infrastructure for the technical set-up:

• SDN Standards for background data, metadata and products :•CDI (xml ISO 19115) mechanism to access

data with data policy management,•ODV format for background data exchange,•SDN Security Services for users registrations,

and SDN Delivery Services for data access and downloading,

• DIVA software tool to produce gridded data products and error maps as NetCDF files,

• SDN Products catalogue (CAMIOON system) and SDN Products viewing services for discovery, access, visualization and downloading of data products.Third six-monthly progress meeting for ur-EMODNET preparatory

actions, 29 November 2010

New elements developed for EMODNET Chemical pilot:

• extended SDN Vocabulary (P021 for CDI and P061 for units covers all chemical parameters selected) - METADATA• extended SDN Vocabulary (P011 for ODV) - DATA• EMODNET Chemical portal – operational• EMODNET Chemical CDI directory – populated and

continuously updated• EMODNET Chemical CDI User Interface - launched• EMODNET Products Viewing Service Ocean Browser –

launched • EMODNET Products Discovery Services – under

development• ODV/DIVA software is used to produce mapsThird six-monthly progress meeting for ur-EMODNET preparatory

actions, 29 November 2010

CDI metadata

Path from DATA to PRODUCTSNorth SeaNorth Sea EMODNET Chemical BufferEMODNET Chemical BufferVocabulary Web services

Vocabulary Web services

SeaDataNetSeaDataNet

WormsWorms

Regiona

l QC

Regiona

l QCDataData

CodesCodes Regional

Products

Regional

Products

Med SeaMed Sea


WormsWorms

Local data compliation (ODV)


Regiona

l QC

Regiona

l QC

Vocabulary Web

servicesVocabulary W

eb services

Regional

Products

CDI metadata

CDI metadata

Product Output (NetCDF)

Data Input (ODV)

Data Input (ODV)

Data Input (ODV)


Black SeaBlack Sea


WormsWorms



Regiona

l QC

Regiona

l QC

Vocabulary Web

servicesVocabulary W

eb services



Data collection started with:

•nutrients in the water column:

•then extended to all other selected chemicals in the water column (organic matter – DOC and TN, …),

•then to synthetic compounds, hydrocarbons and heavy metals in the sediments and biota (considering the target species MYTILUS).

All partners produced ODV files for the regional task leaders (NERI, MHI, HCMR)

All partners produced CDI entries for User interface (Maris)

WP2 – Data collection and metadata compilation


Progress on data collection and metadata compilation in the three

regions


-4/62

-4/49

13/62

13/49

About the Greater North Sea (NERI-MAR) - boundaries for the regional data products

About the Greater North Sea (NERI-MAR) - data for the regional products• data collection take advantage of the existing

ICES database DOME

• extract from DOME to the regional data pool (EMODNET Chemical Buffer Database)

• => North Sea partners only have to report additional datasets to the regional data pool (except nutrients)

• Partners: • NERI, ICES, NERC-BODC, IFREMER, BSH-DOD, VLIZ,

IMR, RBINS-MUMM, SMHI, RWS/NIOZ.

Data collection - data distribution – North Sea

Status at November2010:

Samples per parameter per matrix

DIVA maps available at the EMODNET portal

Parameter Group Parameter WATER COLUMN SEDIMENT BIOTA

Pesticides Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) 1.317 1.219 14.233 Pesticides Hexachlorobenzene (HCB) 609 1.260 16.843 Antifoulants Tributyltin (TBT) 510 894 1.513 Antifoulants Triphenyltin (TPT) 125 378 182 Pharmaceuticals Oxytetracycline (C22H24N2O9) Not in the CBD database at the moment Heavy metals Mercury (Hg) 1.783 6.685 67.042 Heavy metals Cadmium (Cd) 3.217 6.695 58.378 Heavy metals Lead (Pb) 1.178 4.771 57.775 Hydrocarbons Anthracene (C14H10) 166 11.977 1.502 Hydrocarbons Fluoranthene (C16H10) 228 8.856 1.630 Radionuclides Tritium Not in the CBD database at the moment Radionuclides Cesium 137 Not in the CBD database at the moment Radionuclides Plutonium 239 Not in the CBD database at the moment Nutrients Nitrate (NO3) 77.654 0 0 Nutrients Phosphate (PO4) 90.811 0 0 Organic matter Organic Carbon (C) 25.169 54.422 0 Organic matter Organic Carbon (N) 0 735 0

EMODnet Chemicalaim - overview – data

available

the goal is to show reliable and useful maps if possible to produce them

a simply overview of data available pr. parameter pr. matrix gives us some information but what about data distribution in space and time ?

in the matrix biota notice the many different species and which item measured (liver, muscles ..)

in the sediment matrix notice the different grain sizes

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data availability – measurements - pr. parameter pr. matrix

space and time – matrix biota

•the overall data distribution for matrix biota is fine in time and space,

but…

space and time - biota

• example PB - repeated measurements at the stations for many years, but spatial coverage could be better


• another example PB – number of measurements okay but limited time period and no good spatial coverage


• another example PB – number of measurements and time period okay, but data from coastal areas

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data availability – measurements - pr. parameter pr. matrix

space and time – matrix sediment

• good overall spatial coverage, but be aware of grain size fraction – example PB

space and time – matrix sediment

• grain size fraction (µm) – example PB

Only a few parameters candidates for DIVA-maps data products generation limited spatial coverage

explanations for the limited spatial coverage:

• data from coastal areas or along the coast (number of measurements and time period often okay)

• there are repeated measurements at some few stations for many years, but the spatial coverage is very limited

• In sediment and biota matrix the different grain size fractions and measurement methods and item measured (liver, muscles ...) often are a limiting factor for a good and homogeneous data coverage

Actions and conclusions – North Sea•Other viewing approach is needed for a lot of the EMODNET parameters => to show time series (from the expert workshop in Venice 2010)

•Partners still have focus on delivering CDI´s (to MARIS) for the EMODNET selected parameters

Progress on data harvesting and product generation

Example: Nitrate in the matrix water column,layer: 10 meters depth, month 1, data from 1970 to 2009

Theme: Nitrate Nitrogen [NO3-N, umol/l], masked using relative error threshold 0.5

Product generation: DIVA-mapNitrate in the water column

EMODNET water nutrients Data collection in the Black Sea

Nr00 Partner Country

Total profiles

Measurements

O2 PO4 Total P PH Alk SIO3 NO2 NO3 NH4 Total

N

13RIHMI-WDC RU 904 5343 3680 3 3404 635 2469 1654 280 33 14

14SIO-RAS RU 147 888 837 249 226 286 855 311 361 876 152

15 MHI UA 2500 16946 877 306 127 839 379 2361 2601 436 488

16 IO-BAS BG 124 865 277 703 248 0 0 0 0 0 0

17 NIMRD RO 2268 9995 6548 0 0 0 10207 6892 7729 5275 0

18TSU-DNA GE 10 20 25 0 0 0 0 27 30 29 27

Yug NIRO UA 215 1265 365 0 0 0 122 39 0 0 0

Mb UHMI UA 144 745 214 0 0 64 118 0 0 0 0

UkrSCES UA 1916 3587 1578 819 1456 0 0 1155 549 0 836

TOTAL 8228 39654 14401 2080 5461 1824 14150 12439 11550 6649 1517

EMODNET Data collection in the Black Sea

Nr Partner CountryTotal

profiles

Measurements

DDT Pb Hg Cd Cs-137 Cs-134 Sr-90 Heavy metals in sediments

14RIHMI-WDC RU 398 98 100 100 100 0 0 0 0

15 MHI UA 1267 0 0 0 0 422 422 423 75

18 TSU-DNA GE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 349

TOTAL 1665 98 100 100 100 422 422 423 424

EMODNET profiles distribution in the Black Sea

2 8 3 0 3 2 3 4 3 6 3 8 4 0

4 2

4 3

4 4

4 5

4 6

05/11/10

Black Sea maps examples

PhosphatesPhosphates (0 m) (0 m) SSilicatesilicates (100 m) (100 m)

NNitrates itrates (0 m) (0 m)

The new data received from UkrSCES and TSU-DNA are passing the quality control procedure in the department of hydrochemistry of MHI.

Plans for the nearest future

Updating the maps on nutrients after the new data have passed the quality check;

Preparing the maps on heavy metals distribution in sediments in the area of the Kerch strait (if there is a good data coverage);

Estimation of the long-term variability of the nutrients in the North-West part of the Black Sea.

Black Sea Actions

Mediterranean Pool (8278 st)Mediterranean Pool (8278 st)5 spots:

• Balearic Sea

• Gulf of Lion

• North Adriatic Sea

• Gulf of Athens

•NE Levantine basin

Parameters in Water Column

Annual distribution

Spatial distribution per yearNitrat

e (C14)

Phosphate

(C15)

SPAINFertilisers

Vertical distribution per season

Spatial distribution per season

SPAIN Fertilisers

Nitrate (C14)

Nitrate

(C14)

Phosphate

(C15)

Similar distribution for Phosphate (C15)

Vertical distribution per month

Spatial distribution per month

SPAIN Fertilisers

Similar distribution for Nitrates (C14)

Phosphate (C15)

Phosphate (C15)

The data density is better for the seasonal time scale compared to the annually and monthly scales

FRANCEFerilisers, Particulate

Organic Carbon (POC)

Temporal distribution per year

Nitrate

(C14)

POC(C16)



FRANCE Fertilisers

Nitrate (C14)

Nitrate (C14)

The seasonal time scale is chosen for the data products

The dataset that was used for the maps production at the North Adriatic is not complete because of an error that was found in the Medatlas format (record lines)

This error does not allow import of all stations in ODV

A correct data set has already been requested

The calculations will be repeated with the full dataset

North Adriatic data set

Spatial distribution per year

Nitrate

(C14)

PC1P(C16)

Annual distributionGREECE

Fertilisers,

Particulate Organic Carbon (PC1P)



GREECE Fertilisers

Nitrate

(C14)

Phosphate

(C15)



GREECE Particulate/Total Org. Carbon (PC1P, TOCW)

PC1P(C16)

Total dissolved Carbon (TOCW)

PC1P (C16)

Similar are the distributions for the Metals in the water column

Vertical distribution per month

Spatial distribution per month

The seasonal time scale and selected years are chosen for the products

GREECE Fertilisers

Parameters Cyprus Greece France Italy Spain

Heavy Metal

Cd (C7)* 133 samples

*

Pd (C8)* 21 samples *

Pesticides

DDT (C1)* 74 samples

HCB (C2)* 54 samples

BIOTA /Mussel (time series data)

An example ...HCMR has 3 monitoring stations for pesticides (PAH,

HCB, DDT) in biota the last 15 years



CYPRUS, Fertilisers data distribution (2000, 2001, 2002)

CYPRUS, Radionuclides (Cs137)(November 1998)

All partners to check for consequent updating to improve the data coverage and the quality of the products

A minimum of 10 stations in each layer is chosen in order to perform the analysis. As background field a semi-normed analysis using all the available data in each layer is used.

Italy: to resend the data set (have already been asked); data are not imported correctly in ODV

Additional data (from Spain or France) to fill the gap and to be able to do the analysis in a larger area?

Med Summary/Actions

Common path for Maps generation started with:

• nutrients in the water column (3 regions),

•then the analysis were extended to other chemicals in the three matrices to understand the data distribution and define the possible product to generate.

A document of common QC/QA procedures has been made available.

Probably a QC/QA workshop will be organized by ICES in spring 2011

WP3 – QC/QA and products


WP4 – Technical development and portal operation

Live demonstration of EMODNET Portalwww.emodnet-chemistry.eu

EMODNET extranet for project documentation – July 2009

EMODNET Pilot Portal for Chemistry – March 2010

Filled with core services:

Metadata Discovery and Downloading service – May 2010

Data Products Viewing and Downloading service – May 2010

Recent updates :

New CDI discovery matrix “Variables VS Regions” - November 2010

New features for Ocean Browser Viewing service – November 2010

Users feedback web page with on line forms – October 2010


Difficulties in EMODNET Chemical pilot represented by :

data complexity: the measurements related to different environments

8 groups of parameters (pesticides, antifoulants, pharmaceuticals, heavy metals , hydrocarbons, radionuclides, fertilisers, organic matter)

3 matrices (sediment, water column and biota)

heterogeneity of the sampling (coastal points time series Vs homogenous sampling) and measurement methods (instrument, method, target species, target basis, grain sizes) makes critical the use of DIVA standard interpolation.

An Expert workshop (Venice, September 2010) was organised to discuss.


Expert workshop agenda, some important issues were:

Review and discussion on Emodnet Chemical data and products availability;

Review how to move from data to products, what kind of products can be done with Emodnet Chemical data;

Best way of answering users needs from different sectors.Expert workshop discussion summary of

decisions:

Show data availability maps the matrix “Variables VS Marine regions” could be a good answer;

Standard Diva Interpolated maps produced for parameters with suitable data coverage, measured on basin scale;

For coastal points repeated in time or datasets with fragmented coverage show station maps with plots of measured time series (not trendsnot Emodnet Chemistry target) of homogenous data with link to data collection methods (products metadata).


An example ...HCMR has 3 monitoring stations for pesticides (PAH,

HCB, DDT) in biota the last 15 years

NODC Regional buffers

Create Graphics with ODV

IFREMEROceanBrowserMap (GetMap) and URL of images (GetFeatureInfo)

URL of image (http://regional.buffer.eu/img1.png)coordinates (longitude, latitude) and parameter type

Images of time series, ...

Tech flow chart about time series products:

Development steps:•First step: store the images at a centralized place

•Afterwards: we will consider to use the regional buffers as a place to store these images (decentralized approach) linked to OceanBrowser

A first test example at http://gher-diva.phys.ulg.ac.be/web-vis-test/


Project timetable – planning diagram


WP ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4

TIME FRAME YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 31 Project Management 1.1 Project coordination 1.2

Project and Technical Coordinators Meetings with EU 1.3 Coordination Group Meetings 1.5 Full Group Meetings 1.4 Technical Coordination 2 Data Collection and Metadata Compilation 2.1 Greater North Sea 2.2 Black Sea 2.3 Mediterranean spots 3 QC/QA and Products 3.1 Guideline with methodology and software 3.2 Quality Control and Quality Assurance 3.3 Data products 4 Technical development and operation 4.1 Portal development - CDI directory 4.2 Portal development -Viewing services 4.3 Portal operation 4.4 Upgrading of the portal 5 Analysis and evaluation 5.1 Analysis of the lessons learned 5.2 Recommendations

Upgrade month 19th to 24th

Project timetable First year dedicated to set up the system components (regional pools, SDN vocabs for chemical parameters mapping, portal core services – CDI, discovery, viewing)

First six months of II year activity continued with :

Data population and products generation

Increased portal functionalities (viewing, services, harmonisation)

Venice Expert meeting on data and products (data source, kind of products)

Service for products validation based on feedback from experts and users

Third Phase:

Progress with data population, analysis, normalization, products generation and dataset updates

Time series common products generated (ODV plots) and technical solutions to link them to the viewing service (WMS)

SDN infrastructure upgrade to manage data complexity VS adopted standard needs (vocabularies, products metadata)

Documents

EMODNET Preparatory Actions Third six-monthly progress meeting for ur-EMODNET preparatory actions, 29 November 2010 Progress Report Chemical Lot Alessandra