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Final project meeting takes place in Salamanca |
31/10/05
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| The final Annual Meeting of the EUROSTRATAFORM project took place in Salamanca, Spain on October 24-27 2005. Held jointly with the PROMESS project and the North American EuroStrataform programme, the meeting attracted over 100 scientists from both sides of the Atlantic. Many thanks to our meeting hosts, University of Salamanca, who provided an excellent venue and social events. EUROSTRATAFORM officially ends on 31 October 2005.
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EUROSTRATAFORM poster wins EGU 2005 prize |
4/7/05
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 Congratulations to Luis Quaresma and colleagues at Instituto Hidrografico who were awarded the Young Scientist's Outstanding Poster Paper award at the EGU 2005 conference in Vienna for their EUROSTRATAFORM poster “Non-linear internal waves generated at the Nazare Canyon: observations over the W Portuguese inner shelf” (L.S. Quaresma, J. Vitorino & J.C.B da Silva). |
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Marine Geology Special Issues in the pipeline |
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Many of the EUROSTRATAFORM project results are to be published in two special editions of the journal Marine Geology. The first issue, to be published sometime during late summer 2005, will contain a braod range of papers relating to many different aspects of EUROSTRATAFORM research. The second, to be published later in the year, will focus on submarine canyons research. The EUROSTRATAFORM project has generated a wealth of new data and information about Europe's continental margin.
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Special session at EGU Vienna, April 2005 |
4/11/04
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| The EUROSTRATAFORM project will hold a special session at the EGU General Assembly in Vienna, April 2005. The session, entitled "Sedimentary Systems from Source to Sink" will be held jointly with the EURODELTA and PROMESS projects. Convenors are Phil Weaver, Fabio Trincardi, Tjeerd van Weering and Serge Berne. More details are available on the EGU 2005 website.
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EUROSTRATAFORMers gather in Venice |
31/10/04
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| The second Annual Meeting of EUROSTRATAFORM was held in Venice during 20-23 October 2004. The meeting was held jointly with the final meeting of the EURODELTA programme, and attracted 90 scientists from around Europe. During the meeting, 50 talks were presneted, plus over 20 posters.
The meeting was hosted at the CNR-ISMAR building at Palazzo Papadopoli, facing onto the Grand Canal (pictured, right). |
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ComDelta attracts EUROSTRATAFORM researchers |
5/11/03 |
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Many partners from the EUROSTRATAFORM project attended and contributed to the ComDelta meeting at the CEREGE institute in Aix en Provence in October 2003. This open conference on Comparing Mediterranean and Black Sea prodeltas was arranged as part of the EU-funded Eurodelta programme, and co-sponsored by the USA's Office of Naval Research (sponsors of the NA EuroStrataform Programme) and the OMARC consortium. The meeting attracted many scientists including a significant number from North America.
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EUROSTRATAFORM scientists gather at OMARC conference |
25/9/03 |
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A large number of EUROSTRATAFORM scientists travelled to Paris earlier this month to attend the EU and UNESCO sponsored Ocean Margins Research Conference. Many of our partners contributed poster presentations in various sessions. This meeting was highly successful in putting EUROSTRATAFORM research into the context of other research efforts currently ongoing around Europe and in the USA, and presented the opportunity for EUROSTRATAFORM partners to discuss their work with scientists involved in other research programmes such as PROMESS1, EURODELTA, COSTA, and Hydratec. The OMARC conference was followed by the first EUROSTRATAFORM Annual Meeting, hosted at the IFREMER headquarters in Issy, just outside central Paris.
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Norwegian margin planning meeting |
23/06/03 |
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Teachers to join EUROSTRATAFORM cruise |
09/05/03 |
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Hampshire (UK) science teachers Ian Lewis (Wyvern Technology College) and Elena Fernandez-Lee (Arnewood School) beat off strong competition from other science and geography teachers to win places aboard a EUROSTRATAFORM cruise to the Portuguese Margin next year. Ian and Elena will be particpating in a project called Classroom@Sea, jointly sponsored by EUROSTRATAFORM and NERC, which aims to bring real marine science into classrooms. For more details about the project, visit the Classroom@Sea website. |
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EUROSTRATAFORM sponsors science posters for schools |
16/04/03 |
 EUROSTRATAFORM has co-sponsored a series of ocean and earth science posters aimed at UK school children. The posters were designed by postgraduate students at Southampton Oceanography Centre, with the help of local school pupils. The posters address various aspects of natural processes: their driving forces, how they work, the effects they have on humankind, and how they can be disrupted by man’s activities. The posters have been professionally printed and are now available free of charge to UK schools. To find out more about the posters visit www.soc.soton.ac.uk/CHD/education/posters.
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Classroom@Sea project launched |
25/03/03
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| EUROSTRATAFORM project co-ordinators at SOC are ready to launch their Classroom@Sea project, which aims to bring marine geoscience into classrooms across the UK. Classroom@Sea kicks off at the beginning of April with a competition for 1 or 2 school teachers to win a place on board a EUROSTRATAFORM cruise on the Portuguese Margin early next year. The teachers will send stories, reports, photographs and video clips from RRS Discovery back to SOC, where they will be posted on a dedicated, interactive website accessible to schools across the UK. To find out more, visit the Classroom@Sea website.
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Portuguese scientists monitor oil spill |
26/01/03
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Portuguese margin planning meeting goes well |
17/01/02
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EUROSTRATAFORM hits the radiowaves |
09/01/02
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EUROSTRATAFORM has attracted the interest of local media in Southampton, UK. Phil Weaver (SOC) took part in a 10 minute broadcast on BBC Radio Solent, talking to reporter Nick Girdler about the project. The local media became interested in the project following a press announcement released by SOC. |
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WP1 meeting |
20/12/02
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Scientists working on Work Package 1 (river and prodelta monitoring) recently met to discuss preparation of field and laboratory experiments and modelling in the Gulf of Lions. Scientists present at the meeting were: X. Durrieu de Madron (CEFREM, France), A. Palanques, J. Guillèn (CSIC, Spain), C. Amos (SOC, UK), M. Provansal, O. Radakovitch, F. Sabatier, G. Maillet, C. Antonelli, C. Vella (CEREGE, France), M. Arnaud, F. Eyrolle (IRSN, France), C. Estournel (UPS-LA, France). |
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On June the 11th representatives from the Norwegian EUROSTRATAFORM partners responsible for the Norwegian margin activities meet for a planning meeting in Bergen. At the meeting were Jan Sverre Laberg, University of Tromsø and Haflidi Haflidason, University of Bergen. Topics that were discussed included an update of the project activities and results, and future cooperative work within the project. The results from the first successful test cruise of the new Norwegian Research vessel G.O. Sars (left) were also presented. 
The Prestige oil spill disaster is benefiting from Iberian EUROSTRATAFORM modelers' expertise. In Portugal, the team co-ordinated by Ramiro Neves at Instituto Superior Tecnico, and the team co-ordinated by Joao Vitorino at Instituto Hidrografico, have recently been involved in monitoring the distribution of the heavy fuel oil in the Galicia region off the Spanish coast. The MOHID Water Modelling System has been used by IST partners in collaboration with MeteoGalicia to forecast the oil slick trajectory from the time of the accident.
Scientists working on the Portuguese Margin met recently in Lisbon, Portugual to discuss data collection and cruise planning. Hosted by Joao Vitorino at the Instituto Hidrografico, the meeting successfully enabled those involved to co-ordinate their research plans and cruise objectives. |
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