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Earth system Model Bias Reduction and assessing Abrupt Climate change (EMBRACE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

EMBRACE brings together the leading Earth System Models (ESMs) in Europe around a common set of objectives to improve our ability to (i) simulate the Earth System and (ii) make reliable projections of future global change. EMBRACE builds on the existing European collaboration network in Earth System Modelling and will be the main European input to international efforts in this field over the comin ...
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REstoring rivers FOR effective catchment Management (REFORM)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

REFORM is targeted towards development of guidance and tools to make river restoration and mitigation measures more cost-effective and to support the 2nd and future River Basin Management Plans (RMBPs) for the WFD. Aims of REFORM are (1) to provide a framework for improving the success of hydromorphological restoration measures and (2) to assess more effectively the state of rivers, floodplains an ...
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Changing Permafrost in the Arctic and its Global Effects in the 21st Century (PAGE21)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Permafrost is defined as ground that remains continuously at or below 0°C for at least two consecutive years; some 24% of the land surface in the northern Hemisphere is classified as permafrost. In the Northern high latitudes, strong warming has been observed over the recent decades, and climate models project strong future warming. A projected decline in the extent of permafrost will have a major ...
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Isotope forensics meets biogeochemistry – linking sources and sinks of organic contaminants by compound specific isotope investigation (CSI:ENVIRONMENT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

"The initial training network CSI: ENVIRONMENT aims at training 16 young scientists in the discipline of compound-specific isotope analysis (CSIA) for environmental and forensic investigations. Linking sources and sinks of organic contaminants is a major challenge in contemporary environmental science. Chemicals can be released to the environment when leaving their field of application, intended o ...
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Distributed Infrastructure for EXPErimentation in Ecosystem Research (EXPEER)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2015,

EXPEER will bring together, major observational, experimental, analytical and modelling facilities in ecosystem science in Europe. By uniting these highly instrumented ecosystem research facilities under the same umbrella and with a common vision, EXPEER will form a key contribution to structuring and improving the European Research Area (ERA) within terrestrial ecosystem research.EXPEER builds ...
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Sculpting the Earth’s topography: insights from modelling deep–surface processes (TOPOMOD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

TOPOMOD is a training project designed for a team of early-stage and experienced researchers to investigate and model the origin and evolution of topography of the continents over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales and using a multi-disciplinary approach, coupling geophysics, geochemistry, tectonics and structural geology with advanced geodynamic modeling.TOPOMOD involves 8 European resea ...
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Climate change - Learning from the past climate (Past4Future)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Past4Future will combine multidisciplinary paleoclimate records from ice cores, marine cores, speleothems, pollen and other records, concentrating on a global distribution of the records, to reconstruct climate change and variability during the present interglacial (the Holocene) and the last interglacial (known as the Eemian in northwestern Europe and as marine isotope stage 5e in the marine sedi ...
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Operational Global Carbon Observing System (GEOCARBON)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Today, countries use a wide variety of methods to monitor the carbon cycle and it is difficult to compare datafromcountry to country and to get a clear global picture. The current global observational and modelling capabilitiesallow us to produce estimates of carbon budget at different level (from local to global) but many uncertainties stillremain. Decision makers need now more than ever systemat ...
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Raising the alert about critical feedbacks between climate and long-term land use change in the Amazon (AMAZALERT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

AMAZALERT will enable raising the alert about critical feedbacks between climate, society, land-use change, vegetation change, water availability and policies in Amazonia. We will:1) analyze and improve coupled models of global climate and Amazon, land use, vegetation and socio-economic drivers to quantify anthropogenic and climate induced land-use and land cover change and non-linear, irreversibl ...
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European Plate Observing System (EPOS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

To understand the complex Earth System requires an integrated observational strategy and infrastructure to record key diagnostic features of its dynamics. Accordingly, this infrastructure must include geographically distributed and multidisciplinary monitoring instruments and observations. The European Plate Observing System (EPOS) will meet this challenge. The proposed RI (EPOS) will create a sin ...
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Climate change predictions in Sub-Saharan Africa: impacts and adaptations (CLIMAFRICA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Africa is probably the most vulnerable continent to climate change and climate variability and shows diverse range of agro-ecological and geographical features. Thus the impacts of climate change can be very high and will greatly differ across the continent, and even within countries. There is a urgent need for the most appropriate and up-to-date tools to better understand and predict climate chan ...
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Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate Interim Implementation (MACC II)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

MACC II (Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate – Interim Implementation) is designed to meet the requirements that have been expressed for prototype operational GMES services for the atmospheric domain. From late-2011 MACC II will continue the operation and development of the GMES service lines established by the MACC project and prepare for its transition in 2014 to become the atmospheri ...
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THE CHANGING ARCTIC AND SUB-ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT: A RESEARCH AND TRAINING PROGRAMME ON MARINE BIOTIC INDICATORS OF RECENT CLIMATE CHANGES IN THE HIGH LATITUDES OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC (CASE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

"The main aim of the CASE Initial Training Network Programme is to train the next generation of European paleoclimate scientists via state-of-the-art training in marine biotic proxies and modelling of past climate changes. It will be implemented through a joint research project aiming to describe and identify the mechanisms and impacts of recent environmental changes in the Nordic Seas. The compos ...
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Nanoparticle Fate Assessment and Toxicity in the Environment (NanoFATE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

Concept: NanoFATE has been conceived to fill knowledge and methodological gaps currently impeding sound assessment of environmental risks posed by engineered nanoparticles (ENPs). Our vision is to assess environmental fate and risk of ENPs from high-volume products for which recycling is not an option; namely; fuel additive, personal care and antibacterial products. Two market ENPs from each produ ...
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Anticipating climate change and biospheric feedbacks within the Earth system to 2200 (GREENCYCLESII)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"There is a pressing need to improve our understanding of climate processes and their impacts in order to develop appropriate adaptation and mitigation measures. Increasing concentrations of anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs) are known to be causing changes in global climate patterns, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. However, our ability to predict future climatic states i ...
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Multi-level assessment of ocean-climate dynamics: a gateway to interdisciplinary training and analysis (GATEWAYS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"GATEWAYS will conduct interdisciplinary climate change research on an ocean regime of regional and global significance: the Agulhas Current off southern Africa. It will provide 15 Early-Stage (ESR) and 3 Experienced Researchers (ER) with extensive multi-level scientific and complementary skills training in (1) processes relevant to climatic developments and projections, (2) efficient organization ...
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How temperature affects co-evolutionary interactions between partners: a study on physiological underlying mechanisms (COEVOLCLIM)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

"Global warming often triggers the question if species response to a changing environment will enable them to persist. However species persistence is also dependent on species interactions. Relationships between tightly co-evolved species within communities are expected to be disrupted by thermal changes. An example of a co-evolutionary arms race is found in parasitoid insects, which develop in ot ...
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Identification by isotopes of human provenancing (IDIS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

"Isotope ratios from light and heavy elements are used in provenancing studies in ecology, archaeology and forensic sciences to track the origin and movements of humans and animals. The isotopic composition in human and animal tissues, acquired through dietary intake has been shown to have a general correlation with the isotopic composition of the environment (i.e. drinking water, soil, pollution) ...
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Greenhouse gas management in European land use systems (GHG Europe)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

The GHG-Europe project aims to improve our understanding and capacity for predicting the European terrestrial carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) budget by applying a systematic, comprehensive and integrative approach. GHG-Europe quantifies the annual to decadal variability of the carbon and GHG budgets of terrestrial ecosystems in EU27 plus Switzerland and in six data-rich European regions via data-m ...
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The terrestrial Carbon cycle under Climate Variability and Extremes – a Pan-European synthesis (CARBO-Extreme)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2013,

The aim of this project is to achieve an improved knowledge of the terrestrial carbon cycle in response to climate variability and extremes, to represent and apply this knowledge over Europe with predictive terrestrial carbon cycle modelling, to interpret the model predictions in terms of vulnerability of the terrestrial – in particular soil – carbon pools and give according advice to EU climate a ...
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European Planetology Network Research Infrastructure (EuroPlaNeT RI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

The Europlanet RI project will provide the European planetary science community with a unique research infrastructure, combining access to a suite of state of the art facilities while fostering their joint development and integration in terms of capacity and performance. This research infrastructure will include access to laboratory and field site facilities, advanced modelling, simulation and dat ...
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Towards the next generation of the Geological Time Scale for the last 100 million years – the European contribution to EARTHTIME (GTSnext)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Geological time is inextricably linked with Earth Sciences and the Geological Time Scale (GTS) is the yardstick to measure it. As such the GTS is the key to reconstruct Earth history. Recent developments in numerical dating now permit to build a much improved next generation GTS for the last 100 million years by integrating independent state-of-the-art techniques; this time scale will have an unpr ...
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Dating flank collapses on volcanic ocean islands (Volflank)

Start date: Mar 25, 2009, End date: Mar 24, 2012,

The growth and formation of young (Quaternary) ocean islands volcanoes is often governed by episodic build up (volcanic eruptions) and destruction (landslides or collapsing of part of the volcano flank). The mega-tsunamis that can be triggered by flank collapses could result in ocean-wide destruction, and constraining the age and frequency at which flank collapses occur is therefore of fundamental ...
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Coordination Action Carbon Observation System (COCOS)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

"COCOS will assess the status of harmonization of key carbon cycle variables with international partners. It will improve the interoperability of data sets that are used in global scale carbon cycle studies through joint activities between ecosystem, atmospheric and ocean bottom-up and top down observation communities. COCOS will also perform integrated regional-scale multiple constraint assessmen ...
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Where do the birds go? Multi-isotopic tracing of European-breeding migratory birds (MIGRATE)

Start date: Feb 15, 2008, End date: Feb 14, 2010,

"In order to quantify the effects of climate change and habitat destruction on bird migration routes, we require a reliable and non-fatal method of locating the end-points of migratory birds. There is also a vital need to accurately establish the origins of migratory birds to better monitor and control the dispersion of zoonotic diseases, such as avian flu. Traditional bird ringing methods have ve ...
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