AQUACOSM offers Transnational Access to at least 37 different sites or installations at 18 selected leading and highly complementary European mesocosm facilities. Ranging from the Sub-Arctic to the Mediterranean, from mountains to lowlands, estuarine to fully marine systems, and spanning from ultra-oligotrophic to hyper-eutrophic conditions, they represent a cross section of typical European aquatic ecosystems.
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EU network of mesocosms facilities for research on marine and freshwater ecosystems open for global collaboration.
3rd Call for Transnational Access in 2020
The third call for TA in 2020 is now closed. We received 46 TA applications that are currently in the process of evaluation by the independent User Selection Panel (USP).
AQUACOSM
Mesocosms facilities for research on marine and freshwater ecosystems. A network of leading European aquatic mesocosm facilities connecting mountains to oceans from the artic to the Mediterranean.
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Kick-off meeting in Berlin
The Kick-off meeting of AQUACOSM project was held between 16th and 19th January 2017 in Zeuthen, Germany.
Objective: to strengthen EU network of mesocosm facilities and promote joint research initiatives, capacity building and standardisation.
Extensive Transnational Access to at least 37 different sites or installations at 18 selected leading and highly complementary European mesocosm facilities
Geographic range from the Arctic to the Mediterranean. Unique infrastructures in catchments from mountains to lowlands; rivers, ponds, lakes, estuaries and the sea.
Transnational Access
INVITATION TO EGU 2020 SESSIONS
Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to submit an abstract and attend our session at the EGU General Assembly 2020 in Vienna, Austria,…
OPEN Call for Transnational Access to European Aquatic…
The EU Research Infrastructure project AQUACOSM has opened the 3rd CALL for Transnational Access to fund participation or leadership of mesocosm experiments in 2020. We open…
Joining AQUACOSM TA 2018 mesocosm experiments at the…
Katharina Bading, PhD student, Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway Back in fall 2017, I was excited that our…
The Summer in Spring project “Heat wave effects…
Currently, summer time reaches earlier in the most part of Europe and this could affect all the aquatic organisms. To study the resistance, resilience and recovery of plankton communities to heatwaves occurring in late spring/early summer the “Summer in Spring”…
Nitrogen Cycling in Climate-impacted Lake Mesocosms (NCyCLMe)
Mark J. McCarthy, Shannon M. Collin, Erik Jeppesen, and Silvia E. Newell Wright State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Dayton, OH USA Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABs, also known as blue-green algae blooms) are a global problem, fouling…
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Globally unprecedented disruptions (e.g. biodiversity loss, nutrient and pollutant inputs, climate crises etc.) are taking place in freshwater ecosystems with major consequences of losing biodiversity and ecosystem services. Obtaining quantitative mechanistic understanding of aquatic ecosystem structure and functioning is ever [...]
The EGU General Assembly 2020 will bring together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, [...]
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