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.
Extra Call for Transnational Access in 2020
The Extra Call for Transnational Access in 2020 is closed. We received 7 applications with 20 applicants. The applications are currently under review by the User Selection Panel and applicants will be informed accordingly.
Due to Corona-COVID-19 Virus travel restrictions and health hazards, TA activities may be postponed or adapted – please contact the Facility Providers for updates.
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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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
Extra Call for Transnational Access to European Aquatic…
Application deadline for Transnational Access: 24th March 2020 before 13:00 CET. NOTE THIS CALL IS FOR APPLICANTS FROM EU OR ASSOCIATED COUNTRIES. The EU Research Infrastructure project…
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 MIWA user group application for the AQUACOSM Transnational Access program was granted so 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”…
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 [...]
Abstracts are invited for the 2nd International Aquatic Mesocosm Research Symposium - from local processes to cross-domain interactions. Complete the Abstract Submission Form. Deadline for submission: 31st May 2020. There will be between 140 and 200 participants and around 70 oral presentations [...]
