Coastline monitoring : Aquitaine coast (sandy coast since 1996, rocky coast since 2000), Corsican coast (since 2000 or 2002 depending on the site), the Pays de Monts coast (since 2010), the PACA region cliffs (work in progress). This project includes a number of coastal monitoring measures implemented on a local scale by the BRGM (the French Geological Survey) within the framework of the Aquitaine Coastal Observatory, the Corsican Coastal Observation Network and the Pays de Mons Coastal Observatory.

To produce marine bird indicators of the ecological state of the French coasts (functioning, Marine protected Areas, etc.) To structure monitoring works carried out on the French coasts as a network To extend the sectors involved to all coasts, beyond the borders of the Interreg Atlantic Arc (project for 2013) To study the distribution of marine birds along French coasts To identify functional sites To identify areas of high concentration and, in other cases, marine Important Bird Areas To list the currents Marine Protected Areas (N2000 en mer, Marine parks, Nature reserves)

The Ferry Box onboard Brittany Ferries’ Pont Aven vessel, which was installed in collaboration with Roscoff Marine Station, was financed by the Previmer project (CPER Bretagne funding). Within the context of this project, the data acquired by the device is used in the Previmer oceanographic models. The data can be accessed with the Coriolis oceanographic data server. Six surface parameters (temperature, salinity, oxygen content, chlorophyll fluorescence, turbidity and CDOM) are regularly measured during transects through a given area. In addition to these observations, plankton (both phyto and zooplankton are counted in the same way as for the Marine Station FerryBox installed onboard the Armorique ferry.

Intertidal mudflats are a key system of the network, being closely connected to ecosystems which form the transition between the watershed area and the ocean. Their high productivity is linked to activity within a diatom biofilm, the functioning and future of which have recently been the subject of many research programmes. However, the determinism and future of bacterial production associated with the secretion of ExoPolySaccharides within the biofilm is largely unknown. Early studies have nevertheless shown that this production is at least as high as that of diatoms. An integrated view of the ecological functioning of intertidal mudflats within a more global schema of carbon flow therefore needs to define and quantify the determinism of this bacterial production and it future within the ecosystem.

aThis survey action has been undertaken as part of WP6 of the H2020 JERICO-S3 project. Its integration in Sextant is the first step towards a comprehensive and extensive data catalog for the JERICO Research Infrastructure. JERICO-S3, Description of Work - WP6 : Data Management Task 6.2: Data management for coastal platforms (M1-48) (Lead: HCMR) Subtask 6.2.1: Identify and update the overview of JERICO-RI involved platforms and data (SMHI, MARIS, IFREMER) (M1-48) The JERICO dataset catalogue has proven a useful tool for creating an overview of platforms and data relevant for the project this and will be updated. Input from other WP’s will be used to identify the actual JERICO platforms, including the PSS, TNA platforms, and IRS. Partners will collect and describe coastal platforms in the dataset catalogue (technically run in WP7) including pointers to data, which variables (related to EOV’s) published as D6.2. Subtask 6.2.2: Best practice capturing for “mature” platforms with physical and BGC parameters (HCMR, SMHI, CNR, ETT, SOCIB, HZG, RWS) (M6-42). For the following platform types there will be activities supporting data management as defined under T6.4 in close relation to the Virtual Research Environment in WP7: HF radars (CNR), Gliders (SOCIB, ETT), FerryBox (HZG) The work for each platform type will follow basically the same approach and will cooperate with WP4 (PSS) and WP3 (IRS). The experts will identify the existing standards, and possible data management best practices (D6.3). At the end of the project an evaluation will be done of the level of Best Practice adoption at the IRSs and PSSs in the project, as well as the use of the VRE by the partners engaged in WP3 and WP4 (D6.10). This will be done in cooperation with WP3 and WP4, and is an important condition for data to be accessible for use in the Virtual Environment in T7.4.

RasterMarine is a series of digital images taken from nautical charts, with no additions, legends or georeferencing information. The RasterMarine range is available at five sets of scales: - RasterMarine 20 1: 20,000 - RasterMarine 50 1: 50,000 - RasterMarine 150 1: 150,000 - RasterMarine 400 1: 400,000 - RasterMarine 1M 1: 1,000,000. Unless exceptional circumstances apply, the RasterMarine range is updated on a weekly basis and the modified grid squares are re-published, replacing the previous versions. All corrections, publications and editions with an effect on the reference nautical charts are taken into consideration.

The CORIOLIS data center contributes to the “in situ observations” of operational oceanography, in addition to ocean surface measurements performed using equipment installed on satellites. This contribution is accomplished through the creation of permanent and lasting networks from ships or moored or drifting autonomous systems.

Validated and aggregated data from current profilers measured continuously by hull-mounted ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) for the year 2003.