Innovative approaches for marine biodiversity monitoring and assessment of conservation status of nature values in the Baltic Sea (project acronym: MARMONI)

The project aim is to develop concepts for assessment of conservation status of marine biodiversity, including species and habitats and impacts of various human activities. The project shall develop innovative monitoring and assessment approach based on joint set of marine biodiversity indicators as well as to test in practice the monitoring and assessment techniques. The project is acting in the Baltic Sea in territorial waters and EEZ of Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Sweden. It is aiming at applying a regional approach for future marine biodiversity monitoring and cross country co-operation when assessing marine biodiversity in the Baltic Sea.

Project duration: 01.10.2010 – 31.03.2015

The project is funded by European Union LIFE+ Nature & Biodiversity program as well as other donors and project partners.

Project coordinating beneficiary: Baltic Environmental Forum – Latvia (project manager Heidrun Fammler).

Associated beneficiaries: Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology (Latvia); Institute for Environmental Solutions (Latvia); Latvian Fund for Nature (Latvia); Nature Conservation Agency (Latvia); Baltic Environmental Forum-Estonia (Estonia); Estonian Marine Institute (Estonia); Finnish Environment Institute (Finland); Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute (Finland); Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (Sweden).

See the project web site for more information.

More detailed information about the project:

  • In Latvia: Baltic Environmental Forum – Latvia, Anda Ruskule, anda.ruskule@bef.lv, tel. + 371 6735 7548
  • In Estonia: Baltic Environmental Forum-Estonia, Laura Remmelgas, laura.remmelgas@bef.ee , tel. + 372 6597 027
  • In Finland: Finnish Environment Institute, Vivi Fleming Lehtinen, Vivi.FlemingLehtinen@ymparisto.fi tel. + 358 40060 9269
  • In Sweden: Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SwAM), Ulla Li Zweifel, ullali.zweifel@havochvatten.se tel. + 46 10 698 60 00 and AquaBiota Water Research, Martin Isæus


The Swedish project area, Hanö Bight. Map by Kristjan Herkül, Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu


       


Contact: Martin Isæus (Swedish Coordinator)