MARBENA Creating a long-term infrastructure for MARine Biodiversity research in the European economic area and the Newly Associated states

Biodiversity can be defined as the richness of the biosphere, the species, the genes that they contain and the habitats in which they live. Many goods and services delivered by marine ecosystems that are essential to society depend on biodiversity. Biodiversity is threatened: species disappear at rates never observed before in the history of planet earth. This extinction crisis is due to the human species.

partners

The following institutions participate in MARBENA:

• Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Centre for Estuarine and Coastal Ecology. Coordination of the project, integration, dissemination, organisation of workshops, network building, building the infrastructure, management of analyses.

  Staff involved:

  • Carlo Heip
  • Herman Hummel
  • Pim van Avesaath

• Flanders Marine Institute. Internet services.

  Staff involved:

  • Jan Mees
  • Edward Vanden Berghe
  • Ward Appeltans
  • Daphne Cuvelier
  • Francisco Hernandez

• Ecological Consultancy Services Ltd (EcoServe). Database management.

  Staff involved:

  • Mark Costello
  • Chris Emblow

• Fundació Universitat-Empresa De Les Illes Balears IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB)/Department of Natural Resources (Cross-disciplinary Oceanographic Group)

  Staff involved:

  • Prof. Dr C.M. Duarte
  • Dr Damian Jaume

• University of Oslo (UO), Department of Biology

  Staff involved:

  • Prof. John Gray

• Forshungsinstitut Senckenberg (SNG), Sektion Planktonforshung und Systemökologie (DZMB/FIS)

  Staff involved:

  • Dr Wulf Greve

• Centre for Marine and Environmental Studies - University of Porto, Portugal. Liaison with BioPlatform.

  Staff involved:

  • Isabel Sousa Pinto

• Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, United Kingdom. Liaison with BioPlatform.

  Staff involved:

  • Allan Watt
  • Sarah Wanless

• Centre of IMAR of the University of the Azores/Department of Oceanography and Fisheries. Chairperson of supervision group databases and infrastructure

  Staff involved:

  • Ricardo Santos

• National Environmental Research Institute (NERI), Department of Marine Ecology

  Staff involved:

  • Dr Alf Josefson

• Institute of Marine Biology of Crete

  Staff involved:

  • Prof. Dr Anastasios Eleftheriou
  • Dr Christos Arvanitidis

• Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

  Staff involved:

  • Dr Keith Hiscock

• Institute of Oceanology PAS, Poland. Marbena ambassador NAS

  Staff involved:

  • J.M. Weslawski

• Institute of Oceanology, BAS, Bulgaria. Marbena ambassador NAS

  Staff involved:

  • Snejana Moncheva
  • Tsonka Konsultova
  • Kamen Prodanov

• National Institute of Biology, Marine Biology Station, Slovenia

  Staff involved:

  • Prof. Dr Alenka Malej

• International Marine Centre, Italy

  Staff involved:

  • Dr Silvana Vallegra
  • Dr Paolo Magni

• Estonian Marine Institute

  Staff involved:

  • Dr Henn Ojaveer

• Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

  Staff involved:

  • Prof. Dr F. Buchholz

• Akvaplan/NIVA and University studies on Svalbard, Norway

  Staff involved:

  • Dr Sabine Cochrane

General coordination: Carlo Heip ,Herman Hummel and Pim van Avesaath Web site and conference hosted by VLIZ