Case study 2 - RiOMar Project - Coastal Water Quality Anticipation to manage coastal zone ecosystem responses for biodiversity conservation

case study 2:

Biscayan RiOMar

RiOMar Project - Coastal Water Quality Anticipation to manage coastal zone ecosystem responses for biodiversity conservation

Case Studies

Vision & Ambitions

Assess coastal water quality and marine ecosystems, anticipate and prepare for emerging climate impacts by the end of the century;
Identify risks and vulnerabilities using RiOMar model outputs as a step forward for the definition of scientifically-based CCA strategies.

Description

Coastal water quality assessments (France)

Monitoring water quality in river-dominated ocean margins and adopting relevant measures to support local businesses such as oyster farmers who are dealing with increasing threats to their business due to climate change.

Stakeholders cannot easily access the large amounts of high-resolution data generated by RiOMar;
Uncertainty about which indicators to compute to assess the vulnerability of coastal zone ecosystems to climate change;
Difficulties in finding relevant information in their native language (French).

F2A Contribution

FAIRification and data sharing by transforming RiOMar data into Analysis Ready Cloud Optimised data (ARCO), development of tools for enabling stakeholders to exploit the FDOs and easily develop risk and vulnerability maps to develop scientifically-based CCA strategies and plans.