One of the MarinERA project’s asset is the network it has created. In addition to its partners, 14 Observer members are associated with MarinERA, each of them hold a specific competency or is focussed on specific issued that are and will be of relevance for the successful development of the project. Besides this ‘expertise tank’ aspect, and in line with the project’s general objectives, the gathering of these actors and the high level of complementarity they present bring this so-called Advisory Group to be a European-Level overarching forum were programmatic and operational issues can be considered and dealt with. These Observers are:
NATIONAL OBSERVERS:
MRNT - French Ministry of Research and New Technologies
1, rue Descartes
75005 Paris
France
http://www.recherche.gouv.fr
DGF - German Research Foundation
Kennedyallee 40
53175 Bonn
http://www.dfg.de
IACMST - Inter-Agency Commitee on Marine Science and Technology
Southampton Oceanography Centre, European Way,
Empress Dock,
Southampton. SO14 3ZH
England
http://www.marine.gov.uk
INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS:
ESF-EPB - European Science Foundation, European Polar Board
European Science Foundation
1 quai Lezay-Marnésia
67080 Strasbourg Cedex
France
http://www.esf.org/
EuroGOOS - European Global Ocean Observing System
EuroGOOS Office
SMHI
SE-601 76 Norrköping
Sweden
http://www.eurogoos.org
EFARO - European Fisheries and Aquaculture Research Organisations
Maurice Héral - Science Director of Ifremer
IFREMER
Technopolis 40
155 rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau
92138 Issy-les-Moulineaux
http://www.efaro.org/
ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
H. C. Andersens Boulevard 44-46
DK-1553
Copenhagen V
Denmark
http://www.ices.dk/
FP6 PROJECTS:
BONUS for the Baltic Sea Sciences (ERA-NET)
Vilhonvuorenkatu 6, P.O.Box 99,
00501 Helsinki,
Finland
http://www.bonusportal.org/
AMP-ERA (ERA-NET)
http://www.cid.csic.es/ampera/
ECORD-NET (ERA-NET)
ECORD Managing Agency - EMA
IPGP - LGM
4 place Jussieu
75252 Paris cedex 05,
France
http://www.ecord.org
MariFISH (ERA-NET)
Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Fisheries Directorate
3-8 Whitehall Place West
Area 7A
London SW1A 2HH
UK
http://www.marifish.net/
MARINE GENOMICS EUROPE (NoE)
MGE Scientific Project Assistant Manager
FR 2424 , Station Biologique, BP 74
F- 29682 Roscoff cedex,
France
http://www.marine-genomics-europe.org
MARBEF (NoE)
Netherlands Institute of Ecology;
Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology (NIOO-CEME)
Korringaweg 7, Postbus 140
NL-4400 AC Yerseke
The Netherlands
http://www.marbef.org/
EUR-OCEANS (NoE)
EUR-OCEANS Executive Director
CNRS - IUEM
Place Nicolas Copernic
29280 Plouzané,
FRANCE
http://www.eur-oceans.org/
