Homepage: http://eurodelta.pangaea.de
Funding organisation: EU (EVK3-CT-2001-20001)
Type: Concerted Action (CA)
Runtime: 2002-2004
Coordination: Fabio Trincardi, Istituto di Geologia Marina, Bologna
Data curator: Hans-Joachim Wallrabe-Adams, MARUM
EURODELTA data sets, archived in the data library PANGAEA®
In view of the considerable economic and social importance of European coasts, as well as the increasing need to manage and safely exploit the marine environment, it is vital to establish the long-term role and development of prodeltas. The main objective of the EURODELTA Concerted Action is to pool existing geomorphological, geophysical, stratigraphic, sedimentological, and oceanographic data related to prodelta formation during the recent past. The resulting data will be used to determine the future research urgently required to understand how modern Mediterranean and Black Sea prodeltas have evolved, how vital they are to the long-term stability of coastal regions, and how they could be managed, in a such a way as to sustain economic activities and the natural environment.
Data management is carried out at University of Bremen (MARUM), the project office and the data librarian of the information system PANGAEA. Objective of the CA is to integrate all existing data from all regions of interest in the EURODELTA data archive. EURODELTA is a project within the OMARC consortium.
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