EMODnet - Seabed Habitats: Operation, development and maintenance of a European Marine Observation and Data Network

  • Duration: 2017 - 2025
  • Status: Ongoing

Seabed Habitats provides access to seabed habitat data in Europe. This includes new products such as the EMODnet broad-scale seabed habitat map for Europe (AKA EUSeaMap) and habitat maps and observations gathered from surveys across Europe.

Project management
Ville Karvinen (2023-2025)
Project team
Niko Kallio, Marko Nurmi, Leena Laamanen, Nicolas Laamanen, Kati Pritsi, Terhi Havimo
Financiers
Other EU funding, CINEA European Climate Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency
Partners
Partners: Centre for Marine Sciences, CCMAR (Centro de Ciencias do Mar do Algarve);
National Research and Development Institute for Marine, Geology and Geoecology, GeoEcoMar (Institutul Național de Cercetare – Dezvoltare pentru Geologie și Geoecologie Marină);
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, GEUS;
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, HCMR;
French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, IFREMER (Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer);
Institute of Oceanology - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, IO-BAS (Institute of Oceanology BAS);
Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, ISPRA (Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale);
Marine Institute, MI;
French Museum of Natural History, MNHN (Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle);
Flanders Marine Institute VLIZ (Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee)

Subcontractors: JNCC, SAERI
Subject area
Environmental information, Sea

Seabed Habitats provides access to seabed habitat data in Europe. This includes new products such as the EMODnet broad-scale seabed habitat map for Europe (AKA EUSeaMap) and habitat maps and observations gathered from surveys across Europe.

Syke has been one of the EMODnet Seabed Habitats project partners since 2017 and in the role of the Coordinator since 2023 (see EMODnet news article).  

More information
EMODnet Seabed Habitats (emodnet.ec.europa.eu)
Published 28.3.2024 / Updated 5.8.2025