Transcript Axe - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Ifremer’s Strategic Plan
A contribution to the national research strategy
in marine sciences for the 2020 forecast.
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The specificities of marine
research
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The global context
The ocean is covering 71%of the earth,
The sea is bringing 20% of animal proteins with 28%
produced by aquaculture,
30% of hydrocarbon exploitation is offshore where the
main new reserves are,
Huge world biodiversity reserve with more than 4000
new species described each year,
60% of the population is living in the coastal zone less
than 50km far from the coast line + tourism.
The bulk of the world trade is by shipping
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The European context
An integrated EU maritime policy,
A maritime strategy for sustainable
development,
A framework directive for an European
marine strategy being enforced,
A European strategy for the maritime and
marine research,
An initiative for Joint Programming,
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A moving landscape for the
French marine research
 Avoid fragmentation of research
 Avoid duplication, increase cooperation : an Alliance for
sea research at national level, a unique consortium for
managing the research fleet, a global infrastructure policy,
 Increasing role for the Universities (capacity building and
research), increasing cooperation with the industry for
innovation (cluster for competitiveness);
 Creation of a large National Research Agency (ANR), and
an Evaluation Agency (AERES),
 Innovative funding streams, investing for the future,
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Axe 1: knowledge of oceanic circulation
to increase the global change predictions
 Retroactions between hydodynamics circulation and
climatic change,
 Long term observations with satellites and in situ
(Coriolis),
 ARGO profiler under 2000 m,
 New sensors,
 High resolution dynamics
 Exchange between the coast and the open sea
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Axe 2: Knowledge and caracterisation
of marine biodiversity for a better
preservation
 Functionnal biodiversity and indicators of human
impacts, inc, in the deep sea,
 Adaptation and resilience of marine species,
 Inventory of biodiversity in specific zones :
British channel, Mediterranean, New Caledonia
lagoon, in association withMPAs
 International expertises IPBES
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Axe 3:Increase the development of
biological ressources by biotechnologies
 Define new food products or bioproducts with the
decrease of discards,
 Bio-molecules for
Human health
Cosmetic
Veterinary
Environment
Industry
 Extremophile bacteriae,
 Micro-algae (high value compounds)
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Axe 4: Contribution to sustainable fishery
and aquaculture (1)
 Increase the knowledge for fisheries and aquaculture:
 biology, genetics, pathology, inc new species
 Population ecology and dynamics
 Socio economics and information systems
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Axe 4: Contribution to sustainable
fishery and aquaculture (2)
The challenges :
 Identification of maor processes of the dynamics of
exploited ecosystems under economical constraints
in the aim of ressources and biodiversity
preservation,
 Increase relationships with the fishermen and
aquaculturists as co-actors of research
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Axe 5:Encourage a sustainable
exploitation of mineral and energy
ressources
 Better produce the present energy and exploit the known
ressources,
 Identify new oil ressources post 2030,
 Identify the new mineral ressources and establish industrial
interests,
 Propose ways of exploitation taking care of the
environment,
 Increase the development of marine renewable energy,
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Axe 6: develop monitoring networks to
answer international challenges and
European regulations
 Comply with regulations/obligations to sustain national policy:
– Fisheries
– Aquaculture diseses
– Environment
• Contaminants
• Microbiology
• Biodiversity
• Harmful algal blooms
• GMES, ARGO
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Axe 7: Develop national system to
forecast the environmental evolution
of coastal waters
 Predict to anticipate the evolution and crisis
management,
 Satellites and in situ measurement,
 Operationnal modelling,
Accidental pollutions,
Extreme events,
Eutrophisation and green macroalgae
Microbiological contaminant,
Develop economic model
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Axe 8: Optimisation of the fleet for the
scientific community
Manage all the French fleet and the
associated equipments and instruments,
Develop technological research to maintain
these equipments at the higheest world
standart,
Share the fleet with the major Europan
institutes (Eurofleets)
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Axe 9:Building a national and an
European strategy for the databases
Save, maintain, manage the marine and
coastal databases in an integrated way for
public access for all the end-users,
Buid national network,
Build European and international network
with common format of exchange,
Develop new integrated tools to facilitate
access to end-users.
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Axe 10:Maintain and promote
technological innovation
Integration of new technologies from the
sensors to the equipments toward real time
observations;
Use our experimental facilities with other
institutions, public and private,
Maintain quality assurance processes
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Pluridisciplinarity, national and
international partnerships for 10
axes devoted to
 Integrated approach for sustainable development,
 Systemic approach by eco-regions,
 Continuity between education, research, monitoring,
expertises, support to the public decision making processes,
 Be active to the building of the ERA in marine research;
towards joint programming, together with the Universities
 institutes and the ANR (a national research programme)
 Increase targeted international cooperation with: USA,
Canada, Russia, Japan, Brasil, & China
 Developp stronger multi-latteral cooperation in the
mediterranean basin.
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