Details

General info
Project title	Towards the Monitoring of Dumped Munitions Threat
Project acronym	MODUM
Project reference	http://water.iopan.gda.pl/projects/MODUM/
Associated programme	http://www.chemsea.eu/
Begin date	2013-03-01
End date	2015-02-28
Location
Geographic coverage	The project will concentrate on three representative areas inthe Baltic Sea chosen during the first phase of the project and will provide a solution for expanding such a network to all areas of concern in the Baltic Sea area. Performed monitoring activities will include habitat status evaluation, fish health studies and modeling of possible effects.
Description
Abstract	The project aims at testing the use of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) in monitoring the presence and ecological risks of dumped munition.
Coordinator
Coordinating organisation	Thünen-Institute of Fisheries Ecology
Country of Coordinator	Germany
Contact name	Lang, Thomas
Title	Dr.
Contact organisation	Thünen-Institute of Fisheries Ecology
Email	Thomas.Lang@ti.bund.de
Project partners
Other partners	Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Arctic Environment Environmental Protection Agency Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Atlantic Branch University of Helsinki, Department of Geology
Edmerp metadata
Edmerp id	12083
Collating centre	German Oceanographic Datacentre
Latest update	2014-08-26