OceanExpert ID : 7138
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Operational Directorate Natural Environment, Belgian Marine Data Centre
BMDC
rue Vautier 29
1000 Brussels
Belgium
Type
Government
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Telephone
+32 2 773 21 11
Fax
+32 2 770 69 72
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen
KBIN (RBIN)
(Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences)
http://www.bmdc.be/NODC/index.xhtml
Sea Region of study
North Sea
Activities
The Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) is a group of scientists within RBINS OD Nature, whose expertise is oriented towards the management and the analysis of marine environmental data. Its major tasks are: * To continuously assess and prognose the state of the North Sea * To evaluate and improve the monitoring programmes * To gather, validate, archive, manage marine and oceanographic data collected (mainly) by Belgian scientists in the frame of research projects and national and international monitoring programmes. The missions of the BMDC are structural and continuous. It is the BMDC's policy to encourage the public to explore and use its datasets. Therefore, the oceanographic data, including analysis tools, are put at the disposal of a wide range of users: scientists, policy makers, sea professionals and other stakeholders, at the national and international levels. For specific requests, the expertise of the BMDC staff can be requested. The BMDC is designated by IOC as National Oceanographic Data Centre and as such the Belgian focal point for international oceanographic data exchange. The BMDC holds various types of marine data sets since the beginning of the 70's: meteorological data, physical data, chemical data, biological data and meta information. Part of the data is acquired by RBINS, other data are received from scientific institutes in the frame of interdisciplinary projects or national and international monitoring obligations, such as the Nutrient Monitoring Programme and the Joint Assessment and Monitoring Programme of the Oslo and Paris Commission (OSPAR). ||NODC|| ||accredited NODC||
Cecile BAETEMAN
Senior Researcher & Professor
Hans DE BLAUWE
Scientific Associate
Nicolas DE VILLE DE GOYET
Bio-engineer
Samuli KAURANNE
Quality Coordinator (detached from service for a 2-year project since April 2016)
Ruth LAGRING
Marine Data Manager