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EUR-OCEANS is a European network of excellence which brings together scientists working in the domain of climate change and marine ecosystems. Through this website, you will learn about this exciting project, its structure and objectives, and its results. EUR-OCEANS (European Network of Excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis) is a network of excellence co-funded by the Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development of the European Communities (FP6). The network gathers more than 60 research institutes and universities from 25 countries. Its activities started in January 2005, running for 4 years until December 2008. The scientific objective is to understand and predict the impacts of climate change and anthropogenic forcing on marine pelagic (i.e. offshore) ecosystems and to understand as fully as possible the effects of changes in the marine environment on fish and other living resources. The latter is a key scientific, economic and social problem. Indeed, 60% of the World ecosystems are degraded, especially marine ecosystems, and these are crucial for climate regulation and as food resources. Changes during the coming decades are likely to be very problematic. Tackling this major issue will be the task of the EUR-OCEANS researchers and their collaborators, under the leadership of Professor Paul Treguer, director of the Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, in Brest, and Louis Legendre , CNRS research professor and Director of the Villefranche-sur-Mer Oceanography Laboratory.  The approach will be through modelling techniques. Models are the only way to make predictions by changing input variables. For example, what would happen if the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere was multiplied by two ? By four ? In order to answer such questions, we must :
EUR-OCEANS will work on seven such systems :
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