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Resources
and facilities
One of the main resources and the strength of the
CREAM center is the diversity and experience of the
scientists at NERI regarding the analysis of data from monitoring programmes.
The diversity includes biologists, chemists and physical oceanographers, statisticians, ecotoxicologists and modellers. The biologists cover a variety of specialities from
micro to macro, e.g. from small unicellular phytoplankton to large plants (macrophytes). More importantly, these active research scientists are also involved in the monitoring program providing strong scientific input into the analysis of data.
Enviromental data
The Department of Marine Ecology is host for the National Focal Point for monitoring of the marine environment in
Denmark and maintains an extensive marine environmental database, the national database for marine data
(MADS).
MADS contains physical, chemical and biological data for the marine environment together with data for climate variables, hydrography and loading of nutrients from land and the atmosphere. For some parameters we have time-series starting in 1977.
For most parameters/stations time-series start in the 1980's.
The data are supplied from NERI’s monitoring cruises, the danish counties and municipalities and other marine research institutions in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Germany.
The MADS database covers data from estuarine, coastal and open danish waters including the western part of the Baltic, Skagerrak and the eastern North Sea.
A limited version of the database (in danish) can be accessed from the webadress
http://mads.dmu.dk
Computing facilities
NERI has recently purchased a set of computer worksstations
dedicated to computer modelling. Each of the 4 workstations are
equipped with 2 Athlon 1990 MP CPU's, 1Gb RAM and 100 Gb harddisk.
The operating system is Redhat Linux 7.3 and there is access to a Fortran 77/90 compiler
from The Portland Group
optimized for systems with several CPU'es. In the near future the 4
workstations will be configured as a computer cluster.
Laboratories
The departments have well-equipped laboratories designed for work with organisms, chemicals, toxic compounds, and contain specialised equipment such as HPLC, HPLC-MS, scintillation counters, etc. Nevertheless while the quality of the facilities is of paramount importance for those actively collecting
and generating data, they will be less relevant for the CREAM students.
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| The research
vessel Gunnar Thorson is one of NERI's backbones in datasampling
for the marine monitoring programme. Photo: OLJ |
| CTD-stations
in the NOVA 2003 marine monitoring programme. Data is avaiable
in the MADS database. |
| Four linked dual CPU
workstations are dedicated computer modelling. |
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