BIOcean5D
A European, multidisciplinary project exploring marine life and how it changes with space, time and human impact
Image credit: Karim Iliya / Kogia
There’s still much we don’t know about marine biodiversity, despite its fundamental importance in planetary and human health.
BIOcean5D seeks to explore marine life and how it changes across 5 dimensions: 3-dimensional space, time, and human impact.
Central to achieving our goals is a one-of-a-kind set of samples and data, collected from across Europe’s coastline and land-sea interface.
Over 4 years, we will use this data to explore marine biodiversity holistically and to develop novel tools and methods to monitor and understand its functions and its economic and legal value.
Ultimately, we hope that by measuring, monitoring and understanding marine biodiversity, and involving citizens in our research, we’ll be able to inform the sustainable management and long-term preservation of our marine ecosystems.
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Unravelling biodiversity change with long-term time series
Our BIOcean5D workshop brought scientists together to share knowledge and collectively identify strategies and methodologies for comparing marine biodiversity data. The results of the work will contribute to a better understanding of biodiversity change.
Multidisciplinary collaboration to dive deeper into marine biodiversity
Our June workshop in Spain brought BIOcean5D WP6 team members together to discuss our progress in understanding the economic and social value of biodiversity.
Introducing the BIOcean5D data hub
We’ve launched the first iteration of our data hub, the sharing platform to facilitate our collaborative science.
The BIOcean5D Handbook of Protocols
A BIOcean5D project deliverable: the suite of technologies and protocols we use to measure and understand life in, above and beneath the waves, down to the seafloor.
The BIOcean5D policy strategy plan
New deliverable: our strategy to create and distribute three policy briefs that will result from BIOcean5D and other EU-funded research projects is out now
The BIOcean5D initial data management plan
Project deliverable: our initial data management plan, describing the types of data that will be available from BIOcean5D, as well as the data flow between the local hub and international archives
Our funding
BIOcean5D has received more than €17m in total from the European Commission under grant agreement 101059915, from the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation under contract #22.00255 for Swiss partners, and from the UK government Horizon Europe Guarantee, UKRI Grant Reference Number 10039266 for UK partners.
