News from the MEESO project

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2020
Deployment of autonomous broadband echosounder to collect high quality data on individual mesopelagic organisms. Photo: IMR, Norway.
23 NOV

Gear and methods are developed for sampling at mesopelagic depths

Researchers from work page 2 (Survey and sampling technology development) presented their latest results at the MEESO annual science meeting.

Spatial map of species abundance
16 NOV

Progress in modelling mesopelgic species and ecosystems

Researchers from work page 5 (Estimating mesopelagic resources and their resilience to harvesting and climate change) presented their latest results at the MEESO annual...

Macrozooplankton trawl sampling. Photographer: Svanhildur Egilsdóttir, MFRI.
10 SEP

PhD scholarship within the MEESO project is open for applications

The PhD Scholarship is offed by Technical University of Denmark. Application deadline is 1 November 2020.

Writing on pc. Foto: John Schnobrich, Unsplash
25 MAY

Strategy and overview for planed MEESO dissemination

The plan for external and internal communication, dissemination, and outreach has been completed and sent to the EU Commission by late February 2020.

The glacier lanternfish (Benthosema glaciale) is most common in the North East Atlantic. Photographer: Amanda Schadeberg.
15 MAY

Lantern fish on the plate?

Is there a future in the commercial catch of lantern fish? This is what PhD Student Amanda Schadeberg  investigates as part of the MEESO project.

Ross Priory. Photographer: Douglas Speirs
10 MAY

Workshop on model data requirements

Researchers met online to discuss the data needed for the population and ecosystem modelling work in MEESO. “Outputs from this meeting will help to maximise the use of...

Workshop participants
05 MAY

Workshop on data management

A common model for storing and extracting acoustic, biotic and hydrography data from the MEESO project was reviewed and consolidated at a workshop in Copenhagen.

WP8 Workshop Nov 2019
01 MAY

MEESO-website and plans for data- and knowledge sharing decided

Work package 8 meeting on dissemination of MEESO-project laid down principles and decided platforms for communication. Website expected to be up and running in late spring...

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