A researcher of the Genoa Marine Centre - Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn is on board the schooner Tara to participate in the TREC expedition - Traversing European Coastlines.
Forty percent of Europe's population lives in coastal areas. European seas and coasts support a wide variety of organisms and play important roles in the stability and sustainability of the larger ecosystem.
For this reason, for two years, the schooner Tara is participating in studies of coastal ecosystems along all European coasts. The Tara Europe sampling is part of the "TREC Traversing European Coastlines" expedition organized by EMBL in collaboration with the Tara OceanS Consortium, the Tara Ocean Foundation and over 70 scientific institutions. During the expedition, parallel biodiversity studies will be conducted on land using EMBL's mobile laboratory and at sea using the schooner Tara.
Ulisse Cardini, researcher at the GMC, is onboard Tara for three weeks as Chief Scientist of a leg of the mission in the Baltic Sea between Denmark, Germany and Poland. Onboard, his main task is to orchestrate the sampling at stations together with the captain and bio/oceano engineers, as well as to perform his assigned sampling protocols.
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