III. Partner search information
Contact information
First name, last name
Address
Telephone
Organization
E – Mail
Web page
Programme(s) and call (s) of interest (please check as appropriate):
BG02 INTEGRATED MARINE AND INLAND WATER
BG03 BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
MANAGEMENT
1.
Call 1: More integrated management of marine
and inland water resources (Launch: June 2014)
1.
Small grant scheme SGS1: Development of a nation-wide
education and awareness campaign through volunteer
action and supporting activities (Launch: June 2014)
2.
Call 2: Improved monitoring of marine waters
(Launch: June 2014)
2.
Call 1: Invasive alien species networking for information
exchange and capacity building (Launch: June 2014)
3. x Call 3: Increased capacity for assessing and
predicting environmental status in marine and
inland waters (Launch: June 2014)
3.
Call 2: Ecosystem services mapping and assessment
(Launch: fourth quarter of 2014)
4.
Call 3: Sectoral policies for the systematic use of
ecosystem services (Launch: June 2014)
Preferred themes of projects and profile of partner
1.
Brief description on participant’s Organization
The Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) is a public institution under the auspices of the Ministry for
the Environment and Natural Resources, IMO has the responsibility of monitoring natural hazards in
Iceland and conducting research in related fields, as well as participating in international monitoring
and research. IMO conducts research on the physics of air, land and sea, specifically in the fields of
meteorology, hydrology, glaciology, climatology, seismology and volcanology.
Home page: http://en.vedur.is/
2. Sector of activities of participant’s Organization
In the aspect of inland water management IMO is responsible for hydrological monitoring in Iceland,
analyzing and interpreting hydrological data and provide information and warnings regarding floods.
IMO has network of 170 hydrological gauges in rivers and participates in various projects conserning
both hydlogical aspects and physico-chemical factros such as suspended sedimentload and chemical
transport of rivers.
IMO takes active part in the implementation of the WFD. IMO is according to Icelandic regulation
responsible for the hydro morphological and physic-chemical aspects of the project regarding surface
waters and ground water and the Information System for the WFD.
3. Established contacts to potential partners from Bulgaria (select as appropriate)
I have/ x I have not established contact with Bulgarian organizations
If yes, please specify:
4. Description of preferable project partner’s profile
As the IMO is responsible for the hydro morphological and physicochemical factors in
accordance with the WFD framework we are very interested to work with person
interested in those aspects of the WFD. Persons with knowledge and experience in some
of the following aspects :
1. Hydrological and hydro morphological influence on ecosystems and the biota.
2. Knowledge on physicochemical factors mentioned in the WFD framework e.g.
Influence of suspended sediments and inorganic nutrients, impact of dredging and
damning on water quality.
3.Hydromorphological factors used in definition of HMWB
4. Hydrological modelling
5. Please describe
what you expect from the potential project partner from Bulgaria
Interest and options to measure and analyze in the influence of hydro morphological and
physicochemical factors on ecosystems quality and status of water bodies.
It would be practical to have some experience or option for institutional support on data
mining and data modelling.
6. Please describe
what you can offer to potential project partner from Bulgaria
IMO has experience in monitoring of hydro morphological factors in Iceland. One of the
main purposes of IMO is to ensure the accumulation and preservation of data and
knowledge and the long-term development of natural processes e.g. in the fields of
hydrology. IMO has a network of 170 hydrological gauges in rivers, 215 weather stations.
IMO has expertise in hydrological modelling e.g. for ungauged water catchments. IMO
samples and calculates the concentration of suspended sediments and chemical
monitoring of rivers.
7. The information given in this registration form can be given to the participants from Bulgaria for developing
partnership
X Yes
No