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| Project Metadata Element | Details |
| Project Title | Water bodies in Europe: Integrative Systems to assess Ecological status and Recovery |
| Research Area | Water |
| Project Acronym | WISER |
| Principal Investigator or Lead Irish Partner | Kenneth Irvine (IE) |
| Lead Institution or Organisation | University of Dublin, Trinity College (TCD) |
| Lead Country | Ireland |
| Latitude, Longitude (of Lead Institution) | 53.34449, -6.25867 |
| Lead Funding Entity | European Commission |
| Approximate Project Start Date | 01/03/2009 |
| Approximate Project Finishing Date | 01/03/2012 |
| Project Website (if any) | http://www.wiser.eu/ |
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| Project Keywords | Water Framework Directive; Assessment; Surface waters; Categorise |
| Project Abstract | WISER will support the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) by developing tools for the integrated assessment of the ecological status of European surface waters. The project will analyse existing data from more than 90 databases compiled in previous and ongoing projects, covering all water categories, organism groups and environmental stressor types. Field-sampling campaigns will supplement the data on lakes and coastal systems. The data will be used to test and complement existing assessment schemes with a focus on uncertainty. Biological recovery processes after release from hydromorphological and eutrophication will be analysed. Therefore, large-scale data will help to identify linkages between pressure variables and organism's responses. Selected case studies, using a variety of modelling techniques, will address pressure-response relationships and evaluate the efficacy of restoration. WISER will provide guidance for the next steps of the intercalibration exercise by comparing different intercalibration approaches. |