NECCTON - New Copernicus Capability for Trophic Ocean Networks

Project Management Team

This project is Co-ordinated by:

Mercator Ocean International

2 Av. de l'Aérodrome de Montaudran

31400 Toulouse

France

General contact: neccton@mercator-ocean.eu

Project Coordinator

Stefano Ciavatta

Mercator Ocean International

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Project Manager

Jessica Heard

Plymouth Marine Laboratory

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Other Participants

March 12, 2026|News

NECCTON Launches Advanced Ocean Viewer, Bringing Europe’s Next-Generation Marine Ecosystem Data to the World

The NECCTON project has reached a major milestone with the public release of the NECCTON Ocean Viewer, an open, interactive web platform designed to transform how users explore, understand, and apply cutting edge marine ecosystem information. Now live at https://data.neccton.eu , the viewer delivers unprecedented access to a rapidly expanding catalogue of harmonised, cloud optimised datasets that ...

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March 3, 2026|Project Update

NECCTON Highlights Ecosystem Forecasting Developments at European Ocean Days

NECCTON Presented at European Ocean Days: Supporting Ecosystem Forecasting for EU Marine Policy During the Marine Knowledge for Ocean Health session at European Ocean Days, the coordinator of the NECCTON project outlined how Europe is developing the capacity to produce operational marine ecosystem forecasts and why this capability is increasingly relevant for policy and management....

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February 27, 2026|Project Update

NECCTON Co-Organises Marine Ecosystem Modelling Session at OSM26

At the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026 in Glasgow (22–27 February 2026), NECCTON co-organised the session “Advancing Marine Ecosystem Modeling for a Predictable and Sustainable Ocean” together with OceanPredict’s Marine Ecosystem Analysis and Prediction Task Team. ...

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March 2, 2026|News

Shaping the Future of Ocean Knowledge: NECCTON’s New Modelling Breakthroughs

The NECCTON project has reached an important milestone, unveiling a new generation of marine ecosystem models that promise to transform how we understand and manage our oceans....

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October 29, 2025|Project Update

Water Temperature Found to Drive Seasonal Shifts Between Dolphin Species in the Azores

A long-term study shows that common and Atlantic spotted dolphins in the Azores segregate seasonally based on sea surface temperature, with a key threshold around 21°C determining which species dominates the region....

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December 23, 2025|News

NECCTON Develops New Algorithms to Advance the Copernicus Marine Service

NECCTON has launched a suite of machine‑learning and data‑assimilation algorithms to help the Copernicus Marine Service better merge ocean models with a growing range of observations....

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Other Participants

Karsten Bolding

Jorn Bruggeman

Ina Lorkowski

Thorger Bruening

Anja Lindenthal

Anna Conchon

Inna Senina

Federica Braga

Jeroen Steenbeek

Momme Butenschon

Giovanni Coppini

Simona Masina

Liubartseva Svitlana

Ank Pollani

George Triantaphyllidis

Ute Daewel

David Greenberg

Corinna Schrum

Joanna Staneva

Zhiyong Xie

Martin Huret

Morgane Travers-Trolet

Verena Trenkel

Jorge Sergiperez

Donata Canu

Gianpiero Cossarini

Paolo Lazzari

Laia Romero

Stefano Ciavatta

Corinne Derval

Yann Drillet

Elodie Gutknecht

Julien Lamouroux

Patrick Lehodey

Angelique Melet

Coralie Perruche

George Petihakis

Sevrine Sailley

Michael Wathen

Jerry Blackford

James Clark

Giovanni Galli

Susan Kay

Gennadi Lessin

Helen Powley

Ana Queiros

Jozef Skakala

Liz Talbot

Robert Wilson

Sakina-Dorothée Ayata

Laurent Bertino

Julien Brajard

Karline Soetaert

Çağlar Yumruktepe

Ken Andersen

Alexander Barth

Marilaure Grégoire

Luc Vandenbulcke

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