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Preventing a deadly dinner: How EMBRC Portugal’s marine research is keeping dinners safe

How can EMBRC’s marine research bring real-world solutions to fields such as public health and food safety? Sandra Lage at CCMAR explains why and how toxins accumulating in ocean organisms affect communities, tourism, and economies.

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The fourth industrial revolution: the rise of marine data

Blue data helps organisations overcome challenges, decrease risks, improve efficiency, and reduce costs. Facilitating access to technological platforms, biological materials, and blue data empowers government bodies and the private sector to make the best evidence-based decisions.

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Detecting non-native species through marine monitoring and modelling

Conservation ecologist, Justine Pagnier talks about ways of improving marine monitoring and the detection of alien species, as well as challenges ahead of ocean observation. She also explains how EMBRC Sweden is progressing in marine monitoring using environmental DNA (eDNA) as well as Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS).

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Who we are

EMBRC is Europe’s research infrastructure for marine biology and ecology research. Through our network of marine sites across Europe, we accelerate knowledge in marine science and develop innovative solutions to environmental and societal issues.

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EMBRC provides access to marine biodiversity, ecosystems, and services to help researchers – from academia and industry – study the ocean to speed up discoveries in the move towards a sustainable blue economy.

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EMO BON OBSERVATORY

EMBRC fills gaps in ocean observation knowledge and data through EMO BON (European Marine Omics Biodiversity Observation Network), the first permanent, coordinated genomics biodiversity observatory in Europe that studies marine life and environment using DNA techniques.

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Who we are

EMBRC is Europe’s research infrastructure for marine biology and ecology research. Through our network of marine sites across Europe, we accelerate knowledge in marine science and develop innovative solutions to environmental and societal issues.

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Services

EMBRC provides access to marine biodiversity, ecosystems, and services to help researchers – from academia and industry – study the ocean to speed up discoveries in the move towards a sustainable blue economy.

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EMO BON OBSERVATORY

EMBRC fills gaps in ocean observation knowledge and data through EMO BON (European Marine Omics Biodiversity Observation Network), the first permanent, coordinated genomics biodiversity observatory in Europe that studies marine life and environment using DNA techniques.

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