Nowadays, we witness climate change’s effects on marine ecosystems. 🌡️Climate change can affect aquatic ecosystems in different ways, by warming the oceans, increasing thermal stratification and reducing upwelling, raising sea levels and increasing the height and frequency of waves, loss of sea ice, increasing the risk of disease in marine biota, and decreasing the pH and carbonate ion concentration of surface oceans.
🌊🫧From 1st to 4th October 2024, the 3rd International Adriatic Biodiversity Protection Conferences 2024 – AdriBioPro will be held in 📌Kotor, Montenegro. During the conference, one of the sessions will be dedicated to climate change, and a workshop related to this topic will be held as part of the project “Adaptation support to the rise in the level of the Mediterranean Sea – MedSeaRise”, which was approved for financing under the transnational cooperation program INTERREG Euro – MED 2021 -2027. At the workshop, experts in the field of sea level rise will introduce the general public to the project, problems, and challenges in this area.
🌐MedSeaRise is a study project that aims to build a methodology that takes into account both anthropic activities and the ecosystem exposed to the threat of sea level rise. One of the tasks at the workshop is precisely to acquaint the general public, especially the stakeholders who will be involved in the project, with the methodology and scientific and other information we need in creating future scenarios about climate change.
✍️Before a few months, scientists from the MedSeaRise project started the collection and analysis actions on future sea level scenarios in the Mediterranean. The scientific team has already generated a subset of data, including a time series of sea level anomalies, air temperature, and precipitation, to effectively share and communicate MedSeaRise results findings to stakeholders.
