FUNDING
PRIMUS is a multidisciplinary project funded through the European Space Agency (ESA) Atlantic Initiative, in response to ESA ITT: AO/1-10546/20/I-NB 4DAtlantic Theme 1: Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems. The 4DAtlantic – Regional Initiatives Science is part of the ESA Atlantic Regional Initiative, aiming at providing a response to the community recommendations which were gathered during the Atlantic from Space ESA Workshop, Jan 2019.
TEAM
PRIMUS is led by Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) in partnership with: Instituto de Investigacións Mariñas (CSIC-IIM), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE/FC.ID) Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
External collaborators include: Scripps Institute of Oceanography (San Diego, USA), Future Earth Coasts (FEC), Universidad de Concepción (Chile), University of Exeter (UK), University of New Hampshire (US), MIT (US).
PRIMUS-AFFILIATED PROJECTS
PRIMUS will build on the successes, and synergies between, past and present ESA projects, focussing on ocean colour, and the carbon cycle that our team has led or been involved in, such as the Ocean Colour-CCI, MAPPS, PPP and notably the BICEP project; as well as non-ESA projects that the team currently leads or engaged with, such as the Simons foundation CBIOMES, UK National Centre for EO (NCEO), Copernicus Climate Change (ocean colour lead) and Copernicus Marine services and as well H2020 CERTO.
EARLY-ADOPTERS
ASMECRUZ, mussel farmers association: assessment of food availability and/or impact of farming on phytoplankton biomass and production); Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), which maintains a long term observational program on the oceanographic conditions of Spanish waters, including measurements of primary production and biomass at sea in the region of Galicia (NW Spain); INTECMAR, Technological Institute for the Monitoring of the Marine Environment in Galicia, in charge of the regional administration, particularly complementing their weekly in-situ sampling; DGRM, Direção-Geral de Recursos Naturais, Segurança e Serviços Marítimos, responsible for the Portuguese maritime safety and services, implementation of policies on fisheries, aquaculture; PLOCAN, institute on Gran Canaria researching exploitation and management of island marine resources (fisheries and aquaculture); Government of the Canary Islands, Vice-Ministry of Climate Change: interested in local fisheries, climate regulation, aquaculture and coastal tourism; NatMIRC, Ministry of Fisheries & Marine Resources Directorate Resource Management, Namibia: Mandated to assess the state of Namibia’s marine environment.